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the georgetown herald wednetday august 26 1942 dim lantern temple bailey chapter x 80 christmas eve came end the costume ball at the townet there vara as baldy had told jane juit st of them at dinner couiln anna- i wu luu in bed and it wli ade- ida laramore who made the sixth she waa ail 1b silvery frees cdlth had told lira follette frankly that the wished adelaide had not been allied but aha caned for it she olwuys does she sattcra uncle fred and ha falla for it baldy brought evana and mrs follett over in hie fljwcr the round mra laramore and frederick already in the drawing room edith had not come down she la alwaya late frederick complained and she never odoio- flies baldy silken and slim tn his pages scarlet stood in the hall and watched edith descend the stairs she seemed to emerge from the shadows of the upper balcony ukr shaft of light she was all in sil very green her closeclinging robi girdled with pearls her hair banded with mistletoe for a moment ha stood admiring bar then you shouldnt have rorn it he said the mistletoe why not you will tempt all men to kiss you men must resist temptation his tone was light but her heart missed beat there was some thing about this boy so utterly en- gaging he had set her on a pede- btai and he worshiped her when he said that she was not worth worshiping he told her you dont know she was unusually silent during dinner with evans on one side of her and baldy on the other she hod little need to exert horsclf baldy was alwaya adequate to any conver sational tax and evans in spite of his monks habit waa not austere be was rather like some attrac tive young friar drawn back for the moment to the world he showed himself a gonial teller of talcs and capped each of fred ericks with one of his own his mother was proud of him she felt that life was taking on new aspects this friendship with the towncs her sons increasing strength and social case the lace gown which he wore and which had been bought with a dickens pamphlet what more could she ask she wan se rene and satisfied adelaide on the other aide of frederick towne was not serene and satisfied she was looking par ticularly lovely with a star of din monds in her hair and cheer draper- les of rose and faintest green i am anything you wish to call me she had said to frederick when she eamo in on evonlng star or in tho gloaming or aftorglow per haps a hose bf yesterday she had put it rather pensively he had been gallant but unin- plred you are too young to talk of yesterdays ho had said but his glance had held not the slight est hint of gallantry sho folt that he had perhaps boon unwise to remind him of her age she was still mora disturbed when towards the end of dinner he rose and proposed a toast to little jane barnes a merry christ mas it wtien things at no titrtfter hew adelaide interposed irrelevantly i should hat to spend christmas in chlcsgo there was no response so she turned to frederick couldnt uiis barnes leave htr sister for a few dys no ha told her she couldnt she persisted i am fur you didnt wont her to mum the ball i did my best to get her here talked to her at long distance but she couldnt a il you are so good hearted ricky frederick could be cruel at mo ments and her persistence was irri tating oh look here adelaide it wasnt entirely 00 her account i want her her myself she sat motionless her yes on her plat when sh spoke egaln it was of other things did you hesr that delabeld is coming back who told yout elolse harper jennye elatrr saw del at moral she is rur he is expecting to marry the other girl bad uit i call it everybody u craxy to know who aha is have they any idea no bennya sister said he talked quit frankly about getting married but he wouldnt say a word about the woman i hardly think he will find edith heertbroken towne glanced across the toble edith was not wearing the willow no shadow morred her lovely countenance her eyee were clear and ahlning pools of sweet content her uncle was proud of that high- bald hesd he and edith might not alwaya hit it off but by jove he was proud of her no shes not heartbroken ad elaidea cool tone disturbed his re flections she is getting her heart mended whot do you meant they are an attractive pair lit tie jane and her brother and the boy has lost his head over edith oh well she ploys around with him theres nothing se rlous in it dont be too sure shes inter ested what makes you insist on that irritably i know the signs dear man the cat seemed to purr but she had claws and it was adelaide who was right edith had come to the knowl edge that night of what baldy meant to her as aha had entered the ballroom men had crowded around her why they demanded do you wear mistletoe if you dont wont to pay the forfeit backed up against one of the mar ble pillars she held them off i do want to pay it but not to any of you her frankness diverted them who is the lucky man he is here but he doesnt know he is lucky they thought sho was joking but she was not and on tho other side of the marble pillar a page in scar let listened with joy and fear in hlf heart how fast we are going how fast there was dancing until midnight then the curtains at the end of the room were drawn back and the tree was revealed it towered to the ceiling a glittering gorgeous thing it waa wolghtcd with gifts for everybody fantastic toys most of them expensive meaningless evans standing back of the crowd was aware of the emptiness of it all oh what hnd there been throughout the evening to ronkc men think of the babe who had been barn at bethlehem the gifts of tho wise men per haps gold and frankincense and myrrh one must not judge too narrowly it was hard to keep sim plicities in these opulent days yet he was heavyhenrted and when elolse harper charged up to him dressed somewhat scantily as a dryad and handed him a foolish monkey on a stick she seemed tn suggest a heathen saturnalia rather than anything christian and civi lized they all stood up there was a seconds silence drank at k he partook of e recrement r then edith mid it mama al- moat haajtjaej to a kappy doesnt a monkey for a monk sold eloiso mr follotto your cassock is frightfully becoming but you know you are a whlted sepulchre am i of course ill bet you never soy your proyors r she danced away unconscious that her words had pierced him what reason had she to think that any of this meant more to him than it did to her had ha borne witness to the faith that waa within him and was it within hlnat and if not why he atood there with hlf foolish monkey on his slick while around him whlrjm uughlng ahrleklmi crewo w9 the trdafwas a csm- vej not a sacred celebration was ther no way la which he might bear witness edith had asked him to sin the old ballads dame get up and bake your pin and i saw three ships afalunf evans wss in no mood for the dame who baked her pies on christmas dsy in the morn ing or the pretty girls who whistled and tang on christmas day in the morning when all the gifts had bees dis tributed the lights in the room win turned out the only lltnmlnitlnn was the golden effulgence which en circled the tree in hlf monks robe within that circle of light evans seemed a mys tical figure he seemed too appro priately ascetic with his gray hair the weary unas of his oldyoung face but his vole was fresh and clear and the eons he sang hushed the great room into alienee o utile town of bethlehem how still w as the 11 above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stare go by yet in thy dork streets shlnelh the everlasting light the hopes end fear of ell the years are met in the tonight he sang as if he wer alone tn some vast arched ipse beneath spires that reached towards heaven behind some grille that separated him from the world and now it seemed to him that he sung not to that crowd of upturned faces not to those men and women in shining silks and aatlna not to jane who waa far awsy but to thos others who pressed close his com rades across the great divide so he had sung to them in the hospital sitting up in his narrow bed and moat of the men who had listened were gone as the last words rang out his audlenc seemed to wake with s sigh then the lights uent up but the monk had vanished i evans left word with baldy that he would go home on the trolley i am not quite up to the supper and all that will you look alter moth er of course say evans that song was top notch edith v ants you to bing another will you tell her i cant im sorry but the last time i sang that was for the fellows in france and it got me it got me too daldy confided mode oil this seem silly it was just before new years that lucy logan brought a letter for frederick towne to sign und when he had finished she said mr towne im sorry but im not going to work any more so will you please accept my resignation he showed his surprise whats the matter arent we good enough for you it isnt that she stopped and went on im going to b mar ried mr towne married he was at once con gratulatory thats a pleasant thing for you and i mustnt spoil it by telling you how hsrd it is going to be to rind someone to take your place i think if you will have miss dale shes really very good frederick was curious what kind of lover hod won this quiet lucy probably some clerk or salesman what about the man nice fellow i hope very nice mr towne she flushed and her manner soemed to forbid further questioning she uent iiwny and he gave orders to the cashier to sec that she had an in- rcusc in the amount of her final heck she will need some pretty things and when we learn the date ve can give her a present so on saturdny night lucy left and on the following monday n card was brought up to edith towne and i told him he mast not hiss towne she read it lucy logan 1 dont believe i know her shejald to the meld she ssye she la from mr townea office and that it is im portant miss town lucy said aa edith approached her i have resigned from your uncles office did ha ten you- 1 no uriel srred rarely speaks about business with characteristic straightfor wardness lucy earn at one to the point i hv anmxnlng- j must talk over with you i dont know whether i am doing the wis thing but it is the only honest thing i cent imsgln what you cen hav to say no you cant its this she hesitated then spoke with en ef fort i em the girl mr simms is in love with he wants to come back and marry me edltha fingers caught at the arm of th chair do you mean that it waa because of you that he didnt marry me ye ii used to com to the of- flc when he was tn washington and dictate letter and we got in the way of talking to each other he seemed to enjoy it and be wasnt ilk some men who ere just silly and i began to think about him a lot but i didnt let him se it and he told me afterward he was al ways thinking of me and the morn ing of your wedding day he came down to the office to say good by he said he just hod to and well he let it out that he loved me and didnt want to marry you but he said he would have to go on with it and and i told him he must not miss towne edith stered at her do you mean that what he did was your fault yes lucys face waa whit if you want to put it that way i told him h hadnt any right to marry you if he loved me sh hesitated then lifted her eye to edltha with a glance of appeal miss towne i wonder if you er big enough to believe that it was just because i cared aa asucb end not because of his money you thick you love hunt aha demanded i know i do and you dont you never have and he didnt love you why if he should lose every cent tomorrow and i had to tramp the road with him id do it gladly and you wouldnt you wouldnt want him unless he could give you everything you have now would you would you miss towne ediths sense of justice dictated her answer no she found her self unexpectedly admitting if 1 had to tramp the roads with him id be bored to death i think he knew that miss towne he told me that if he didnt marry you your heart wouldnt be broken that it would just hurt your pride edith had a moment of hysterica mirth how they had talked her over her lover and her uncles strnogropher whot a tragedy it had been and what e comedy she leaned forward 0 little lock ing her fingers obout her knees i wish youd tell me all about it so lucy told the simple story and in telling it showed herself so naive so steadfast that edith was aware of an increasing respect for the woman who had taken her place in the heart of her lover she per ceived that lucy had come to this interview in no spirit of triumph she had dreaded it but had felt it her duty i thought it would be easier for you if you knew it be fore other people did ediths forehead wos knitted in a slight frown the whole thing hos been most unpleasant she said when are you going to marry him i told him on st valentines day it seemed romantic romance and dell edith had a sudden illumination why this was what he had wanted and she had given him none of itt she had laughed at him been his good com rade little lucy adored him and had set st valentines day for the wedding there was nothing small about edith towne she knew fineness when she saw it and she had n feel ing of humility in the presence of little lucv i think tt was my fault as much as dcls she stated i should never have sold yes people havent any right to marry who feel aa we did oh lucy said rapturously how dear of you to say that miss towne i always knew you were big but i didnt dream you were so bcoutlful tears wet her checks youre just marvellous she said wiping them away no im not edltha eyes were on the fire normnlly i am rath er proud and hateful if you had come a week ago her voice fell away into silence as she still stared nt the fire lucy looked at her curiously a week oeo edith nodded do you like fairy talcs well onco there wos o prin cess and a pago camo and sang undor her window the ike purred and crackled and tho princess- liked the song oh said lucy under her breath sho stood up i cant tell you how thankful i am that i camo youre not going 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