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Show "Maui t.i ;. 'm ,1. Joseph Greer and His Daughter Copyriffct by Th Ar.il I nlve yon m.v word. jemi o. "ns getting ready to do it. Ar.t lln. Sotlio day ;j,v, a sumet All'. ;. ? a lawyer vv rile m. th.it si ; - JOES DAUGHTER Jchale jfYNOrSW. b.h'. i uiscovtrvd a ixtiav uni? liber from ts. is. tde director uf a ymirr uf affairs, Urevr Ui..-- j 4- i vS Iifiy. uf rnc Utf di ha ru:n:i: Msu , I. played wi!..t Jennie s T.i ,r r tho winning earn, willing to sublet lu wu.f , To .illh. IiImUi'I lii in a lnii i :'ts, Joe has foisted ins ufln uii'Xi ; rav, uorpu-J'V- tvi . Of i.cr Ur.'iw, l.i.:; -i- ms iltt XuW llii lid. g ,y. it ),e l!e io a Greer, M "' v- - 'l:!' i''1!! ii i' rthui, t'ra-han- ; .1.1,.', i: i Il - :i ;t nil See it in a.!'-- y,.,: . Joe liil'lli'-- ;fv ,iy Il'M I : I. Continued. I 1 ll '' a i - , i i . ' i " .! r . i a .. i i... I!.'.' : i . . ' ".t i : i i'll'', i I I.L.i i : 1.: ! . ' a I,.-- . .'I : nd 1 , !'s a i !'. .. t i t'l. ! Was th: -- .I .. All .ii ii ' Aim fur loo I !. : ' a . !ir: ; 1 1 jrt & ?? 31 4? v l? V :i::i ilsi ,un i?. limy jirt ha' 1 wrlilun ,i- - i V i ; I'C ,' oalil 01 , Vt.-- r A v'. V-V- - . v. v i rC V- - ' f - L ll") I I ..: k. i?' ll'l, 's.i.tn-i- l ii:i ".H .i'I.I !! nr i t . T ' nntj i. l Iut :m iinii nii.n i t!'!l;ns in rnn1 of ami hepe that will bring her to me." Jennie culm over to where lie was Niuiidiiig, and look him impii'-dvdby , Ihe shoulders. "1 wish you anyhow," slie went oil. "I hope It works. hope she makes you happy." Clearly, he was star! led by the Nlie lmd never done niiylliliig Just like (lint In him I'efore. He didn't respond to It with liny gesture of his own, Imt Ills voice, when lie spokp, had real emotion In it. 'Mi mile! If I lmd had the lurk to marry ymi twenty years ago," lie said Well, what arc you grinning lu.-k- 1 s. Christmas Spirit Made Itself Felt air Por slic'd instantly away from him at tliat, iiud the qualify of grow ii up. her siolle was dcrNlve. "Sim's nineteen," lie answered. "I've Annabel vv nsii't the wife fur you, never known her exact hii ilolay. Ive for n Hut ymi furl, she iidiui led. always known about how old she was, don't hale her, even now. And, oil "Her name's I.- ord! lluvv you would have linteu though," lie added. P.calrice." me H'.ii't yon know at all wdml she's The right wile fur you,'' she said, like? Haven't yuii any sort of picture would have lo he preliy, silky, 'way of her?" She ought to lip In llie society giniio. 'Picture! Lord, no! I told that lie a Id lie afraid of you, so ttial she'd Pasadena lawyer lo try to get me mie. take eare to keep you ufi'al'1 of tier. I.ut he ha'ii'l succeeded ; at il And you'd Imve lo lie proud, wlirii-eve- r hasn't turned up ycl. Why, I suppose of il, (lull you'll got you ihoii-d- it she mllst he a good deal like Aiumhcl. her." She's sure to have hii'ti brought up Mie saw this go liome to him. like Ihal. lunoei'iit. Well, thill's the "All right." lie said. "You needn't wav to bring up ii girl, all right. Im ruli It In any more. Look here, IPs you know lli"c olil fashloneil liimqurjK half past leu. You'd lieiter he runthat lire coming in style again, vvlh a ning along home. I'll teleplioiie Itiirns I I frill armiiul them? I .a per lo bring your ear iirnund." slip's ii good ileal like that. P.lie was ninused at Ills sudat near Ii'iii, to tears den concernmildly Looking up for the prupriutli-- , nml with a s'lddi'ii sympathy, she saw his she tried to Mise him u little about faee dark'll. It was so startMng a II, hut he itisNicd on treating the matchange ihal she cried mil, Joe! What ter seriously. Is It?" I don't want young Hunts gelling Van yon see," he asked, "how that ideas In his head about child has heen hro'ighl up to think any funny wi'icome to think wlial lie He's you. hboMl me? They will hare used me about m'1, and about some of as the had man to frigiiten her with. pleases the pi .pic I play around vvllh. I don't Your father will get you. If ymi't'e a d n wind he thinks. Hut I I can hear eare a nuug'bly girl. liciiirh-rto he careful. Io you get want you Id Ma Panning say It. Hut where I slick Is ut that d d widower, googling that?" All right, lass," siie said, sounding at the kid. pawing her, telling her he's meek as she rose ami went lo very her daddy now, holding her on Ids liml her wrap. .Sure. I get It." Knee. Not If I know myself! Tide filial slant of the talk reenlied There you are, Jennie! Now we're her resolution regarding the hoy, so down in bra-'- lack. If anybody's givwhile she anil Joe slood In tho corriing lo le I! at Mill's father, I alii, dor wailing for tho car to come up, That's wl.at wanted lo pat up to you she told him she I bought lie ought to tonight." lind Something heller for young Hums "You moan, she asked, after she to do. He's too good to lie vvnsic.l had lighted a lig.iret to give herself nelrv-s.- 'S luune from parties driving i lu appeal :.!.ci'. at least, of eullll re- ami tliat sort of tiling.'' lic lion. "I !..il you want to take her A little soft on him, are you?" Joe away Irom her iimiber altogether ami iiskeil. bring her "ill here in live with you? "dll, I suppose so," she admitted. "Yi'U've got l! he said. I probably wouldn't Imve thought of "It's a er.iy idea, .loe, she then It If lie hadn't heen so hunt out licspcrati ly. I'.ut it can't he Hut It's trui', all the same. done. Kvoli if you did get her to come l Joe her, iimliibly hut In you, will' ll don't you could, daily. "If lie's too good for It," lie vvliut would you do wi'li her when she went on lo explain, then It's Just the was here? She couldn't live iilnnc In for him. lie has good pay and jnh this Hat Willi you away half the time. short hours; Ihe whole day to hint-seAnd, any nay, the sort of life you except what he needs to muse live " Inal sleep in. If he wants to study lip n the -- ort of life I live!" he nr do "I unythii.g else that's worth while, "What's tliat got t do he bus all the chance In the world. interrupted. wllli her? It's never had u.iyllilng lo If I could have picked up a Job like do with you, has it? There'll never tliat at his age. I'd have blessed my lie any parlies in this Hat. Jennie. Not lurk. 'f course, it's true that, if he as l"iig as sin- makes her home In It." any good, he lias n Imnd'ome "She niuMu't live here alone in it, chance to go to the devil. I'.ut that's anyhow, Ni.r vvlili you away half the no mneern of mine." time." And then, the elevator coming up, "1 wouldn't try to keep tier lien all Joe put tier in it mid hade Iter goodI lie time. I'd send tier to school, tor night. me lliing. Williamson's got u da ugh ler Just abo'it tier age wliu's Hwny at nr oilier. I'll some hoarding-silu"- i I know youre Mr. Greer. I'm send P.crricc to the same place. Mra. Williamson." They'll make friends. It'll give the rig'ht sort of start." "There won't he any school till ncxl CONTINl'KiJ.) no September." Jennie Hiin(ed out. "Thi Like Screech Owls. year's pructunliy over now. And utter the first of July you'll have to lie up jnd Tntikins says some people are North most of the lime. like a screech awl. They always sound lie grappled with tht dlfllcnlty for iiiekini'hn'.y whether they have any real a niomciii ; then fail'd her triumphanttrouble nr tt"t. ly with a aolittien. We Daresay. "Henry Craven' persuaded hla slaIf a man had as nut'll judgment beter lo take a cottage sonipwhere on selCape Cod this summer. Thinks she fore thirty ns after, there would needs a change. And the Alvlrlcbea dom be a skeleton In his family closet. stepin-- Ity MARION FRANCES HAMILTON Lonely Woman Spread Yuletidc Cheer by Giving Ctrl Abcnt a 1 lappy 1 loire r Vir & Christmas Seems Worth While 'V.k'.V.v.V.VZ.'.Vk'vVixif'iVftJ nk of those ll,'Hl,'r n K ChrUtmat U a nuUonc, OH,Iff funicfinici think amt Mat Such a lot of work and wvrrf Jiut fur cm short dayt J money Mquandm MWry heads osd feet Unless fMnm. senseless strfvStg In the strunle to compels Yet, on Christmas mom tny. When we hear the chttdrens cries HaUMg little stockings In raptures of surprise! 11'hen we open parcels That loving hands have w rapt. Seems like springs of Vndness J i,,-!.- - ILirJ-eumc- iter- - Present mutter", to herself us Ilia the door hell pealed just iis she was I about ready In sit down to lunch. Imve u mind lint to answer It all, I have." Hut she did answer It, Just as soon ns she lmd Inwnri'd the lire under the hulihllng inffee sit, to liii'l tliat her mirmlsn was corn'd. It was an ngent who rang tlu hell, anil worst uf ail, a bonk in gent. Phe spoke ns soon ns the door had ojH'ned n few Indies ami before Iicrtlm lmd time to frame the words tliat were on her lips, "Mightn't I sell yon a ropy of tilts little bonk today? Tho cost Is r.nly fifty cents and you will find it well worth the price." Not ninny words, coining from an ageut, Uertlia thought. Heretofore the ones wln hnd omne hml been for all the world like a talking tliat hud been wound up nin-clii- nnd In our hearts are tapped. Seems our thoughts grow gentler More tender is the smile! Yes, on Christmas morning. Christmas seems worth whilst Ella Btssell Chatleld tn Farm Ufe, And so, beenuse tlie spirit of Christians wua abroad and made Itself felt those two lonely souls who needed each other sorely were brought together und made lmppy, and when Christmas had passed and gone they found thin liielr need of each other was still great and the abort visit Hint the little agent was supposed to make l.' Ciimo permanent 4 . l j23, WtMtvrn Nawapaptr Union.) JUST THE USUAL THING the only vvuy of stopping them Mrs. What do for was to lie post- - I'bi'isriicis. Mrs. Moon? you expect This rude. lively Mrs. .violin (wearily) Oh, Just tho one must be dif-- usual things. A set of satellites; star fertnt, 15 e r t h a earring, a d aenrf and that S-- I 1 gray-clou- gimd-hNiklli- coiilr.-idiclc'- 1 lf - i Ilcu-tric- is s l ! i i v ! irt-isl 1 . 0 I llv-1-- Mini nimiI a in v lawyer, l'-- i she got mil of mngmdnes. And, III u way, I liked It, ton. I liked the fiiding of bring imrhnrrd lo siimelhing, having a real mldress In the telephone hook. I liked f'l'lir.g respectable anil I was. Inn. IiidnT do any humming around miisiilc. Ami then all of n siKdon she got til haling iiio ll whole lot worse. Took to spending most of the time at homo with her folks. 1 tried to put my foot down uu that, ns long us they wouldn't let me In Ihe house. I'.ill It didn't do uny good. She went more nml mm-and tried to keep It dark. Well, m hist I got the offer of that big Job down in Limn. I didn't renlly need It, heeause I was getting on lirst-rut- e in Chicago, hut tt looked lo me like a So I goi nl el', mice for a showdown. nccepied It, and then I put It up to her. She could come with nio or she could quit me. Just iis she liked. Well, she quit, mid I don't know us I blame her. 1 certainly didn't try to make It I named to get look good to her. loose; that's the gosiid trulli. She went buck to her folks, and I eleared to ler. out without saying good-h"I didn't come hack n the Slates q mil il iiini'leciMiinc, mid when went as far as I'umima with The Idea Hint I'd go mi up the west cast, drop olT at San Pedro, anil go on up If Id made the big mi'l s"e her. strike I'd lii'ii playing for down in Chile, nml Jusl missed. I wmilil have gone to see her; no iloilbt abnin il. Able to I'd lane hii-i- i rich then. make a proposilimi bill I needn't he iisliame.l of. however she took il If "U-n- 'l ou see wluil I mean. Hilt rii'li by ii deil of ii way. I had uhmil enough to start myself again inly in Chicago, to come hack looking like ii siieeess'iil man. I'm always either Just broke or Just mi (lie point of making ii Ii I of ii big thing. Ail how. 1 eiime up to Clih'ugn by a fruit limit to New Orleans Instead of going armiiul the long way. And, what with the war and one thing and nmitlier. I haven't n,n In shape to tix things up with tier until now. And now. Just ns I am ready. I linil out tliat she's tying n emi to me." II was funny, Jennie tacitly agreed: funnier Ilian lie knew, to see him still nursing a grouch over the inconstancy Ills wire liinl shown In imt walling another year on the end of twenty. Slip asked him If he had any Idea why Mrs. fireer was doing It. "Oh, nni'tlirr man, I suppose," lie said. When she cried out Incredulously at that he wauled to know why not. Wasn't It likely enough? "Slip's only ProhaMy forty llve or thereahmils. 'f ,0 lil,,-,doesn't look imy wouldn't She at did she thirty. than a woman like Annabel miles she's widower got fat. Some welt preserved of them enough there's sUty-odof like that nut In PiKii'lona. heaven knows hna been making up to her." lie turned upon her with an impish gleam In hi. eye. ' ?, it-- .' l.r: mr I ".ioc," she asked him Mi.ldnily, Aiiu.ibcl have a baby?'' "I sliiiiibl think you mhdil have seen that long ago,'' lie grumbled. "A buy or n girl?" she when her uriid lunl got into its si ride again. "Say! If It had been a boy," said never Joe. "I'd have gone I I. have left a son of mini1 t" lie brought I'.eing a girl, it up by- - runnings. I'.ut seemed to belong to them m t lull I nl most went hack, as I told you." Jennie roused herself at the end of a 1"tig r.'lli'cllve sil nee to remark that t'o' child must, by now, lie pretty near furniture around In new ways, and milking fancy desseris and things that Cl ail VJ' i c '..'I'.lc I.i look at .1.1 I ' .1 .'V C" . I'm Not . t. tli;..'it Mill' I'.. nv . sl.'-ab- Want lo Bet Me a Hundred Right," He Asked. VfS; V, hi. ...i 1. "1 w r.,i. .if.i.i-'i- h i vc. .h-e- , . ibini. ll " c sin pul ad c;: ".iu!i sit tt ''j- vj d iihit U, or I; all ill, di that M'u.i ..I d1 dinner, ll., I..-.- i: i ihtlot.v. sho w. 11. .id lit thj i'.v t .i.i a. . .t.i'.i Put iiy." M in the world, Jcir. be eare bow he l"u;, I'la.n la. 'I l:e did care . i'll, n came Ihe real iilc i, lb i'll "' t 1,1 ' w k. is.it i U UUU'i IthOtV U lii Un r:i. : MM, aiu it !sr 1:isea tr l;or waxs. oil i'ifii'i .:.OW !.llluT hiii d llUlk tl'.i'ti1 Nor whether lhe'd ui i.ul ..i I M'.or I:l.o her !' ho reiortii, i.i 'i! i'i on, oiiii a ia,,irh, 'l . ! a i jili".!il, 1:0. .lini'.'i! l'li ;u M.i.i to hot a ii '1 i i1, fial i !,i . : it .f .1 to m:. i;, .U.-..mi 'it M 'S t'l iii; iiM a low Wivi.s iio.ui ': s o won't yrah it liU a f r i t ? on, now V lo 11 r.ih mi "s wniro wsh;iv 141 .:iL uur Mo.! - i : l rn ,.'.i uri.lv I'l',';! in' ! i 1,1 SoiaelioiV lli.it ort of ih. ii,' looked gmi.l io lae Ju x ml thin." She left unbroken for a Hide wi-r,lie relleetivu silence Into wliii h he'd J china-palmin- m :: r il ll l'aiiu. . tvMli h i it.!. r I" 4 . til- - t :i U J ii ' , i I'Otf loll; 11 i e:v I'll' V jllug ,r" l..o i : to aril ..'.I. .Ml 11 11 tt. a ii ! l. 11 : i Je 111 . t'! M.'.'.l. I" i. a ivlirisl t 1,'liM'll V 1 : 11,. : 11 exi-eji- I Mie hcrMlf al: Uvcthcr, !t: uei! ,t si) her e .iri i;e. and cit.iiv d (!.o ptixiiion, )iail on. i! he e;. :e w .11. iui ean't do r .i t.i.: u.'i i .) .I. tar own t t ilnyr ! In-:- 5 nuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiumsiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiKiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis ! fi'ii'n 1 !u : ! :u i i iintvorful, hairy lian-iUnit l.fM hr. anil the faiv. so near a I'alli'n, before she prompteil him. Hut j hers. rniiM take on, easily eruiiif'li, She allowed herself in !: ra'iitly she got him going i,ain by f.Tnl ti'.it die iiLgest.'ng i fi:,!le over tier own cmiitilaeonee. g.'iii.';i, li'ol.nl go. d to liim jiisi i iieu was Anj ' v.'iili a itriint, he relensoil miu I Vou don't mini! me nabel. "What was she like? Ho-.- old cei'peil way. was she? What color was her hair?" 1 hit. do you?" he remarked. "And Lightish," said; "nut yellow; i you kii"tv me pretty well, too, v. ouliin'i there wasn't much color In It. I was 1 jou siij fooled on her age, all right. I took ; pivtiy well ns fnr r I go," alio it for granted tliat she was just a l'ialilii-il- . No, I didn't i.iiiul. I know Idd, barely twenty, if iis old ns that. you play fair. When she gave her age at the Ile.'ii-- e ; I went to dinner with the Cravens ' bureau up in Milwaukee, where we'd last ni;lu," Joe saul, over his hreast run off to get married, I found she of yninen-fow"Henry nml his sis-- ' wasn't but live or six years younger ter, ill their ll.it. So I suiuse you've than I was would have made It to I'm tliat ri;hi say turning g"l ipiite a illiTeren'V if I'd known that lie cnneliuled. sooner," he folded. lie was nhoiil einhamissed Clearly, Jennie remarked tliat twenty-fiv- e It, i.u iMiiii.iii; l'heiinnionoii to he soon wasn't too ohl for a girl to marry. ; la Joe. Jennie sliiipressod an Imimlso I.ut Joe said tills wasn't what he to 1aii!:1i at him and asked him, with She was too old not lo he meant. ? a good ii'iiarnnee of sobriety, If more grown up than she was. ; he'll had a good time. 'Veil see, she'd Invn a fight . lie i"hl her, a little dubiously, that with her father and having mol her. She he liinl ; a lirsl-rul- e time It would Imve wanted to he nil a si'nletor. artist, h'H'ii, thut he didn't quite get and She'd liny wouldn't let her. i ihi'lll. been going down to the Art iiislltule f A iii"inent later lie laughed again fur quite a while taking lessons In sr.'l mi luu'k In Ills elialr. drawing and designing, s "Well, that's the funny way life I don't know what nmyhe a lit lie I works.'' he said. Just us I'm getting modeling. I .lit now It was a question to settle down and behave niy-- t of a life class, and they wouldn't hour h'lf mi wife's lawyer writes me to of it. j say she's going to get a divorce." Well, tlint Interested me in her a Jeii:i: si arvil at lilin In clear whole lot more than I'd been before, When she could think Ht and the line her father and mother ill, she trleil to warn herself that tills hail takpn seemed to d n silly that the next chance I got I tried to put In a word for her. It was a fool thing In do, of course. It got Annabel In wrong, worse than ever, for discussing such a subject with a young mail siie, herself, was furious with me at first for not having seen tliat and they were already suspicious tliat I wusn't quite us good as I looked. "Now, here's a d n funny tiling, Jennie. Here's a question I've nsked myself a thousand times: Will you tell me why I didn't Just pack my trunk lit that point and clear out? I whs tir.il of the old peqilc and I wasn't In love with Annabel, not one little hit. I didn't even want her In a temporary sort of way. There were girls growing on every hush that were mere attractive, that way, than she was. Hut I didn't get nut. I went on hinting myself farther and farther In. We lmd a Ii I of a time. The old folks would hardly speak lo me. They sat around anil kept watch so that I shouldn't Im1 alone with Annabel. I think the only reason they didn't turn me out of the house was hivaiiKi' they figured II was easier lo I pAnd Cive You My Word, Jennie, I keep us apart as things were, having ' Was Getting Ready to Do It." n line on me, limn If they hadn't any n "f his Jokes, hut It wouldn't Idea where I was. Swk. She knew him too well to ho Well, the upshot of il was that one ilei i'K, I. "Your wife I" she echoed day, along that summer, we took the j ; I'lankly. ohl wlinleluiek. II was day lniiil--ll- ie I 'ain't I I tell you you were going to to Milwaukee. got ii license nml n 11"l" ls'iir lie said. minister to marry us. mid spent Ihe fer nl the I'liinkingion Imlcl. Cume a slleiife night she minute of a iw I, on the train the next morning. "How Inline long have you Invn mar. .l.vV" 'The old folks wouldn't take us in I'.ut I ,1' 'Wi'iity J years, nlmiit. AiiiiiiIh'I mid II wasn't h liltilf either. In h'l I Hyde found a furnished flat over w,.',. really miirrli'd lit lug In 1 nii'an -- aliimt sl inoiitlis. I Iark -- It was easy enough to do we set up housefti her In nineteen years. llinse ilnys-ne lues IM suggested o couple of out In InMudrnii with hiT keeping. so that f ullier, h.'r umi her died a couple of rooms In some family lint ft l ave more time to herself. could H wasn't she was me. ijears up lo 1 was be' ',''1 you the day you cume lo I'.ut she didn't want that. famous tliat about wuiidiT i to '"r in,' tiiat 1 was a married man ginning " hi enroor of tiers Hint the whole row lmd in; widi my wlfel I asked her one ',ls ; .. ",i,n kind of dlrly deni Invii nhoiil. I'lmilly over to tho Art go didn't she I "''"'I. J guess thill's why I've day why : In Ihe life class. i,,l" i,, It dark. I've done n Institute and register how she looked at that I"1 I remember f "rse things,'' he me l.is way. ' mid Just wl.at she said. She gave n sort of laugh, then nml ll" shin' knew 'em. And I never j 1,1 wluMhi-- r I wasn't Joking, nn.l 'ill-''unyhndy tldnk 1 was n iloiiluriil ' she said, 'Why. you silly old pnqiosliloii j s now? I ' "I'eer knew tny own mind what do I want to go here for. j,Ih w'1" marriage I'len 1'1 hadn't any 'She ,,ltv,l'" tluMiKlit I might S'C!' I1' Jennie. Apparently sins n' 'hiy. duly when I was about, 5 illil i nothing tu It beyond was there "nr,,,l In " ItV, imsltlon to do pnsnl a Hull familiarity. and I therV handsome thing, so housekeeping she couldn't stand tuc Hurt ",p w,,lll,hi't lie unyihlng left to l.e itulil j',ng and the short of It Lord! but l a .ro.. .H i foil :::...l'ol aa.: S.'ii.o to il ."s in u; : i. . ttli.it o ; . i". :f : : o ':lt. .f j .'ii .1. .1 Iii.0 Illili. i V I'll- - ill ll.f W '"HI ..eiiici'l t.rttl'.li (ioorfri Hurnx as raili.T fun hliimlJ le triio. Tlifv nj- tliat this trii-at- .it. : . Ii, "I..ti 11. . .erf . ll; 1 i.! f. . ' ' 1, ,1 il iiioiffo society. i 1 I.u . tt :; : . i : 1 I: daiiulor. c.i,iil Ill' Il Ilf llilS IHVlT Sv'-llwl :.r In fore the lUi.giimr She tins iielTfflly I'oiiif.irial'lf, ii. a!s liaii.U like Hull, lull it siniek l. r hofiiii'f f lnr m-oii- i fiifmui IH'rl.iii' iv I r.ttl." . otf .:i ... : I 1 u- II i;s All unili-it:iiii.- nv CHAPTER .i'.. .r.. !! ' r -- i;.!i't y " looking l'ke broke c.:T, perceiving i!.m lIM'J her. "Vrs, 1 :.o ii'it. "Ho tm, tr.l siury. What v.ns o l'c.1 "'.1 t.i. cl iT?" k the company. Jl. ary ole k related to Julia iniili'UiaiPl.acli Yt'ilii itiiMoa. tho ir ,f GroiT'H new company, is iiVrtd by Williamson the i"xi- cmu-- j f treasurer of tin i.- uii with the iremrally uinh-ri, purpose of watching Gtvr. j. Joe teiiS .li'iuiie ,'v o'li juvi Tits. to y;.. , ids v, ife. who la uU-1mm. and his ni;. u,v a "::,I loo there ' il rl i I'..: I s',,- W long vv:. vv u.-- t y i Presents from Santa 111!'! . ".I, . . Vr ebsfe .1 .I l Henry Kitchell C, !l sal.l I! I : made l't'i not nfrevitiviifiy cnlic.-I-'.iliner tt lu'u that y wuiiii'.l lnr tiiat lif M:rf lliluj;. T!iif !"'.'ii!.ii: :.s of ii: u or t I'.; ii't sort oil tti.i i.'i't or o:hor lu,-- iiiar... 1..:. of t! o fafl. .: suva't iti'iUj; to . to:... aro t.fjV she "No," dent leheve She ini Hy BobU-lfirr!- hot ii. i a fc.'t it iliij r.l hoveu't 1 e HJ-- : , thought. I'crimps It was tlint It wan nearly Christmas rime and that Jb'rlha Present's heart was a hit more tender than usual, or it might he due to the fact tliat this agent was young and had a sort of wistful appeal i.'mut her, or it might he beemwe die was so different from the others that had cume and lacked the unending flow uf Words they laid all seemed to hut whatever was tho cause liertlia Present did an unheard of tiling for her she Invited the agent Into the house and actually asked her out Into the cozy kitchen tu have lunch with her. "Poor diisr," she. was saying to herself a few minutes later, site must have been actually hungry. And I cume very close to not letting her In." After lunch was finished P.crtlia drew from the girl a little of her story illness, the loss of her position, nnd finally her trying her hand at selling hooks. Through It nil Hertliu could Son the brave spirit of the girl ami the untold hardships that she had endured during the time since her illness. She could also didn't how near to despair tho little agent had hccii vvlicn she cume to her door. Then Hcrthn Present did another unheard of thing for her she told the little agent of the loiii'lines In her heart anl of the little girl she lind lost In the long ago, and of how empty her life had been ever since. And when slip hnd finished she asked the girl If she would not stay with her through the Christmas time, nnd there was a genuine appeal In her eye and la her voice as she did so. evcrlaMlng dipper thut wears out!" M. IL Thomas. Id, ( never 1921, Western Newspaper Union.) YEAR BY YEAR, IT IS SO livery Christinas, year by year. In every way, we ure getting broker and broker und lmppler nnd huppler. We suppose a man who comes out of Christians with a million dollarc Is awfully mlsernlde. I leeeeeeeeeeefeeeeeefeeweeefeeeefi Christmas New to Him |