Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-18
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CHAPTER XXI

cleaning and dashed to it, fearing
lest its clamor should disturb her
mother, who was still asleep.
"Hell, she said softly, her lips
close TO the black mouthpIece.
John Nye's voice answered her.
.Hello, she said softly, her lips
lie, and what hospital is she in?" he
asked, and there was anxiety in his
tones.
Sally told him that Mile was
much better and resting comfortably,
according TO all reports from Bethle-
hem hospital.
Nov, then" he said, when she
had finished, Miss kriss tells me
that you offered TO do some work
for me while Miles away from the
office. Is that right"
Yes" breathed sally. and was
ashamed OF tins wild surge OF JOY
that went through her heart.
"Well-when can you come? ," His
low. deep voice stirred her, ever at
this distance.
Right away replied Sally. know
ing perfectly well that she still had
some silver 10 clean, a lunch to get
ready for her mother, and herself to
dress.
"All right, Thanks very much"
John Nye's voice spoke again in her
ear. "I1l see you soon, then"
She was still glowing with excite
ment when she hung up the re
ceiver.
But as she finished her work and
got into her street clothes she began
- ~-1-. 1un~~ Ehn Luru~ e. - wnH-s
much out Of patience with herself
because Of that glow Of excitement
and happiness.
Here you were yesterday, promis-
ing yourself that you'd never think
Of John Nye again because Miles
going to marry him." she told the
Sally in the mirror above her dress
er. And look at yourself now!"
She was starry-eyed and deeply
pink, and there was a smile that lift
ed the corners Of her soft mouth and
brought out the dimples in her
cheeks. She had that miraeulously
happy look that a woman has when
she is going TO meet her lover, and
at no other timt. A very special kind
Of look IL is.
But the girl who sat at the corner
of John Nye's desk an hour later
was an altogether different Sally. A
quiet, business-like Sally, who kept
her th~ick-lashed eyes on his dicta-
ton pad ard never once raised them
to me- eft his.
Minutes of a special meeting of
the board of directors of the Nye
Development company" his deep
Voice began, and Sally took the words
down on paper with the speed and
accuracy Of machine.
Mr.. Peevey's fussy hurried dicta-
ton had long been a trial 10 her, but
il had made an excellent ~stenogra-
.pher Of her.
Going too fast for you?" John
asked once, and without raising her
head Sally answered him.
mo, Mr.. Nye," she said, as meekly
as ever she had said, NO, Mr..
Peevey."
And so they kept it up till noon.
I'm afraid I'll have to stop now
Sally said gravely, as the deep-noted
bells Of the cathedral rang out above
the din and rush of the down town
streets. 1--WE got to get Mr.. Peevey's
lunch ready for him."
NNG iOOht1 VI aA hNA anu kAAhhNN
I'VE covered a lot Of ground this
morning, didn't we ?" he asked pleas
antly. Il like the way you work"
without n word Sally left him.
That night when she stopped IN at
Bethlehem hospital TO see Mile she
was taken. not 10 the three-bed room
which had been ordered for her. but
10 a big. bright. private room with a
/ ath that opened from il.
Ii was filled with flowers-with
late roses and early chrysanthe-
nuns. Amid their bloom and color
and fragrance Mile lay. white as a
ghost and without a trace OF the
makeup beauty that was hers.
John Nye was here this after
noon." she told Sally with lips that
barely moved. "He brought all these
flowers, and had me moved into this
room and got a special nurse for me.
| wouldn't see him. looking the way
| do. Bring me my bottle of Chinese
black, and my lip-stiek next time
you come. will youE"
And after Sally had promised she
would. she took no further interest
in her. but turned her white face TO
the shadowy wall and went TO sleep
or pretended TO 20 10 sleep.
With a heavy heart, Sally went
home. Ii seemed so like charity
to take the private room and tae
services Of the special nurse from
John Nye. somehow. She wished
that he hadn't gone to the hospital
and moved Mile out of the three
bed room where she
II made her unhappy and ashamed,
as only the proud and the poor know
how 10 be ashamed.
"0f course. il he's going TO marry
Mile. it's all right" Mrs. Jerome
said when Sally told her about u.
"But | don't know-so many rich
men lead young girls on. when they
don't intend anything good by them.
Now, YOU take the girl in this last
book I'm readying. She was betrayed
by a rich young good-for-nothing,
and I'm Just where he meets her
again after years have passed
Her voice rambled on, telling Sally
the plot Of the book called when
Love is Kind" She took all her
views Of life from the books she
read-and in most Of them rich men
did not marry girls like Mile.
II wish Mile would pick up with
some nice sensible young fellow in
her own walk Of life instead Of these
moneyed blatherskites she knows"
she had often said TO Sally on the
nights when Mile stayed out until
all hours with Davy Davidson" I'd
like 10 see her married and in her
own home. That's the only safe
place for a woman"
But she had a far different story
to tell when IL came 10 the case of
Sally and Ted Sloan. She had very
little praise for marriage and set
Ting down. then!
II don't know what anybody wants
to get married for" she would sigh
bitterly. I'm sure | would have
been a thousand times better off
than I am now IL / never had seen
your beautiful father"