The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-02-11

great deal and said very little, which
proceeding puzzled Jim greatly. After
they had gone he and the nurse had
long talk, and then he recalled it all
the princess, the black servant and the
plunging horse. And he understood
better why his back ached so.
Somehow the ache never stopped
night or day, and Jim was beginning
to weary of it. One day he astonished
his nurse by excfaiming:
Say! I'm kind of sorry made up
that play. | thought it would be fun
to ride the Arabian charger and save
the princess, but it's lasting such q
long time.r
At first the nurse thought he was
delirious again, but when she had ask
ed few questions she understood it
all. Later In the day she paid visit
to the superintendent of the hospital
and told him all about the princess,
the servant and the Arabian charger.
The very next day the princess with
her father came to the hospital. She
was serious young maiden, which
was well, because some day she would
have large estate to manage She
listened very quietly while the super
intendent and the nurse talked The
latter said, as they rose to leave the
room:
"Now, remember. whatever else you
say he must not know that it was only
the colored girl he saved. l think tit
would break his heart"
The princess nodded her head wisely
and forced back the tears. She did not
know why she felt like crying, except
that she had seen something like tears
in the nurses eyes, and even her father
had turned away his head once or
twice during the conference.
Jim almost shouted with delight
when he saw her. She wore the dress
he liked best of all-white lawn with
lace that showed her pretty shoulders
and arms, blue ribbons and a rose
trimmed hat. They talked It all over,
and when she rose to go he said cheeri-
ly:
'I'll be back to the carrousel very
soon. think the Arabian charger
must miss me!'
Then the princess looked at the
nurse and started in bravely:
"You aren't going back to the car
rousel-for awhile. My papa is going
to take you to town with us-to anoth-
er-another hospital where they keep
boys with hurt backs. There's the
loveliest doctor there. know him,
and he's going to put your back in a
plaster paris case, and I'm coming to
see you every single day. It's right
close to our house,
Jim had grown strangely quiet. and
now he turned to her wistfully:
"Will have to stay this-thls way
very much longerY'
The princess took a fresh grip on the
flowers she still held.
THE doctors hope not. but you won't
mind. will you, If come every single
day and bring you books and flowers
and things?"
Jim looked yearnlngly toward the
window and the warm September sun
shine. He understood now why the
nurse had so skillfully parted ques-
tons on this subject. Then he turned
to the princess. There were tears in
her eyes. Could they be for him? He
pulled himself together like a young
soldier. and CROPPED for her hand.
"No. shan't mind it-at ALL"
Then the princess forget how stately
a story book princess should be. She
forgot that her father was president OF
a bank and that Jim's father was only
a fireman in the Bergen mills. She
dropped her flowers and. bending over
the cot, kissed him proudly
you're regularly brave prince,
Jimmy, and Pm glad Pm your princess,
indeed | am"