The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1932, Page 14

concealed by the valiant little |grounds, a good-natured Irishman s of the youngsters. named Curry, would be down at| The plan to improve upon the |the third gardener’s little cottage for a tweak of midnight eggnog. - . » + how ohtmu ror his brood some of [That was the hour upon which {the compensations which had all| Thomas Mare staked and staked 4 lifetime been denied them, | hard. to grow in the heart of Ironically, every move on the S Mare. chessboard was precisely as Thom-| a4 man to reconcile himself {as Mare had planned. A little y that was built on foul later, Thomas ‘\l'.uf rowth was folly. Months of Mare, with a | that secret mental fodder, succeed- flashlight in his jed in rousing within Thomas Mare hand, and his impulse and the courage to cap pulled down out an act that two or three over his face, years before would have seemed was standing be- Ito him to be the act of a 'mad side an open i man. drawer in the ’rlcmas Mare had reason to | bedroom ‘of Mr, know that in a drawer of a desk Longman, who room in which Theodore |/ was snoring. ngman slept, there usually re- i There was the a roll of bank notes suf- bundle of bank- to keep Mare’s family in notes with a rub- And curiously, stubborfi- her band around most insanely in the mind of it precisely asHe nas Mare was the determina- had known it that this year there would would be! And > no little frustrated faces around for the life of e Christmas table. him, to ‘his degradation, to his The Mares were going to have | humiliation, to his self-loathing, airing some of r first real Christmas; and in|Thomas Mare could not lift out the presence of his desperation Thomas even said |that bundle of bank notes. Not for who was part of [to himself the Mares were going |the life of him, not for the soul of ason for the sullen resent-|to have thelr first real Christmas, {him. "And so, impotently, blinded ment that tug-|even if a fly-by-night promoter | with rage, stifling with humilia- ged at hjs named Theodore Longman was go- | tion, the figure of Thomas Mare, rt like a|ing to be found dead in his hedgleavmg the bank roll, turned 'and on Christmas Day. tiptoed from the ¢hamber of Theo- | ecretly, cautiously, subtley and |dore Longman. ‘ ! ith a finesse that amazed him- It was long about breakfast | the plans of Thomas Mare |time on Christmas Day just when | any ok shape. So clever these plans, | Thomas Mare, sunk in the ab- | the sullen kindithat even in the eventuality of |jectness and shame of he knew; | ate that dO’igt'd}havmg to us force once he found|not what, was beginning to dread | WE HOPE ai the life of nimself in the apartment of Thom- |the little breakfast table ~ocircle * S . She wa Longman. it would be impossi- | of the frustrated faces of his wife £y en on his ow for exister nd himself more ¢ No more than | s own case seem | m for 1t od wife ible to trace the crime to the in-|and children, that the summons £ than that, inccuous second gardener. | came. i was a £00d| The family of Mare was aboutw Theodore Longman, waiting' in YOUR CHRISTI\IAS . and if |to be emancipated. M.he panelled study of the ~Geor- ever a woman, “papa, am I going to get a sled \glan home on the hill, informed played her game |for Christmas?” xmm that, at triple his salary, Mare - ‘ of life fairlyl pers it came again, the innocent | Was to' become general "superin- \1ay Be Nlerr‘ ¥ and squarely, authentic desires of his inno- | t¢fident over the premises. due respect for others, “'“: cent children, that frightened look | What Longman did not add toward her hus"fl“d-ldfl“ {in the face of Adalia; that heart- ,v,as that, at one o'clock that morn- toward her children,|;on, 150k ling, he had watched a man with B o i The plans of Thomas Mare took (2 ¢2P pulled down over his face YOLTR NE‘\' YEAR e was the fifteenth| {shape, and there was within him |4nd a flashlight in his hand, stand e Thomas had mar»1 neither fear nor indecision. | beside’ an open drawer containing ma only the smmual| G T SOF IS | tholang, i Eimdrtd ] \ £ CHRISTMAS CHEER of inadequate holiday|¢ne rounding up of plans he had |iifty dollars and shuddering, turn h’lay Be Pr()Spel'OUS Z ¥ e funds, and fear|peen carefully making over a per- |@Way, leaving it untouched' b on Christ-1inq of nine weeks, Nothing fail- | ont Ber i0ing him, at seven-thirty o'clock %1 Use of “Xmas” and Happy |the evening, Thomas Mare had — . er had b“e“l'-cacnn to know that reposing in| What is the reason for the name | lying in embers in the heart cfline ypper right-hand bureau draw- | “Christmas® being “abbreviated as Thomas throughout the Yy ofler in the bedroom of Theodore i . i mas' this 1 - their marriage seemed to uc\\‘,m,m | and does this latter sim 1 r n would be a bundle of|ply means “crossmas”? BEST u ISHES fige this time. What had Adalia|yqny notag amounting to six thou-‘ z 2 : R ot b s, d:;f;:““t“r:’c)\m three hundred and fifty dol-| The “X* ddes mot 'stand for Winter & Pond Co. olerant an 3 e lars t* o insistently drab fate that had tugged B Gl SAL KEaek et At eleven o'clock, according to | “chi” which has this form. It is § A { l ‘) A "114 t her footsteps ce her mar- ini ' ::w:mm 1"I“Jnnmflzhv " ertav Theodore Longman would ‘ the initial letter of the Greek word . Y % i 1 to his bedroom, turn on his | for “Christ” and is used as its at had 0 ;himself done “Y,{:fi (?\'.” ;mcn;:ficiemiuusly as |1eAding lamp for an hour or mu\abhrnvmuon, just as “Xn” is used o man knows how, to fulfill his|PEfOré he fell asleep. At one|for ‘“Christlan” and “Xty" ' for @igations to employer; family; oclock the watchman of the “Christianity.”—Detroit News. o children, and his God; and why T 0 Lot o SR SRR e 2 7 f AND AND - was he at forty-five, unable| == 1o get footing on the ladder of the ladder of suceess beyond his uccess beyond his wretched role of assistant gardener. Teep within the rebelling heart of Thomas Mare, rancor against his employer, against the little girl-daughter of his employer, and against the whole scheme of so- ciety that made his state of op- pression possible, began to burn apd rage and finally sweep clear through his being. Another Christmas at hand, an- other period of beholding Adalia seraping and pinching to afford bher children the minimum joy of this season; another Christmas day, dreadad because it would ex- pose the dlsnpp*m ment and yea E £ E ;'E: E . = E = E = 1 ik i Alaska Steam:shlp ;Co’m. any A )E 1N Appreciation for the Cooperation ‘Which Is Giving Juneau a New Structure Worthy of This City’s Progressive Spirit 3 ALt DGO )y THEEABE O PG God - WE EXPRESS APPRECIATION i AR e s ; i e T THE ASSEMBLY APARTMENTS now under con- struction at 4th and Seward Sts. T T i Brighter N GRATEFUL APPRECIATION of your Good Days Will we wish you all the joys of the holiday sea- son. We enter the New Year with a determination The Assembly Co, (owners) and WARRACK CONSTRUCTION CO. Our wish for all is the happiest of holidays and a realization of cher- ished hopes during the brighter days to come. Donaldine to excel past efforts to please you whose friendly Builders of the business has helped make ours a success. 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