Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 December 1896 — Page 5

Christinas Money.

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•\tie don't tell stories. He smells somebody rare, an be knows 'em, 'cause be barks in place o'growlin," Pete returned. Tess sat op and poshed the yellow curls out irf her sleepy eyes, then broke into a passion of weeping. "Pappy! Pappy! I want to see my pappy, oh, so bad."

Patty and Marian both caught her in their arms, sobbing in unison. The boys, too, were crying, but Betty had dry eyes. She bad

ween

through so much

that day she was like one frozen. "Hush, dears," she said clearly. "It would kill father to see you now. Be brave for him. It is all we can da

Trab held up a hand for silence. "There must be somebody about," he said after a minute. "I heard walkin like somebody was tryin to step easy." "Ho! It's jest that old blue dawg o' Toad Btirley's. Yonder he goes, streakJn it down the front lot," Pete called front the window. Outside there was brilliant moonshine. The tree shadows lay in fairy 1 we-upon the frozen earth. "Ah, hal He came after eggs and didn't get a one," Patty said triumphantly. "I do hate a suck egg dawg. Wonder what does make Toad keep that ugly thing?" "He is not quito as ugly as bis master," Betty aaid, laughuig. "I dare say both of them admire cach other. Then sho shook her purse till the silver in it Jingled and said, trying to speak gayly "Now for a Christmas council. Remember, everybody has one vote and majorities rule."

As the lose word left her lips something came cluttering down the big wide throated squat chimney and rolled to her feet. It was

wire

fastened

round tin box,

and bearing upon ouo side

a bit of paper with tho words, "Not dangerous," laboriously printed upon it. "Well, this beats all," everybody •aid in a breath. Then Trab cried out, "I knew there was somebody," and Marian began to plead, "Oh, Betty, do open that.'' "I know how it got thero. Somebody climbed up tho big treo and threw it down from tho limb that hangs over," Peto said as Trab undid tho wire that bound the lid. Ho shook tho box over Betty's lap, find flvo half eagles fell from it. They were wrapped in a paper upon which somo one had written: "For the children's Christmas. Mako it a happy one.

For the first time that day Betty dropped her head and cried.

While nlio

nobbed a man was rnshing

nway outside

though pursued by fu

ries. He had been hanging about ton

pifX/

"WKl.I.. THIS UK ATS All.," KVKUYUODY 8AII5 IN A UltKATIi.

minutes. Ho had seen and heard what went on within. As he came up to his tethered horse he was shaking all over, but not with the cold. "Iiord. O Ijord!" he muttered, fumbling with the saddle girths. "How that little gnl cried! I cain't stand it, yit I most. Thar ain't no other way, not unless I"—

He broke off there and galloped furiously away. For perhaps a mile ho held his course, then turned square about and went, toward the county town at the same breakneck pace.

The day l»efore Christmas shone warm and moist, with a blue sky so soft and springlike the nipped chrysanthemums under the eugeof the south piazza perked themselves up with a semblauce of blossoming anew. Human nature seemed in like kindly uiotxl. All day a tream of wagons hud rolled up to leave logs cut in tire lengths at the Walton back gate. Then Uncle Billy Trotter and Aunt Nan had come, their big buggy loaded down. Such a big, splendid bronze gobbler as pee ml from between Uncle Hilly'* knees, such a thick frost''ed pound cuke us Mrs. Trotter held iu her lap, such old ham and pickles, the buggy lox disgorged, not to mention a pig for Pete and a pair of pullets for

Marian! "Heared you had started in the chicken business,'' Uncle Billy said, pinching the rhiH's ear. "tni ma an me thought m.v*tv you'd like some o* our ml game You're sorter game Chicken ynu"-»"!f, eh, Marian?" "Yi'S, 1 f'ght when 1 have t\" Marian rotume*' "An I am goin to raise CKgs at chickens next year. We all said we'd put the money that fell down the chimney in somethin we could work vith an try to buy back Lightfoot." "You'l! git her," Uncle Billy said, dueling 11 ant while Aunt Nan said aside to Betty: "Rf its tit ton weather, Betty, I'm coir, in in the carryall next preach in day to take you all to church.

Before Iktty could answer a black lad rode u- with a big basket before him. Dropping his hat, he said cheerily "Miss Betty, Miss Sjairey Pel lew say here's *r piece er finish beef as soeoe minch meat she done made petickler good, 'oaae Chris'mus don' cornea bat once «r year." "I don't know bow to thank everybody," Betty said to Mrm. Trotter, with

wet eyelid* when the boy bad gone •way. "Don't try, honey," that good woman returned, bending to kiss Tess' rosebud mouth. Then she drove away, snug and smiling at her husband's elbow, leaving Betty to receive yet other material tokens of the day of peace and good will. They came from every hand —fat sacks of meal and flour, apples, potatoes, preserves, homemade wine, flake crusted pies and sugary crisp aweet cakes.

Some way the superabundance wounded Betty, albeit she knew it was but

One little minute Betty faltered then her heart held her in the right way. She shook her head and left him, and when he ran after bado him never name marriage to her again. Ho went away, cr\ ing aud cursing, riho had not seen hint sinco nnd was devoutly grateful for the fact.

As it drew on toward sunset Betty strolled out to tho orchard. Her mother's grave was there—beside it she might dream a little of last year—aud the creamy, heavy hearted roses somo one had sent her upon Christmas eve. 8he had laid them upon the green mound, though knowiug well their source. Ne»»'s first gift, they were sacred aud belouged by right to her holiest place. Snow fell and covered them, They were beautiful for weeks. Now I as she looked at the flowerless swell a great sob rose in her throat. Sho knelt and prayed wordlessly with her face upon the earth.

The children were in the back yard full

of joy

some slight exaggeration of the friendly her lips for gentle reproof, but before neighborhood custom. She was, in fact, a trifle morbid. She would have received as graciously aud gracefully as any might but for thinking that the giving bad the spur of her supposed necessity. "There is nobody else to send anything. We can rest a little while," Trab said after supper, but even as he spoke there came a thundering knock at the front door. Nobody was there when it opened, but they heard wheels rolling away. "Bah! Blind gooses! Don't you see the box? There! At your feet," Marian cried, darting past Trab and Pete to snatch a square wooden something from the floor in front of her brothers. When she had wrenched it open, there lay, amid wrappings of pink and silver pa per, all manner of Christmas cakes and Christmas toys, fireworks galore, and at the very bottom a 6crawly slip, "Tommy Adkin wishes his friends Trab and Pote and Patty and Marian and Tess a very happy Christmas. "Aud I am left out entirely, though Tommy used to claim me for his sweetheart when he wore dresses," Betty said, laughing to save herself from crying. Marian kicked the box contemptuously, saying:

We must be gettin popular when Mr. Storekeeper Adkin thinks it worth while to be good to us." "Marian,Marian,''. Betty said. What a speech, and Christmas too! I am afraid I must make you write aud thank Tommy, and remember, dears, Christmas meuns above everything peace on earth and good will to men." "If Christmas makes folks good, why don't they let pappy come home?" Tess askod with round, wet eyes. Patty was staring hard in tho fire. Without stirring she said over her shoulder: 'I believe ho will come, and Lightfoot too. Thero is a road in tho firo—a long one —and a mun and a horse coming along it"

Betty slept dreamlessly that night, but ull tho next day she was tho prey of nameless terrors. Her mind went back constantly to the beginning of the trouble. It seemed to her it had truly begun whou Johnny Gates, the richest, idlest, most dissolute youngster in the oouuty, came courting hor and was sent about his business. Yet ho it was who had brought hor word of her father's arrest aud in tho same broath had begged hor to marry him. When she gave him a frantio refusal, he looked at her, his face growing hard and white, his eyes burning, to say: "Whatever your father suffers, Betty, it will lie at your door. You might save him, and you let him be disgraced, and all because you fancy Ned Westfield loves you. Maybe ho does, but I can toll yon ho will not marry you. His father would sooner see him dead." yflo had turned from him in silent scorn, but how his dart rankled. It was tho smart of it, with a later taunt that tho Westflelds fought cases lor either lovo or money, that had impelled her to sell Lightfoot and pay a counsel fee. Yet only threo weeks back Johnny had come, humbly entreating her to lot him take her burdens and promising vaguely great things for her father.

in what their Christmas mon-

ey bad bought. The boys had yearling steers, Patty some beehives, Tess

"I IJOJC'T KSOW How torn ASK EVEBTBODT." young sow with four teeny weeny pigs and Marian a flock of bens with red, ml combs and line glossy neck feathers. "Ain't they beauties?" she asked, watching tbew teeter and coquette in their roosting tree. It was a eheny, big and branchy, and already half of them huddled in twos and threes affectionately

Urn boughs.

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"That's a Christmas tree right," Marian said decisively. Tess stooped to scratch the bead of her least pig as sho answered reflectively, "I like Sarah Liza both ef she an her babies can't go on a tree." "Ob, say, wouldn't Logan an Bright look fine, hangin up in a cedar bush?" Pete said in gasps, laughing as he had not done for weeks. Marian nodded. "An put on Patty's bees, too, an then send for Tommy Adkin to distribute the presents. My, but I'd like to see him. Both his eyes would be shut a week."

Betty, coming back to them, opened

she spoke it they caught her in tumultuous arms. "Come in to the fire, sister. I 'most thought you wus lost," Tess declared, nestling close to her.

Yes, do come. I put an egg to roast for you," Marian said, catching the other band fast, while Trab said discontentedly: "I wish it would get good an dark. My firecrackers are just achin to go off."

Patty ~ns already indoors. They found her again staring at the fire. Marian pulled her braided hair, Trab flipped a chestnut against ber cheek still she did not rouse from ber rapt contemplation until Betty bent and said softly, "What is it, Patty, dear?" "It's all crumbled down," Patty said with a little impatient sigh. "But the

"PAPPYI PAPPY! PAPPY HAS COME HOME!"

samo voad was in the fire—the same man an horse—an it worries me that I can't find out if they are comin here." "We'll know when they get here," Trab began. A hail outside cut him short. Ring, the watchdog, gave long, joyous howl that sent all pellmell to the door. Through the dusk they could make out moving figures at the gate. It swung iu, some one darted through and caught Betty and Tess in the clasp of trembling arms, while the other children shouted wildly: "Pappy! Pappy! Pappy has come home!"

As he loosed Betty Ned Westfield caught hor hand. He meant only to give her friendly greeting, but CJncle Billy Trottor behind him sung out, "Ef ye don't kiss hor right here an now, Ned, I'll nover vote nor 'leotioneer fer you— never in the world."

So Ned kissed her handsomely in the face of them all. His father at his back said with a beaming smile: "So you thought, Betty, I did not want you for a daughter."

Tess, high in her father's arms, broke in gravely, "Betty is our daughter, an nobody else can't have her, but if you come in wo have got a heap of Christmas, an yor may have some fer bringin pappy homo."

4'They

may have it all fer bringin

Lightfoot," Trab said as be clung fast to the neck of his reoovered treasure. Betty turned to Ned. "Tell mo, am I awake?" sho asked. "I have dreamed so often. Tell me, too, when you began to work miracles." "It ain't nothiu short o' a merakle— anybody gittin that pore, lyin Toad Burley tor speak the truth," Uncle Billy said, taking Tess from her father's clasp. As Mr. Walton met Betty's inquiring gaze ho smiled and said: "You will have to let Ned tell you, dear. All I know is that this morning a pardon was read to me. I was told my friends waited outside, and there 1 found Ned, Tobe Pcllewand Uncle Billy, and all beut on bringing me home with a hurrah."

Then Ned told briefly yet clearly how Burley had pJotted with Johnny Gates and a reckless stranger whom they later spirited away against the good name of Betty's father bow Burley had personated Mr. Walton in carrying off tho other horse, and afterward put the beast the stranger had got in the trade back where it bad been first stabled by its owner. Then poor Toad, as the agent of the Christmas conspirators, had seen and heard what had sent him straight toNed Westfield and confession. "Of course I let him go free," Ned wound up. "He is safe in Texas now, but his name is not Burley, and we will wish bim luck. All the rest wan ridiculously easy. Fortuuately I know the governor well enough to tell him outright when I am in a hurry for anything." "But Ned ain't told you yit, Betty, bow he took an chased off like er streak o' lightnin ter the Eelenoy, found that t'other feller an got his affydavit," Uncle Billy said with a fresh and mare vigorous chuckle. Betty gave him a heavenly smile, then pot her arms again about her father's neck, saying: "So long as we have bim home free and sound and safe it does not matter in the least how it came about." "Yes, it does," Marian said, clinch* ing her fists hard. Then through a rain of tears: "I—I cain't hate anybody, not even Johnny Gates, like I want to. I am so glad to see pappy again, the hate all slips away." "But love and peace abide forever," Ned whispered in Betty's ear, and Trab said slowly as they all went inside: "There never was in the world cach another happy Christmas."

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TH* cel-H-ation of Christmas is mid by cb historians to have been formally instituted by Pope Telespborm, Who died A. D. 13&.

Savagi

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