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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1948
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j * a morbid state of mind. Last
! Christmas he'd thought, when he
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china dinner set, next Christmas I ll ;
i give her something really nice. ;
| Something she can wear and enjoy. '
Something expensive. It’ll not be
practical to fit our Christmas budg
et, because by then I’ll be making
more. The tide was bound to turn ,
by next Christmas.
Well, it had turned all right Fate
could have been less callous in the
direction to which It had turned the
tide. It was even worse this Christ- |
mas than it was last. At least Sally !
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Bill looked up from his over
eoat collar. “Hey, be careful!’’
he shouted.
wasn’t out making the living and
he. a big hulk of a man. staying
home.
The doctor had said he'd over
i come the heart condition with pro
j longed rest.
People were talking. Bill knew.
! He'd been standing near the living
I room door the other day when he'd
j heard Kate Tyler, their neighbor, ;
‘ talking to Sally in the kitchen.
' Well, it just looks a sNAtne that
you, such a frail little thing, must
work. Bill looks the picture of
health. He weighs something near
one hundred eighty pounds, doesn’t
he, Sally’”’ Kate said, and Bill had
visioned with burning resentment
her sharp, in-everybody’s-business
nose twitch with inquisitiveness
Bill visioned too. Sally's pretty
proud head lift when her voice had
come in quick sensitive rebellion. “I
believe it’s my affair about work
ing. I really don’t need to work.
We have plenty saved up to take U 3
through until Bill is able to go back i
on his job. I’m working because I
want to.”
He’d felt like a cad. There wasn’t I
another guy in the whole universe \
had a wife like Sally, who through
her loyalty would even tell a false
hood. Sally didn’t deserve the hard
ship he was giving her. And now
with Christmas upon them and no
money of his own, unless he sold his
best suit to the re-sale shop down
the street, he felt it would be even
better for his old heart to quit tick
ing than to face it and have Sally
say, “Oh, you didn’t need to give
anything. Bill. All I want is you!
We’ll have a real Christmas when
you get well.”
Bill put on his overcoat, hat and
galoshes. It was about time to meet
Sally coming home from work
Cold rain interspersed the snow
and already the highway in front
of their place was getting coated
with ice. Cars moved along cau
tiously.
Their neighbor’s boy. Pike, eleven,
j slid by him on a sled. “Whee-e-e,
I watch me, Mister Bill!”
Bill looked up from his overcoat
. collar. “Hey. be careful!” he shout
ed and went into action with a leap
when he saw the sled carrying the
boy from the sidewalk into the di-
! rection of an approaching car up the
highway.
It all happened in a flash. If Bill
hadn’t been gigantic in size, muscu
■ lar and agile with youth, he couldn’t
have saved the boy. “Man. Pike,”
i he panted, standing over him on the
sidewalk, “don’t play along the
> street!”
I “Aw, 1 could’ve made it, Mister ;
; Bill,” Pike said, and dashed back
< up the street with his sled.
: A large man emerged hurriedly
; from the big car on the side of the
i pavement and came up to Bill.
“Thanks, fellow! Say,” he said,
j mopping his forehead, “that was a
> close call! 'You certainly used your
: head.”
“I snatched him in time,” Bill
| said.
I The man pulled out his wallet.
“Here,” he said, holding a crisp bill
toward Bill. “Take this, fellow.”
“But I don't want money for what i
I I did.” Bill protested, starting to |
■ back away.
i The man pushed the money into ■
j Bill’s hand. “I’d pay a thousand or j
i more to escape what might have
| happened just now. Think what
; Christmas would have been for me
I if it had happened, to say nothing
j of the kid’s parents. Thanks again, j
| fellow—and Merry Christmas!”
He was gone before Bill could do
: anything.
Bill looked down at the money in |
his hand. Well, if he felt that way |
about it. But one hundred dol- I
lars. . . .
He looted up then and saw Sally
trudging toward him through the
snow and a happy, secretive smile
curved his lips suddenly. He slipped
the money into his billfold and went
ie meet her.
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