Show THE MILLION DOLLAR MIRACLE 1 1 the prize winning christmas story in the junior story contest written by s ERNEST MEYER T A money loncy Il money loncy Illon money cyl oswald I 1 want it few things I 1 need for my iny room or dunwald awald that tic jc Is abao lutolf it 11 disgrace to your una looks looka why dont you buy a dodou dr T so u und wear a different one unco once in it a while all i licar hoar tile little i i am dionio W Alek ken tho the well known k million dollar broker front from wall street oswald wua was it aleavy sat bot man of thirty two yearn dark anti and hand handsome sonie ito ilu had entered tile matrimonial world exactly eight months alter after liu lio aino one ut of wall street 14 control lei lura leih H ile ho dearly loved its bin wiro wife barall lukken wild way was four yeu yearn rg hla his junior and allot wilo in III turn bussed t tho lie love back twofold two fold told ahu was it a sincero wai wol iKin liall anti and ox croll sed perfectly hot duty duly its aa a 0 wife but sho had tit in jica lon full it habit of Hp money just tia as if 1 she alio wore were doing her dally daily hoilo work hence its ills on oil tile proposition of money spending and thrift but dour 1 I do 10 need tile tho today IR IH december J tile rd bd cond mid and tit in three daya day ita christmas it you must know for what purpose I 1 want alii il money loney sarah karali lila ills evor wife must you always have it bank with you when you go shopping anil and a as 0 for ties I 1 wont need to buy ani any for r that Is IH my christmas present front froin all tile relatives so ho why not ask for or what you need and not tor for alint aliat you think I 1 need im afraid tho the largo amount ol of money wo we lum have la going to your head this continual spen impending dlAg must stop for I 1 lia gained a cont cant since wo we were married twenty months ago oswald you forget that you use its as much money its I 1 do and alia when you want something you can call got it without asking tor for tile tho money with which to buy it you buy as aa often as aa I 1 to do but you dont notice it it 11 you saved it a cent since wo we wore married dont you think that you are partly to blame too now listen to nio 1110 sarah barah tilts this spending liaa has got to stop you also want to remember that thu the money you spend I 1 earn tho the inin manuto tito lie said raid this llila lio lie wanted to take whack it back but lie ha know lie ho was waa beaten so BO lie he stuck to it lie could see sea by I 1 her actions that liar her tempo temper was aroused on oil second thought oswald continued never mind that second tho mr air Molt kon one olio Is enough for me ill go homo home to mother until you apologize for your mistake and ill ansul 0 you its your mistake not reaching for liar coat and lint hat sho continued goodday good day mr al r cokken ill talk to you when you cool off a hit bit with this she litter ally flow flaw to tho the door and was gono before oswald could do or say anything meanwhile lurking just juat outside tile the open window during oswald quarrel with ills his wife were two ot ol tho the slickest slackest slick est crooks in thu the world tako take all that in louie I 1 asked hort bart Coll llna this mastermind master mind of tho the now york underworld 1 I soe see tile possibilities of our fortune in that fracas lt batcha I 1 got it and I 1 your scheme boulo you ion wrote some your younger days soo sec it if you yon can call write wilto a couple that will bring those two into our hands sos soa wo we tan call R strike it rich allows tills this dart say I 1 write one to him tolling telling him to see sec liar hoi at the Loy leviathan lathan you ou know it leaves tomorrow tomo irow night at aix thirty then ill solid send liar hor ono one asking liar her to meet him at soven ae en thirty at the same place you offer to take him to hoi her and tit an hour later inter ill bring brlick her to him of course never soo boo each ancl other for foi wo we ivill hold them P tit in separate looms then wo we can force ns aa much money out of them is aa wo we want to because they alio are hend head over libels in fit love with cacti other and will all readily to do as ai each letter instructs fino dp it so BO that each will ket get their letter tomorrow tomo now wo we can call figure out the money end of it on tho the ship 11 simpson tile the cokken litter hart had barely laid the lays daa mail on the table before oswald lind had rono gone thru thin the stack and picked tit up one addressed to him in what lie he supposed to be her handwriting inside was ft as this mr Alek ken mother alother and I 1 leave for an ocen n trip tonight at P al on tho the L le vl vi athan if you have havo repented of what you yon said saad to me heres your chance ch anceto to square yourself airs 0 W bekken 11 sarah who war wap ashamed of liar her actions toward her husband ransacked ram sacked tile the mall mail as soon as it canio came within liar her vision tills his was tile result IDo dearest idearest arest sarah moot tile me tonight at the docks I 1 am leaving for a trip to the southern continent no do there at 7 30 P AI with your belongings I 1 forgive you for everything youve said Oswa oswald lol mr Alek bekken ken I 1 believe asked bert of a hansome ha linn naome some well dressed man mail whom lie to met inot at the dock at 11 all yes answer oswald your wife la Is on oil the steamer and asked tile nio to watch for you and to tako take you to her sir 11 lead on then than my man hert dart could feet feel hl its adventurous spirit heating beating within him ills his scheme anol worked 1 I liopo hope louie lias has as good luck ile ho thought As llort and entered berts stateroom hort bert said your wife Is below having lunch and asks that wait slipping a flye five dollar bill into herts borts hand bekken said raid hero here for your trouble I 1 wont need you yet any ally longer bert loft left but not before ile ho had locked fokken in fit the room hy BY soven seven forty five in a similar ina manner tiner mrs 0 W was locked in fix a stateroom on tile tho lavin lhnn bound for south america after seventy two hours houra at sea tit the two prisoners prisoners wore were worried about each other to p the extent that each had promised to pay five hundred thou thousand gand dollars for ills his release ench each not knowing the other othell was nearby and each cacti thinking that ills his sacrifice would leave halt half of tho the original fortune ilaa hail they known that they were signing away their entire fortune they would have put more thought on the matter tito the thing that interested oswald most lost was its worth halt my fortune to be home with sarah the lono lone idea in Sal talis head was what will oswald think of my iny everlasting spending now it would cost him five hundred thousand dollars instead of fifty now and all over a quarrel instead of a couple of f ties and a pair of socks 08 oswald w aid would havo have a five hundred thousand sand lollar wife when tho the leviathan Livi athan locked docked at tile the south american port hart dart and louto disappeared leaving oswald and sarah F to get along the lest best way possible Info inal luck doomed that man ind and woman would not see each cacti oth other er on tile tho return trip so oswalds vi voy Y tac homeward was IB tilled filled with lone so moness and for ills hla wife nor was sarah thinking about spending money on the twentieth of december their ship the english passenger vessel edward V docked clocked at now york oswald was wag the second pas to ret got ott off but because of the crowded vessel sarah stood for the first time since december tile the third on the now new york docks a half an all hour after her husband had landed oswald went straight to ills his bank and found that lie he was penniless that ills wife had used the other halt a million dollars to freo free herself ile he decided to wait liar her arrival not knowing that sho she had been so close to to him for foi tile the prist past three weeks small sarah found similar circumstances and decided to make tho the best of at tile tho deal lea raw i oswald presented himself at the residence of mother Is sarah liere hero yet lie ho asked oil yes les but sho she just went over to see sea yet I 1 guess youve auve missed each other again answered mrs olson mother ill go BO down to the corner and watch for liar her to return said oswald with this lie ho raced to the corner ott on reaching hla his destination he saw sarah diagonally across from ilni site she saw him also doth both highly excited rushed straight for each other met hugged and kissed and finally sett settled leol in an embrace at the traffic crossing after ten tell minutes of bliss both looked up to seo sea hundreds of cars parked barked around them two minutes lator later they confronted by tour four plain clothes men who had two men in handcuffs with them thanks you two people have lone clone the greatest thing that has been lone done in fit new york since at al smith was elected governor of the state see these two men they are tile the masterminds master minds ot or tit the new york underworld lo 10 and behold tile the handcuffed ones were the ones that had made paupers haupers out of the Mok Al ekkens kens next morn fing oswald told his story to the judge the two criminals belongings wore were searched in their possession was two and a halt half million dollars in gold certin cates At Mek ekkens kens million was returned bekken was again a millionaire and a happy one nt at that bright and early on december the twenty third mr air rind and mrs bekken were seen doing their christmas shopping together |