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BY
Virginia L&iSiaWenti
copyright, toon tr homer spsaqus^^
"• M 191 ERCI, monsieur!" cried the
I\l 8 concierge as lie cheerfully
XT 1 took the silver coin. "A
happy Noel, monsieur!"
Lansing Drake entered tlie little im
passe 011 the broad Avenue du Maine
shaking hi:! shoulders, for bin back
ached. He had been working at the
Louvre for five steady hours till the
very last fxactlou of light held out.
Why not? What part had lie in the
festivities of these happy French peo
ple? Was not he one of the homeless
ones, separated by the width of an
ocean from his family?
In his studio apartment he threw
himself on a divan with a'pipe and a
Journal Amusant. Hut the Journal
was full of allusions to the season, and
somehow he sighed. The eve of Noel
—Christinas eve! I: had been the very,
host time oi' ill • . • . r cv t there in his'
dear southern home. What wore they
doing now? the tilings ready
for the tre -s, : U I;. I: Up the wreaths
of holly with I' d ribbon, and hanging
a branch of i:iistle-ok, pshaw, what
right had lie to thluif cf such tilings
touig!it?
A clatter of sabots across the flag
stone court—the small daughter of the:
concierge fetching water from the!
common lap; from the Iloulevard j
Montparuasse the toot of a St. Phil- 1
lppine du itoule train and then si-j
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IF HE ONL* DAEED SPEAK TO HER!
Icnce. Drake was picking up Ills pa
per again when—
The snow lay on the ground;
The stars shone bright—
Ah, It was the quaint old English j
carol, with its liquid, sweet melody,:
whieli he'd learned at his mother's
knee, and it was the American girl
across the court who was singing it:
When Christ our Lord was born
On Christmas night.
No wonder the tears came to his
eyes. That particular carol and that
particular girl made up a combination
to which he was a bit sensitive if the
truth had been dragged from him.
Just that very morning he had writ- 1
ten home:
"There's a little American girl oppo
site. I don't even know her name,
but the mere sight of her keeps me
straight. She's all alone, and she's
evidently studying music. As for her
singing, she has the most beautiful
voice the good God ever saved from a
lost violin, a voice to make you
pray, little mother, to turn your laugh
ter to tears, to turn your tears to
laughter."
From the day when he had tirst seen
her, watering her geraniums on the
Bill, the window across the court yon
der had become a sort of shrine. And
at each new glimpse of her an unform
ed prayer qf thanks surged up within
£tlm that a creature so lovely had been
sent by heaven to keep the word
"gentleman" stainless, to make it a
thing to strive for and to take a
cleanly comfort in.
She was a stranger too. It was a
bond between them. Tonight perhaps
she was suffering like him from home
sickness and loneliness. How soon he
could make her forget all that! They
could have a reveillon of their own
and a jolly little supper, laughing to
gether in sheer happiness of a mutual
understanding of the Christmas spirit
abroad. Unchaperoned? What would
they need of a chaperon, they two
two tollers for the sake of art, com
rades in arms made equal In rank by
the blessed chance of being both
strangers in this wonderful old Paris?
There was a moving gleam of some
thing behind the geraniums yonder.
The cheesecloth curtains stirred, anil
then the window was lifted. She
threw out some crumbs to some eoid
looking sparrows. The last rays of
the winter sun touched the line, white
parting that separated the burnished
waves of hair.
If he o lly dared speak to her! She
might misjudge him before ho had a
chance to show iiis Intentions. But be
would do it. He would seize the mo
ment while this tit of madness lasted
and speak to her. In saner mood his
courage might be unequal to it. lie
hurried orit of the room an i stood, hat
in hand, In the court close to her win
dow.
"i.*> 1:1 your neighbor across the way,
madeinoisCr! 1 "." he said. "It is a
month since i jlrst saw you, and I've
been wanting to know you so much,
so much. I have 110 means of obtain
ing an Introduction, and at the risk
of your di p' uro and your worn I
have ventured to speak to you tonight,
to tell you how the little Christ mar
carol yo i sang just now somehow
flew str.il lit to a fellow's heart and
made Ir • think of home and all tiio
old familiar joys of the reason."
ITe held oat a card. H' hand shook
a triiie. nut the ghl did not. notice.
She was looking at hini steadily, after
the first start of surprise, the color
coming and going lu her cheeks. But
In her eyes wn: no fear, 110 displeas-
lire, rather the expectancy of an ex
plorer who, venturing far, finds the
present good, though that to come be
unknown.
Presently they went out and hailed
a fiacre.
"Where shall it be?" asked Drake.
"Laure's? Yoisiu's? Peter's? No, I
have it. Murguery's."
So they drove to Marguery's, and
Drake ordered a bouiliebaisse < ty> be
quite seasonable) and a lungouste
mayonnaise and n bird and some
sweets.
They had a very jolly little supper
indeed and no end of amusement
watching the merry looking French
people at the tables, all devouring
bouiliebaisse and other nice things.
"And to think," cried the girl as the
clock struck it, shivering with pre
tended alarm, "that I'm sitting here
at this hour, unchaperoned, In a
French restaurant—with a man who
hasn't even been conventionally Intro
duced!"
"Don't!"' cried Drake abruptly.
"Come! Wo must be going home. It
Is a bit late."
She was silent while they left Mar
guery's and hailed a fiacre. Then she
broke out i i a queer little voice that
was low and tremulous:
"I think you must have a sister. You
take such good care of a girl."
The fiacre rolled Into the glare of
an overhead arc light, and he saw her
looking at him with a half mysterious,
half divine gratitude.
"Please don't do that." he answered
in a hushed voice. Something In. Ule
him was pounding furiously. Some
thing at his temples beat an I
throbbed.
"Don't do what?"
"Look like that."
She not (niv looked like that. Ltd
more so.
"Young man, young man." laughe!
she. with mock warning. "I fear <on
are wishful of turning a girl's !.
"The Lord be goal to me!" he !••:>' •
out, his penl-up passion of dr> .
rushing to his lips now that the ii-.r
rier fell. "Don't you see it's b •
I—ell. I'd hoped to piss the c 1
wlthot yon that I h'ved . o 1-
tbatV v.t ivs.y hurrying you Ii
I told you a little while ago It was
your friendship I wanted. I was
wrong."
She made no answer, but stretched
out her little gloved hand to him,
then drew it back quickly unnoticed,
a singular smile on her lips.
"You've known me for a few hours
only," ho went on in a steady voice,
"and I understand what you think of
me for speaking like this. If I had
known you for years and had waited
and had the right to speak and keep
your respect"— liis steadiness did
not carry him to the end of his sen
tence.
Then she laughed joyously, deli
ciousiy.
"You are mistaken," she said. "I
have known you for years. I used to
chum with your sister Gertrude at
School, and you used to come down
from your university, and we'd take
walks. And we went up to all the
meets to sec you run, and you used to
win. You called her your 'kid sister'
and me 'the other kid,' and you kissed
me once. You've forgotten the little
girl who stood silent in corners and
looked at you with wide eyes. But I
couldn't forget. I used to have Ger
trude write mo all about you till she
married that missionary and went to
live In China. And then I had your
photograph -the one hi your track suit.
"Anil just to think for a whole
month now you've been living opposite
to me. across the court, and I never
knew it! Ah, Lanse, I've felt for
year you would come to me, and when
I saw you tonight my lirst impulse was
to stretch out both hands and be so
glad, so glad. At once, though, 1 saw
you'd f< rgotten, I determined not to
tell you v. ho I was. I wanted you to
recall. When I spake of your having
wsisier just now I tried to make you
recall, but I'm glad you didn't, be
cause U'ls in:', all me, as. I am, that you
love, n::d it's so good that way."
AHi 11-'* later lb: • • •'» t'i • frosty air
the midnight bells of N-cl rang out
clear. Then at the last, very softly,
from a drkened r mi across the
court, Lam ing Drat heard a verse of
the old Christina carol he had sung
at his mother's knee:
Tin? riwi.v 1 <'"■ the".round;
The stars Ehono bright—
ITe bowed hk; ho:u! in hi.: hands for
the great gift that had come to him—
Whon Christ our Lord was born
On Christ mas r.i *lif.
Mother's Coronation Day.
Thai fir t Cliristm wa : the moth
er's coronation day. Each recurring
Christinas perpetuates the memory of
her great glory. In public and in pri
vate celebrations of it hers should be
the central figure. Solemn gladness
akin to th- Creator'!: satisfaction In
his "very good" work should fill her
Goal.
In Mr. Harrison S. Morris' beautiful
poem, "I rivition," we read how a
laborer, laden wifh "a tray of tools, a
timbered frame," walked in the sun
shine through a clly street—
Nor knew tli ' out of myriads ono
E. • hi 1 y v a f> uJov.' ran
That c". • ! the c .. .uri 3 in its shade.
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But, like a loving : ;,h'!t, there,
In even footfall at his Ski \
A shadow walk* d the pavement wide
With bend dhi 11 mSnbumble pride
And engird ( r">Ha aslant the air.
It w. 3 as if the dateless sun
Forgot the years, the far abode,
And, 10, upon the sordid road
The cross worn Nazarean trode,
Holding the journey never done.
Every mother who holds her baby In
her arms repeats, unconsciously or eon
sclotisly, the story of the Incarnation.
Tlie blended shadow "clasps the centu
ries," past, present and to come, and
eternity itself "in its shade.**—Marion
Harland in Independent.
The Navy's Christmas.
Christmas in the regular navy !s ob
served as one of the big holidays of the
year. Starting off with a grand dinner
in the middle of the day, discipline is
from then on relaxed, and the fun is
fast and furious till sundown, and of
ten the evening Is enlivened by amateur
theatricals. The vessel is gayly deco
rated with bunting, and at each mast
head and at the bow and stern green
trees are lashed if procurable.
Self Help.
Dashaway—Well, Uncle Jasper, how
are you getting on with your Christ
mas dinner?
Uncle Jasper—Fust rate, sah. Colo
nel Wlnterblossom done guv me a
present of a fine fat turkey, sah.
Dashaway—That's very strange. I
Just left the colonel, and he didn't say
anything about It.
Uncle Jasper—No, sah. He's got to
count dem turkeys fust.
When Mistletoe Was Banned.
Because of Its association with pa
gan rites the mistletoe was for centu
ries forbidden a place In English
church decorations at ('hrlstmastide,
and it was not even mentioned in old
rhymes until the seventeenth century,
in Herrlck's time, nlthoiigh the holly
gnd Ivy had for two centuries previous
been the subjects of various poetical
effusions.
Circumstances Alter Cases.
Crawford—l thought you were per
fectly delighted with the Christmas
present your wife gave you.
Crabsliaw—At that time I didn't
know she'd had it charged.
Hew It Was Done.
She The idea! And we weren't
even standing under the mistletoe!
He—No. I did that sub rosa!—
Brooklyn Eagle.
In Christmas Land.
Mistletoe Just overhead—
Touch one spray above!
Holly berries Just as rod
As the lips of Love.
Christmas skies of blue and gray,
Heaven In bright view,
And the sweetest gift today
Just the lips of you!
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