Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-19
BY DONALD ALLEN.

Spend your vacation at hoine anu uu
it,
1t was a bit lonesome at The Oaks.
Brian was an only child and his
mother was a serni-invalid and his
father a quiet man who seldom en-
tered into conversation. There were
fishing and boating, and there was a
trip to the village now and then In
the auto, and the remainder of the
time was put in reading law and Won
dering why men with sense enough
to peel potato could not enact law
that a half-baked Judge could not
interpret twice alike in the same year.
On his home coming he had noticed
two young ladies at Wave Crest-the
next manor house below. One of them
was Miss Pryor, whose father owned
the property, and the other was a
stranger to him. When he sought in
formation of his mother she replied:
ut is young lady from the city
visiting Miss Pryor. l do not even
know her name"
Hang it. II had ever been intro
duced to Miss Pryor here is a big
chance for a Irritation"
I'm sorry for you, but PERHAPS
you'll survive the disappointment"
At about the same hour Miss Callie
Floyd, the visitor from the city, was
asking Of Miss Annette Pryor: So
And who are the people at the
other placer
Their name is Jeffries."
Aren't there any girls?"
mo, only a son."
college STUDENT"
Il believe so, and home now on his
vacation"
He must be a bit lonely"
well, 1t won't be for us to cheer
him up. l have heard that he was
very wild and reckless at college,"
Why, he doesn't look it, said
Miss Callie.
"Oh, you are a physiognomist, are
you? You can tell by young mans
face fifty rods away whether he is
wild or noti'
IL thought he had a pleasant
face"
Let me tell you what they call him
& in college. 1t is Punch Jeffries!"
But why? Does he drink more
punch than anybody else?"
1T must be that. A young man
who knows him told me that he bad
three brawls before he had been in
college month. hope he will make
no excuse to get acquainted with
us. We must prepare ourselves to
snub him at the first ADVANCE
Yes, we must!'' sighed Miss Cal
lie as she turned away.
Three days later Brian saw the
young ladies start for the village in
the runabout, and he got out his
auto and followed. Why he did it
he did not stop to ask himself. Per-
haps 1t was because he had a hope
that he might get near view of
the girl from the city. He was half
mile behind them, and keeping
their pace, when he heard a toot
behind him and glanced back to see
young man burning up the road.
That toot meant but one thing. 1t
meant: II am coming and you small
potatoes, with your cheap machines,
had better take to the woodsl"
Even without the insulting footing
the oncomer would have found one
ready to do him battle. Brian didn't
like the shape of his headgear. He
didn't like his goggles. He didn't
like the pose of his chin. Therefore,
when the young man came sweeping
up and would have passed on-he
didn't pass. He wanted to badly
enough, but he couldn't just manage
it.
With the two machines running
neck and neck, the runabout was
quickly overtaken and passed. Brian
was on the inside, and he was crowd
ed over until the wheels rubbed each
other, and both young ladies
screamed. They both recognized the
college man.
The loafer!" exclaimed Miss
pryor.
But he was racing!" extenuated
Miss Callie.
"And 1t was nothing to him whether
he killed US or not!"
Didn't he have to race when he
was challenged" ~
mol"
And shouldn't he want to win the
racer"
{ "Callie Floyd, you were within an
ace of death, and yet you are ready
to excuse such recklessness!"
s 1t was a week later, and Brian was
In the village on an errand and had
& no thought of the young ladies', when
II an auto, coming from the railroad
4 depot and containing lady as pas
senger, began to act in a very queer
manner. 1t ran from side to side of
the street, and the screams of the
lady soon collected a crowd 1t was
Brian Jeffries who first made out
what the trouble was and sprang for
ward, The machine had not got be-
yond control, but the chauffeur was
too drunk to know what he was
about.
The man was hauled from his seat
and cast into the road, and Brian ex-
pressed his willingness to drive the
lady to her home. 1t was then that
he noticed the Pryor runabout and
the two young ladies, and he thought
they regarded him with something
like horror
isn't it brutally shameful" ex-
claimed Miss Pryor as she looked
down at the man on the ground, and
in a voice meant to be overheard.
but why did he do it?" queried
Miss Callie.
Because he is a ruffian!'
you are mistaken, young lady"
said a man beside their machine.
HE did 1t because"
But the runabout was put in mo-
tion. Miss Pryor didn't want to hear
the rest. There was something about
the incident in the village paper three
days later. but she refused to read 1t.
Miss Callie returned to the city a
week later, and although the young
man was in no sense smitten he
hoped and believed that she wasn't 80
down on him as Miss Pryor.
A year elapsed and Miss Cailie
came to spend the summer again,
and Brian was spending another va
cation with his law books. His
father had said: mo use wasting
your time. You will never make even