Show f 9 By Elenore lenor J i WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE STORY SO FAR Sandy McNeil In love with life marries Ben Murillo a a. rich Italian to please her Impoverished family Tyranny by and frequent quarrels follow A son dies at I birth Bob McNeil her uncle aids aids In plans for Sandy and her mother I to take a trip to Honolulu There I she meets Ramon Worth who saves her life In the surf On the same steamer home he declares his love declares he will never release her Judith Moore a cousin tells Sandy love is every every- thing Murillo overtakes her as sh she goes tor a tryst with Ramon Follows Follows Follows Fol Fol- lows a clash over her het promise to her sick mother to give UP plans up-plans plans for divorce She appeals to Bob for tor aid In a a. divorce action and he tells her she has no grounds Munib Mu Mu- nib takes her Jewels from her so 80 that she cannot pawn them GO GOON ON WITH THE TH E STORY FROM FROMi i HER HERE E. E CHAPTER 48 Redeem them any time you OU wish wish next next week next month next year year He came ame up and smiled In Sandy's Sandys eyes letting his glance dwell on that pale vivid face face in In haling g sachet He fie knew this little I t trick of hers rubbing hers ru the powder j jInto hair hall It now Into the roots of ot her f. f made him him smile in appraising t amusement j She looked quietly over his head I I wont won't redeem them them ever You think you'll tire me out do you and Ill I'll back down Ill I'll as assist assist assist as- as I you YO to break the vows you J m made de If It you hope that my dear you hope In vain I What do you yu gain by holding A me His smile curled I 1 hold you I though dont don't I You understand this now The gain Is my affair i But you'll be held he held he backed to I PERMANENT bowed PERMANENT PERMANENTLY the door bowed I LY Make no mistake about that He stood a a. moment staring and smiling Sandy pulled the negligee about her shoulders flushing at the sudden realization of Its flimsy transparence laughed Good morning my dear She felt relt as as though her cheeks were slapped and now stinging with shamed humiliation She began talking to herself fighting to keep back back scalding tears I 1 wont won't stay here Ill I'll go I 1 dont don't care caret caretHer caretHer I Her uncles uncle's words answered Where ere will you go go Dont Don't tal talk wild You cant can't sponge on Judith j You couldn't stand that She has no money How much mud's of her salary do you jou OU su suppose pose Judith is allowed to I keep How long do you think iu JU u last in the city without a aJob ajob ajob Job How would you like coming back to him You'd be forced to it it She b bit t her against her mouth wanting to rush over and beat against the walls hammer with her bare fists' fists against them them them- them furious and helpless Held Held PERMA Held PERMANENTLY Y He smiled when he said that He gloated gloat gloat- ed about it gloat I She thought frenziedly Why Wh did he marry me He likes crushing crushing crushing crush crush- ing me Why by did he choose her knowing that she was spirited high-spirited and brazen brazen brazen-a. a loving laughter thing He I had taken her instead of or Marjorie Lopez whom Beatrice wanted I Marjorie was a gushing demure submissive girl She would have piously taken orders given Murillo the servile adulation he craved She She I would have exalted his ego puffed him hm up with feelings of complacent mastership Why had boad he preferred a a- scoffing Insolent creature like herself herselt Just that he might break hereto herto his will That he might have that oblique pleasure some parents take in rowing rowing row row- owing ow- ow ing a fiery child or a man in taming tans tam ing a spirited horse Y Yes Yes-he s s-he s he wanted to twist her In two two make make her scream and bow S I She flung back her head keeping the tho eyes shut till the tears were gone But she wouldn't bow Wouldn't be crushed Hed He'd see see She pulled the blanket from th the tho bed d with shorts shorty venomous yanks Crush her Let him try She ruffled out the sheets making making mak mak- mak I ing the bed with precise flashing speed Yes Let him try tryl Bob was going to send over that type type- I writer It would be put in Irs Idas Ida's room She would practice practice pound pound poundon on those keys until her fingers were calloused calloused become become export expert And then- then I FI Fly to the city get city get a II aJob Job own job own herself hersel Laugh at him roar him roar laughter at him She became suddenly quiet And just as suddenly the tho blood went flaming up over up-up-over up over her neck her neck her lips her Bps her temples All AU her lIt lIfe Ufa Murillo Murillo would would hold her He would never let her free Not yet 21 but doomed Bound legally legally no no chance to escape escape- She Sho sank Bank oppressively In the low chair at the window This couldn't be couldn't be-couldn't couldn't remain always so Something would happen Clouds dense Clouds dense blue rimmed with fire hung fire hung low over ver the distant islands the channel waters were gray Far out a a. ship unfurled a along along along long banner of smoke against the sky She wished she was on that shIp wished that she were sailing to some remote unknown land In Inconceivable Inconceivable Inconceivable In- In conceivable that only death was going go going go- go go ing to release her She said sald to herself herself herselt her her- self vaguely It cant can't be How can it be And she became Indignant Indignant Indig Indig- nant at Bob McNeil saying McNeil-saying saying she ha hadn't nt sufficient grounds 1 And she planned ways of or trapping trapping trapping trap trap- ping Murillo provoke Murillo-provoke provoke him in public pub pub- lic goad lic-goad goad him into some terrible public violence violence- Her thoughts became reckless reckless- flame and hardness enter entered d them Yesterday when Ramon followed tollow her through the the grapevines sweeping her in his arms she had flushed with guilt as much as Joy Now she said to herself hersel with a steely brightness Im glad Murillo thought he would shut hut huther her out from all the sparkle of ot life He would deny her gayety and youth and and all the Intoxicating sweetness of ot love Would he he She pressed her burning cheeks against the window pane hearing his menacing menacing menacing men men- acing be held perma held perma j She answered with witha fa a des des- I t I- I No I II frightened swiftness s I wont won't The typewriter came Sandy r aLl to Ida Will WUl you OU let me rae put pdt this afraid the tapping tapping tapping tap tap- In n your our room Im I'm ping will wUl disturb Mr Murillo Besides Besides Be Be- sides I dont don't want him to know Im I'm learning lie Jle doesn't believe In a girl having such hobbles hobbies Ida Idi looked at her with that pe peculiar pP pP- culiar cullar compassion Yes you Yes you put it here Sandy began to practice The moment Murillo left In the morning she began After Arter a a. few hours herback her herback herback back ached She was filled d with with resentment But she kept at It H taking a pleasure In ia the pain I A At t the end of a week she know knew all the tha keys She figured out out- the time it would take her to tu become becom an expert Three months that months that would be the tha least she could bould 1 learn the typing and anil the shorthand then shorthand then she would pack up her things and bolt tolt free free FREEl FREE She wrote this word a thousand times And she wrote Hes lies nothing to me me nothing nothing less than nothing The Thoe thought of his narrow narI narrow nar nar- row shoulders and sneering smile made her blaze with contempt and I shame He lie owned her He was going to tomake 1 mal make her life lite d destitute see destitute-see see ee to itI It that she would never know what a beautiful love could be He would keep b her r In this house houst a prisoner pris pris- old- old oner compel oner-compel compel her to grow starved and defrauded as Alice Allee had been I I S She thought about this her senses taking fire Only a weakling a a would submit submit- meekly submit to such a a. tion tiou She wouldn't She knew l oe vIat it was to stand In the the- moonlight ht clasped In strong tender al' al arne arms knew what hat it was to have havo hippy happy lips pressed warmly on hers hers float float In irs these arms dreamily down clown a sea of flowers She let herself dally daily dan with these Images or of ho herself and lUmon She sat Bat In Idas Ida's ros room m the o 1 on a a. level Jevel with the garden an and flushed exultantly recalling the fervor in his sunny eyes She read and arid reread his letters You dont don't want me to come coine Sandy Yes you do Why not What harm can you d do me Iii Im not a boy boj and I want to come I L think of you continually you stood there in the dark If It I could only be a little sure that yoa you came be because ause of a feeling for tor me me-a me a feelIng feelIng feeling feel- feel Ing even tenth one as strong as mine for you I love you 1 recall the moment on the boat when hen you reached your hands to my neck SI Sandy you you dy-you you wouldn't take the string of ot Jade You didn't want me to have so slight a tie as this on you OU But Im I'm bound to you now now bound bound by the hands you clasped ab II the the the- She went vent ven every day dav to the theoffice PI office to get these letters S fj looked forward ward to Ramons Ramon's visits vist vista a subtle te feeling stealing through thoughts I. I m mOne One day Murillo accosted be beshe her herT ashe she was coming from the bu bulli Ing What are you doing here She had two letters one from Judith Ju Ji and one from Ramon In Vh h hand boand She clutched them j So you call here for your ma mado do you you i 1 He made a grab for the hai hancl wh where re s she e held in passionate tern terro terni terro I i these letters a Continued tomorrow ow j II |