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Show ! y:risf mas? UrTVHE first Christmas in our I new home." Janice Wray J- announced joyously as she stepped across the threshold of Stewart's and her new home. I "Christmas in our new home," Stewart echoed, Jwitching on the light. I "Oh, isn't It Just grand!" ex-I ex-I claimed Janice. j "I'll say it Is but slow up slow i up, Janny! I've got about all my j arms will hold, without taking you aboard." Stewart warned her as Janice attempted to throw her arms I about him. I "Oh, keep quiet! You're just as excited as I am so why pretend?" ! Janice answered with a toss of her head. Stewart put his packages down and then with his arms around her he assured her. "You bet I am, Hon- r ii,iu it i. Diii wonderful! Stupendous!" Stu-pendous!" And Just because they were so happy, they both laughed. "Come on let's get busy with the tree," Stewart sug-gcsled. sug-gcsled. "Righto!" agreed Janice, "just as soon as I change my dress." The tree must be neither too large nor too small. Some time had been consumed deciding Just the proper size for a Christmas tree for two. They were to bo alone this Christmas Christ-mas the first Christmas in their new home; there was no doubt about that, for they had definitely decided that when they purchased the house. And now here they were ready to trim the much-discussed tree. "Isn't that star lovely?" Janice said as Stewart placed It at the top of the tree. "Yes. But I thought you had planned on something else," Stewart Stew-art replied. "I changed my mind," was all Janice said. She didn't tell him she couldn't think of a Christmas tree without a star ut the top. They nl-wuya nl-wuya had one on the tree "at home." "Thought you weren't going to get any red bnlls," she reminded Stewart. Stew-art. "I changed my mind." Both iaug-hed ut Stewart's echo of Jan-lee's Jan-lee's answur of a moment before. "Mother would love this silver ball." Janice hung the bull where It caught the most Unlit. "Wouldn't Bens, luva. ILis biua |