The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-01-09

/ 10 10 WAS To uFIYe Tue dulO LOI all IL
was worth. Molly turned on power,
and they shot Off as fast as they dared
go, for the road was not perfectly
straight. and the slightest detection
from straight line in a quick moving
auto means an upset
"They gained something during this
! first mile, but in the second there were
several turns that required them to
slow down almost to stop. After
making one of these turns Ned looked
back. Molly was about to do so, too.
when he put his hands on her head
and prevented her. The sight would
have taken away her nerve A mass
of water and debris was hurled at the
turning point against the side of the
canyon. like an ocean wave dashing
against rock. water. stones and splin-
tered tree trunks rebounding in every
direction
Fortunately these turns delayed the
food as they delayed the fugitives.
A quarter Of mile Of comparatively
straight road lay before them. Molly
again put on power, and they spun
along at tolerably fast gait At the
next turn-a broad curve-the wheels
on the outside Of the auto were lifted
from the ground. and for a few mo-
ments the pair were suspended be-
tween two deaths. the one by being
dashed against the cliff, the other by
the bowling cataract
There were still nearly two miles to
go without egress from the canyon
and destruction not hundred feet be-
hind them. At times while slowing up
for turn the food came SO near that
they were drenched with the spray
Greater and greater were the risks
they took in making the curves. Mol
~ kept control Of herself and auto,
and, though the monster was ever ready
to make one last leap to destroy her
and her lover. she held the machine
down to point where its equilibrium
was not entirely destroyed First the
auto would bound forward after a de-
Election; then the wall of water and
debris would plunge after it. In this
way they reached the fourth mile. at
the end of which the road left the
canyon and rose over hill. But for
the greater part of this distance they
must race over course which, though
broader, was beset with many turns
Onward they sped, behind them the
flood of water stones and tree trunks
making great leaps and gaining slow
ly at the straiter parts-roaring. howl
ing, hurting itself against the right
cliff, now against the left, then push
ing forward with renewed vigor. while
the din was deafening.
Molly held steadily to the wheel,
but it is questionable If Ned was not
equally heroic in refraining from
touching either it or any part of the
machinery.
Starting upon the last half mile of
the race, with the food not fifty feet
behind them and a comparatively
straight road ahead Of them, Molly
put on sufficient power to take them
on without losing gaining. rather
till they reached the outlet, where
shooting up the road out of reach of
the torrent. Molly collapsed. Ned
turned off the power. brought the ma
chine to standstill and, with the girl
in his arms. looked down upon the baf
fed monster rushing madly on
Silsby stopped. evidently having
reached the end of his story.
did they get married?" asked VIII
kins.
Get marriedr' exclaimed the story
teller, his patience evidently having
been soreIy tried and now exhausted
by his critic. You're the man that
has got tired of hearing stories told
and wound up in the old fashioned
way. Lovers have been chased on
foot, on horseback. in buggies and car
riages, even on railroad trains, and
there are stories Of their running away
from floods. but whoever heard Of
their being chased by food and in
an auto? And yet when | get to the
climax you ask if they got married
You bet they got married; but, as
said in the beginning. the wife has
never got over that scare"
TITS my opinion" remarked one of
the listeners. that the merit of the
story consists in giving the lovers an
automobile to get away with. | got
one of them. and when I'm speeding
I find it convenient for leaving the pc
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