The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-04-05
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SAINT AND SINNER

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could not sleep. AS II her mind
were = motion.picture screen. the
events Of the day marched past, In,
very bad sequence. like an unassem.
bled film. She saw her own small
figure fitting across the screen.
Enthusiastically clad in purple satin
trousers and green jacket. her face
and arms brown rs an Indians. her
eyes shielded by a little black lace
veil. Crowds OF farmers. their
wives. their children: small.town
business men. their wives and gig
Cling daughters and goggle-eyed
sons, avid for glimpse OF the
naughtiness which the barker prom.
Used behind the tent flap OF the
grille show" pressed In upon her.
receded, pressed again. thrust out
quarters, demanded magic visions
OF her
David. his eyes streaming with
onion tears, smiling at her. David
reading that dreadful newspaper
story-Dayid OF yesterday. saying,
dear little Sally!" pressing her
against him for blessed minute
And Mia. her eyes rabid with
sudden. ugly passion-passion for
David--Nita threatening her.
threatening David
David. David! Tho movie
stopped with q jerk. then resolved
Itself into an enormous Closeup"
OF David Nash. his eyes smiling into
hers with infinite gentleness and
tenderness.
"Does he think I'm Just a little
girl. too young toto be IN love
or to be loved?" she asked herself.
audacious in the dark. tiff he
was at all in love with me-but oh.
he couldn't be!-would he be SO
friendly and easy with met
Wouldn't he be embarrassed. and
blush. and-and things like that7
Oh. I'm Just being silly! He
doesn't think Of me at all except
as q little girl who's In trouble. A
girl alone, as he calls me"
Then q new memory banished
even the closeup" Of David on the
screen OF her mind-a memory
called up by those words-"girl
alone" She felt that she ought to
weep with shame and contrition be-
cause she had 80 long halt-forgotten
Mrs. Bybee's promise to make In
quiries about her mother-the
mother who had given her to the
orphanage IL years before, leaving
behind her only q meager record
Mrs. Nora Ford. aged 28.s
| So little in those words with
which to conjure up mother! She
would be 40 now. if-if she were
still alive! Suddenly al her IA
years Of orphanhood. Of longing for
| a mother. even for q mother who
would desert her child and 60 away
without q word. rushed over Sally
like an avalanche OF bruising
stones. Every hurt she had sus.
tanned during all those IL mother.
less years throbbed with fresh VIC.
lence; drew hard tears that dripped
upon the lumpy cotton pillow be-
meath her tossing head.
When the paroxysm Of weeping
had somewhat subsidized she crept
out OF her cot and knelt beside It
and prayed.
Then she crept back into bed. I'M
} conscious that the midget was still
J awake and had seen her dimly In
the darkness. Strangely free Of her
burdens. Sally lay for : long time
before sleep claimed her. trytns -
remember al the Instructions about
, crystal-gaxine that Mrs. Bybee had
! | heaped upon her. And % her chil6'
/ ish conscience there Was No twlneo
/ | Of remorse that she uas - - -
/ the next day. deceivino the puhl1e.
/ q princess Lalla. favorito crystal
j eaSer OF the Sultan Of TURKEY
II Ito ~ Continued)
WIN Sally ind Mr. ssotAes
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