The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-29

violently again, and he thought or-rue
girl with an insistence that made him
mutter between his teeth. He knew that
they were winning, that they were fore
ing a victory from a superior team. and
he played on, intoxicated with the fire Of
triumph, the wells and cheers and the
waving blue of his college. A man fell
beneath him, muttering profanely, and he
heard himself laugh aloud as he wrested
the ball viciously from his PROSTATE foe,
leaving him white, stunned and bleeding
on the ground, while shout half tri-
amph and half pity, went up from the
opposing players.
Then with yell Halstead started to
run, his body bent over. the ball clutch
ed to him in a grip like death. 1t was a
memorable run in college annals-the
run Of an Indian, wild horse or run
sway express train, anything but civ
ilized man playing game. He shook
off the hands and bodies that cane In
his way and plowed through the human
masses that attempted to block him.
landing the ball 65 yards safely down
the field. while the people rose at him
with a mighty shrek that rent high
heaven. and, looking up. he saw the face
of the girl and fell in a heap on the ball
close to the rail of the west stand.
When he came back, be was conscious
that some one had just kissed him and
that it was woman. He submitted.
weakly thinking he must have imagined
it. Then he became aware that he was
lying on his back in a moving ambulance.
with his head on somebody's lap. There
was mingled odor of orris and carbolie.
It recalled the hospital There was the
girls face, just as he had often seen it
before. leaning over bis camp cot. Had
the fever come back again?
"Of course" he said slowly. almost
smiling. ''it-isn't-you. really? 1t is
the nurse"
1T is l." said the girl, with break in
her voice. 1--WE carried you off in one
of our ambulances. Every one seemed
to 60 mad-there were four men hurt
The doctors let me call up our wagons.
They thought you were badly injured.
You must be quiet"
He lay still, trying to get this idea
through his confused brain. 1t seemed
SO like the delirium that had played him
tricks before. He looked up again care
fully. 1t was not the nurse. He saw n
little red enamel cross shining in the lace
on her bodice. He tried TO reach up and
touch her face to assure himself that she
was real, and he found his right arm
was helpless. Once more his mind bat
tied with the situation. His eyes closed.
Then he raised himself painfully on his
good arm and took her hand in his as
though he were afraid that 1t would melt.
He saw the drivers back and shoulders
outlined in space. And he saw her eyes
trembling with tears and filed with a
sweetness that be had dreamed of for
more than year. He was thinking of
something he imagined had happened as
he came back to consciousness. He won
dered if she had.
Suddenly looking in her mystical eyes
he thought of the girlish essay about the
souls that had travelled toward each other
over space and time.
"Our mind wave took such a long
time" he said. A flush of color rose over
her face.
ibid you think of It, tooT" she cried in
a glad whisper. "I've been thinking-you
to me-ever since-and. oh-oh-do you
know-you won the game"
"Oh. hang the gamer laughed Hal
stead, and tainted away again.-New
York Herald