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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
Retry rllirloii :z::'l r~:~:- --»i 1---y_f\jr
ffr lxrr illl:'iili:lif"| li~i -ii the ""1-
flell tiisllliffall of l\i‘:' <1". ~i_.1ill :=';':'-
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i li-_:Ill liilil illi-rc ilu- iii'-c-icilg du§',
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lizll il`s izl the iizirk ll;-Us looping. -_.__
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Qtr;-cr, lilil l!:c{\‘ <I<>l‘.`t l-:l ililll toileil_t_n§nl;
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_' -lllnile sonic poor lol glull lle`_~;li\'_lng. _ _ 
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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." -
Betty followed him down long
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."
ll'-tl_\' laiiniied l~.nppil_\' and prom-
lsr*-Cl.
llmik lfi the main floor lliey lveni.
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.
The girls in the crlclc did not
k.:'.'.‘.' vxllot i:ec,;l.nl': of E:tty until one
r1;l;.' .~h;: Caine dozm the aisle chatting
i-ayiy iiitil lier husband the depart-
lllclli, l;l1lll1j;cl‘.
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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
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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-
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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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'l`o the Christ-Child
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
sim `
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
I would be very still; I'd kcep
you v/arm,
And gtlnrll l/cu tlll you slept,
safe from all l1nrm---
ilf I were 'way cut there iii
I?rtll't'.l‘:rl11l
While your niotiiér Mary tilked
to them-
Tliose thrrc Wise Men-the w°y
I do ct heme
with time brctl-er v.~:~ea ra-.i-n
crllcrs come.
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mflll"3'- /\\\'n.‘.' 10 the Three Crai1=s
ivczlt llrcill r-.‘l.‘
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
lcontinued from Page TJ
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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