The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-03-19

THEIR FEET.
lining perilous situations for the fair
Marjorie, with himself as the rescuing
hero that he walked three squares be-
yond his theater.
The next morning he oversight and
rushed to the elevator with an impor.
tant engagement almost due.
I'm hurry, d. O'C. Moloney," he
admonished the youth at the controller.
"Pm so late now l haven't time to
speak your full name"
Daniel O'Connell grinned and imitat.
ed steam calliope by whistling shrilly
through the gap in his teeth. With
apparent carelessness he consulted the
indicator board. There was no one
waiting to descend. Stealthily he
fumbled with the levers-swishl
The car dropped fifty feet like dead
weight before Tremaine could move a
muscle. Gasping for breath, of which
the swift descent deprived him, be
pictured an awful death when the cal
should strike the bottom of the shaft
But the mad rush was checked as sud
denly as it had begun. and the elevator
finished its journey TO the ground f1oo1
at pace approved by all sensible and
well regulated lifts.
A glimpse Of Daniel O'ConnelPs grin
ming face in the mirror made all clear.
"You young rascalv' calculated the
lawyer as he caught his breath. you
did that on purposer'
We'll" retorted the boy, skipping
nimbly out of reach, as he threw the
door open, you said youse was in
hurry
Ten minutes later the pedestrians on
Sixty-fourth street were much edited
TO see good looking young man stop
suddenly. slap his thigh resoundingly
and laugh aloud. Thereat a fat police
man hastily conned over In a some
what fat mind the list of those want
ed" at headquarters that day. A news
boy on the wing paused long enough to
shout Bugs before he swooped on
again, to all of which Tremaine, joy
ously absorbed in great, a stupendous
idea, paid not the slightest attention.
His high spirits were mysteriously
communicative. That evening Daniel
O'Connell, in an endeavor to Guido
previous calliope performances, almost
blew tooth out. His small chest was
pulled like pouter pigeon as he laid
crisp five dollar note in the lap of his
mother.
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Miss Ten Eyke, in house gown which
to the masculine eye made her beauty
simply bewildering, called the elevator
to the fourteenth floor of the Alameda
She had spent the afternoon with a
girl friend, and as the car stopped her
heart beat little more rapidly over a
certain possibility-that she might en-
counter Tremaine-for Miss Marjorie
was very much in love with the young
lawyer, despite their quarrel.
She invariably explained to herself
at this annoying quickening of the
! which made her feel so. Daniel O'Con-
nell approved of Miss Marjorie. She
had nice eyes and a friendly way of
looking at "a Teller" Sometimes they
talked-about elevators and books and
a guy not having any chance to go to
school and how it was good thing to
study nights.
He was stanch little partisan, too,
and talked of his friends of the Other
sex, chief of whom was Mr.. Tremaine.
| And although when the conversation
turned on the lawyer 1t usually be-
came monologue. Miss Marjorie was
a good listener. Her eyes would grow
soft, and she would sigh little One
day when Daniel O'Connell gleefully
told Of case which Tremaine had just
won she gave him a quarter.
DOWN. said a masculine voice, and
Miss Ten Eyke's fear-or hope-was
] realized. The car stopped at the