The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 26, 1918, Page 3, Image 3
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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
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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. He suggested .that they move
the stove into the sickroom, and removed
from the stoveniDe hole a mass
of paper. As he pulled it out his eyes
discovered that it comprised a lot of
documents bearing impressive seals
and signatures. His eye caught an
engraved name: "Acme Smelter Company.*'
"Mr. Greene," he spoke, "dp you j
know what these are?"
"Do I?" returned old Elias, with a j
derisive laugh. "Yes; worthless pa- j
per! There's a trunk full of them up j
in the attic."
"Alice," whispered Mark, "I have
made an important discovery. I will
return soon," and was away for the ho- j
tel to find a newspaper he bad left!
there.
He returned and folded it at an ;
Item stating that a leading brokerage
house in the city would redeem all
bonds of the Acme Smelter company
at fifty cents on the dollar. Ellas
Greene became intensely excited as he
read the brief paragraph. He directed
Mark to bring down the trunk from
the attic.
"Alice," he spoke, "make two even
piles of those documents," which she
did, wonderfully. He kept one and
handed the other to Alice.
"The only true soul among all the
wretched brood who devoured my fortune,"
be said. "I give you these as
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