Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-09-06

the teams ever had, and could tight
for my country just as hard as Jimmy"
The mothers arm stole around the
boy, and she drew him close as a sud-
den fear shot through her heart.
''And leave his poor mother all |
| alone? What should l do without my
| home guard? You don't know what a
comfort you have been to me in your
brothers absence"
| Allen threw back his shoulders,
snatched his gray campaign hat off
| the rack, and with military salute
to his smiling mother, hurried away.
Come to think of it, his mother had
betrayed her dependence upon hlm
more than once. He had really stepped
into Jimmys shoes. The frown had
| disappeared, and he was almost smil-
ing when he reached the store. But
Mr.. Thomas, all unwittingly, reopened
the wound, as he did up the package.
That's just what we expected OF
your brother Blood will tell, and he
comes FROM fighting stock"
.Ain't from the same stock?" >"
thought Allen, rebelliously, as he left
the store. His cheek flushed and the
lump rose | again in his throat. He
-. s.ra.s6.e g., D. 6 out-oG to
avoid meeting any more people with
their condolences and congratulations.
He fell to brooding over the situation.
Everyone said the war would soon be
over, and perhaps there would not be
another war in his day. He could
, never show what sort of fighting stuff
. he was made Of.
BY this time he was quite desperate
Clearly there was but one thing fol
him to doArun away. He could stea
rides to Frisco, be a stowaway from
. Frisco to Manila, and then he'd fint
some way of joining Jimmy's regiment
IIe had just reached that point in hi
day dreams when he should carry
| wounded comrade from the field, un
der heavy fire from the enemy, then
= It was only child's voice, but
was vibrant with terror, and 1t cam
from behind the track. He wh1rle
sn round and saw small form wr1gglln
is and Jerking to free itself from some
n thing-perhaps the rail. And just b
en- yond he saw the fast freight OF the
ar r. & N. backing down to the Unio
depot.
There was not second to lose whe
Allen started on his race with the e,
~ press His training in the athlet
- field stood him in good stead, but II
train gained on him steadily as !
'no sprinted down the track. Suddenly Il
on despairing, agonized cry of the moth
o. fell on his ear He had discarded I
ei0 hat and package, and now he was ma
on. .. ing such time as he had never scor
va. on the track. The blood was surgl
I'LL in his ears Before him rose the avn
use picture of the little igure-crush
under the pitiless wheels. One gre
'eu leap, a clutch at the little foot, caue
sno in the frog and with the frightful, 70;
tne ing monster of steel and iron rumbll
snt over their heads, he and the sobbi
,ot- s,:1a .a11aa down tho embankment.
nen When Allen and the child sat i
ninu ing each other at the foot OF the Da
ana the train had sped on its course.
couple of excited women appeared
Icne the scene crying over the dust-coV
usy. ed baby. A group of excited men
en- rated the carelessness of corpo
laro ton that backed its train at such a !
VI of speed through the heart OF the
nree and with no employees on the :
hing coach. And in the general exclteH
lgnt no one noticed that the lad In the az
gray uniform had disappeared.
1ers Allen ran back to where ne
"Mr. ,.n,oa hic naclage and, pickin:
but I'D in the most matter-of-fact 1asn
hurried home. The boardeTs, man
cold whom had lived with Mrs. DurIee
igor since her husbands death, were ~
his ping in for supper, and Alien u
eye Of his adventure. He ate nearly
laced per, ran out for game OF oah'
say thought to interrupt her with tne ;
finally went to bed, still w1tnout
your counting his race with the locolno
con- It had quite slipped his mlnd.
. hos And perhaps no one would ever
sent heard of it if the day had not Dee 's'.
dull in the Office of the Daily
ether. Put when one of the reporters
rough that child had been saved on "a "a
Id be R. e. N. cutoff he decided tnat !. :.
must worth looking up. AS q resui.
trong .,,mes came out with thrllllnl
back count of two brave sons. the one