Show illa AVE YO 7 H I 1 THIS HA habith IT by MARGARET MORISON JOHN FREEMAN OIIN FREEMAN did not at the time JOHN know lt it but about 7 p m on the of december ID 30 lie he made the momentous decision of his big life hurrying down one of the long streets of the city toward dinner nt at hla his usual little corner comer restaurant he be suddenly caught sight eight of a face that took him back twenty years As john freeman kept pace with the figure across the way his mind raced in curious confusion should he be go over and speck speak it would mean being later for his meal they probably had nothing in common now better let sleeping years lie then quite he dashed through the traffic raffle at a cross street and touched the other on the shoulder eventually they had dinner together on john freemans freemanb Fre emans invitation vi at john freemans freemanb Fre emans special table in what he had come to consider his private little restaurant it was many years since john freeman had acted host afterward he actually allowed himself to be persuaded to go to see a christmas eve street celebration an hour later on his fits way up the stairs to hla his two rooms and bath lie he passed the old woman who kept his apartment and the other apartments in the building clean ile he suddenly became conscious of the fact that from week to week he hardly set eyes on her merry Christ christinas masl 1 he said with unwonted geniality thank you sirl said eald she evidently pleased inside be found a letter his slater sister back home had written to ask if he would find a decent boarding house tor for his nephew a boy of sixteen who had been offered a job in the city john freeman knew of such a place the house where he be himself had lived before prosperity made possible his present arrangement AS he be stood with the letter in his bis hand the clock struck ten afterward he always thought ten to have been the hour when he be made his revolutionary decision he would nave bave jack live with mini him in reality when at seven he had crossed the street to give an invitation to dinner he bad started a habit that three hours later only continued the habit of social minded deft RAW HAVE YOU TOOT THIS thiis HABITT HABIT to Q by tain newspaper |