Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-23

"AAN AAAAa 49,
the stairs.
Are those two men gone YETI
she asked Sally after four or five
minutes Her voice still shook with
righteous anger.
Sally said she would 90 and find
out. She reached the hall in time
to meet the two men who had just
come downstairs and were on their
way 70 the Z ront door that stood
open 70 the balmy fall night.
~Well, did you find what you
were looking for" she asked them
brightly, and they both shook their
heads with a kind Of ~sheepishness.
They went out The sound Of their
chugging motorcycles died away on
the soft, still air.
Sally stood in the doorway, listen
ing 10 the faint sound, and then to
the chirp Of the crickets in the
grass near the porch. She felt dis
graced, somehow. Terribly disgraced.
/. To think OF the house being
searched BY the police. It was too
degrading.
"As if we had a still, or were boot
or worsel" she said to her.
self, and waves OF shame went over
her again and again.
Back in the hot kitchen Aunt En-
was still frying chicken. She did not
look UP when Sally came into the
with a large tray OF soiled
dishes, and Sally did not look at
her.
All evening long they avoided each
others eyes, and they seldom smoke.
Both Of them were sunk ia their own
thoughts, and their solemn, drawn
faces showed how dark those
thoughts were.
At 10 o'clock, when the dining
room was empty, and the dishes were
done, and Hilda was putting them
neatly on the cupboard shelves.
Aunt En- went out to the front porch
and called Sally to follow her.
When Sally went out, she was sit
ting on the top steps with her hands
locked around her knees, staring out
into the darkness.
sit down she said, in a muffled
voice, and Sally, dropping down be-
her, saw that she was CRYING.
This - just the last b-b-blow!r
she said in a choked and angry voice.
When Aunt En- cried, she did not do
IN a sobbing, crushed sort or way.
but angrily, d~efiantly, f~uriousiy.
TO have my house raidedi" she
cried, wlping her eyes. "This is the
end! i'll close the place up tomor-
row just as sure as / livci Tomor-
row." She dabbed at her eyes with
her handkerchief. IL was an angry.
quick movement.
was ~ as bad as all that7v asked
Sally, who always thought Of a raid
2 r~oadhouse a. being IN very ex-
affair. with bottles being
smashed and people being rushed
OIL 70 jail in the Black Marin.
AS bad as all what?" asked Aunt
shortly lit couldn't have
been worse, could it7 Police walking
right into my dining room. among
my guestsl %ou don't think I'm
going to keep on in business here
after q disgrace like that. do YOU "
Sally saw then that she felt ex-
actly as she. herself. felt-that both
OF them had been hopelesslv be-
smirched and deeply disgrnced bv
the visit Of the two policemen, and
the search Of the house.
NO, I'm going to give IL all up
tomorrow, Aunt En- said again, and
there was firm intent in her tones.
She went upstairs 20 bed.
sally was still sitting on the ton
step, watching the clouds sail across
the red autumn moon when Ted
Slcan's little a came tearing IN
driveway.
She knew it was Ted's a the in
slant she saw X. For one or its hood
tUnfU ur4m Urnnn 81 a.. ~ -.-
yellow, and besides that. IL had 4
peculiar wheeze and rattle of It's
Il was like Ted-fast and chean
and snowy. But Sally had never
Of that.
II stopped before the stems. Ana
Ted got out. Instantly Sally was On
Ter feet. She did not intend 70 at
out here In the romantic moonlight
with Theodore Sloan az this lonely
Of the night Not BY y
means.
II was Just going in. It's cold ont
here, she said 70 him after he muir
INJURED something about his always
up like a bad penny /
They went into the old-fashioned
room, where the glow fro~,
the wood fire shone on the old pol
ished mahogany furniture. on tho
Lobcy joys and Bristol glass lars on
the old French desk. The warmth
OF the room brought out the heavy
sweetness Of the autumn roses IN 4
on the mantel-piecc.
Nice here said Ted. ~reatip-
himself on the wide, old-fashioned
sofa that faced the fire. HONEY.
its"
And as II the c~oziness brought q
certain thought into his head. H.
added: I'D like q home or my own
like this"
Like this - echoed the m-atser-of.
fact Sally. 40 you realize What
yeud ave 20 pay for q place like
TINS u you were 20 buy n now
adaysg More money than you'd earn
IN ten years, Ted Sloanlr
Yes, but with You and me beth
earning money" He shot 4 Keen
look At her hat was full Of longing
spite Of its Sharpness.
I'm sorry, Sally, for the things
I've said 60 you lately" be said. and
took a of her small w~ork-rouxh-
hands between his own "Why
won't you he the way You used TO
Re. We used 70 plan 20 get married
and work
We never -didi~ replied sally.
drawing her hands away from him
and sitting up very straight in the
corner cf the hFccaded couch. at
was all YOUR idea - that ycn'd|
marry me and give me tive icbs in-l