Show a 6 M a y N W a yC 1 lonk frank hc f f tt i J a T 1310 touring car swung in at a small south georgia junction to get a christmas boy bos then had to awalt for a train to stop anil and pass be jford fore the could be at lets ure ore going back bach toward his car tha owner noticed a white haired woman i gazing up the track anxiously he wanted to make a record distance this day aad was impatient at losing time but he paused at her irresolution anything I 1 can do he asked yo no sir thank you only im afraid ive missed my train and im not much on traveling sly my car broke down and the colored boy know what to do if a neighbor rescued me with a laugh 1 I dont suppose id ever have got here its twelve miles to my plantation going far yes tes a long way to lakeland florida i theman started n and glanced toward his chauffeur who was waa standing by the car door too bad he be said 1 I suppose you are planning to get through to lakeland for christmas why have you your baggage anywhere handy only a suitcase and a package of christmas cooking I 1 got ready last night in a hurry you see im just making a flying visit to see my daughter before she leaves leaves ashes just married well ve with sudden briskness coming into his voice hop into my car theres plenty of room with only roy my wife and daughter were bound for lakeland too and will be there the day before christmas my roan man will get your baggage I 1 B beat the railroad yes in my car with the trains poor connection I 1 dont ilog hop in he be repeated talan taking her arm and urging her to the car were glad to have company to talk with here you are as the chauffeur came with the suitcase and asdall all box now were off it had all happened so that the old woman hardly realized it before they shot out of the town and were speeding on their way wa toward lakeland at better man fifty miles mile an hour but still she did not realize it fifteen miles over the rough country roads in the decrepit plantation flivver had bad all the sensations of more rapid and dangerous travel than sixty in this big easy running car she settled fettled back luxuriously the women were nice too another thing was revolving pen pleasantly in her wd mind and presently slie she had bad to mention it the plantation house servants and field hands all expect a little remembrance my going so far and its being christmas she mused then theres josephine josephine I 1 see how bow I 1 could do it all but not having to pay train fare down will make it al right happily plantations dont yield much spare money these days christmas christinat Is too much of a burden for light pocketbooks pocket bonks objected the car owner 11 1 I dont believe in them anyway I 1 gave up christmas giving long ago foolish hat habit ift I 1 tell my daughter that but she wont listen the christmas box I 1 stopped for was for her wastes money time and patience give money outright it if you have bare to what im going to do partly apologized the old woman half Is presents for the help at home but the other halt half to ray my daughter ashes just married and her husband starts for mexico christmas day got work there she writes and it stands to reason lie he cant haie hae much mu 1 money mabbe maibe this will help josephine jose gnp and harry eh eb eh E h harry josephine Jospph lne mexico then he closed his lips tightly and looked straight raight Bt ahead an hour or so later while going through an unsettled piece of 0 country the old womans comans hand bond fell softly on ills big PO N shoulder please B s t 0 p just a minute the breathed 1 I never haw bow such a holly tree so full of berries I 1 want soule some 11 C h brist r 1 s t maa mas stuff Is nothing a b but u t foolishness and bother andoh I 1 beg your pardon of course I 1 I 1 james you help cut the branches before they got in with the chaff deurs feurs help she fhe insisted on fastening bandies 0 of h olty hoire wr nn car at first the owner scowled then presently his gaze began to wonder wander from sprig to sprig serij and the scowl began to change to something like a grin at jacksonville he drew up before a big christmas store got to get something to match that holly he muttered foolish to have nil all that stuff outside and no santa in and maybe josephine will expect something josephine eagerly you go got t one toot too same one the grin expanding my sons just married dont give presents though in money tom dont need any for hes going to manase manage a chain ot of banks still and all alk I 1 expect beyll appreciate the halt hall you spoke of and yes better come in the store with me and pick out a baet ful of clap trash for those dukles da kles ll 11 CO A 1620 2926 western newspaper unions |