Show t w i ig a aa o 0 j 1 41 two alwn 14 by heen helen gaisford dayl but not the C happy chimes of former years rang through the little town A week eek ago the tolling telling bells had meant another death but now the fever waa was so devastating that not even that slight notice was paid the victims to the tired doctors and nurses rushed in from surrounding cities christmas meant only another day dawning after another sleepless night dr dickinson passing through an improvised ward spoke to the nurse you d better get a cup of coffee miss wilson and try to find a relief when did you sleep last I 1 came down two days ago she an but it does not matter there Is too much to be done for me to stop now I 1 do believe your treatments are getting results and p please doctor 1 11 want to see tt lt eli I 1 through you re a plucky girl but I 1 must warn you not to break down your own health I 1 suppose I 1 need you too much to insist as T I 1 I 1 should he finished one examination and passed to the next patient do you realize today Is christmas he asked all over the world people are going to church and eating fine dinners and exchanging calls and presents and we are keeping christmas in the best way of all she answered in service you re right christmas doesn t mean much to me anyway it does to me this Is my birth day besides your birthday yes I 1 was a christmas baby why doctor what a the matter be he seamed to shake himself back to armal excuse me it its s just well you stapled stat led me tor for a moment you see I 1 had a daughter once born on christmas oh I 1 in sorry did nhe dier die no I 1 lost her a another other way her mother and I 1 were very young when we married not even or age her people were opposed to the match and took tool her away from me I 1 have always felt that if we could have been er she would have made the effort to live but she died when the child was born and her people blamed me but here I 1 in bathing you with my per bonal affairs no go on what became of the baby she was sent to an aunt out west who married a man named wll on who adopted the baby why she exclaimed it looks like my birth day and christmas present this year Is a real live daddy I 1 western newspaper New paper union |