Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1926 — Page 8

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SANDY

Sandy McNeil. In love with life, marriea Murillo, a rich Italian, to please KP 1 ’r*ppoverished family. Tyranny by •"Vtrulo and frequent quarrels follow. A 4on dies at birth, llob McNeil, her uncle. aide in plans for Sandy and her mother to take a trip to Honolulu. There she meets Ramon Worth, who saves her life in 'he surf. On the same steamer home he declares his love. Murillo says he will never release her. Judith Moore, a cousin, tells Sandy love i everythiiur. Murillo overtakes her as she goes for a tryst with Ramon. He appears, unexpectedly, at a party she is giving for her friends. After the party he strikes her. She leaves his house and aeeuts the kindly attentions of Ramon. whose home she shares. Through her sister she receives a letter from MuriUo. in which he lays lown the terms lor her surrender. GO ON WITH THE STORY FROM HERE CHAPTER LVI Half of Sandy’s clothes, spread out on chairs, were drying before the fire; the other half she was Ironing. In a closet she had found an old lounging robe. This was now pinned rakishly about her. More because she felt hostile and wished to defy an Imaginary Ben Murillo than, because she was enjoying >hem, she lit clgaret after cigaret os she pounded the Iron back and 1 forth over the white silk sport dress. She talked to herself. “He can advise me In matters of propriety! Correct my unseemly conduct.” The iron swinging in a long, vicious stroke: “Oh, what do I care? Why should I think about it?” The Iron slackening—tucks pressed down with elaborate care. “Better do it well! Only rag you’ve got—”

She hunched her elbows on the board, resting her chin In her palms. Saturday afternoon—a week gone; a week since she’d run so wildly from her home, putting her whole life definitely behind her. She didn’t regret this step. She was blazing, defiantly exultant about it. But now, staring at these few flimsy clothes, the rather terrifying poverty of her equipment for anew and different life made her suddenly very still. “I can’t stay on here forever,” she whispered. “No —but you've got to stay until you get some clothes —somewhere! AV'hy did you give Alice to understand that you’d grabbed a few things? She would have sent you some of hers.” Bhe shrugged! “J wonder if I can get a job?” 'This started anew train of thought, She saw herself In the five-and-ten-cent store earning $16.50 a week. Bob McNeil said that was about the onily thing she could do unless she was prepared. The picture was preposterous. Working behind a counter all the rest of her life —very likely! Almost inaudlbly she no\V Whispered: "1 can stay here until I get the typing down pat. Why can’t I stay here?” Immediately she grew warm and her breath hurried. “Why can’t I?” she repeated angrily. “Oh, that old bunk! Men don’t look at things that way today, I can stay If I want—” Quickly, with a firm, challenging step, she walked up and down the long room, swinging her shoulders. An Ideal place to stay. Lucky she had such a chance. As safe here as though she were burled— Her steps lagged. She halted, an Image of Ramon as he kissed her oood-by confronted her. He had laughed and flushed: "It's a thrill having you here, Sandy. It makes me feel as though we’re married — you in this house—” She had laughed, too, liking the warmth of his eyes, liking the fire that flew along her nerves. Well—what of that! Os course she liked Ramon. She liked MANY men. Easy for her to like them — She refused vigorously to go any further with these thoughts. Saturday—he was coming to dinner. Eight o'clock he would come walking in. Her cheeks stained and hot, she began to dress. She said: “Lord, it’s quiet here! I wonder if there’s any mail —”

There were three letters, two from Alice. The first caught Sandy like a spasm. “The jig Is up, Sandy.” Alice had this habit of making a startling remark, following it up with goading slowness. She had a sense of dramatic, extremely irritating to her listeners. “The jig is up. You're husband kr.ows you’re all right. He means to get you back by hook or crook. I’ll tell you how it happened. Wednesday afternoon after he left here, I dashed to your house, getting Marne to drive me. But he’d evidently raced back himself, for he was there. I him: ‘Has Sandy returned?’ "His face looked as though it were starched. ‘No, she hasn’t.’ “I said as though dying of alarm:

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‘We’ll have to do something. God knows what may have happened.’ “He had murder in his eyes: ’I believe you also know. Miss (get the Miss) McNeil! I propose to do something very quickly.’ “ ‘What do you propose to do?’ “ ‘That’s my business!’ “ ‘Well, it's mine also.’ “ 'You can do as you please, Miss McNeil.’ “No chance, of course, to get your things. Better buy some. Unless Ida can break into your room when he’s asleep. I gave her the skeleton keys and told her to try it. She’s strong for you. "I left and evidently he went at once and phoned to mamma. She gave him the goods—innocently, of course. She believes you're having a lovely visit with Judith. I gather from her account that your husband asked very considerately about her health and could he do anything for her. Os course, this touches her and she gets the weeps telling me Ben is such a good man and why isn’t Sandy happy. “I guess ma asked when you were coming home. He answers: “I’m not sure. Did she write to you, mother?’ Ma says: ‘Oh, yes—l had a lovely letter. She and Judith are having a wonderful time.’ “That lets him see the lay of the land! He see3 that ma hasn’t a suspicion why, when or how you left. But he’s dead sure I know all about it. He told ma he was going to the city to get you. ”1 wouldn’t put it past him to put a detective on your trail. Watch your step, kid. He's a mean hombre. It’s pretty tough that you’re tied to him for life...-

Sandy opened the second letter. It was sharp. It set her pulse flying. “Isn’t this red hot? 1 can hardly believe it....the sanctimonious hypocrite! But I suppose he'll say you drove him to it.” Enclosed was a clipping from the Santa Barbara paper with Sandy's picture on the front page. Across the top was the heading: “Narrowly Escapes Death.” There fel lowed an account of an automobile accident on Wednesday midnight. “Mr. and Mrs. Ben Murillo, returning from Los Angeles, were struck by another machine. By a miracle, it seemed, no one was hurt. Mr. Murillo and his wife were able to proceed homeward in their own machine.” The information stunned Sandy. Ben Murillo driving with a woman at midnight—passing her off as his wife— Alice commented: “May Arliss rang up your house to find out about it and your husband tells her the newspaper made a mistake, that it was his sister and not his wife who was driving with him. Some alibi, isn’t it? Wonder who the dame is? Gosh, if she doesn’t get any more out of him than you did! Couldn’t you use this against him? But I suppose his devoted Beatrice would swear by all the gods that she was the woman—” For a reason that she didn't at first analyze, Sandy felt as though a weight dropped from her. * She told herself: “I’m glad! God—l’m glad!” She went almost running to the beach. She rubbed her hands along her arm as though she were pushing chains from her. She was free of him completely. His Infidelity left her free. It dissolved even the moral ties he might still have held. She looked at the wide stretch of waters. Far out a whale sent a silver geyser upward. She thought: “I’m alone. I belong to myself now —” These words made her cheeks burn. She went with a still, tightened expectancy back to the house. She dusted It. She put poppies that she had picked in the glowing field on the tables and shelves. Now and then she looked at the clock. Toward 8 o’clock she kept going to the door, peering into the shadows — At 8 she heard a step. She closed the door quickly, clasping her hands against her chin. But she pulled it open, giving a quick, frightened laugh. Not Ramon, but a messenger boy, was coming up the walk. He had a telegram. Ramon wasn’t coming. (To Be Continued.)

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oning time before the beginning of the Christian Vera (marked ”B. C.”) that the longer ago an event occurred the larger is the number of years because we are counting backwards. For Instance, the Olympian games of 776 B. C. were held twentythree years before the founding of Rome, which is supposed to have taken place 753 B. C. The year 150 B. C. was 100 years before 50 B. C., but the year 150 A. D. (Anno Domini), or after Christ, was 100 years after 50 A. D„ because here we are counting forward, 1,2, 3,4, etc., instead of backward, 4,3, 2, 1. We also divide time before and after the birth of Christ into periods of 100 years or centuries. Thus the years between the time of the birth of Christ and 100 A. D. are in the first century; from 100 to 200 A. D. is the second century, etc. The years between 1900 and 2000 are in the twentieth-century, in which we are now living. In reckoning time before the birth of Christ we count the centuries back from that event, just as we do the years. One of the difficulties in dealing with the calendar arises from the fact that the solar year cannot be divided evenly into months j and days, the time actuary re-

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