The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-08-17
Hello, hellol" / repeated. raising

Hello, hellol" / repeated, raising
my voice.
Still there was no answer. / worked
the hook up and down, but could get
no reply, and finally, disguised, hung
up.
| A moment later, l recall now, it
seemed to me as though some one had
stuck pin into the lobe Of my ear.
We had scarcely got back to work
when the telephone bell tangled again,
and second time / answered it.
is Mr.. Kennedy there?" came back
strange voice.
/ handed the instrument to Craig.
"Hellol" he called who is this? %
No response.
Hello, hellol" he shouted, working
the hook as l had done and. in my
case, there was still no answer.
Neither of us thought anything OF
it at the time, but now recall that
did see Kennedy once or twice press
the lobe of his ear as though some
thing had hurt it.
We did not know until later that IN
a pay station down the street our
arch enemy; Long Sin. had been call
ing us up and then, with a wicked
smile, refusing to speak to US.
1t was about week later that
came home late one night from the
Star, feeling pretty done up. What
| ever it was, violent fever seemed
to have come on me suddenly The
next morning when l woke up / felt
a lassitude that made it quite hard
enough even to lounge about in my
bathrobe. Finally. feeling no better
! decided to see doctor. put on
my clothes with decided effort and
went out.
The nearest doctor was about hall
block away and we scarcely knew
him, for neither Kennedy nor / are
exactly sickly.
He sounded me and pounded me-
talked little while on generalities
diet and exercise, then walked over
to cabinet, and emptied out a few
pills into a little paper box.
Take one every hour he said
"Cut your cigarettes to three a day
and don't drink coffee. Four dollars
| please
l paid him and went back to the
apartment. my head soon in whirl
from new onset of the fever.
managed to get back into my bath
robe, and threw myself down on the
divan, propped up with pillows. I had
taken the pills, but they had no more
effect than sugar or milk. BY this
time l was much more delirious and
was crying out.
saw faces about me, but l did moi
see the faces which were actually Out
by our hall door. WI Fang and Ions
SIN had waited patiently for their re
venge. Now that they thought SUN
Gent time had elapsed, they had sto
len silently to the apartment door
While Ling Sin watched. WI listened
The white devil has it," whispered
gWu Fang, as he rejoined his fellow
conspirator.
How long should have remained
in this state, and in fact how long
did remain, don't know Vaguely,
recall that our acquaintance, johnson
who had the apartment across the
hall. at last heard my cries and came
| in.
Somehow or other ! knew the state
| was in ] knew 1t was Johnson, YET
1t all seemed unreal to me. With a
great effort gathered all my scat
tered wits and managed to shout out
Telegraph Observation-Disclosures"
At about the same time, up at Rock
ledge, Kennedy and Elaine, with he1
cousin, Mary Brown, were starting out
for horseback ride through the hills
They were chatting gayly, but Ken
nedy was forcing himself to do So
In fact. they mad scarcely gone hall
a mile when Kennedy, who was rid
ing between the two and fighting of
by sheer nerve the illness he felt, sud
denly fell over In half a faint on the