The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-07-31

LOST yoUl"
ordered to do things for my best
good" Hugh. what do you know about
these Wisconsin pines? 1 was born
and bred in them"
Hugh had looked at her In utter be-
wilderment. The subtle difference be-
tween requesting and ordering the
same thing was quite lost on him. He
knew that he loved the beautiful,
stormy girl before him, but something
in his English blood made him feel that
IL he came to her point of view he
would belittle himself So he had
merely turned his. back on his wife,
saying In his Oxford drawl:
"I'm sure don't care to discuss the
matter further"
Rose had stared at him in utter
amazement IS he made the preparations
for the days hunt. Never in all her
spoiled young life had she been so
outraged and ignored. Without word
she pulled her soft cap down over her
ears, turned up the collar of her great
white sweater, slipped her moccasined
feet under the thongs of her snow
shoes and made or to the south through
the clear morning air.
II am going back to Westhaven," she
had said to herself. 81 can stop at Le-
wants lumber camp for supper, and
from there take the main road and reach
Westhaven by midnight I've not been
alone In the woods at night, but guess
1 won't be afraid"
So all the bright winter day she had
kept her course, her anger and resent
ment increasing as she drew farther
from the hunting lodge
''Why did ever suggest this hunting
trip?" she thought bitterly 81 wish we
were back in London! But-this was
bound to come anyhow, so perhaps it
Is as well to have things end here as
there. For 1 will not go back to- him
and his domineering."
The stiffness gradually grew Cypress
i've. AS the shadows In the distance
darkened and closed nearer, there stole
through Roses anger the consciousness
that she had had no luncheon and that
there was no hope of her reaching Lee
wants before darkness set in. She half
paused.
''GOodnessr' she thought. What
shall do II 1t gets dark before / reach
Levant's? / had forgotten that posi-.
bility. And when get there what ex.
cuse shall l make for being there?"
Twilight was deepening, coming with
no gorgeousness OF sunset or after
glow, for the overhanglng boughs, with
their snowy covering, were all but i'm
penetrable Little by little the tree
trunks turned from green and brown
to black. Little by little the snow
took a blush hue that darkened into
the purple of the dropping boughs, and
the air grew raw and sharp with lit
tie night breeze that made Rose shiver
rs the glow of heavy exercise depart
ed with her first WEAKNESS.
Her course was now more difficult
AS darkness seemed assured she con-
stantly stumbled, but caught herself
each time. But the straining told on
the thongs of her snowshOes. Sud
denly, she could not tell how, the
fastenings on one shoe gave way, and
she was thrown violently forward.
Had the fall taken place in the soft
snow Rose would have been unframed
but she had just arrived at the brow
of slight slope almost wind swept OF
snow. AS the girl scrambled to her
feet her left arm dangled uselessly al
her side. With q little moan she slip
ped her other foot from its snowshoe
then stood for moment, pain and ter
ror OF the darkness rendering her weak
and helpless.
Then her courage returned to her
"Nonsenser she thought 1--WE beer
in the woods alone before. l mustn'i
get frightened even if it is dark and
don't know where am"
She took from the pocket of her skirt
a tiny oilskin packet. John, the guide,
allowed no one in the lodge to be with
out matches
'T'll light fre," she said, "and camp
right here for the night"
Dizzy with pain and hunger, she
painfully gathered together some dead
branches and. kindllng "a cheerful