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Show When 1 Chrhtmas Bells Were ftinp j "" my child! My (loci, save my cnlld" A BKty dressed In (rnvcllng attire ('"iwi herseir up trnni the middle of 'etnuiil where she bad been flung, aid km, i, is" and wringing hvr hands, liarrti-d painfully alter a rah which sas ensiling through the street troaixi with Chtlsimns shoppers sid (igtliiK equipages, behind a pow rf ill. giadilcncd horse The effort was snonil her atrongtii. apparently, fer ue lady auildinly collapsed, but H k bunds carried her Into a near bf nrteon a ortlce. It Ue rah wus a little girl about four rcara of age. Sim did not scr.wi. lint clung dispemtely to the lissoiuird, against which alio had r1i thrown, her large blue eyea flctaing wildly around for help. t)ud-dciilT t)ud-dciilT a man spinug out from Iho croi f palsied spectators and nt-It-c lied tu scl.u the iliuggltig reins, bn' lln horse swerved to one side without abating Ins speed, nnd drove tin seel nuiinst a lamp post the I iniiarl ot which (list the child out Int tihcap of mud and slush which the itri i-t aw. 'i pera had accumulated a'oaiiiiUi the pavement, where aho lay motionless. The Imsao, fright-en fright-en mil more by the fall of the chill who had struck ngulust hie Dm tin her lllght, hounded forward enulx, and the heavy whitd was upon the joint of rolling over the little r.lrl'i bead, when, with a shriek, a )oui girl aprnug before the inad-deiiee inad-deiiee animal, caught the lilt, and tlti t strength sometimes given by ilespiir to the weakest, bore the Ii ret hark. The momentary delay waa mnirlent to ssve the child, but Itii- young glr"s strength suddenly tain her, end bruised by the front hoofi of the frantic beast, which, by a violent plunge ahmik hero off, ehe fell with a broken arm and lay tin-(tmerloiiB tin-(tmerloiiB beside the rh'd aho bad ravel. Doth the reamed and the rescuer wert quickly carried to the nfllre nf the inme aurgeon where the other occupant of the carriage, after having he revived, waa still weeping and nriigiug her hands Iteatorailves quirsiy aiiplled soon brought thu little lit-tle girl back to consciousness, and a cartful examination disclosed tho fad that not only were no bones broken, but that Hs tender body was sisreely bruised. Not a acratch marred tho per fei lion of Its delicate j- .id i.. m4 it,, niothur hung over It vw hysterfest rapture. ' - Ita rescuer, however, was In worse lillrbl, for It waa only by prolonged, skilful work that rhe waa finally ro-a ro-a urnd to senalhlllty. Hhe had been removed to s private room, where the doctor had I n exercising tila skill to bring her hack to consciousness, ami was Just completing the bamlug-lug bamlug-lug of Iter lirol.. n arm, wheu tho lady ru-hed In crjlng: "l.ut me sen iliu Huvlor of my pro- j cuius child. I want to tell her how i .-in h she hot dime for mo, and pour out my thuiil.a to her." lu vain the doctor Bought to aoolhe ktr for tho take of the patient, who was In a weiik and highly nervous condition, but aim would not be calm. "I must talk to nor," ehe Insisted, "l eave tie, doctor, for a few minutes. What I have to say will do her good, A ; t - tv , t , " it . 5 ' ' j ' i y ' She clung desperately to the daah-board. daah-board. you do not know what she has dons for nin. The savior of my child Is my sister. I tell you." Tbe doctor bowed und rollred. "Now, my dear young lady, thanks aro too weak to express wiiat 1 feci. What can I do for you? What Is there in tills world Hint a deeply grateful niothur run do to cxpreas lier grail tudu? Would you nl e to conio ami live Willi me, and lake charge of the av.eet chllil you .aved from death?" The girl tried to hliln her fuco away 11, ,ni Ihu la ly's eloquent gaze. "MHdam, ou do not know what you ii. k," alio aald. "If you knew nil jiei would spurn me from you." 'No, lhat I could never do," said Ilm lady. "You have rendered luo list 1 iih a servbe. Your deed whs loo h uolc. No mutter what you may ln.wi di no the fu'ilt Is coniloni'd by your net. To lay down one'a life for ni!ot;ier is lb" aiiireine sacrifice, and t'-oilgh you were not sacrificed, the intent was there, my dear young lady." "Madam, when 1 das bed before tho maddened horsy, the thought of saving sav-ing your chlld'e life was not the thought I had In mind. I -I wanted to die, and hoped tae animal would be the Instrument n relieve me uf a lurden." "What, and you so young? Come, t.ll me," and the lady put her arm around the nock of the Invalid, who burst Into teara. "1 waa beiia)ed. madam, by one whom 1 loveil. and who. I thought loved me. Ho deserted me In my neeeaslly. and I had Jnsi come from a hospital when the opin-tuulty I fought presented Itself. "Wretched monster! Ilnvo you not thought of obtaining redress?" "It would bo useless III try. madam lie alanda list high In the social scale 1 would not be believed." v -4'- ii "' -;: The doctor shook his head. "Yea, child, I will believe you. Tell me his name and perhaps I may be your savior." "Oh. madam. If you could bo!" ex-claimed ex-claimed the girl with sparkling eyes. "1 do not bate Itlchsrd Talbot, ami" "Itlehard Talbot?" echoed the woman, wo-man, rising to her feet and grasping her head aa If dated. Then standing wrr the ah k girl with uplifted hand, us If about to atrlke. she almost shrieked; "Woman, you llul" "Ah, you know him?" said tha girl, calmly. "Perhaps you. loo. have been subjected to his deadly Influence?" "No. no," gasped the woman, "'tis impossible, I tell you! Itlehard Talbot Tal-bot Is tho very soul of honor. Pardon my words, but your charge against I Mm struck me ilkn a heavf blow. I Itlehard Talbot enuld nol havw your betrayer." "Head theae luttura, madam, and loll me. It you ran, who the msn Is," tald the girl, bitterly, drawing a small, soiled parked from her bosom. "I told you 1 would not be believed." The lady Belied them and duvonrod their contents; then loklng a letter from her pocket, carefully compared the writing. "My Ood, It la true," she muttered. "In a few bonis mure 1 would have b3en In bis tolls. Trusting to his honor, I, too, would have been bu-trayad." bu-trayad." Suddenly striking her forehead, fore-head, aba but at out: "My farewell lot tor to my husband! I must get It before he finds It!" Stooping, she kissed the girl on the lips. "My sis ter, you have saved more than my daughter's life this dny. Ho at peace, you shall be my rate to your dying day. I leave you for a time, but I shall soon return and take you to a home whore you will nevor know aught but loving kludneaa." After a moment's private conversation with the doctor, the woman called a cab and drove furiously away with her little girl, who had already furgolton the accident. Hovvral hours aftorward, a cab drove hurriedly up to the doctor's door, and from It the same woman lushed hysterically Into the ofllca. "Tbe doctor! I want the doctur! Will bo never come? Ho Is keeping me away from my husband." The aaaist, lint vainly endeavored to pacify her. She strode back snd forth fninllcally wringing her hands and sobbing. The doctor at last returned, but before be-fore entering his prlvato room, be isused upon the threshold, coldly surviving sur-viving the occupant. Turning In her ceaseless round, she saw him. and rushing up to III in full on her kuoos before him. "My husband, doctor; my husband! Take me In hlm.hla honor Is at stake. Take mo to blm, I auy!" After compelling the frenxled w man to drink a soothing compound, the doctor placed her In a (hair and took a aeat before bor. Ho said nothing noth-ing until he perceived that bla modi-clue modi-clue was lulling eflect. "Madam, your hiisluiiiil's honor was In poor hands a few hours ago. Illch-srd Illch-srd Talbot la not a proper guardian fur the honor of any man or woman. Listen, madam. Hhurtly aflur leaving your home this morning with your daughter, forever, aa you thought, a man waa found near It In a collapaed condition. He w-as Incoherent ill bla talk and held clutched In his hand this letter." The doctor held out a letter which the woman seized and mro Into fragments. "Nu, no, It la not my letter. I rid not write it, it was some dnmon within me. That poor girl In the room yonder opened luy eyes to my folly and my sin, and 1 hastened to repair tho wrong by destroying the letter before my husband could obtain ob-tain It, but 1 was ton lata. You would not let me see him, doctor, a little I : !iilo tiqrt. .nit I an( nu t' inl.ff J mp tn h i tu now, I vrniii to I id 1 at hi ffot and u fur ininlnii. " lint t lh tint tor dli'Mik hit- html. , "lx mit tell mtf l In (ltd), tint mr; ' tt ranntit In". .vt inn din, loo. ' nnd 1 ? flhe crm-pi'd itr iMinnin. t'nrtnjt uft l.er nn cry In hT dti'''rnt; rlutt-h nt . i ht Hi rout, With a ntrmiK timid tlm ' ilnc tor nMl mined Hit ud for I'd j down ftnuthcr nonfiling mlKtnrp. "Madam," said he, hn x1it bad - bernm rainier. "nur hunbmiid In dtllrloua. U ft'tiulrcil fiiniUB men i , ,' nrca to provnnt hln klllliiK hhiiHiMf. t lln la till violent ami may not riv 1 rover his nenwa ht fnrn innrtihiR. IIU tonalant cry In Tharlntt! Jir- U;t(tt" mtnxled with iltirul dmimtul ' iVr "liahy." j "Take mo t. him. diM-inr. I ran ( c.irn hhn- I am th only ono do you j ' not undemtiind? I am hid Chariot! ho anta mo and I hium kii to hlni." Hho artmo and went mil. thu dortor ' li'llnwhiK Hp placed hnr In tlio rati, L and toKether thoy ilrnvu tn tho lion- i plinl. ) It mn a pitiful night. Tho dortnr J I I'nhltiiK a I ii 1 1 y with a ntrottR, rowtrnln ; In r hitntl tn provont hor throwing I i hernelf upon tlio form of a man who 'uy iiruHjiIng a) hla throat and crying, It Charlmto! Churltitlo Com bactt j tn mo. Charlotte; you hnvo ktllod mo. : My heart In htnUen, and 1 lnvnl ynti 1 t-n Yoti did mt menu hat you I vtrnto, did oii. Cnnrhitto? How cold I oveiythliiK Im. Von hhIi) I Dover loved itl, litlt Hett fit ijiieeuly hoaiitl 1 f.il that I wn ii f mill to lit you ae n V heart. It In htirHtli.tf wtlli lovo jj It.r ynti. Chm lotto. "01110, my to," i .ind ho opened w Ido hla uyoa. Into I T hlrh tho womnti, tearing horietf R ' away from all restraint, cant horaolf, j . and, wltxlinit bur ,nnua around his 1 neck, laid h r cheek cloao to hla. Tudor tho hypnotic Influonca of bor prftflonrp, tho ravthK coand and Hnally alumhor 1 amo. The wife ra fnned tn be taken away from hor huahaiid'a a mm, and ao they were luft alone. In the crlnp, early mortis the bella . of an ail)olnltin church rang out thutr v merry (Mirlntmaa poala and nwokw t the patient, who aat up and 'looked , trmmd. I "Where am I?" he anhod, rubbing In daM'd eyea. "The bella, Uie : Ch ilut 111 an bolla! I have had ft hide- ! j nua dream. Ah. Charlotto!" Ilo laid I hla hand cercnHlnuly upon that bowed j Lead and whlnporod: "Charlotto. have 3 ou come back to me? Am I droauv lng?" "No, h unhand, not now, Edward, j htmband; I am not worthy to call you "Come horo to my heart, Charlotte, my wlfo," indhn c tan pod hor close i 1 to bla breant. "Hut whore am IT I j hoar the Christum bolla. I thought nevor to hear them attain. What haa J happened, Charlotte?" I "Kdward. my hunhand, you hate boon HI, and yon have beou dreaming. : Hut nol now, rinr. U U real that I mm by rtur odo, anj the VhrlmtmmM ' Iiclfa aro real. I.(tu, fhwy are (!! i In i; you how imiHi I lovo you" With tholr arms iiroutid each other fc they llatonod lu the holla which ai-oke to tUom In a IniiKimi; that rould not be mlnund'Tf tood. Kdwanl Dal I lng i rMoverod final ly. hut hla maa a dee 1 pomto ehaneo and left him feeble for many months. Ho never know poih llvely whoihor tho letter ho found on h'n wlfoa table, nunouu. i that ahe did Dot lovo him, nnd that aho waa about to depurt to a foreign land to find hnpptticNH with Khlinrd Tultmt, v, nn a d renin 01 a reality. Ilia wlla'a rniiatiint tendecewn and unwavering dovotlun flnnlly blotted It from hla I mlud. On evory Clirlutmas morning 1 they never fall to alt In illcnee with I clanped hanila, llatoulng to Uie belli ' i H;' r, ; t ; " 1 "Llstsnl They are telling you how much I lovs you." vhoee music illsslimted lbs mlata be-I be-I fore their hearta snd bruuttlit tbelr buuIb toKuther. never to be separated by any uilauiiileralunilliig. |