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CHAPTER XL

By MABEL MCELLIOTT

anopicit doorway to doorway in their

laots an he deposited her bundles at Gradually Boots, began to accept the of these years there would be a

big ear, pazking it with presents. the very door. downiu was the man mall roxy person in a white cont andful them!" His smiling glance told "The name to you, Miss, and many Fate had cast into the role of saviour turry mittens. Her heart plunged her that he knew about her and Ed For her, are seemed to be to douot at the thought and there were salt ward. This time next year she wou.d nbout that. And the was lucky.ars in her mouth. wasn't koe, that he. Kas such'a dari

bo Van Selver. That was what la Jing? Everyone liked him-six feat,cake and star-shaped cookies stand-

At home her mother baked frult look hald, Lwe inches of Mplid worth, generously and Mirs Florida and she took familiar smell of honie closed in The door shut behind her and the open-hearted. If he was a bit unturns carrying them over to the Wo-around her. Small of dust in the stair imaginative surely no one could right-man's Exchange. And fully complain, of that. Boots had father took three steps to the window Mian Florida had thrust into the blue the invalld carpet and cooking and the evergroen made one stipulation; there was to be and back one morning, perspiration vase on the living room mantel, no formal engagement-no announce bending his lined brow. He was al menia. But one of these days after

Hor mother comd bustling out of the first of the year she and Edward most tearfully triumphant over the that doorway now. would be married very quietly at St. half-hearted about taking him to a did you have any supper."

event. The doctor said something. "Homme at last, child? Starving or John's and later slip away for a milder climate and Boots whispered Mediterranean cruise,

What was there in her mother's

her great nows to her mother later. voice that prompted Boots to glance for us," protested Mrs. Raoburn, but gan madly to pound.

"We can't let you do that not just through the portieres Hor heart bo- the tash of joy and surprise lingered

. to race, "Someone to no you," said her

Denis rose from the chair in which conscious of her tunibled hair, of her he had been lounging. Boots was pallor and weariness and the shab- binons of her old blue felt hat.

Edward came to meet her these nights with the pocket of his hig coat bulging with folders. The cover of one showed a brown woman with on her check and she listened grate-other in her "company valce." "Mr. necklet of scarlet flowers lazing on fully to her child's sober Insistence. Fenway, blaxing sands. The sky overhead was Yes, of course, Boots loved Edward. a brilhant, unnatural blue,

"Do you good, all that nun, dar thing that was fine and good, wasn't Who could help i7 He was every Hing, he would say fendly. "You're he n hot house plant. You'll love that"

She responded as enthusiastically The mother wished to be convinced ife, and the bright beaches, and the mistake. as she could. It was what she had and therefore was. But she didn't, always wanted, wasn't it? The easy she said, want to, see Boots make any eunshine! And Edward,

evor tactful, hnd apoken of the allowance Christmas Eve camo at last and a he would make her parents. He did very madness of buying descended

verything of the kind in kingly upon the shop. A half-past she had been mistaken. fashion; no one could be offended. Frances, in a lull, commanded Boots But there was another point upon to go home. Edward's car waited which Boots was adamant. She, half-way up the block. Boots wna would work at the Ray Tree until the stupid with fatigue and hunger an she. Innt Moment.

'Edward could not bundled herself into her shabby coat; disaunde her.

and stumbled out.

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"Just dropped in to say Merry Christmas," said the deep voice.

The old glory, the old celestial music began to resound in Boots* hoort. She had thought she had rooted him out of her very being but

(To Be Continued.)

21 YEARS AGO

Extracts From the "Telegraph" Files

It was curious, with all her trou-!

Bye, darling. Merry Christ- les mettled and her responsibility mas! Frances waved her hand. To- about to be taken from her, that her morrow she would sleep late, in the heart should le like a stone in her apartment, would go to the Oranges | The following extracts are from breast, her step lag. Ah, but she was later for family dinner and presents, the Hongkong Telegraph for the tired, she reminded herselt. She Edward's man was at the wheel and week ended October 25, 1913. wouldn't fall Edward, once married him. She would make him goud wife. One of there days there wotid be hundsome, olid little brown anired babies in their house and Edward would be proud of them and

her,

►

she in an instant he was on the pavement,

throwing the door open, tucking Boots, in under the kitten-auft fur rug.

The rate of dollar on demand Edward had been compelled to go to was 18, 1140.

duty dinner to-night, something to

"Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus?" she wound conse out of a daze to say customer. "Yen, swifty' ką suine mailom. Right here. We have it in Imp leather, too, if you'd like that.]

The blue one,* (one suid Frience and Copenhagen ware And Took orders for brass kettles and crystal swans all through the bury hristmas Renon without even ially realizing what she was doing or why. She smiled at Francis and taked brightly about nothing at all| and every time the shop door opened tu admit a lean man ander a tipped but brim something squeezed her heart with a giant hand.

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du with his Uinelo Martin, the dean The wedding took pince at St. of all the family connections. Boots John's Cathedral of Mr. R.M, Dyer, was grateful for the long drive home Chief Manager of the. Hongkong and in wilinge. Once she leaned forward Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., and to speak to the chauffeur, a milling Miss Lillion Lowder. Frishman who hid been with the Van: Brivers for years..

"You have children, Mac?"

In the Legislative Council, the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett moved a She emid ace his grin in the mirresolution that the Military Con- ror, "I have that-four of them. yellin' their heads off when I left tribution should not exceed one the flat et moontime."

million dollars a year. The mo- "Children must be great fun."

"Four!" She marvelled at that. tion was lost by aeven votes to five,

•

that's a caution. He wants

"Oh, they are, sinn! It's the buy. The N.Y.K. liner Katori Maru engine and him only The missus voyage and a reception was held a fire arrived in port on her malden got him one but I doubt if it's ns bix on board.

na ho waun,

in

She sat back, watching the crowur. upper Madison avenue people streamed in and out of all the mean little shops. The red-fronted dime storis was one blaze of light. Tinsel, Christutas trees graced the drug store red paper and imitation on the corner. Weary women, with children the green light at crossings, their their skirts, waited for fingers straining at thinly wrapped metal toys and films boxes of ornaments. In many curtained window lighted trees showed and candles were lighted on silin.

It was not Denis; it was never he; nor woukit, she reminded herself, ever be. She had not seen him since that night of brief madness. By this time, no doubt, he was married to Kay. Or would she have heard of curled if he had been? Well, no matter. He had been out of sorts that night he had held her in his arms and kissed her lightly and wantonly, without thinking. That was the sort of man he was And she had not heard from him again. It was better to fix one's thoughts on such a ninn as Edward who had solid worth to recommend him....

"My mother always lighted one of them in the window Christmas night," ...The shop was gay for Christmas McShane contributed in the allence, weck. Holly and Evergreen and Jerking his head at one of these. Aprige of mistletoe and Frances dark-The missus is too nervous about fre 1 lovely in an emerald dress with She don't have one. I kinda miss it." Begin The Day With A Smile. gilt buttons on the shoulder. People coming in and out, powdered faintly

Beginning the day with a smile with snow, talking wildly of booka

dally habit! If you are troubled with is largely a matter of habit the and gifts and candy they hand forgot tracks behind and the big bridges, intestinal congestion. or your liver is ten to order. Wrapping endless pack with unlighted barges floating lone sluggish you cannot got up in the ages, making end.ess moanda of somely on the river, and gilded out morning feeling cheery and bright

Presently they left the trolley

stimulate attacks,

change, smiling meaninglessly at into the broad highway threading everybody. Trains packed in the through the Westeliester Lowns, They the lyer, dispel billous

To correct constipation, morning with well-dressed women in passed a community tree glittering banish sick headaches, Pinkettes are fers, consulting pencilled lists and with lights-red and blue and yellow perfection. And they keep the skin murmuring to each other in the crush with well-dressed, fur-conted pennle clear, the broath pure, the

Boots heard them, watched them singing carols in its shadow. They bright, also good for plies, Chemists She was not really part of this aceng passed lighted churches and more everywhere well She told herself-merely an onlooker hous and then they were in Larch But next year she and Edward would neck.

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