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He thrust the parrot into a fold of his cassock, made along to where was the perch, and placed her upon it. Then he stood back, folding his arms.
"To-morrow is Christmas Day, Loretta," he said. "And what wilt thou give to Tony? What can the cactus give the golden poppy? Thou hast only love, eh? Well, that is much, though it grows from naught, as a China lily blooms from a bowl of rocks."
He turned, and found himself before the Tree. Fir and pine massed their branches behind it, making a background of plushy green. Against that background, showing full, hung the torn and unclad shape. The moon glinted upon it, haloing the head of the Crucified.
The padre sank, bowing, and touched himself in the sign.
Padre Alonzo rose and turned, reaching up to stroke her. "Good-night, Loretta," he said fondly. "There were none too lowly for His gift of love. It was spared to thee, a yawping fowl, a talker after the manner of the lazy Mexicans that bred thee."
He turned back upon the path, sighing and raising his eyes once more. "But for high or low," he said, musing aloud, "the fruit of that love is sacrifice."
Out of the chapel came the sounds of the noon service--the level intoning of prayer, the rumble and swell of the padres'
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