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suppose sou y oil tire are blannin g to ret get through to lakeland for christmas why have you vuu your baggage any linn lynndy handy dy ottly only a sul tease e and a package of christmas looking cooking I 1 gat ready lust last in a hurry you see bee ilin just enli ing it a flying visit to see peu my daughter before she blie leaves sites just married we with sudden briskness com cola ing UK into his voice olce hop boli into my car theres plenty of room with only ny my wire wife and daughter were bound for lukeland luke land too find and will ile he there the day before christmas christ nias sly my nian man will pet get dwir baggage 11 13 lout lie he ye yes lit in my iny car with the trains poor connection I 1 dollt don t llop hop in lip lie repeated taking het her arm arin and urging her to the car were kind glad to have company to talk with here you ure are na as the chauffeur came caine with tin tilt sul tense und and if matill box 1 l ow were off I 1 it had all happened so swiftly that hut the h old woman hardy it before they ahot out of the town and were rin on their way toward elcid tit lit hotter better titan fifty mile lit in hour hut but still till site did dd not ren really livie it fifteen billeg over the rough country roid in the decrepit plantation plant nil 0 n flivver lind nil all tile so rations n of more rapid anti and travel thin than sixty in this ills blk big easy running cir car slip it sot set ved back va bomen nvere nice too another tiling thing was revolving afus nutty in tier mind and ana pres witly sho she had to mention it the file plantation house servants and field handi hana 4 nil expect a little latue br beatice li rimce atice my going so far and its being christmas christina site she mused then theres josephine I 1 see how howl I 1 could do it all hut but not having to puy pay train faile down will make it till all right happ happily lly ph il nutritious dont yield imich spare pare money these lays days Christin fis Is too much of n burden for light pocketbooks 11 objected the lie car owner 1 I dont believe in them I 1 rave gave up tip christmas giving long ago V foolish habit 1 I tell my daughter that hut but she wont listen the rite christmas box I 1 stopped for was wai for tier ler wastes money time and patience glo give money outright it if you have to thata ints what im going to do partly 11 apologized the old w woman oman unit Is 14 pre presents sentis for tho the help at home but the alie other half balf to my daughter ashes just married and her husband starts for mexico christmas day got work there she sha writes write find and it stands to reason lie cant havo have much money maybe tills this will help josephine and harry eh rh R h hurry josophine josephine mexico exico Al then he closed tits his lips tightly and looked straight ghead an ali hour or so later while going Z through nn an unsettled piece of country the old w worn 0 in n nils it I 1 s ham f 1 l 9 fell softly or on ills shoulder please 3 atop t 0 P ill just t 11 minute 11 she phe breathed brea alicd 1 I nevar faw such a holly tree so full of berries I 1 want some bome 11 0 bris h r i s trans t ans s gruft t it ff Is noth nothing ing bu but t 3 and bother and oil oh I 1 beg bee your pardon of courbet courset course 1 james you 4 help cut the brandies before they got in with the chauffeurs help slip insisted on fastening bunches of holly nil all about the car at first the owner scowled then presently ills his gaze begun began to wander from sprig to sprig and the scowl began to change to something like a grin gon at jacksonville he drew up be fo fore ro a hig big christmas tore store got to get something to match that holly lie ho muttered uttered in foolish FooHs li to have hava nil all that lint stuff outside and no santa in and maybe josephine will expect something josephine en eagerly arly you got one too sanio same tine one the grin expanding my ity sous soils just married dont give presents though in money toia dont need any for hes bes going to manage a chain of banks still and all 1 expect appreciate the halt half you yau spoke i of if and yes better come coille in the store with trip me and pick out a basketful of clap tash for those thosa darales darkles dar kles A 0 md Mcw union 1 |