The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-09

want TO go up to town on the first train
in the morning, and l want some one
to take me across the lake. Aunt Ma
mic is stopping at the Regent"
THE boatmen have all gone home"
he answered. They give it up at 10
o'clock"
Il just remembered that tomorrow
was the wedding day. explained Dali
sy. Il thought 1t was next Friday"
THAT is too bad" he consoled. Pm
afraid there is no chance of getting a
man this time of night. You see, they
all live back in the woods"
Then | suppose | must give up the
idea," she sighed, though 1 did so
want to see the wedding"
IF your anxiety outweighs your
prejudice against my Objectionable
self" he suggested, Il should be glad
to take you across
Il could not think of troubling you,"
she murmured, though she knew that
he must realize that was why she had
spoken.
To her surprise Ted shouldered the
oars.
I'm sorry he said. I'm not a bit
tired. I'd be glad to take you across"
Then why don't your" she demand
ed. You ought to know l didn't mean
that"
You never can tell what a woman
MEANS" was the sad response as he
brought the boat alongside the dock
and helped her in.
Daisy deigned no reply, but settled
herself and her suit case in the stern
and sat silent. Ted cast off and with
a few strong strokes was we'll away
from the dock
The lake was about four miles wide
between the two hotels. On one side
was the Regent, while on the south the
Lake View lowered ON a cliff The
Lake View was on the side tapped by
a branch of the main line railroad that
ran past the Regent, and those who
wanted to catch the early trains had to
make their way across the lake in
boats, since the first train on the
branch line was at 9:15.
With steady strokes Ted forced the
boat forward through the clouds of
fieecy vapor that rose from the water
1t seemed to Daisy that they must have
risen above the cloud line and that tire
swirIlng sheets were detached masses
rising above the rest
Ted took a less poetic view of 1t.
Looks like heavy fog" he suggest
oH 10 al. .5o
before it closes in
"Of course we WILL" was Daisy's
confident reply. but they had gone only
two miles when the fog had surround
ed them and it was possible to see on
~ a boat length ahead
For more than an hour Ted rowed on
without speaking; then he dropped the
oats
you don't happen to hear any shore
sounds. do your" he asked quietly.
Not yet" said Daisy. "Why?"
Il ought TO be about a mile inland"
he explained, "if we had held to our
course
you mean that we are lostY" she
asked TREMENDOUSLY
You cannot get very much lost on
like four miles wide and ten long"
he assured, but | guess it's going to
be some trouble making land"
Not if you row straight ahead" she
suggested. THAT ought to be easy"
+ IF I had anything to steer by" he
admitted, 'but the trouble is l cannot
see where | am going"
you should carry compass" she
declared. Il thought all boats had to
carry eompasses. l thought it was the
law
Not rowboats on land locked
lake. he corrected. "You are suppos-
ed to be able to tell where you are go
ing"
There's landr' she exclaimed, point
ing ahead Its darker over there
He glanced ahead, and 1t seemed to
him. too, that there was a shadow
ahead. Desperately he pulled for it,
and presently the boat grated on the