The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-06-15

eS, she meant to do it-She meant
to buy some flowers and some fruit and
take them to her "hero,' and that
night she did not feel SO lonely as she
had done when she remembered that
her mother was lying in the grave far
from her own sunny France, for a new
interest had taken possession Of her, and
new purpose had been evolved in her
brain through sense of justice. She
carefully brushed the pretty brown hair
the next morning and tackled little
fresh lace in her collar and mended a
very small hole in her best gloves be-
fore putting them on, and then. when
she was quite neat and very, very
sweet, she went forth in search of flow
ers. She bought single pink rose and
few ferns and a half dozen white car
nations, and then she bought tiny
basket of pinkish green grapes, and she
was ready to find the hospital
1t was a long ride, but not a very
long walk, and finally Marie, with her
heart duttering like bird in its cage,
found herself in the presence of the
man who but yesterday was strong and
well, but who today was as helpless as
an infant. His eyes did not shrink
when Marie stood beside his narrow
cot, but looked at her with the same
kindly light which they had worn when
she stood beside him at that fatal cross
ing, and there was strange sweetness
in the thought which came to Marie
that at least he did not hate her for the
misery she had brought upon him.
She began to say in a hesitating fash
ion how sorry she was for the accident,
but, as was said, she was brave in what
she considered her duty, and presently
she grew calm and, with only the en-
enlargement of the kindly eyes, went
on and confessed that she meant to do
what she could to atone for her needless
conduct, and that she chad begun by
bringing him some flowers and bit Of
fruit. :" The big officer held out his
hand to the little woman, and without
any hesitanoy she placed hers in it, and
kind of a compact was thus sealed.
He said in a gentle way he twas glad
he saved her life, and when she had
promised to come again and had gone
the flowers were laid against the mus
tached lips, and there was feeling in
the big heart for the little woman that
was very tender and very sweet.
Well, Of course the little woman came
again, and Of course the big policeman
was glad to see her, and as the days
went on the old story was again new
for these two people, who had been so
near to death together, and when the
blessed day came that Officer William
Smith was released from the hospital
almost we'll and not so very lame, either,
it was understood that there was to be
wedding, by which Miss Marie Denton
was to become Mrs Officer William
Smith. And, sure enough, the we'd
ding came off in due time, and the big
policeman's chief was present, besides
many Of his brother policemen, and
among the gifts was a gold medal,
which was bestowed on the groom in a
neat speech by the chief and which
bore the inscription, For bravery, I"
and there is pretty little home in one
of the quieter streets which bears upon
Aos slupio pHdsS uOOr plate the name
Smith, " but at which nobody thinks
of asking for the big policeman for all
that. He has a rival-a pretty, pink
checked, round, rollicking baby, which
the neighbors, as well as the silly par
ents, call the little policeman, and
which looks enough like the big police
man to be called "a chip off the old
block. Rosa Pearle in Chicago Trib-
une.