Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1926 — Page 10

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SANDY

TH9 ETORY SO FAR Sandy McNeil of Spanish ltnewe, marries Ben Murillo, a wealthy Italian, to please her Impoverished family. She sacrifices her love for Timmy, a boyhood sweetheart. Her married life Is a series of humiliations by Murillo. She writes to her cousin. Judith Moore, a San Francisco stenographer, for a advice and possible assistance in her plight. Then discovery that a young life is hovering near seems to cement her bondage. GO ON WITH THE STORY FROM HERE. CHAPTER XVIII T' 'n O YOU mean that you ITj I didn’t send those invitaV-* I tlons?” He got control of his momentary agitation. “I thought a long while, Sandy, and I believe I’m acting for the best. There really was no reason for including those names.” "You mean to say there was no reason for including my friends?” "There were some on that list I

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don’t consider your friends, Sandy. It’s my duty to protect you from them.” "Timmy? Oh, you mean Timmy?” A dark flush spread over his sallow face. He v leaned back In his chair, blew the smoke from his cigarette. watched it curl. think we can let our friend Timmy fade oiit of the picture. I think it will be the best move for all concerned.” * • • SHE stood looking at him, white and still as marble, her i___J hair a flame against her blanched cheeks and smoldering eyes. She said, icily: “You think It best for all parties concerned, do you? Well, I don’t!” and walked out of the room. Sandy went upstairs. She sat at

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a little table pushed near her window. Sea gulls—a whole flock of them —were bobbing on the water. They looked like tiny yachts with white sails gleaming in the sun. She let her eyes wander far across the bay to the dark, still file of mountain islands. She thought of that girl lost out there in San Nicolas, the Indian girl abandoned with her baby in the windswept isle of skulls —forgotten for eighteen years. Old people in Santa Barbara remembered the time she was rescued, and not a living soul, not a man or woman on all the earth, could understand a word she said. Sandy imagined herself walking on the forlorn, rocky waste. She could imagine isolation more desolate —a spiritual aloneness far more terrible than the Indian girl had known. She said grimly, “Hers would be easy—EASY.” UDDENLY she snapped open her box of correspondence cards. She wrote hastily—eager personal notes to the friends Murillo had snubbed. She said she couldn’t account for the loss -of

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their invitations and It -yould be a mighty chilly housewarming if they didn’t come. She expected them. She was shaking with a cold, fainting desperation. She didn’t care what consequences might attend this act. She put the invitations In her bag. Immediately after dinner she came out quietly, intending to mail them. Murillo was in front of the house talking with a neighbor. He said, in a loud, pleasant tone: “I’ve been waiting to take you for a ride.” Her cold, still manner repudiated him. But he smiled down at her In the lovelike way he adopted in the presence of strangers. He helped her into the car. It was nearing the middle of November—already dark. The rich purple shadows fell like garments over the nude, quiet hills. Th&jr'took the road along the water and finding a point hedged with Murillo stopped. The gleafn” of the moonlit water wavered through the branches, “Do you like this, Sandy?” She smiled faintly. “Does that matter? Is that of the slightest of consequence?”

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no harm In that affair. Others don’t. Why should you and I, in view l , of what Is coming, give meat to the gossips? That incident ,1s past, Sandy; I’ve overlooked It once. There’s no need to be continually raking It tn my face." She answered nothing. * • * mN the morning she went out and mailed these invitations, she had no sooner done this than she was anguished with alarm. Murillo had already snubbed Keinle openly. She began to fear that ht might refuse her friends admittance to the house. She could meet any rage he might visit upon herself, but she quailed at the thought of subjeclting these unsuspecting) friends to insult. She Anally went to Murillo. She said to him: “I just want to tell you that I came back to you Intending to do the best I could.’ He Closed his magazine, a faint sarcastic curl to his moist red lfps. “I think I understand perfectly, Sandy, your reasons for returning to me." \ She flushed. ’T admit It. I had to come. But I mean to do the best I can. So now. I’m going to tell you. Don’t think you’re God In my opinion. Don’t think you own me body and soul. You can’t tell me to snub the friends of a lifetime and expect that I’ll obey you. I won’t. I think and fell as I please and ask no one’s permission! “I’m saying this to give you warning. If you do anything to insult me or my friends, you’ll find yourself without a wife. And I’ll take care that you shall never see my child!” Not a muscile of his face moved, but there went over it a mottled, bluish pallor. He picked up the magazine, turned pages In a clamorous silence. • She remained standing before him. Finally he closed the book. In a voice that he tried visibly to control: "You’re very good at making threats. Don’t try to carry out that last one. Don’t try to carry it out!” • • * T'"““ I HE day of the housewarm- _ lhg, Sandy was in a state of —J pitiful excitement. She was almost driven to ring up Timmy and

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tell him not to come. She didn’t do this. She’d given a defy to Fate and she would not back down. She told herself desperately: “He’ll not dare to test me. He's afraid of what I’ll do!” Now she sat at her dressing table. She wore black with a Jong string of crystal beads. Her eyes were very dark—the faintest color in her white cheeks. Murillo, who had been dashing about everywhere, giving a thousand orders to their one maid and to the caterer, came in suddenly, closing the door behind him. This unusual activity made him excessively tense. He watched Sandy, his eyes lighting with approval. ITe told'her she looked very beautiful. He was proud of her. He waited for her to return. She ran the buffer over her nails, her head lowered. She was piercingly aware of his presence. “Sandy," he nßld softly, ”1 think we’re going to have a wonderful time tonight.” "I hope so.” "I’ve dpne everything I could to make things pleasant. I hope nothing Is going to mar the affair—" He came to a significant pause. The blood leaped thunderously to Sandy’s eyes. She wanted to say: "Don’t make a scene, .Ben! Don’t crowd me to the wall! I’ve warned you!" She found It impossible to speak. e e e iwr TTF7N the machines began arriving she became fait with 1 apprehension. Every time the bell rang she trembled. If she was upstairs with guests she made excuses and ran out into the hall leaning over the banisters. And she was determined to Jly to the door, flash between Murillo and her friends daring him to belittle them. By 10 o’clock she was devastated with these nervous alarms. She worMered If Murillo had learned of' her notes and in some dastardly way recanted her Invitations. One o’clock. Not one o t Sandy’s friends had come. She felt abandoned—utterly abandoned. To Be Continue!,