Screenland (Nov 1937-Apr 1938)

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"Can you hear them, the night noises ? Do you see the moon among the cypresses ? Can you taste the night on your tongue ? You can't get away from these things, Pres ; they're in your blood. You don't know what it is, Pres, but they're part of you. It's the mocking bird in the magnolias, it's the blue haze on a spring morning when the air's so soft it presses on you like a kiss. It's a red flower over a gray wall. It's the river rolling down and down. Oh, it isn't tame and easy like the north. It's quick and dangerous, but you can trust it. Because it's part of you, Pres, just as I'm part of you. And we'll never let you go !" Suddi nl\ -lir iikm ed tow ard him and he felt her young body pressed against him, her lips clinging to his. His arm reached out to hold her — then suddenly the brief ecstatic moment was gout and he had only contempt for her and the trick she had stooped to, and instead his hand caught her full on the face. "Pres," she whispered, and he tried to look away from the triumph in her eyes. "Pres, you're afraid of me ! You're afraid of yourself. You're afraid because it's pulling you. You're part of it and you can't get away from it. This is your country, Pres. Amy doesn't understand. She thinks there'd be snakes 1" "Yes! And she'd be right!" Preston breathed deeply as he stepped back, and he wondered if Julie had guessed how close he had come to taking her in his arms again. "Amy has put her life and her happiness into my hands and they're going to be safe there. I'm going in now." He had left when she went back into the house again for a message had come that the President of the bank had been stricken and needed him. But Amy was still there, -for he had refused to take her with him to the plague-ridden city. It was the girl's very quietness that drove Julie to that new frenzy, and there was nothing that the others could really understand, only that before any of them realized it Ted was defending his sister-in-law and Buck was taking up the cudgels for Julie. "Don't you see what Julie's doing?" Ted turned furiously on Buck. "Don't you see how she's using you? She's been egging vou on, first against Pres and now his Wife." Once Buck had fought a duel over Julie for less than this. But that had been a stranger. It was harder to fight this boy who had been his friend. Julie could have stopped it if she had wanted to. But Julie didn't want to stop anything now, and she only laughed when the others begged her to. And afterward Gloria Youngblood is one of the most promising screen recruits. it was too late. Afterward, when she saw Ted's drawn young face as he flung his pistol contemptuously down on the table be i fore her. She didn't need anyone to tell i her Buck was dead, then. But she wouldn't let the others see that scaring remorse that came to her even as they left her house, with their horror of her plain on their faces. "I'll arrange to turn my guardianship over to the bank," General Bogardus said with averted head. "My respects, Ma'am." Even when she saw her aunt leaving with the others she stood there with her proud head held high and her eyes looked coldly ; into the old ones staring at her as if they were seeing her for the first time. "I am thinking of a woman called Jezebel who did evil in the sight of God," the older woman said slowly. The suddenly emptied house seemed like a tomb and an intolerable loneliness drove Julie to the window. Then her laugh came again, slowly and triumphantly, for she saw the sheriff and his men who were draw ing the fever line between them and the city driving them back into the house again. For a week she went through the mockery of catering to her unwilling guests, of pretending that their silence and averted lool did not concern her. And then suddenly it didn't matter any longer. Nothing mattered. — for Preston's man servant came to them one night bedraggled and mud-smeared with the news that Preston had been stricken. "They tek him to yo' house, Miss Julie." the colored boy's eyes bulged with terror. "And the doctor say for you all to get there right away quick afore they hustle him off to dat leper place." "Leper place?" Amy said with a little moan. "What does he mean?" "Lazarette Island, the leper colony where they send the fever victims to die !" Someone blurted out. "They can't!" Amy's eyes were wild with horror. "I've got to get to him." Julie looked on impassively as they began to get read}' for the ride to New Orleans with the old general in command. Maybe he would get them through the fever lines with his authority and bluster, but Julie wasn't going to take a chance on it. She had to get to Preston ! The boy who had come with the news had broken through cane brake to get there, he had fought his waj' among thickets and through the treacherous waters of the Bayou. Well, Julie could do that too. Julie who loved him. But when she stood beside Preston's bed at last he turned his head away. "Keep away ! Don't touch me !" He shrank from her outstretched, beseeching hands. "You . . . with Buck's blood on you!" She hadn't known that gossip could break even through fever lines. But another kind of courage came to her then, a courage greater than the one that had sent her stumbling and falling through danger to be with him, a courage that could make her stay knowing he didn't want her. All that night she stayed beside him and held the ice compresses to his head. And sometimes he was quiet and she remembered other days when his face had held that same peace being near her. And sometimes he raved and the words twisted in her heart. "Underneath the river you trust it's part of you rolling down forever to remember because it's in the blood Buck's blood and made you. cry twice and struck you because we're a part of it and struck after she cried twice remember twice white white never wore zvhite and trust you." Strange, jumbled words running together in his delirium but the meaning of them there to lift her heart even as they struck SO SCREENLAND