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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Christmas on Wheels - -Author: Willis Boyd Allen - -Release Date: December 22, 2020 [eBook #64094] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Chuck Greif, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team - at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images - generously made available by The Internet Archive/American - Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTMAS ON WHEELS *** - - - - - CHRISTMAS - ON WHEELS - - By - WILLIS BOYD ALLEN - - Boston - MDCCCXCV - - - - - CHRISTMAS ON WHEELS. - - - - -I. - - -A railroad station in a large city is hardly an inviting spot, at its -best; but at the close of a cheerless, blustering December day, when -biting draughts of wind come scurrying in at every open door, filling -the air with a gray compound of dust and fine snow; when passengers -tramp up and down the long platform, waiting impatiently for their -trains; when newsboys wander about with disconsolate, red faces, hands -in pockets and bundles of unsold papers under their ragged and shivering -arms; when, in general, human-kind presents itself as altogether a -frozen, forlorn, discouraged, and hopeless race, condemned to be swept -about on the nipping, dusty wind, like Francesca and her lover, at the -rate of thirty miles an hour--then the station becomes positively -unendurable. - -So thought Bob Estabrook as he paced to and fro in the Boston & Albany -depot, traveling-bag in hand, on just such a night as I have described. -Beside him, locomotives puffed and plunged and backed on the shining -rails, as if they, too, felt compelled to trot up and down to keep -themselves warm, and in even tolerably good humor. - -“Just my luck!” growled Bob with a misanthropic glare at a loud-voiced -family who were passing; “Christmas coming, two jolly Brighton parties -and an oratorio thrown up, and here am I, fired off to San Francisco. So -much for being junior member of a law firm. Wonder what”-- - -Here the ruffled current of his meditations ran plump against a rock, -and as suddenly diverged from its former course. The rock was no less -than a young person who at that moment approached with a gray-haired man -and inquired the way to the ticket office. - -“Just beyond the waiting-room, on the right,” replied Bob, pointing to -the office and lifting his hat courteously, in response to the lady’s -question. - -He watched them with growing interest as they followed his directions -and stood before the lighted window. The two silhouettes were decidedly -out of the common. The voice, whose delicate tones still lingered -pleasantly about Mr. Robert Estabrook’s fastidious ears, was an -individual voice, as distinguishable from any other he remembered as was -the owner’s bright face, the little fur collar beneath it, the -daintily-gloved hands, and the pretty brown traveling suit. - -“Dignified old fellow!” mused Bob, irrelevantly, as the couple moved -toward the train gates. “Probably her father. Perhaps--hallo! by -George, they’re going on my car!” - -With which breath of summer in his winter of discontent the young man -proceeded to finish his cigar, consult his watch, and, as the last -warning bell rang, step upon the platform of the already moving Pullman. - -It must be admitted that as he entered he gave an expectant glance down -the aisle of the car; but the sombre curtains hanging from ceiling to -floor told no tales. Too sleepy to speculate and too learned in the -marvelous acoustic properties of a sleeping-car to engage the porter in -conversation on the subject, he found his berth, arranged himself for -the night with the nonchalance of an old traveler, and, laying his head -upon his vibrating atom of a pillow, was soon plunged into a dream at -least fifty miles long. - - - - -II. - - -It was snowing, and snowing hard. Moreover, it had been snowing all -night, and all the afternoon before. The wind rioted furiously over the -broad Missouri plains, alternately building up huge castles of snow and -throwing them down again like a fretful child; overtaking the belated -teamster on his homeward journey, clutching him with its icy hand, and -leaving him buried in a tomb spotless as the fairest marble; howling, -shrieking, racing madly to and fro, never out of breath, always the same -tireless, pitiless, awful power. Rocks, fields, sometimes even forests -were blotted out of the landscape. - -A mere hyphen upon the broad white page lay the Western-bound -train, held fast by the soft but firm hand. The fires in the -locomotives--there were two of them--had been suffered to go out, the -fuel in the tenders was exhausted, and the great creatures waited -silently together, left alone in the storm, while the snow drifted -higher and higher upon their patient backs. - -When Bob had waked that morning, to find the tempest more furious than -ever, and the train stuck fast in a huge snowbank, his first thought was -of dismay at the possible detention in the narrow limits of the Pullman, -which seemed much colder than it had before; his next was to wonder how -the change of fortune would affect Gertrude Raymond. Of course he had -long ago become acquainted with the brown traveling suit and fur collar. -Of course there had been numberless little services for him to perform -for her and the old gentleman, who had indeed proved to be her father. -Bob had already begun to dread the end of the journey. He had gone to -his berth the night before wishing that San Francisco were ten days -from Boston instead of six. Providence having taken him at his word and -indicated that the journey would be of at least that duration, if not -more, he was disposed, like no few of his fellow-mortals, to grumble. - -Once more he became misanthropic. “There’s Miss Raymond, now,” he -growled to himself, knocking his head savagely against the upper berth -in his attempt to look out through the frosty pane, “sitting over across -the aisle day after day with her kid gloves and all that. Nice enough, -of course,” recalling one or two spirited conversations where hours had -slipped by like minutes, “but confoundedly useless like the rest of ’em. -If she were like mother, now, there’d be no trouble. She’d take care of -herself. But as it is, the whole car will be turned upside down for her -to-day, for fear she’ll freeze or starve or spoil her complexion, or -something.” - -Here Bob turned an extremely cold shoulder on the window, and having -performed a sort of horizontal toilet, emerged from his berth, his hair -on end, and his face expressive of utter defiance to the world in -general and contempt of fashionable young ladies in particular. - -At that moment Miss Raymond appeared in the aisle, sweet and rosy as a -June morning, her cheeks glowing and her eyes sparkling with fun. - -“Good-morning, Mr. Estabrook,” she said demurely, settling the fur -collar about her neck. - -Bob endeavored to look dignified and was conscious of failure. - -“Good mo-morning,” he replied with some stiffness, and a shiver which -took him by surprise. It was cold, jumping out of that warm berth. - -“I understand we must stay--but don’t let me detain you,” she added with -a sly glance at his hair. - -Bob turned and marched off solemnly to the masculine end of the car, -washed in ice-water, completed his toilet, and came back refreshed. -Breakfast was formally served as usual, and then a council of war was -held. Conductor, engineers, and brakemen being consulted, and -inventories taken, it was found that while food was abundant, the stock -of wood in the bins would not last till noon. There were twelve railroad -men and thirty-five passengers on board, some twenty of the latter being -emigrants in a second-class behind the two Pullmans. - -The little company gathered in the snow-bound car looked blankly at each -other, some of them instinctively drawing their wraps more tightly about -their shoulders, as if they already felt the approaching chill. - -It was miles to the nearest station in either direction. Above, below, -on all sides, was the white blur of tumultuous, wind-lashed snow. - -The silence was broken pleasantly. Once more Bob felt the power of those -clear, sweet tones. - -“The men must make up a party to hunt for wood,” she said. “While you’re -gone we women will do what we can for those who are left.” - -The necessity for immediate action was evident, and without further -words the council broke up, to obey her suggestion. - -A dozen men, looking like amateur Esquimaux, and floundering up to their -armpits at the first step, started off through the drifts. One of the -train-men who knew the line of the road thoroughly, was sure they must -be near a certain clump of trees where plenty of wood could be obtained. -Taking the precaution to move in single line, one of the engineers, a -broad-shouldered six-footer, leading the way, and steering by compass, -they were soon out of sight. As they struck off at right angles to the -track, Bob thought he recognized a face pressed close to the pane and -watching them anxiously; but he could not be sure. - -Two hours later the men appeared once more, some staggering under huge -logs, some with axes, some with bundles of lighter boughs for kindling. -In another five minutes smoke was going up cheerily from the whole line -of cars, for the trees had proved to be less than a quarter of a mile -distant and the supply would be plentiful before night. - -When Bob Estabrook stamped into his own car, hugging up a big armful of -wood, he was a different looking fellow from the trim young lawyer who -was wont to stand before the jury seats in the Boston Court House. He -had on a pair of immense blue yarn mittens loaned by a kindly brakeman, -his face was scratched with refractory twigs, his eyebrows were -frosted, his moustache an icy caret. - -The average tramp might well have hesitated before acknowledging kinship -with him. - -His eye roved through the length of the car as it had that first night -in the depot. She was not there. He was as anxious as a boy for her -praise. - -“Guess I’ll take it into the next car,” he said apologetically to the -nearest passenger; “there’s more coming just behind.” - -She was not in the second Pullman. Of course she wasn’t in the baggage -car. Was it possible--? He entered the third and last car, recoiling -just a bit at the odor of crowded and unclean poverty which met him at -the door. - -Sure enough, there she sat--his idle, fashionable type of -inutility--with one frowzy child upon the seat beside her, two very -rumpled-looking boys in front, and a baby with terracotta hair in her -arms. Somehow, the baby’s hair against the fur collar didn’t look so -badly as you would expect, either. She seemed to be singing it to sleep, -and kept on with her soft crooning as she glanced up over the tangled -red locks at snowy Bob and his armful of wood, with a look in her eyes -that would have sent him cheerfully to Alaska for more, had there been -need. A few seats off, I ought to say, her father was talking kindly and -earnestly to a rough-looking man and his wife, the latter of whom wore -the dear old gentleman’s cloak. Fathers and daughters are apt to be -pretty much alike in these things, you see. - - - - -III. - - -With the cheerful heat of the fires, the kind offices of nearly all the -well-dressed people to the poorer ones,--for they were not slow, these -kid-gloved Pullman passengers, to follow Miss Raymond’s example,--the -day wore on quietly and not unpleasantly toward its close. Then some one -suddenly remembered that it was Christmas Eve. - -“Dear me!” cried Miss Raymond delightedly, reaching round the baby to -clap her hands; “let’s have a Christmas party!” - -A few sighed and shook their heads as they thought of their own home -firesides; one or two smiled indulgently on the small enthusiast; -several chimed in at once. Conductor and baggage-master were consulted, -and the spacious baggage car “specially engaged for the occasion,” the -originator of the scheme triumphantly announced. Preparations commenced -without delay. All the young people put their heads together in one -corner, and many were the explosions of laughter as the programme grew. -Trunks were visited by their owners and small articles abstracted -therefrom to serve as gifts for the emigrants and train-men, to whose -particular entertainment the evening was by common consent to be -devoted. - -Just as the lamps were lighted in the train, our hero, who had -disappeared early in the afternoon, returned, dragging after him a small -stunted pine tree, which seemed to have strayed away from its native -forests on purpose for the celebration. On being admitted to the grand -hall, Bob further added to the decorations a few strings of a queer, -mossy sort of evergreen. Hereupon a very young man with light eyebrows, -who had hitherto been inconspicuous, suddenly appeared from the depths -of a battered trunk, over the edge of which he had for some time been -bent like a siphon, and with a beaming face produced a box of veritable -tiny wax candles! He was “on the road,” he explained, for a large -wholesale toyshop, and these were samples. He guessed he could make it -all right with the firm. - -Of course the affair was a great success. I have no space to tell of the -sheltered walk that Bob constructed of rugs from car to car; of the -beautified interior of the old baggage car, draped with shawls and -brightened with bits of ribbon; of the mute wonder of the poor -emigrants, a number of whom had but just arrived from Germany, and could -not speak a word of English; of their unbounded delight when the -glistening tree was disclosed, and the cries of “Weihnachtsbaum! -Weihnachtsbaum!” from their rumpled children, whose faces waked into a -glow of blissful recollection at the sight. Ah! if you could have seen -the pretty gifts, the brave little pine (which all the managers agreed -couldn’t possibly have been used had it been an inch taller); the -improvised tableaux, wherein Bob successively personated an -organ-grinder, a pug dog, and Hamlet, amid thunders of applause from the -brakemen and engineers! Then the passengers sang a simple Christmas -carol, Miss Raymond leading with her pure soprano, and Bob chiming in -like the diapason of an organ. - -Just as the last words died away a sudden hush came over the audience. -Could it be an illusion, or did they hear the muffled but sweet notes of -a church bell faintly sounding without? Tears came into the eyes of some -of the roughest of the emigrants as they listened, and thought of a wee -belfry somewhere in the Fatherland, where the Christmas bells were -calling to prayers that night. The sound of the bells ceased, and the -merriment went on, while the young man, with eyebrows lighter than ever, -but with radiant face, let himself quietly into the car unnoticed. It -had been his own thought to creep out into the storm, clear away the -snow from the nearest locomotive bell, and ring it while the gayety was -at its height. - -All this indeed there was, and more; but to Bob the joy and sweetness of -the evening centred in one bright face. What mattered it if the wind -roared and moaned about the lonely snow-drifted train, while he could -look into those brown eyes and listen to that voice for whose every tone -he was fast learning to watch? - -Well, the blockade was raised, and the long railroad trip finished at -last. But two of its passengers, at least, have agreed to enter upon a -still longer journey. - - - - -IV. - - -She says it all began when he came staggering in with his armful of wood -and his blue mittens; and he? he doesn’t care at all when it began. 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So -much for being junior member of a law firm. Wonder what”—</p> - -<p>Here the ruffled current of his meditations ran plump against a rock, -and as suddenly diverged from its former<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_3" id="page_3">{3}</a></span> course. The rock was no less -than a young person who at that moment approached with a gray-haired man -and inquired the way to the ticket office.</p> - -<p>“Just beyond the waiting-room, on the right,” replied Bob, pointing to -the office and lifting his hat courteously, in response to the lady’s -question.</p> - -<p>He watched them with growing interest as they followed his directions -and stood before the lighted window. The two silhouettes were decidedly -out of the common. The voice, whose delicate tones still lingered -pleasantly about Mr. Robert Estabrook’s fastidious ears, was an -individual voice, as distinguishable from any other he remembered as was -the owner’s bright face, the little fur collar beneath it, the -daintily-gloved hands, and the pretty brown traveling suit.</p> - -<p>“Dignified old fellow!” mused Bob, irrelevantly, as the couple moved -to<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_4" id="page_4">{4}</a></span>ward the train gates. “Probably her father. Perhaps—hallo! by -George, they’re going on my car!”</p> - -<p>With which breath of summer in his winter of discontent the young man -proceeded to finish his cigar, consult his watch, and, as the last -warning bell rang, step upon the platform of the already moving Pullman.</p> - -<p>It must be admitted that as he entered he gave an expectant glance down -the aisle of the car; but the sombre curtains hanging from ceiling to -floor told no tales. Too sleepy to speculate and too learned in the -marvelous acoustic properties of a sleeping-car to engage the porter in -conversation on the subject, he found his berth, arranged himself for -the night with the nonchalance of an old traveler, and, laying his head -upon his vibrating atom of a pillow, was soon plunged into a dream at -least fifty miles long.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_5" id="page_5">{5}</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="II" id="II"></a>II.</h2> - -<p>It was snowing, and snowing hard. Moreover, it had been snowing all -night, and all the afternoon before. The wind rioted furiously over the -broad Missouri plains, alternately building up huge castles of snow and -throwing them down again like a fretful child; overtaking the belated -teamster on his homeward journey, clutching him with its icy hand, and -leaving him buried in a tomb spotless as the fairest marble; howling, -shrieking, racing madly to and fro, never out of breath, always the same -tireless, pitiless, awful power. Rocks, fields, sometimes even forests -were blotted out of the landscape.</p> - -<p>A mere hyphen upon the broad white page lay the Western-bound train, -held fast by the soft but firm hand. The fires in the -locomotives<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_6" id="page_6">{6}</a></span>—there were two of them—had been suffered to go out, the -fuel in the tenders was exhausted, and the great creatures waited -silently together, left alone in the storm, while the snow drifted -higher and higher upon their patient backs.</p> - -<p>When Bob had waked that morning, to find the tempest more furious than -ever, and the train stuck fast in a huge snowbank, his first thought was -of dismay at the possible detention in the narrow limits of the Pullman, -which seemed much colder than it had before; his next was to wonder how -the change of fortune would affect Gertrude Raymond. Of course he had -long ago become acquainted with the brown traveling suit and fur collar. -Of course there had been numberless little services for him to perform -for her and the old gentleman, who had indeed proved to be her father. -Bob had already begun to dread the end of the journey. He had gone to -his berth<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_7" id="page_7">{7}</a></span> the night before wishing that San Francisco were ten days -from Boston instead of six. Providence having taken him at his word and -indicated that the journey would be of at least that duration, if not -more, he was disposed, like no few of his fellow-mortals, to grumble.</p> - -<p>Once more he became misanthropic. “There’s Miss Raymond, now,” he -growled to himself, knocking his head savagely against the upper berth -in his attempt to look out through the frosty pane, “sitting over across -the aisle day after day with her kid gloves and all that. Nice enough, -of course,” recalling one or two spirited conversations where hours had -slipped by like minutes, “but confoundedly useless like the rest of ’em. -If she were like mother, now, there’d be no trouble. She’d take care of -herself. But as it is, the whole car will be turned upside down for her -to-day, for fear she’ll freeze or starve or spoil her complexion, or -something.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_8" id="page_8">{8}</a></span>”</p> - -<p>Here Bob turned an extremely cold shoulder on the window, and having -performed a sort of horizontal toilet, emerged from his berth, his hair -on end, and his face expressive of utter defiance to the world in -general and contempt of fashionable young ladies in particular.</p> - -<p>At that moment Miss Raymond appeared in the aisle, sweet and rosy as a -June morning, her cheeks glowing and her eyes sparkling with fun.</p> - -<p>“Good-morning, Mr. Estabrook,” she said demurely, settling the fur -collar about her neck.</p> - -<p>Bob endeavored to look dignified and was conscious of failure.</p> - -<p>“Good mo-morning,” he replied with some stiffness, and a shiver which -took him by surprise. It was cold, jumping out of that warm berth.</p> - -<p>“I understand we must stay—but don’t let me detain you,” she added with -a sly glance at his hair.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_9" id="page_9">{9}</a></span></p> - -<p>Bob turned and marched off solemnly to the masculine end of the car, -washed in ice-water, completed his toilet, and came back refreshed. -Breakfast was formally served as usual, and then a council of war was -held. Conductor, engineers, and brakemen being consulted, and -inventories taken, it was found that while food was abundant, the stock -of wood in the bins would not last till noon. There were twelve railroad -men and thirty-five passengers on board, some twenty of the latter being -emigrants in a second-class behind the two Pullmans.</p> - -<p>The little company gathered in the snow-bound car looked blankly at each -other, some of them instinctively drawing their wraps more tightly about -their shoulders, as if they already felt the approaching chill.</p> - -<p>It was miles to the nearest station in either direction. Above, below, -on<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_10" id="page_10">{10}</a></span> all sides, was the white blur of tumultuous, wind-lashed snow.</p> - -<p>The silence was broken pleasantly. Once more Bob felt the power of those -clear, sweet tones.</p> - -<p>“The men must make up a party to hunt for wood,” she said. “While you’re -gone we women will do what we can for those who are left.”</p> - -<p>The necessity for immediate action was evident, and without further -words the council broke up, to obey her suggestion.</p> - -<p>A dozen men, looking like amateur Esquimaux, and floundering up to their -armpits at the first step, started off through the drifts. One of the -train-men who knew the line of the road thoroughly, was sure they must -be near a certain clump of trees where plenty of wood could be obtained. -Taking the precaution to move in single line, one of the engineers, a -broad-shouldered six-footer, leading the way, and steering by compass, -they<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_11" id="page_11">{11}</a></span> were soon out of sight. As they struck off at right angles to the -track, Bob thought he recognized a face pressed close to the pane and -watching them anxiously; but he could not be sure.</p> - -<p>Two hours later the men appeared once more, some staggering under huge -logs, some with axes, some with bundles of lighter boughs for kindling. -In another five minutes smoke was going up cheerily from the whole line -of cars, for the trees had proved to be less than a quarter of a mile -distant and the supply would be plentiful before night.</p> - -<p>When Bob Estabrook stamped into his own car, hugging up a big armful of -wood, he was a different looking fellow from the trim young lawyer who -was wont to stand before the jury seats in the Boston Court House. He -had on a pair of immense blue yarn mittens loaned by a kindly brakeman, -his face was scratched with<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_12" id="page_12">{12}</a></span> refractory twigs, his eyebrows were -frosted, his moustache an icy caret.</p> - -<p>The average tramp might well have hesitated before acknowledging kinship -with him.</p> - -<p>His eye roved through the length of the car as it had that first night -in the depot. She was not there. He was as anxious as a boy for her -praise.</p> - -<p>“Guess I’ll take it into the next car,” he said apologetically to the -nearest passenger; “there’s more coming just behind.”</p> - -<p>She was not in the second Pullman. Of course she wasn’t in the baggage -car. Was it possible—? He entered the third and last car, recoiling -just a bit at the odor of crowded and unclean poverty which met him at -the door.</p> - -<p>Sure enough, there she sat—his idle, fashionable type of -inutility—with one frowzy child upon the seat beside her, two very -rumpled-looking boys in front, and a baby with terracotta hair in her -arms. Somehow, the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_13" id="page_13">{13}</a></span> baby’s hair against the fur collar didn’t look so -badly as you would expect, either. She seemed to be singing it to sleep, -and kept on with her soft crooning as she glanced up over the tangled -red locks at snowy Bob and his armful of wood, with a look in her eyes -that would have sent him cheerfully to Alaska for more, had there been -need. A few seats off, I ought to say, her father was talking kindly and -earnestly to a rough-looking man and his wife, the latter of whom wore -the dear old gentleman’s cloak. Fathers and daughters are apt to be -pretty much alike in these things, you see.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_14" id="page_14">{14}</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="III" id="III"></a>III.</h2> - -<p>With the cheerful heat of the fires, the kind offices of nearly all the -well-dressed people to the poorer ones,—for they were not slow, these -kid-gloved Pullman passengers, to follow Miss Raymond’s example,—the -day wore on quietly and not unpleasantly toward its close. Then some one -suddenly remembered that it was Christmas Eve.</p> - -<p>“Dear me!” cried Miss Raymond delightedly, reaching round the baby to -clap her hands; “let’s have a Christmas party!”</p> - -<p>A few sighed and shook their heads as they thought of their own home -firesides; one or two smiled indulgently on the small enthusiast; -several chimed in at once. Conductor and baggage-master were consulted, -and the spacious baggage car “specially<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_15" id="page_15">{15}</a></span> engaged for the occasion,” the -originator of the scheme triumphantly announced. Preparations commenced -without delay. All the young people put their heads together in one -corner, and many were the explosions of laughter as the programme grew. -Trunks were visited by their owners and small articles abstracted -therefrom to serve as gifts for the emigrants and train-men, to whose -particular entertainment the evening was by common consent to be -devoted.</p> - -<p>Just as the lamps were lighted in the train, our hero, who had -disappeared early in the afternoon, returned, dragging after him a small -stunted pine tree, which seemed to have strayed away from its native -forests on purpose for the celebration. On being admitted to the grand -hall, Bob further added to the decorations a few strings of a queer, -mossy sort of evergreen. Hereupon a very young man with light eyebrows, -who had hitherto been<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_16" id="page_16">{16}</a></span> inconspicuous, suddenly appeared from the depths -of a battered trunk, over the edge of which he had for some time been -bent like a siphon, and with a beaming face produced a box of veritable -tiny wax candles! He was “on the road,” he explained, for a large -wholesale toyshop, and these were samples. He guessed he could make it -all right with the firm.</p> - -<p>Of course the affair was a great success. I have no space to tell of the -sheltered walk that Bob constructed of rugs from car to car; of the -beautified interior of the old baggage car, draped with shawls and -brightened with bits of ribbon; of the mute wonder of the poor -emigrants, a number of whom had but just arrived from Germany, and could -not speak a word of English; of their unbounded delight when the -glistening tree was disclosed, and the cries of “Weihnachtsbaum! -Weihnachtsbaum!” from their rumpled children, whose faces waked into<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_17" id="page_17">{17}</a></span> a -glow of blissful recollection at the sight. Ah! if you could have seen -the pretty gifts, the brave little pine (which all the managers agreed -couldn’t possibly have been used had it been an inch taller); the -improvised tableaux, wherein Bob successively personated an -organ-grinder, a pug dog, and Hamlet, amid thunders of applause from the -brakemen and engineers! Then the passengers sang a simple Christmas -carol, Miss Raymond leading with her pure soprano, and Bob chiming in -like the diapason of an organ.</p> - -<p>Just as the last words died away a sudden hush came over the audience. -Could it be an illusion, or did they hear the muffled but sweet notes of -a church bell faintly sounding without? Tears came into the eyes of some -of the roughest of the emigrants as they listened, and thought of a wee -belfry somewhere in the Fatherland, where the Christmas bells were -calling to prayers that night. The sound of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_18" id="page_18">{18}</a></span> bells ceased, and the -merriment went on, while the young man, with eyebrows lighter than ever, -but with radiant face, let himself quietly into the car unnoticed. It -had been his own thought to creep out into the storm, clear away the -snow from the nearest locomotive bell, and ring it while the gayety was -at its height.</p> - -<p>All this indeed there was, and more; but to Bob the joy and sweetness of -the evening centred in one bright face. What mattered it if the wind -roared and moaned about the lonely snow-drifted train, while he could -look into those brown eyes and listen to that voice for whose every tone -he was fast learning to watch?</p> - -<p>Well, the blockade was raised, and the long railroad trip finished at -last. But two of its passengers, at least, have agreed to enter upon a -still longer journey.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_19" id="page_19">{19}</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="IV" id="IV"></a>IV.</h2> - -<p>She says it all began when he came staggering in with his armful of wood -and his blue mittens; and he? he doesn’t care at all when it began. 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