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Show ' Joan's Unexpected Guest j I Was Her Yuletide Love; NINA had gone with her Donald ' , to Chicago; Vera to her Gran-' 1 ny's house to meet her fiance and! Dora, she had gone up to Lowell for' Bob's fraternity dance. Joan won-' dered If any girl had ever had such, ! a lonely Christmas holiday In prog-; ' pect. "Gee, there's that little cripple boy down there in that rooming-house rooming-house on the corner that might relish rel-ish some nice food. I've waved at' him every morning for the last six wepks. I guess we know each other well enough and they do say his mother takes that early bus into town to scrub floors, every day In . the week," she told herself as she was about to drop off to sleep, : Christmas eve. It was scarcely daylight when Joan had gone to the little corner rooming house, slipped a little note of invitation under the door of the cripple boy's door, and was on her way to the store for a supply of everything that belongs in a traditional tra-ditional Christmas feast, plus a few gifts for the lad. There was barely time to exchange ex-change her house dress for a street frock so she might run down to the corner to push the youngster's I wheel chair to her house as she had promised. But at the very moment mo-ment she stepped forth into the hall, she met not only her guest-to-be but a splendid, handsome young man. ! "You see. miss, I got the invi- tation the note was tucked under ! my door, but I gathered at once j who you meant it for so I delivered it to Jimmy and made friends with i him we've been together the past two hours, taking a short ride and now I'm turning him over to you, Miss Miss " "Joan Burke, and you are ?" "Larry King, Miss Burke, and this is Jimmy Jordan. With your permission, per-mission, then, I'll return for my charge later in the lay. What hour do you say, fellow?" Joan Interrupted, "If I may be so bold as to ask running along to where?" "To the lunch wagon, If you must know," Larry acknowledged. "You are not. If you don't stay to have Christmas dinner with ns, I'm going right out into the street and hall the first stranger I see. You see I don't want any turkey left over for turkey hash, tomorrow." tomor-row." Three partook of Joan's royal feast but the fourth guest, though unseen, was present, too. Love was there uninvited. But that fourth remained forever and a day, upon invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Larry King who never forgot to include little Jimmy Jordan at their special occasion celebrations the year around .'Luella B. Lyons. |