Show W I 1 41 A r 19 9 J jap b 54 1 thin ali in fingers flutter cil uneasily allala a f r e d button on an n eit equally illy lit f rayed and ana worn ove overcoat and a homans womans wor nans anxious 71 OLIS oies looked 1 I e p roe atin IY into tile husbands fuco face what Is it mary ills bla tone was ge litle ho v wit etli till nil un ler current of saillie 84 ancl ana in it christinas camri to morrow lienol slit 7 did not look it in LIS fucia now lut but closely tho friy oil as ai it I 1 f it were IMIO the at absorbing arbing of iler bior ll 11 thoughts 1 I I 1 inov ilow it mary couba could you yon lot mo me have ha 1 I 1 little littie Il lolley llonel Llon cl tile children know daar 0 0 11 biao alever lot let uio thos city go past it hout M elginn for them and fill we vo tit run 11 it t not now ll 11 lie ho said they will 11 nevor be lio but once poor thi thins limi 1141 took out a 11 worn wallet from f roni ills lit pocket I 1 have looked over nil all tho old oil thill things 11 lit bcalel or of bits to mke inake over oer into gar 1 loilta or of fancy things for thorn aho antill nt ill ally but every cery thing I 1 is worn so close llona 1 1 I try to tn ln ill fl algal alati savins saving tier her eyes were filled with tears now and you aro are marv khero would we 0 o lit hao vo beon been hall bad it not boon been tor for your inan in mi gomont amont will two dollars 1 iia lin bis enough it is au all I 1 have bao allily morning Ilea voll knows I 1 IN wish ish I 1 rould could make it twenty or a hundred full choie e la Is no limit to the deserts of 0 tho lie good wife youve iono been to ni mo e miry a ry dont cry dear clear it takes cill all my courage and strength to soo you unhappy hippy un tho the faded faco face was waa pr prad sd against tile traced frayed button now lit 1 n a vain attempt to little the hot tears which would come and ills his worn glove gloo much too thin for the season smoothed tho the thin gray gri y fair tenderly ton doily 1 ilien I 1 must not cry she bho answered 10 oking looking up tip with ath a forced smile yos yes it wib 11 bo be enough moro moio than I 1 hall had expected ox but I 1 feet so BO wicked to ask ahk you for money when I 1 know you bavoso have ao little to spare me Y ars yrs clebit was tho the si inton danced not only lit in tile tho czobot but all over ocr the alio house lioi iho in fit this humble home and H I 1 mary went lack back to tier work tier faco faco fv drawn up tip thoughtfully as silo just liow inn wany li loennies ennies could bo be spared roi for tills this or th tint tt and balanced tho differences 1 between tween tho the strictly useful and eba mor moio childlike but loss less mater mator al lil gir pitts two dollars after all was such a little drop lit in tile bucket of necessities to say nothing of tho the ornamental or the beautiful it iduas was not a debt of carelessness or or of extravagance slie site could scarcely have hao aoi lorne ne tile tho self reproach find and tile tho of it it if it fall been beef but was vas tho the natural result of long years of sickness and reverse nor so lionel webb in ills his young tr das laid just csc with its ills life frobin in an attack of spinal meningitis which fall resulted if in a partial disability for llop ile was very cry ambitious and though obliged to accept work which I 1 biad ad us ag littlon of manual labor tit in it as I 1 possible oisille oi sible still lio did it often wife han Pt stronger fetro ronger ngor men would havo have ill a I 1 physician lit in attendance did it in such bodily torture that lie ho hardly ro what lio lie was vis doing mary lary hall had her share of sickness too the anxiety and care caio attendant atten duit on oil donels Liono lii disability was enough to break r n woman of iron which sho lie was not and in addition to it till all three tin oo 00 darling children lind hall bick enod and died lionel had secured a now new situation of lato lio ho was growing hotter better with years at and I 1 a could now tako take up tip a different class of work and liis ills present employer wits was it man of largo wealth amplo ying p mai nany ly clerks lit in ills big groat great business tit all lionel worked I 1 in a mazo maso of perplexity anti and regret marys face with tho the tears on it was w as ever 0 or before him tonight to nl night lit was christmas eve and all day long it a procession of richly dresel sed mothers and fathers thronged thron ged the storo store buy ng buying from full purses while MAW mary ills his truo true faithful wife whose seven seventeen teen years of married life bad boon been ono one long struggle with toll find and care care had only a pitiful two dollars with which abich to do tier her christmas shopping and nd I 1 it t grieved him to tho the very hea fearls cr core tho the rush was over now new and in a halt half hour moro more tho the great establishment would 11 bo be closed when an all errand boy touched ills arm mr date dalo would liko like to soo see you in tile private office sir air lie bo sald respectfully lionelli Lio nels neli heart sank in ills bosom alko lead could it bo be that in addition to his other misfortunes ho he was going to lose 1030 h bai IS situation this edgag emen thad been provisionary and ills employer hall had made no sign as to whether his hia service was acceptable lie ho crawled rather than walked to tho the in III his nervous dread for tho the patt past had been so persistently unkind to him that ho he war wa coming to dread tho future sit down sit down sir air said mr isit da ditle e cheerfully lionel took a sent scat noar tho the prosper aclus clus busin 3 n r who noi irel e did so tile the look of care nul and LIL aiji p buon on oil LIS lily fin eln PlOYs till file 1 I it I 1 liis has axi beell n my iny eu custom sir 1 I r tor for anio years baisi to to nial inal iny illy 1 I 1 hide arsent on cit cill istman vvo IM lie if o il ell cd gella IVY as 11 1 1 IH took it ill 11 from rin lit lii biesk dc k diirr and laid it in llonel Iilo nil s italia hind 1 tin klinl 1 use lot lor it or if i you rin eat nut not to no doubt tin the quod wife afo cliff clil id lional loo it id ill alin abo hill lit in dniel a as it if an all angol au pl hid hal cone co ne in ill ind alid elI elioud lud bill dai it tile shoulder lio he donld would I 1 not lot lave been more moio surprised lor for it was ia A lifty alft dollar WIL bill sir lio lie stammered 1 I llao have barn bo it with alth hotl ho 0 short it a till ainu I 1 have diio not ot site 11 consideration 1 I hats till nil siri ydill I 1 lino I 1 it amplo opportunity to malco inako I 1 it t it your hiir f ture years birot ti rot of bervick ber ll vicc co for I 1 tit ilo not t in ill tinalu t nd to pirt part with alli 8 bo 0 till mist m lint alit loirro was moro more in tile balmor than in ill tile dilill deed ded itself and ami Lio liels I 1 cibit up tip with etli gratitude ito ilo thought of 0 mary ind and of tilt miny many many caos 1 it 4 thu n loney could be 10 put to to hiim bartil I 1 lallky I 1 tile gvinter cloila mal amny T hall wodea for 01 years and but blit lih his filce facu 1 fell fall ibero was is it dunning ill ills 1114 pocket it at tint moment which lio lie bad all co Ill neild aled front roin hillry coill ino 1110 bolder of a gutc agal list blo for flarty dollars and alid 1 no no it would appio ono one doll dollar arof of tile gift for personal bonal needs liefa 4 i mr hilo wai gasn wasn a reader cf faces ti ets and I twilit all face had appealed to ills his tanco he li had entered tho the oilier and tie lio noted alio clomiro of Mint isit WC LI lio lie said kir kindly ialy you look and As lionel laearl tile kind kiihl voice boico anil and looked into tile fco face tin an ini came caino to him to toll tell this man inin ills his troubles troche 4 it lt cwi wwi ato go hard to boar bear it alone and to wear par a smiling face over a boadt be 8 fluid anxious care and barcly what tic lie bald lie ho floured doured out ills story of tile tho past or of mary iary and ut of IKI her pitiful today to day it hurts tile ino so no mr dale lie ho said in conclusion that I 1 can not use even a i dollar of your gener ous oils at far or tier itow how inic now low would cover this on tiro indebtedness asked ke mr ir I 1 M lie e ito ho was drumming on ills his dryk desk and looking keenly at lionel not in blaino blanno or in doubt of 0 tho the truth of 0 ills bis story but lit in ti laking an effort to put hilli solf it in fifteen hundred dollars would pay every dollar clr ir ialo dalo reflected in the light of hta his nill llona tho the sum seemed scorned a very trifle yot yet liero bero was a I 1 man whoso choso strength and happiness were boing being wasted for tile tho lack of it what would you say then it if I 1 should loan you sou this money and let you work it out gra gradually bally as you call cain a anord it 11 zay sirl I 1 should work on wings it would mako make my heart so light then put on your wings returned mr dilo date smiling tor for well havo have the matter arran arranged geol at tit an early date and now go homo hoino and spend this money toi rot mary and tho the children with a clear con science mary ilary wits filling tile tho stockings stoc kingi when lionel cani me and poor soul ab jhc had evidently been shedding tears over avei tit tho C ta task sit A pretty ruche and ribbon for f or jennie and a pair of stockings nd winter gloves for amy tile merest amid the ocean of lovely tempting things silo sho had bad soon seen that day a pair or of warm warin gloves for lionel which ho would not buy for himself lay lit in lift her bureau drawer and thoro there hil bill been just enough left to buy 1 a I small chicken tor for t tho christmas di dinner tiner for or a turkey was not to be 10 of tills this year sliu silo had fall not heard him whon when lio lie opened the outer door softly 1 lip i I 1 4 I 1 4 4 ne eidl 1 I 1 JIMY WOULD COVER 11 alm ft stood watching wat ebing her ter through tile tho glass door which led from tho the hallway to tho the little parlor silo sho had finished now and with tile tho stockings ore on her lay lap leaned her bor hrad head dejectedly upon her hand band it was so liard bardt to give pennies where her warm heart would so go gladly lavish pounds oh lionel low how you startled mo me as ho he opened tho the door and ana wont in why what has happened dearal dear iio ho wits was loaded down with packages package and every pocket was bulging out in addition and 1110 know that something unusual hail had mccu occurred rad tho the lord forgotten us yot yet mary try lio lie said taking tier her worn fun faeo fu n in III his hands and kissing it ly sit sho listened to lla his recital of tilt conversa lion with mr dilo dalo with eyes ovo oscr r with IU happy happi tonn 4 and when lion liehan finished and ole realized that the load of 0 barr har assing debt was to lio be her ter faue faro took on oil a rever 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