Show A Fl holiday oliday 4 romance f 4 4 N by T 13 ALDERSON I 1 1521 batern Va tern newspaper 0 N 0 feet leer of 3 OPP H snow now 11 hy lly its a regular el Chil chilston Chilst stin mis Is I 1 lo 10 6 gi gift ft tor for me t ob served rolfe dir 6 ion hopefully 11 us bf lif am awol ol 01 q e from a ngat of profound s urn um ber and glanced out through the street window of the chill bleak lodging house where he was one 0 of f ni wanderers andor ers who ulio had no other home As he defended des ended to tile well niel heated hc cited office room of the institution he paid little attention to the lounging crowd of idle and battened men lie ile baug paused d only OWN to address an all old man mail with mith a pair of by his ills side he ile slapped him in lit a friendly familiar wa ua di if the shoulder houlder if I 1 cin only got get a snow shovel he lie abger observed col I 1 I 1 will see to it tint your meals and lodging are well provided ded fur for over oer christmas bless aou ou in mv friend murmured the other gratefully I 1 lou ion have been very kind to me and darion darlon left him with a genial goodby good by and started forth for a dav of hard earnest work dirton was mas passing some cottres cottu es et adjoining one another when the door of lie the nearest one uns opened and a I 1 le bisant faced ladi beckoned to him lou IOU look as its it if ion were mere work she ald said bould ou clenn clean off this sidewalk nit and a pith to the coal shed for halt half n R dollar hv the end of an hour he had his ta task 1 completed lou loll must come in and shire our luich ich if aou a will mill invited the soung young lady chinell Cinn Chin cn eln to glance through the tile window he lie noticed in he be next vaid a girl battling with the heavy heay snow with a frail broom she doern doesn t analice much progress pro gregs he observed to his hostess it if you will mill lend me nour sh sit ivel nei 1 will mill soo cle cir jr a path around the house forber for her I 1 he ile lifted ills cap tel explaining his purpose e alice brill young frail grateful beRto bestowed tied it winning smile apo lipo I tho the friend in need she an it I 1 posit r springing free of the roof root frankly that they gould not afford to pa for f r tl it e service serj offered lou nean t m worry orry abu aboul j thit ill it he lie declared it all amui make ake die ine I 1 10 t tie tl e bater 1 for din d ing a little net act of kindness SO benr to VI darion alce allce with more than 7 interest he ile hi bi I 1 heird he ml ird the girl and her tier father in the next house hou o their jihor it seeing that the father of aice klice had sold gold some store property in th domn fp foot over oler four thousand dollers representing about all he lie had in the lid he ile had hud hidden it ill his lq s lleone lit one foice folee lopen 1 open tie tl v window Indo wand and brill aake apt pt P t to find hs its little fortune h L w it darion darlon w corked sturdily at sl sidewall ind and gardt n t baths laths acht nud find had I 1 artt r tta ne ir iv corn complo hd 1 I hi ilia t a alice alle cault out on the tile reir rel 1 I wonder monder if it would mould be too mich to isk 3 vou on to get the lad fall air to r and climb up to the kitchen root roof and push off oft tin dic ed mow nox there was onla too gild to grint tile request he lie was maj pushing e the dinst bimmel of snow over oer the fave file lis hei ilie ile st alice who had all cm out IMI to allten press of his ills hv in 0 tree free of the roof m a in u dark object in ill his hig 11 amid ind I 1 ful fot nl not it lodged in the gutter glitter spout where it might have fallen fro fron n the hand build of if lie tile shuf he lie niina nn ilce I 1 it Is 1 a pocketbook tilled with ininee that it was mug and rolfe rL trion 1 n mel welcome colne spectator to the tile wild mild delight of the tile lingered ll long in the tile house houze bv lit the lie gi gr of air ill brill and bla his beautiful di uhler ant mole tl it in that tile should invite this tills cherished guest to christmas dinner for a it royal one they vre ere sure of now but durlon darlon sur gur them and cited him film icle in appearing op fiat trim and in a new suit for nt tit the loding holf house e that evening he folli an tin unexpected letter from ills estran cst kd con coll a n liberal remittance and find ask ing him to to the home houie ri of and forget that they ther had ever quarreled sarry christmas indeed it wis for that bittl little group und find m alien lien rolfe 1 dirion ir bade blide alice brill good after a ft dav of rire re all and input lie Nion wondered dered if the ardent hope of ills soul become a realia bo b foi anothy yuletide yule tlde celcy atlon la in 1 4 no 1 in hinline inline in of a I 1 christmas li ill 11 dc e 4 |