Show A holiday f romance if I 1 by T T 0 9 DEMON at hilll wern newspaper paper awo lluka awo I 1 feet te t dew deft rf f row sam my we tt it Christ mall I 1 flit ott t far me met t ob bolt dr idar km test hopefully as be w woke doksi from a night 0 t profound turn slum ber and glanced out through the th tret street window of ot he the chill bleak lodging house bourn when to 6 waa was one on st of wanderer who bad boother oo 00 ther home aa an be t the wil wall heated office of the institution be paid lettla attention lion to the ib lounging oun broj 1 ef of idle arid add battered td men lie pt ed ony only to addrean KB an bild id aaa man with a pair of dal by tila his ada ite he flapped him lan in laa MI fruer way on the tb boulde shoulder boul dp if I X caa can oaly at f a snow now thoret be observed 11 1 I will see to U that your you meals and jink well 11 provided for over ble aleca aci a y briand V the other gratefully ilmoni jo bare have bee rry very kind to inel taie and darton left ft him with a genial geaw st s t add isad barted forth for a da dsa of bard hard work worl darlon darion was bassing awe cott aget adjoin adjoining log one another ulin hen the door of the nearest acme n as opened and a pleasant fared faced lady beckoned to elal you look 1 as if you were stoking work she bh eald wild would you clean off CC till this sidewalk dewalk al end a pata I 1 tle the coal elied shed for halt h by the end of ot en an acir cr he had lied his hi task completed you bluet must gome come in eni share our lunch if yolk you ial att invited taeyoung laly july to window he noticed in lie the nert next yard at aloft law springing free of the th roof young girl battling with uie the heavy chow hh ith a trail broom S 8 ie dean d leant t make much pio gres 1 he be observed to his hl hostess it you will all ten len I 1 me we your hovel I 1 will jooa cleir dp r a 11 linth around the house tor for her tier he ile lifted ills 1 cap poll politely tely explaining his purpose e al at ce c brit brill young arall grateful bt ocl a inn luj emile upon the irland III biked slie he un fran lily it tint at auld not wit afford to iny lay for ito bentro tip nic of fertil 1 lou ou needa t N eniy wt y about thit he declared lightly it will nube walie me mit h atol the letter tr fr ming a little act of kiminis kimi nit so e near to alii darlon rth I 1 alice drill bilth I 1 anore than ordinary li ter tiit lie had hearil heard the girl 11 and ber her father in the th next house discus discussing ging their neighbor it beetus that the father futher of ot allu alke had old sold some etore store property iro perty in the ilia town for oer oner tour four thousand thoun nd dollars lolli irn depre about all he lie hail had in the world lie ile hail had hidden it in IN me one force I 1 oi ol en on the v in low nn an I 1 drill awoke next morning to and flud his tits little f artune rone gone darlon darion worked or ked sturdily at sidewalk and annun paths and had near ly 1 completed ills fits tul fast aheu heu mice klice came out out on the rear stel 1 I u onder if it amiul I 1 be too much muc 1 to ask you to ket the daddi r and collinu up to the kitchen roof and push off the massed inns seil now there darlon was as only too glad to grant tie request lit ai vat was pushing the last shovel of enow snow i vei the eo pine brou trou tr ouli 0 1 I en he lie star thod mice who ho had come to bratch the pr grea of his hi tork irk b tree free of the root roof braving ura vIng a dark object in ills tits hand hood 1 I I found it in the gutter spout where here 11 I 1 mut have follen fallen the hand of the thief be he announced kly wr it la Is a bok filled with money just that it aae as and rolfe dailon dm ion a welcome spectator to the wild de light of the drills lingered long in the house blessed by the gratitude of mr brill and his beautiful daughter what more natural than that they crould incite thia this cherished guest to dinner for a royal one they were ore aure sure of if now but darlon sur ur theiu and congratulated him self in appearing neat trim and in a new butt suit for at the lodging house timit evening be he fraad frund an unexpected letter from his estranged uncle containing n liberal remittance and ask ing him to return the loine iome root roof and forget that the and ad ever iuar quat meled merry chr Cb caretina atmar indeed it was f for or that little group aou and when hen bolt rolfe darlon darion bade alice brill good night after a day of rare enjoyment and happi net ness be he wondered on dered it if the ardent hope hop of his soul might become a reality before another yuletide yute tlde celebration in bis his winnin of a christmas bride |