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Ry CAROLYN GRANT
’ IT WAS late when old Dan left the
I 1 laundry where he worked, and
I snow fell in great flakes from the
[ ' dark sky He stopped for a moment
’ along the street, unmindful of the
J eager passersby and their thought
j less jostling against him in their
J haste on this last night before
» Christmas. He lifted his face so
I that the soft flakes fell against his
s cheeks and melted in cold little
; drops of water that sought the deep
> lines sixty odd years had put there.
! Snow was a part of Christmas,
i and after days of hesitancy it had
s come—just as he and Maggie had al
’ ways wanted it. “Snow makes the
I lights seem brighter in the store
i windows, along the decorated streets
i of our little town and in our home
' on our tinsel-draped cedar tree. We
‘ haven’t missed many Christmases,
[ Dan, having our snow.” It seemed
’ long ago since Maggie had said that.
I Years, it seemed. Yet it had been
I ! only last year that they’d stood at
j ' their front window looking out at
’ the dark sky, and Maggie’d said
! thoge words almost like a prayer.
f Dan sighed and let his chin drop
i into the upturned collar of his over
coat and started on. He wished the
• snow hadn’t come. With Maggie
gone, he could hardly bear its soft
: I falling of down about him. He want
ed to close his eyes against its
'< ; brightness with the street lights shin
■ ing upon it. He wanted to close his
I ears against the soft music that
I came from radios along the streets
! playing Christmas carols, and
! “White Christmas’’ —the song Mag
; gie loved best.
Christmas had come again. But
for him there’d be no Christmas—
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He stopped in front of Carter’s
store, but minutes passed before
he realized that he’d stopped
there.
i not any more. There’d be only
I memories of other Christmases ed
; dying about him as the swirling
I snow, and the plans he and Mag
! gie’d made for this Christmas even
i before they'd carried out the last
I would pass without realization, now
j that Maggie wasn't here to help him
: carry them through.
He stopped in front of Carter's
store, but minutes passed before he
realized that he’d stopped there
and was staring without actually
seeing the array of Christmas toys
behind the big plate glass window.
His mind was going back. He was
seeing again the glow in Maggie’s
face as each Christmas they’d shop
together for others.
Last year it had been the widow"'
! Benson and her six little Bensons,
i who would have been forgotten by
j Santa if they hadn’t bought them
j gifts. Long ago they'd begun the
: ritual. They had no children of
I their own. But Maggie’d said, “We’U
j pretend that the children about us
I are ours.” And her whole life had
: been one of giving at Christmas.
This year they’d planned for the
■ O’Shays. They lived in a little house
down back of the old depot. ‘‘Little
I Billy’s just four and he’s never had
p wagon, Dan.” Maggie’d said.
■ planning even as they trudged
J through the snow with their gayly
i wrapped gifts for the Bensons. "And
! little Jeep has never had a doll that
can talk and go to sleep.”
Dan shifted his feet, standing
i there in front of Carter's, and snow
j gathered along the stoop of his
l shoulders. Somewhere among Mag
’ gie's belongings was a list of the
! things she'd planned to buy the
O’Shays. He remembered it. Each
item came clear to him suddenly
as the ringing of a bell, and it was
as if Maggie stood by him then,
warm and alive. She touched his
’ arm and together they went into
; the store with its crowd of excited
late shoppers.
A clerk carne up to Dan. “Some
thing, sir?” Dan s eyes were filmed,
but they were watery from age and
being out in the cold wind, the clerk
thought.
“Yes.” Dan said. “I have a long
i list of things to buy.”
Maggie smiled, he knew' he saw
i her smile, and she got to talking
i like she used to talk when they went
> out together to buy gifts on Christ
| mas Eve.
“We’re like a house. Dan.” she
said. “We can close the doors and
windows and others can’t tell what
we have locked inside. We live to
bring happiness to others and -for
the good that we can do.”
Dan looked up above packages
piled high in his arms and smiled.
He said to the clerk. “Merry Christ
mas, and now we’U be on our way.”
The clerk looked strange. Old
people, he thought, were queer, and
! he called after Dan, “Merry Christ
mas to you. too, sir! Merry Christ
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