Show V christmas time y sl oy GENEVIEVE ULMAR biern ei ern lio on mrs iancy blaar uttered the void in a profound bisp 0 f bew the ficht time in twenty her hubband ah in had kissed her ills face took on a sudden bluh fluh of color showing that his strangely unusual net had mo ed her to the depths its the christmas spirit flut terca iancy but she was wrong and stood staring after the man sno i ad taken as a life partner because she had trul loved him hat in the world does that mean she murmured but alvan was gone as if halt shamed at his impulsiveness and hur aled fo his wagon outside kissing time he soliloquized and aptly it transpired 1 I help it poor dear 1 he seemed to prize that first token of romance of the dull plodding years alvan hummed an old love song that took him back to the early days of courtship he slowed up the horses as he peered through the leafless lei fless trees of a groe near the road then he chuckled aa he caught sight of a slim girlish figure and a companion she was luella morse the daughter of a neighbor and beside her was his own handsome stalwart son noble blaar taffy stood near together fairly face to face and their attitude betokened lodged ars this will gl e nancy a genuine sur prise ruminated rumina ted alvan e now look at that more surprising still 1 this time near the dairy barn al ln noticed his hired man alan dayton with marty hemick and then he kissed her alvan of how his wife had feared that the dependable da ton would soon leave for his home in the next count lie will stay and they will marry and I 1 will be glad to let them have the little cottage for it peered through the leafless trees soles the farm management oh this golden kissing tamel lie bent his ear as the echo of reached him from the direction of the house the old organ cracked broken pretty well out of commission he said and so en jos music it it takes the ladt cent le got she shall have ft christmas present worth haeng and tiro mem ory of the kiss and the holiday emge to about the business por alon of the town influenced an hour of brisk practical shopping then ah in started homeward home back in the cased up was a fine he found iancy e tilted when he went into the meil more than once glicr hand went secret to her dress pocket which held a precious letter she had lec elved that day ihen she bean speaking of their daughter who had eloped two ears ago with urucu alvan I 1 hae biard from alsa they are longing to pa us n lilt they repeated ahan n duct p frown crossing alg face its oh ahan dont be pitiless 1 I 1 have heard grand rows ronald lias steadied down alha Is so haiby cant they come 1 I shall not exactly abuse them he uttered but it will not be akis ant to think the ran anwa to mend I 1 ap aln for oh annl oe the old home and iou and me they will be liere tomorrow reidy for christinas and our bluing he came into the house jut afar dus the mt and gium ahe parlor probed d of mus eliat told that isanc was the lerola lc rola hun in the d hall ahan t tumbled over a biby capt blaje und aln n ah alln Is that you cred out anci he the piror it was to stand transfixed as ncy lold to wards him n smiling liappa pied little child who put her bal anna about ills nek and then kissed bilm lour presen alln spoke ancy in a quiver of their bala a old ours and alvan pressed the little treasure to his biart and forgot all tl e past it was n anol vf and isoble and blante and even dayton and were present at n alon eliat made time and nus alne alie happiest occasion of their ihas |