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".\lolllcr's coliiilr; Clil*l.\:llli;ls" said

Gertrllde elltcrm: her tirrle liel' cir- cle ill tile grunt til‘p;ll't:iie:lt store. “Fillc" said Milla rcpleliisll`uig spool |:a.s.~s. "I'ln gollr: out to Uncle l\1.ll‘.`s -can taste tlirl:r~_\' and niliice pie

, right now." “Bill and I :ire lliiltcd

to Cilnrlir"s. '1‘hej.'r.~ llziluilir a .<'\'.'ell party." said Hattie sol“.lll_; dross Shields. -

Detty ran tile cellib tiirouull :lie

wavy hall' of the cllxiillliy tliliilglil- fully und applied it ll_;li:‘-rlirlel~. Reso- lutely she sll-upped the rubber band into place. Belly ii-rs a stnnlger. Her room was collzirl;-tillllc. lim' sall- |.ry sufficient. but colllpiiliullislllp .she had not found. }li:li<i,\y plillinilu; was entirely apart. irelli lier. She de- cided with the snap of that l‘lilJ‘.><‘r band that there ivoulti he it place ln the Christians enrol---sozllelvllerc- for her.

Gertrude. lloticeci the cillllgc in

Betty. "Shes gcttiiig li\ml:tll," sllc whis1pel'ed, then "\\'h:l'.`s ills nallle, Sunsilllle?" she teased, approllcililig that familiarity which appertnlns to those they like. “Yoirfi bf: :=iii~pi'lf-eil." Betty iilllgillwl.

Oll the sll'\‘L‘l riir :llc ftlilzzli llrl' ill-

spll".ilioli. ".\l;-i.~_c|ilel~;itle Ire Ci-lrlli\'nl." tile liandbiil rrzicl, "T\'oi'tll River nt Beaver Bend, Bclicist lor Cripplrci

_ Children, Christnltls eve at 8 p. nl." Bettys fingers i‘.'el"e bliyv i.".'c:-_v night with ller eostillne. \’.'llilc fur trillinicri the lirlfzizt rr-fl _i--l~_~r~i'_ tiiilzlrn Eizlirefl Betty kllew \'.'hal_ to v.'enl'.

f‘l'il'i'»tlllns ev- fl>il:‘.<i lei' rrifllillil.

and llappig vii_|o_'villiz hm- W,-_-ii-,|4- 5-port. I\iw.=.lv~ri. .she did nor, .-'nciii alone. Silddelily lhev i.ci:n:i riiiilicnilz partners. B°li_v fi'>iif’..'l li-"l':»-“lf :-i-:.i‘- ing r`1r.sl. iritll one mill. then aiivtllcr. Tiley enin_\'e<l her c.l.\'_\‘ :tllri" nil'l graceful turli.~. A l;il’;;~-cl;ti Hiinlcli- nlan secnied al\\'ily.':. re-.l<l,\" to tzlize hcl' hand when tlllotilrr ici lt go. “_-\r<‘1l't you tired?" he :l,ke;l, "lc‘.'s have lunch." lt had ll:;t i>c:'.il‘;e;i io hcl' to be tired-hor skil;c< irclii Cu: Vir-

elln slippers. Tliv £’...'.<-‘.llli.lr.`.-: r:‘:;l:i‘.t wa., like the lni;i.-li;;ilt bill. 'I";‘-.is stl'.l..llger must not l;ll3'.'.' size \'.1ls alone and tp al':;‘e;:t ill; l;l'..l:.‘.l":l would be to iil'..ii~ d.‘:'li.-l",'_ 'I liii:;.'. find my il'ii'l`;:i.." .ills 1: .'.'.‘_:iril:r:l, sk:lL.ll;; lliy lll'.'.\_`.' l:.i..1.l; il';‘_.iL.l- cd hfr \\'l'ep frrzil liifi 1-Il' '_-'_::'.ii»il .-lie fcillld tl. il ifil "for lli:~i~" i::".1»_l'l el' n i;illl:;>Zfi_l r .;:;'i-;t 1-_:xii . ' _i l~ xii,- 0\rr the t:l;..;:_v .ii

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bear to have him know I came alone." Happy reflections filled her Chl'istillas day.

Next nlornlng in the store girls

were relating experiences while put- ting their stock in order. “Well. Sunshine. did he come?" asked Ger- trude folcllng the covercioth. "Ol course he did," said Betty caressing the `dun1lny's hair. Her happy face nixlde ller words ring true.

Across the slsile stood the depart.

nlf-lit liinlioger curiously studying the group. As he approached the coun- ter each girl busily sought her own section. He chipped a flake of wax from the dummy/‘s cor and said, "_\Ii.=s Betty, I think theres a better head in the stocicroom. Come, let us soc." -

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aisles between rows and rows of boxes, silently. She trembled. On e. tublo were lleads-brown, blonde, recl, black. Betty studied them crit- lcaily.

"Why did you run away last

night?" The voice sounded strange and linczlnliy as the dummies looked. B;t'.y starte-si, "Oil, I-what do you nt:'.lll'?" "Just tll2.t," he said: "I

don`l. believe you knew I was the Scctcl‘.inzlll."

"Wh_\', I licver dreamed it," she

laughed.

“Then v.'cll't you go with me to the

ice rink tonight? I 10ve to skate with you. BrLt.\'. I do enjoy skating. Then pei-linp< _vou'll .tell me why you ran :i\'.'n.y."

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l'-nrlzeiifii cf the badly necderi lleald. "\i.‘iir~r.~‘s the new doll, Silrish‘no?“ sziirl lislln. "'I`|lt‘l'e wa.'.:1`t any- tllr.: lr;--that vsoiilrl do." Betty was tiiililaiiig lnzre ci skating than of lliartilliid <lun::ni:s that day and s<:.;:i :l;1<-lllcr girl had the demon- strzticxl.

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il:.:l‘._: llur Cllrisllllus gifts. Her I.. i~.l'l:il.~.nt supply caused her to become .~“.g_.litl_v cnlreless. One day an arm fell <t'l ere d‘ll, cxpo:=illf; the sawihiat :"'iiiiii"_ "\‘.'e", _vofl deal' obedient ti »il'.~!" _-:lie efzclalnlrd. "I knew I r t' "E vc-ii tw rliear _ix-i:'r foorl fine, but I ri':i>i'i iiiiilk yell would chew it so .’.:t“ nr; l11:lL.'

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Discreet behind its varied curtains

the village was all one curious eye, and that, directed on the cottage garden, where the mighty red-bcrrled holly trees grew, beyond the stumpy inn. The landlord of the Three Cranes whistled in his porch that Christmas Eve. It would be as well, thought he, to advise the rellct of Josiah Begg that he in his grandeur was abroad. Not for him, with his immense prerogatives as gossip-lnom ger in chief to Charlton Brough, the _ idling slinkiness of his inferlors. No -mine host was out in the open to do battle . . . for battle it assured- ly was, that grim gwaull: upon the

newly made widows privacy.

It had gone around the village of .

Charlton that Mrs. Begg was leaving its bounds. Not to hide her grief in decency ln the village was in itself a heinous crime against their vaunt- ed ordinances. But, to leave the vil- lage-to go abroad; to go to foreign ` shores-lf Charlton Brough could be

one eye it ached to be one hoot.

The villagers seethcd. Old Josiah

Begg hardly in his grave, and she not ordered his head-stone even; nor had she dropped one flower on his mound. . '. and going abroad! Mine host, well learned man, had but thc night before talked wisely, and pro- poundly in cynicism, of modern wo- man. He had also mentioned where the ducking stool used to stand be- side the pond. Hts customers and cronies had shaken their heads and repeated all this delicate allusion to their spouses, but starkly. For wo- mcn’s tongues want sharpening, even though for- agreement. A truc: was in the village. No household quar- relled; tme parserl along the enor- mous ways of speculation and con- tempt that the rciict of Josiah Begg;

had opened.

A dozen gaivklsll' men had sliavari

each day from the time when olrl Boggs illness bngaii. 'l"w:> had been loudly acclaimed to have adjurezl drink for ever. Thr:e had :-zffccted collars for their every evening wear and one had bought a bicycle; tivo gave great attention to their hands and nails. For was lt not accepted that old Josiah Bsgg had wealth un- tolcl. Despite the fact that he had lived in the old ‘bottom-street' cot- tage and fsllevfeu ciesliltsrzly me craft of dry-set stone wall builder, upon the nloorlaxld pastures, no man had llciird lllm complain of poverty ncr had any \vcln:1ll'.-; sc;ll‘eill\.l1; eye dctectcd one truce cf it upcn the ii*-ell kept houocliclci goods of tiles: _t‘.vo. lnstu, and wife. . .Now the was a vsidotv she was a prizr. Joyce llay- ward, as she had l:c:;i. vvcf. fer two comeiy and gently lzalrturel to have clidursil m:1rr1e.ge \'.'iiii clrl Je;-lflll Begg. had he not lrlon'.=_v. And n'l:\'. a demon men softly cinswrl tlieiiisclvrs for disnprlonted fools, the altractve wlcluw was to go her wuvzl. closplfllrt their causes. ae; she despised their

unvfrlttell lair; of conduct-

Joslch Begg. the woni.ll snecrcd

now, had been old enough to be her father. Then, having sneerecl their fill, they thought. Had anyone evgr noticed \-:tween the Boggs any out- vsard signs cf colljugallty? They can- vasasd this point. avidly. . .Ns--no

' one llnci! \`vhe'.'c had anyone lletleed

a tru: liu:.b.mclly or vsifely aficcholi l:etv.'cc;l tlicni? No\\'lle‘.':. . . -

Were they mail and wife, thc

sln'cr.'_s all az.-ized. And that a ques- tion lefr unaslccd for nina lang years! Since first Josiah Begg brought his grave young wife tl tile village no one had thought on that plmse. New he had gone his eternal way and had left her, their only hope of efficient contunlzly against hcl' lay by way of this sudden sug- gestion. They had sncerecl, they hazl thought-now was the finality in ac- tien of such narrow thought process- es mad; manifest. Each unit in that great village eye saw with a blttercr light. In one hour they had con-

_ vlnced themselves of her llifltmy.

She had not, said they, been old Begg‘s wife. so-pooh-a drab; why not hunt?

Or, failing such ivliy not probe in on her life as a lance upon living bone? They had hurt lrl their souls, lain there by her unheeding touch. Ter- -ribly they longed to hurl. her in re- turn. . .

Ah, the vicar stout and chlldlshly

rosy, had nodded to mine host and had stopped at her door! New we shall sc*, they crowerl,

But the Vicar was not. ndnlilltrl. A slim tail form in black mee- 1cl: the olden door. The Vicar srvept iff his hat and took a step forward. smiling as bcfittbd the mood had graced the state. »

But. . .the vlllagi almost liowlesi

in angry wonder. _ .the relict -_of .lerlsl-l Begg did not c'f_-r he-~ lui--.rl in r.'ci::~mu,'t1ct. raised it in half-

weary protest. Upon her lips they saw an icy smile that not one of them could have achieved; it was the smile of them who once had smiled on crowds from hurrying tumbrlls. The village saw her shake her graceful head before an expostu- lation of the priest; saw her hand. suddenly a-tremble, touch at her tllroat; saw her face whitcn and her eyes go large. . .She had recovered herself and the door was closing- closing!

The harridall; the shameless har-

ity of undertaking such 9, moment- ous thing! All on her own had she made decision. . .Again sivlllll’ “C” rid outbursts and a hissing HUWIU' paniment of eiaculatlons; it l>0l`lCl\' tous, amazing and sldllng shaking of heads.

Ten-llllrty. . .Tile Three Cranes

opened its doors. The nuctlolleer left Mrs. Begg and walked straight tothe lun, all _decked out with its rl-\d° Christmas decorations. Azid there was not a mall at home in til: village but who was furnshed feverishly-il

The ililafzc ef-‘cs rms'

rmlilTfiie Vicar Areplrlereclullis' hat and blnnllly fraixcd :it the will- dalvs- Then he .slubl-cd his etlclc on the path anclwalked array. His face was purple for he lzneiv the village eye, and dreaded all it sara.

For u;Jwa"<L1 cf an hour the vlllslg-

ers talked this episode ovcr. By this they were boldly ullipping aprons over arms ond enterlnf; one anothcr`s houses. '1‘llt=.t`l_=heir sole tc-plc of dis- cu:-i:i:n irc-: the rellct cf J:slah Bsjix that li;dy was loft ill na dgulzt. Silo smiie:l :l_4’.".2xl the: iriiy i;npc.l1ti slnii: as ch; c1lnl:;'c'.l, f;'ai;l her vrln- dow, to c;e groups of cllildrcn s_t1nd- ing r.wkv.'l;rclly and g.~.p-lzioutllrl at tlzci; mo'.Il:r:,‘ fleurs gazing nll cn t‘le ZJ:_;';;‘ c:;5t:.g:. EJ would t`_l:y gate so 1:11; 211 til-:lr e!:Zc:'s tnlizrl l:cZiS~i;l ti-hill, lint realizing hsiv t‘_iz~ir sicrct c:`.`.c_'a'.fc.'s were thus. lilllocelit- 1;, lar :-~;-»;i,

Teil o'cI:zo&:. . . .nr/l tlzcra a"r£-:ed thc :\.'.::‘ti:lr.::ir flu-lux the r.c‘_r-by ll\:ll‘1:ct'.:'.'.'li. So the:'e-would you be-~ llev: it!-tlmt \'.'oiuc:l was goin; to 'soil-up' her hcuscllclli; . .Net so mucll as a c_'_ieitl:;i hrzl rlie asked cl' \'1il;igc ;l';;l:llt-5 c;i the zizlvisnbll- pe;1lllic".:~l~.y his vrsrilonfclic with

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Dear Baby Christ within thc

manger hay,

I'd like to ccnie to you oil

Cllrlstnlas Day.

I‘m just n little girl, but maybe

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WDl'l‘t nlatter by your' cradle.

Ai-‘c your eyes

Quite bille like mine, or are they'

deep dark brown?

And would you wink them when

my head stooped down,

And ductile up your little hats

and snllle?

Perhaps tl1ey’d ict mc watch a

little tvllllcz

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you v/arm,

And gtlnrll l/cu tlll you slept, safe from all l1nrm--- ilf I were 'way cut there iii

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While your niotiiér Mary tilked

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Tliose thrrc Wise Men-the w°y

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Anal liirr.. Begg. noticing the auc-

1iG2li€1"s niovemcllts and the almost lUl!>:'::::1e:'i't._vl l`u3‘l of custom that f. llawccl ill: \'.'.lT:e. smllczi yet again- till; tflll: ll;‘.If-\‘.'eai‘il_\', half-pitylng- ly, as r.-lic snlllc= du'.'.n cn a tlrcsolne-

ly, l.-‘.'ai.fe clllltl.

S-`1-3 Sirk: tu the ci;l clock that

Md i`0"':;l' away the l1:t nine years ol i‘el' ILO.

"P-.ior. |14.-l' fools," she eaizi. Lui-3 a l;l:..-l< sl.-rl <.e.“-.1 c.\::e she

p;'.cI;£l \.li-.t l:ln."_ln_\cl uf sl pil; of Diners. This :Zia l~e1;c.l. anti secrc'- ffl ('33 KYB' \ it`:‘li hir btlrmnl; it r`.‘;;'.;I:_l, c'.e`.‘_Z_'._=; cglj “mn 1l,_, thin

cllnlrl _cn he: ii;-_ig-t_

L"`.:~ t!~'\u~i:t cf sflnrllling. felt the

|i¥‘l"=l t‘l’ll nrrl l~llfe'~.rrl, in :l s-'iulld lllit #ft a l-rllw'-.f cello slliniznerlng llfwutli i'-e ii,-ir <i~.;m-_ntlei nail-c __ . .’."‘.1c l'.c_'.' cf t‘le tired box ilrri _v::.i'l:11;`: she ccull not f ;‘i lt. Sho b;'f_:c;l lin' :'l;ai:l:I2rs, loc' cd at the el?c‘: cure nlrre, and hc'l hor |1535] 1"-illl ri site clad: |121- l sy upstairs,

Cn: rooizl hail b;-en i `s_ C113 looked arolln:l it and closed

tive <1:sr. liar og,/cs ,';rc\'.l red and v.'et 112112 lI1:'l' rinir. . .'Ti;e other room hazi been lr:l°s. By :Zio side of its trim little bad :alle '.:~.clt and prayed -;ii~".y::i and c:ill;Z :l::;l llloalled as if her vcry heart was turn: cric:i and silu;i:l.2:"~rl nr: _ brsuught hor G04 . . .lor llriipillc".

A"'i tilcrc l;i'1‘. line come with-

in the lilly ll 'rc n whi.speriniz of imre fer. ct tiielxe o'clocl:, i»iercl1_i anti beautiful of eye, the relict of Jc:'l:‘._!l Ecgg, lips parted prettlly gud liuscili' all nflonie. set. at her win- flG'.'. hiddrn; ivnltlllg. . .v.'nitlng.

'l"!t". vlllrtize had lea:‘:i'::i that tile

c:‘.:-.ge arid its coiltcnls were to be s:';!.l and the money so ebtalllcd giv- en to cilarllgr. This point they de- li?-'~.‘d \‘~'i¥-ll n wonder that ill some way dullcd their previous sullen :iiig-el'.

New they recalled--uct to Mrs.

Deg;-a tliousalld thoughtful moods of he who had died. wily. with his alnlsst cultured voice, had he had such homy hands? Why. with his certain intell:ct and undoubtéd edu- cation, had he chosen of all things to work his days through in chippll1'; shaping and setting stones, out on the desolate mcors? Why had he ai- ways helped the under-dog? Why had llc always gripped his hands and looked like death the moln-cnt nrt:-r he llail shown any form of ali;:ffr?. . .Wh5".‘

'l‘iieii, wlirrz- rllrl he ‘come from to

Charllnii Hrouytll? And where hui .nbc cnntc from. this gran-zfill quiet ycuvg wif: of ills? In all these years they had never thought to question on these subjects-then, with recur- rent gusts of affrohtediy angry prde, reféwllz-:l thvt nive-: had opgiortunltca Pm ri"'n llvm for such dlrclii-is 1. A cl 5:: c.u;i'c. if ever tllcr: was cnc,

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- THE OLD TO Y-MAKER

AMCN'G the many interesting hab- ' ltant characters that ulltll quite recently were to be found around tile Bonsecours Market in Montreal, iias Jean de Laroche, the old toy- nlalacr. He occupied a. small shop in i-he market for many years, where llls quaint, bright-colored, hand-made toys attracted considerable attention. They were ln steady demand, more particularly during the christmas season. They also found a ready sale, during the summer, among tourists in r-carch of "local color," who were, no doubt, attracted by the character and originality of the products, especial- ly the quaint little llorse-and-cart toy, which has been used by Paul Caron, artist, of Montreal, as the cover mc-

nr _of this issue of “Canadalni:."

The old toy-maker is now in his

eighties and the business ls being eurrled on at present by one of his ions. "Bonhomme" Laroche has carv- ‘cl toys and religious subjects for nany years, as did his father, hi; grandfather, il.i his great grand- father for the generations that have gone. _

Wood carvlllg has been cilrrlcu on

in Quebec for nearly 250 years, ie; a trade and arts school was esicb- lished by Bishop Laval at St. Joachim in 1388. This painstaking atteinpi is found it school of art ill Gaiman m lhf \~ dllys was a wonderful nchie-.,_-_ ment, especially when we consider that almost entirely the iiorrh;-1-1, part of America was a savage wild. crneos. ‘

st. .loiiéhim is a small village i,,,,_

ated a few miles down the st, La,-_». renee River below Ste. Anne rig Bcupre, where the tnmous shrine or Ste. Anne is located, and which ii visited yearly by thousands of pil- grims from all to sr Canada and the Ulllted States. Here, until a fcw years ago lived old Louis Joblli, with tile gentle face and flowing beard ei biblical saint, who carved Virgins, Sie. Annes and Josephs from logs cl" wood for the parish churches. in many places In rural Quebec iii-¢ still to be found sacred figures from the hands of long-dead eraftsiiiell that reflect their inspired genius.

they sagely told each other.

Ah vsell-nothing more re`lnaln-ed,

bllt to watch. -When was the woman golng?. . .There was one thing to her credit, she had been dressed de- cently in black, when the Vicar call- ed.

. . .At one o`clock a superb limou-

sille ran into the village, curved gracefully and pointed its bonnet ln the direction whence it had come, and stopped before the cottage that licl_:l ia wonian; rellct of Josiah Begg.

'l'lir‘ rheilffrilr got. down and .wr-ill.

open the door. A tall iron-grey hair- o<i man, wllnze face appeared radiant- ly yoilthfiil, despite its lines and its grave cool eyes, steppczl into the street. . .mo°.'ed'to thc door.

It, swung open. . .tlie relict of

Josiah Legg, no lcngsr in black. stood there. Whit: was she-all white and soft of every line -as is a bilrle. . .thc village eye saw her hands olltstrctciled; the village llzort stood still befole the glory of her face.

"Darling-my darling! Tilank God

it is all over,” salt! hc. .

".\t1;l you still want nie Jolln? Still \'.:z:t nle?"’

“As .1l'.vayr, _.nd for c.'o:‘, lily wo-

man."

His tefrs :ere with hers aa tliry

l;l':.f_-ci.

Sn thc vill:ge eye saw o. man and

a \':om:m sweep away from their ken fer ever in that car. The msn carried a big black deed box mid trod like a ifrd. The tvomrzrl tremlllecl and was r_= cami flushed as n girl before the altar,

So swept from the vill:ge's life

one who had given all, and thc dead box could have told how great that all had b;:en. »

For in it lay the private p.~.pe:'s

or one Jusiali 'I‘rei~erhe and his teli- er-ef-lsave. He, who lim muruerecl thirty years before, had sfrvcd tr:e:i- t_v years of his life sentence and the woman who had derfed her life its love for nine long year! and more went cut again into the world to eli- jny both. . .'l‘revc:he‘s eldest daugh- ter.

'mc RABBIT DREAMS

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Roger Bctteridge ‘ttlrrrd and spore

ili his sleep- r

For tin first time hc raw her face.

It was laughter lad.-nl and very l:ln'i. The face _of beauty yet very old-old net with ylars so much as grave win- doln. Behind the kindness and the

ragged mother and her look at iilni, D11 hi-"1 was when he was young. lm face had shone out of the squalnr tl ii hot room in a foetld court on a gulli- ln she had borne into penury; lilo woman in the pool much have sem that smile of long ago. to reiriciii.

ber, . . .

A curlew went awaillng over the

moorland and a grouse cocked :mil rhiickerl iii the ling . . . And now tile sleeping brain of Be-tterldg~ henrrl m'e.\'e mils`c. Gone was the pool niifl live trees were pillars reared to a rim( that. \v.1s lsvrd by light from lilriiieii lr_inl1s_ There danced upon liie flrvir wlifrc the waters ol the mul lim been as beautiful, 'she of the dart of black hair . . . , in a palace. of a

king, when eartli was young.

The king stirred on the magic lull

and smiled. ,

Now went the palace all asaillilg,

and green fields were-near. and she in a gown of flowered diiiily, moved shyly past s. water wiileli walked at her side heard her lmnie- anti it was . . . mystery . , _ :lie

was gone.

The sun was dying and iii- i-.hills

grew cold. Roger Bcltcrlclgi- auelte cn the hill aild got to his feel. As tl nlfln whose ways are vsell uppoinle l, he turned to the higher ranges ali-.l

v.'.“.ll£c:i to‘1.'a:`d; tllnn cel'i.\li.’_~».

S: in tile gc-ldcn hush of a Deceni-

bi: eve when the moon glawefl wildly lic ceine upon it little tnrzi ivlif-ra stcerl straigllt tr:-‘ea and \viiei'c th- fi-r was 'nil s. sv.'eci:le_=s lv`t`l ii-rl, ¢-1ii'i and cle:-id bz-:.cl:cn. And frclii ia ills- tiillce lic saw, without fear ami i-:ii‘i- ou; surpl'lsc_ fi ttlll white c:illrii1 i'.~c out fr'rxn the vrrter. tu.n nild ll lil . . .and it was she of his riremii. ings. with her d1l‘l: hair and lict' niu-

sic-and shortly she was not.

He did not move nor cill. llc :nit and waited until me night izrfw vii and the Wlldriczs of the moon- hai gone into serene lglit. The \\'aiPil did not stir agnlil nor did the bil'-'l cry . . . And high to midlilglit ii:

heard her suiiimohs.

llc arose and stretched his ai-iiil

and laugl1cri to the surging loves il! the world about him, cried to them and wished them a‘l the joys li! lrlicw _ . . sang . . . and hcl' naiiic., . which was nlystery, hung in his slrp-

ing.

Then lie wallied forward. Lady Holm Hsnnatolrs flir_:rl's

trembled as sh: lay down the I1BW>'- pcqier. I-fer Lice was pinched airl grey. he looked across at Ycillll Maxwell . . : Bhd could not speak.

"Eecnls strange, Moira. doeslft il-

phcsied . . . Y"

lllllllllter lay e. l'glit tint caused tha that you should lilve sort of ll\‘0°

slefpms prince of goldto recall his

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