The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-05

men with sense enough to peel q
potato could not enact a law that a
half-baked Judge could not interpret
twice alike in the same year.
On his homecoming he had noticed
two young ladies at Wave Urest-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 information of his mother
she replied:
1T is a young lady from the city
visiting Miss Pryor. / do not even
know her name."
Hang 1t, If I 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:
"And who are the people at the
other placer
Their name Is Jefrries."
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, it won't be for us to cheer
him up. have heard that he wal
very wild and reckless at college,"
why, he doesn't look it" said Miss
Callie.
"Oh, you are a physiognomist, are
you? You al tell by a young mans
face fifty rods away whether he is
wild or mott"
II thought he had a pleasant
face"
Let me tell you what they call
him in college. 1t is Punch JEFF
fries!"
But why? Does he drink o
punch than anybody else?"
1T must be that. A young man
who knows him told me that he had
three brawls before he had been In
college a month. hope he will make
no excuse to get acquainted with US.
We must prepare ourselves to snub
him at the first advance"
Eyes, we mustl" sighed Miss Callie
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 1t he did
not stop to ask himself. Perhaps Il
vas because he had a hope that he
might get a neal view Of the girl
from the city. He was half o mile be-
hind them, and keeping their pace,
when he heard a toot behind him and
glanced back to see a young man
burning up the road.
That foot meant but n thing. It
meant: Il am coming and you smafl
potatoes with your cheap machines
had better take to the woodsj"
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 mar came sweeping
up and would have passed on-hA
didn't pass. He wanted to badly
enough. but he couldn't just manage
1t.
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. I
"And it was nothing to him whether
he killed us or mott"
"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
c of death, and yet you are ready
to excuse such recklessness!"
It was a week later, and Brian was
In the village on an errand and had
no thought OF the young ladies, when
an auto, coming from the railroad
depot and containing a lady as a 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. It 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 be thought
they regarded him with something
like horror.
isn't 1t brutally shamefull" II
claimed Miss Pryor at che looked
down at the man on the ground, and
in a voice meant to be overheard.
But why did he do it7" Queried
Miss Callie.
Because he Is q rufianl"
you are mistaken. young lady
said a man beside their machine. He
did it because" {
But the runabout was put In motion.
Miss Pryor didn't want to hear the
rest. There was something shout the