Show I 1 find c MA 3 ENC IL V L N she was a little bit selfish just a trifle anyhow 9 ly she filie was extremely bored par Q ties where there was no one she cared about I 1 bridge prizes she elie loathed and gave to the cools cook next morales 1 late hours at night and nothing to do when she got up at noon but decide which ot of tho the seven dance invitations she sha would accept I 1 tons of flowers she never wore and seldom took the trouble to arrange even la vases about the house and at christmas christinas it was worse than ever sho she seriously considered running away oleu shed like a ft new letof set ot of oleu experiences something more rugged nearer the true vitality of living she would come back with a lot of amusing stories to regale the crowd with two days before christmas cynthia norris told her mald maid and cook they could havo have a vacation lock up the apartment ill let you know w when hen I 1 am coming back im going away for the holidays she scurried into a taxi tail with a new feeling of excitement the best part of the whole thing being a sense of something entirely untried she had bad no idea where she was going shed select some queer person la in the crowd at the terminal follow her to the r ticket window and buy it a ticket for alio same place then cynthia refused to think further but she did dia not select a woman to follow she saw a rather thin man with a nice smile who was waa burdened with bundles they bulged in every pocket and he had difficulty in doing anything at all competent with them ahila he was buying a ticket in fact three fell to the floor and a fourth hit bit a child on the tbell head ead during the process cynthia watched this young man with growing interest inte resl why in the iho world WAS ia he permitting himself all this trouble tio uble surely it necessary tho the man apologized to tho the child gathered up his fallen packages and wont went undisturbed towards his train cynthia impulsively bou borsht ht a ticket for the town he had mentioned to the man behind the tho window and followed she was excited already she no idea whore where she was going and sho care that was the fun of it she sat in the common coach and was obliged to share her seat with a woman who wore a shawl over her head and had a sad foreign looking face the man was three eo seats ahead of her completely burled under ills 1 dundich un les it was ivas a four hour ride peo pie 1 0 camo came and went cynthia tiled to remember how funny they all were she would imitator tho way they talked and entertain the gang later this was tile the way to set get a kick out of living do so something different at the youngs from ills seat jammed 0 and plunged out of the door doi stumbled over tile feet ofal of t with the shawl and dumpel i tho train steps just two st E fore it began moving agala abatu A dreary boodea smajo faint flicker of a lante lantern rahaL ahto tt hook A few snowflakes 1 ing there was no one ak moment cynthia buffered 1 loneliness but even tills i sensation so BO she accepted accept edl over ever she fihe could not stay herol herd and anu she sue had aaa a bag a she her hear plo lons of a car about toti tog friedly she ran in the direct noise dolse she could dimly bea si 11 with a driver could you toll tell mo ino it if V hotel here where I 1 could coald cynthia a little breathless breath left tm afraid 1 i on hotels replied a nanard if jump la ill possible boarding house cynthia flung in her climbed eagerly to the seat ecal gave a deafening roar ui av without warning into carh 3 a rough road end and tho the driva tle tie attention either to ruts or canlon pan lon cynthia ventured ventu redi a or two about the village ud ml with polite 1 not cot tho iho way in which bit customer cus tomed to b being ein 9 tre freaa atel piqued her 1 I live at this athla board tj I 1 finally admitted the driver printer on a newspaper it town I 1 could live where tybell i la Is but I 1 like this little aln a lot of kids here andi and lan time at christmas got a 8 lot zor for them today oh said cynthia field anle the dark 1 I noticed YOU yon WO vw some difficulty parking your year 1 while you bought your ticket this gave her companion n to think about but he boldn the girl made a sudden I 1 she would relate in full ter te new york and ancl why this she ehe proceeded to do 1 chuckled once or twice let but comment no he was a vw VM hessed young man fenall long alien silence ce he said clis lord I 1 chucked the three years agol Coul ilat too darn boring same same old crowd same old bolted got a job onn on tills re ile keen about it get nearer row of things someway 11 as a bird and dont give fl a hi anyone thinks its great oil oh said cynthia agall again want to como come round T christmas evo eve dem demanded 1 tra ordinary man looks u might have snow I 1 take I 1 dress up in a silly santa tume waggle a white be beard too 1 liver gifts to the kids in tart id 0 love o to tol breathed 6 please lete let me ll 11 on one condition go back and make vaudeville vauder Mc our village 1 I promise said cynthia 96 1929 western pipero IV |