The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-07-06

things when they have come down
from heaven. If they were, would not
each OF US choose to be born king
or queen, or millionaire, or with an
endowment of every talent? Souls
see only the hearts of their future
mothers, not their material circum-
stances, or those of the men who are
to win them. So presently Theodota
found herself before young girl who
was seated alone in a handsome
room, looking at diamond ring upon
her finger. And 1t seemed to Theo-
dota, in her love for the girl, that she
would like nothing better than to be-
come her daughter.
The door opened and a young man
came in. The girl rose and ran into
his arms; she thought she loved him,
but Theodota felt the girls heart con-
tract with disappointment. The soul
Of the girl knew that the young man
was not to be her mate, but the girl
knew nothing of this.
And Theodota, lowering by the
young girl, began to feel the hail beat
ing on her again; the lightning
flashed and the thunder pealed.
Il don't see why you should object
to my having good time, Frank" the
young girl said to her sweetheart.
Just because we are engaged-is
that any reason why / shouldn't go out
with any man but your"
You'll have to choose between me
and the rest answered the young
man bitterly.
The girl slammed down the diamond
ring upon the table.
Take your old ring, then!" she
stormed. You're a tyrant anyway,
and couldn't be happy with you. If
you are as jealous as this before mar
rage, what will you be afterward?"
Theodota understood nothing Of
what was being said, but her deli
cate wings were drenched with the
rain, and. seeing a warmer, SUMMER
place little distance away, she dart
ed instinctively toward it.
And now ensued a period Of forget
fulness. Theodota had lost all memory
of the joys Of heaven, for the human
love that EMBODIED her seemed sweet
or than anything that had happened
to her before. Dimly she seemed to
be aware of her imprisonment and.
as the sculptor works upon the plastic
clay or wax, so she was forming by
her own desires the body that she was
destined to inhabit But of what was
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struggles to earn the money to pay
for his wife's Illness, of his hopes and
fears and those of his young wife
Theodota was supremacy ignorant.
She basked In the brides love as one
basks in the sunshine, and her con-
tent was absolute.
Then came the day when Theo-
dota's happiness seemed complete.
The little body that she had fitted for
herself was made. The house was
ready for her to inhabit it. She knew
nothing of what was happening on
earth, of the Doctors grave face and
ayerted eyes as he toiled over the
young wife, while the husband waited
in an agony Of suspense without.
Suddenly, with a SILVER of fear,
Theodota found herself a spirit again.
And, freed from the bonds of human
love, she longed to flee back to her
place In heaven and rest among the
happy spirits there
But because it is given to mortals,
when love Is omnipotent, to make
their cries heard to the happy souls,
and to the souls to hear them, Theo-
dota, about to fly away, paused as she
heard the agonized words of the young
mothers prayer:
GOD, give me back my child"
And, with the same clarity OF
vision, Theodota was enabled to see,
and even dimly to understand the
meaning of the tiny coffin that stood
within the narrow room next to the
chamber in which the young husband
kneeled beside his WIFE, And the
same prayer broke from both their
lips.
I've couldn't have saved her." said
the doctor gravely. mo human