San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-05
Sandy Persuades Ramon
to Permit Her to
Keep Position.
CHAPTER 81

You didn't think I could stay
on there always, Ramon-so
alone-taking from your"
His mouth hardened:
why can't you take from
me? Why do you exalt
money as though it had a
power in itself to hurt you?
Do you think I would make it hold
you to me or want it to hold you to
me? You'll be living alone here al
most a. much. 1t will be more diff
ficult for us to see each other. And
how can it help you even in your
own opinion?"
~Yes-it will. Anyway, you will
know that come with you freely
because I wish to"
he drove with his eyes glued to
the road, tense and excited. .
"That would be all right, Sandy, if
you could get decent job. But you
can't stand this layout. You're not
used to it. After you pay your board
and laundry and lunches you won't
have IS a month for clothes and car
fare and everything else that comes
up. How long will you stand that?"
Sandy shrugged. She smiled into
the darkness. The trees flew past
her in shadowy blurs. She thought
of her wedding night and her wide
eyed terror starting on that journey
Now she was beginning again. Lit
tie shivering oppressive fears crepi
through her.
She pushed them off with an i'm
petuous defiance: "Oh, something vii
happen. This is only temporary. I'm
not going to be earning S85 all the
days Of my life"
And she repeated with brazen tilt
Of her head: Something will hap
pen!"
~What, Sandy? What's going L
happen?"
More than once in the last week a:
she walked to work she had come e
an abrupt pause, asking herself thii
same question. These lovely day
with the first lit Of summer singinl
through the valley and the May rose
blooming in every gsrden-on thes'
gay sunny mornings, of course, some
thing joyous must happen.
Incredible that fine, breezy per
: son like Sandy Mcneil would be fill
ing compensation reports In cooped
in office all the days Of her life. She
was doing this only till Ben Murillc
came to his senses and realized shc
was in earnest; she'd left him for good
and all. Then he'd release her.
but III ne dldn [.
She refused to think OF it. She
sat up and poked her head from thu
window shifting ,noisily of the swee
night air. She was aware Of Ramon's
rigid quiet.
He leaned modify forward re
garding her now and then will
panied, ardent eyes. How long would
she endure the beggary of such q
mean, grinding life? She would grow
restless and impatient under the
pinching and want. The woman in
the postoffice had frightened her and
so she had run away-proved to the
world that she was free and brave
she was not taking things from him
What had they to do with the world
He saw already in this attitude oi
hers a tragic menace to their happi
ness.
Midnight when they reached thu
cottage. A FURNISHED moon hung II
the pines like an immense COLDER
fruit. The pine swayed, and then thu
moon swung free and rode above TIL
waters so that they rippled and tool
life. The waters flashed with eeri'
figures-strange, lighted figures glidec
on the waves.
How thrilling, Ramon" She drew
close to him. turning her hand in hi
stirred to her Utmost pulse. Thu
quiet of the night swept and uplifte'
them like music. Sandy thought will
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