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| We Girl if>e i ^Tambourme i T WAS the Saturday be fore Christmas. Thi y i WwtP^L winter's day was fasi Danvers and John Harding stepped out of the H&vr and joined the mov | ing holiday crowd. Foi an honr they had V watched it through the window as they smoked and talked, and Tom, while he had been mud amused at John's cynical comment had taken it all as a joke, for John was never pessimistic. Now, as they walked down the crowded thorough' fare conversation was difficult, and John was unusually silent Recalling bits of phrases in their recent conversation, it suddenly occurred to Tom that there had been an unac-i customed tone, even a note of bitter ness, underlying the smile and lightly spoken words of his oldest and best friend, whom he felt he knew as he did himself. At the thought he looked sharply and piercingly at him, hut the strong, resolute profile bore no trace of the cynicism of the last hour, much less evidence of its cause. It was just imagination, Tom concluded. As they stood waiting for a cross' town car an observant and clever beggar approached. Tom answered the appeal with a coin. "Not from me," said John, in a disapproving tone. "Oh, well, it's Christmas time," said Tom. - ^ "Yes, that's just it, and he knows *. It and makes capital of it It is sympathetic or sentimental charity, and I don't approve of it" "Upon my word, Tom, yon are funny this afternoon. What is the matter with yon? First yon condemn |F*" "Ifs Christmas, You Know." women, then yon denounce this happy holiday crowd as a 'passing show,' and now this poor beggar. It's well yon are going to be twith me for a while; you need the home influence, . and?by Jove! you need a wife! That Is the antidote for you, old fellow," he concluded, emphasizing his convic- i tlon with a slap on the back. "No, thank you," was the laughing reply as they stepped aboard the car. It was well filled. Across from the friends sat two good-looking women, evidently mother and daughter. Next to the younger woman sat a sweetfaced Salvation Army girl, with her tambourine in her lap. Her plain. dark blue dress was in marked contrast to the fashionable suit and beautiful furs of the ladies beside her. | . Suddenly the younger of the two turned and spoke to her. She smilingly responded and shook her head, but as the other continued to urge a wistful look came into the Army girTs face as she glanced about the car. "No, no," they heard her say; "the N conductor would not allow me. The ?"i?o tram* flWrt'" she added in AUiCO UAV VV*/ ~?* explanation. For a moment or eo there was silence, and over the faces <of both showed disappointment Then suddenly the younger woman, with the color suffusing her lovely face, caught, up the tambourine and, depositing a coin in it started down the car, ignoring the shocked and ex* j postulating "Nancy!" and the detain*! tng hand of her astonished companion. Passing from passenger to passenger, | ehe extended the tambourine, always j With a little smne ana ~irs unnsiujua, yon know," or come little word, until each one felt It a privilege to contribute something. A* she turned by thq door the conductor stepped forward ,with, "Please, miss, I want to add something to that, too." Flushing, she exclaimed, "Oh I thank you so much." She passed on to her seat ana returned to Its owner the tambourine, that never before had received contributions so promptly and cheerfully bestowed. John Harding's hand ha*i gen?; at 5LCe Into his pocket when he realized what the girl was doing, and now he *s watching her with an almost awe struck interest?her lovely, sympathet- I ic face, as she talked earnestly to the ! little worker in blue, apparently un- ! conscious that her sudden impulse had ! first astounded and then knit together ! in kindly sympathy an entire car of J strangers. J "By Jove! that was a great thing to ! do," said Tom enthusiastically, when J the tension of an absorbing interest | had subsided a little. "Yes, I never saw its equal," replied John. After a moment's hesitation he added: "I should like to know that girl. Do you suppose we could find out who she is?" "We can try," his friend replied; "but why do you want to know?" "Well, I do<" John answered curtly. Tom glanced quizzically at him and smiled to himself. This was another phase of John he was just getting acquainted with. When the car reached the railway station where John and Tom were going to take a train for , * ?* 1 4-V?i-w nrnmon TOIQ'S SUDUTUUll uumc, Uic nvuvu ^ also left the car. They went straight to the ticket window. Tom took out j his commutation book and passed it ( to John. - I "You follow them and I will join , you," he whispered, the spirit of mischief and adventure now possessing him. Having bought their tickets, the women turned from the window and hurried to the train. There in the same car Tom found them all. "Well, if this isn't luck," he exclaimed, as soon as he was seated. And then, with the air of a boy bursting with news, he said: "They are going to D ." "Yes, I know it," Harding replied. But as he vouched no information and did not seem inclined to talk, Tom took refuge in his paper and promptly forgot the whole affair, until he was abruptly called back by: "Tom, I cannot tell you when a thing so impressed me as that did"? as if there could be but one "that." "That?" asked Tom, a little puzzled. Then, "Oh, I thought you did not believe in that kind of charity?sympathetic and sentimental, I think you called it," he teasingly reminded him, remembering the crisp bill John had dropped in tne tamoourme. "Oh, that is altogether different," John answered, half defiantly. "Yes, different because a pretty girl made this appeal, ^n old man the other," laughed Tom. "But, tell me, how do you adjust your acts to theories?" "Oh, 'theories, the dickens! What are they ever compared to acts? And that act this afternoon was a spontaneous expression of the true Christmas spirit, from'which springs the desire to hedp, to bring some joy to a lot of poor unfortunates, because It's Christmas, you know,'" he quoted \ softly. "It was the real thing, and j everybody in the car felt it." And having, as it were, justified his : position and interest, he looked across \ 'at the unconscious subject of their re- i ,marks. Truly she was good to look at, i 'though at present all he could see was the well-cut profile and the glorious j copperish-brown hair turning to dull gold where the western sun struck It, , 'and eyes, that with her mood, he knew, ; varied from hazel to brown. A verit- ; jable gem of a girl, he thought, as she ! began adjusting her furs. With an < i Intuitive feeling of understanding her, < ,he turned to Tom. "Don't mention the affair to anyone, not even Mary, for it would not please 'her, I am sure," he added, as the train 1 pulled up at D . The station was small and John had 1 just finished greeting Mrs. Danvers, when Billy Grant's deep voice broke In: "Hello, Harding; glad to see you," as they shook hands. j Grant, an old friend of both Harding and Danvers, also lived In D . "Now, I want you to meet our friends, for its cold and I want to get home." While Tom and John were bowing in acknowledgment to "Mrs. North and Miss North," their host chatted on about its being "too bad they couldn't have met at the other end of the line, as long as they happened to be on the same train." Nancy North threw a quick glance at Harding, but otherwise no outward sign was given, as he walked with her | to the car, that they had ever seen one ! another before or that the same | thought was In the minds of both, but John was so strangely elated that Miss North's color dee- ~aed each time she looked up and met his smiling eyes. "Now, don't you fellows keep our bridge waiting tonight," called Grant as he gave the signal to start Tll guarantee our arrival on time, Grant," answered John, well satisfied with the arrangement, whether it was chance or fate, for somewhere within him something was thrillingly alert tantalizingly expectant, confident^ hopeful, and the feeling of the after ; noon that had expressed itself ir : cynicism and manifested itself in lone iiness was gone. At the weeding reception or jonc Harding and Nancy North, six months later, many of the guests were curious hs to the presence in the gay assem blage of guests of a sweet-faced little woman in the dress of the 'Salvatior Army, who was the recipient of muel: attention from the bride and groom and was quite a center of attractior as she related again and again the re 1 . msrkflhle storv of that December aft i eraoon, after which all looked witt 1 'greater Interest and understood whj in the array of handsome and costlj wedding gifts an old and battered tam bourine occupied the place of honor. J LCsv. She stood beneath trio mistletoe And sbe was fan w see. My wife was in the room, and flo That chance was lost to me. ^ ; The 1 I Snow "Santy" I I S I I By ALLISON LEB | (Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Union.) fET her go!" "That will wake him "Run felloWs! Old Tightwad is coming out of his hut." It was the day before Christmas. "Her" was a giant snowball, the hut in question was a dilapidated hovel at the bottom of * a long steep hill. "Old Tightwad" was the familiar epithet bestowed upon Elias Greene. A crowd of energetic urchins had been busy with a giant snow Santa Claus. The great rotund trunk had been duly rolled into shape. The following morning there had come a soft rain, then a sharp freeze. The inow would pack no longer so the disappointed lads went back to their sleds, coasting down the long incline that ended at the edge of Elias Greene's domain. A coasting sled had broken two pickets in the rickety fence and Old Tightwad came out furious, wheeled IHyBH a barrow full of ashes to the base tLfl* of the hill, scattering it about and spoiling the end of the slide. / His tormentors / , hooted him and / drove him into the PT7 . J I house amid a ^ fusillade of snowballs, he roaring F up at them that he ""^>7 would have the /" v. law on them. The 7 boys hid behind 1 the mammoth snowball. One of their number uttered a quick chuckle. "I say, fellows," he gtinned, "let's send Old Tightwad a Christmas present?the big snowball." And then the climax. The great body of ice and snow went thundering down the hill with terrific momentum. It cleared the open gateway, ran 20 feet and, just as the denizen of the hut half-opened the door, it was torn from its hinges by the impact of the great projectile which broke into fragments and the old man was thrown back amid its ruins,'the shattered door Striking him with stunning force. Elias Greene had once been a magnate of the village. He had never married and that was why his numerous relatives coddled and plundered and finally ruined him. He retired to the old hut to lead a hermitlike existence. His despoilers never went near him. Of all his kin Alice Wayne, an orphan half-niece, offered to keep house for him, but was rudely repelled. She had found work in the village and faithfully visited the old hut, bearing some dainty and ten-1 derly inquiring as to his health. That very afternoon Alice had wrapped up a warm sweater she had knitted and bent her steps toward the wretched habitation. Her Christmas present fell from her hands as she discovered the plight of Its Injured inmate. Alice summoned a physician and sat up all night, nursing her patient. He ?VpC ' ^jj| was improved by j V -^Ll morn^n^- She pre-1 - jlja pared his break r? fast and went to j j^| reP?rt to her emSBBk j ployers. When ^ Alice returned she <^\ \H " was no* al?ne\ \ vH She introduced \ \ \1 * / A Mark Seaton. V \ \ \l v Elias eye(* him 1 \ . -Y closely, for he j ^ lU knew ^at thls \ f |M was her fiance to IB 111 working to reach k W ill, II ifll an earning point ^ie!1 Br where he could ? afford to marry. Mark was at once j f&terested in the welfare of the old man. 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