ns wouter ; pat fag oN aman ve, A pre — 1 wish he ete : and wasn mode," and in ir OS, u sound or ter heartbroken wail-| which had been in his throw’ eras for ¢ach 2 ling, the tree looked incongru- train sets for the | ous with its silver bells of hap- came y quiet. slid the downstairs. “Whatever upset she asked the boys. Bul merely fidgeted and away. Somé of the children bad been teasing her she thought, as she fixed hot choc- sitive, to take this thing? am I going to tell them? Suddenly it seemed the whole Thing had taken On a different aspect; a terrifying aspect! She romlised with a shock that nov had she really looked at it n the children’s standpoint. w ne had been altogether too susy, too involved, ‘too tired and now if was too late He had told ber there was another woman and after all hasn’ to the der. longér slept together in the big bed where the whole family us ings. thing was "t becn for some time, and ized her head was ach: | into Mum and Dad no morn: time 4 to romp on Sunday That was « lon: and Jimmy knew that some knew He to p wron able ithout being nowledge into, a wall nd that other two children she had her pride sut what! Maybe Was pride, what Mum and Dad s when the lives gifts the. chi sta! for the e would ait ha g}go down and put them P heart all day, fi the tree. Just i nied : the ker om her|awoke. “Get up Tommy, let’: the) blinkers from here tithe gifts under the trec rit of loye which d to fill the world, without which all the t of Christmas was just an em pty mockery? She saw the two boys mie, 10 years old, Tommy year younger, used to thinking of them Sturdy independent childr but now she saw them small, He hidden he Jim defenceless and lonely, and] jr, Heather, my baby, oh, what} tre have I been doing, what have I done to’ them? ‘Guess we'l Igo to bed Mum. Jimmy and Tommy came for 2 goodnight kiss, the usual casual kitt, and were surprised on she had grown| cifts The two’ boys crawled und eather’s bed Where they had the gifts. Let's wake r, said Tommy, “she likes to J with us.” But crept downstairs a small lamp burn g in the living room, and by dim light the Christmas ee looked a wonderful sight at star on top twinkled ed, the colored balls rm and ¢ ful, and brightly wrapped _ parcels J around its base were enough to set any child's eyes by the way she held on tojdancing. 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