The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-12-13
A WILD RIDE
BY DOROTHY N. MARsHEA.
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Copyright. lyls. by Mcclure Newsp'
Syndicate.)


(Copyright, 1918, by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate)
Alice Hildreth came dancing into the
room where her mother sat. waving an
open letter In her hand.
Mother, mother" she exclaimed
joyously. "Aunt Helen wants me to
make her visit while she Is in the
mountains Please, dearest. say can
CO." she pleaded. ~ do SO want to
90 through the mountains"
But, Alice" demonstrated Mrs. Hi
dreth, you"
, snow, MOTHER" interrupted Alice.
"you know you are going to be a dar-
ling and let me CO."
After many arguments and much
teasing, Alice convinced her mother
that she ought to be allowed to go. SO.
on the following Monday, a bright,
sunny day. Alice started In her little
gray roadster for her journey to Aunt
Helen's.
I'D hills and down she went, SLOW
ing up now and then to admire the
beautiful scenery. Everything was SO
new and marvelously beautiful to her
that she wished she had week 10
spend on her trip.
She paused a while to admire the
"Old Man of the Mountains theh
speeded up in order to reach her des'
tination before dark. and In her hurry
she did not notice the Danger sign
that gave warning of the dangerous
| Three Mile hill of Franconia Notch.
| Suddenly, after making sharp turh'
| she saw stretched before her the most
| dangerous descent in the mountains
| She damned on both brakes, but they
| only slowed the car up n trifie. Inc
roads were all cut up from recent rains
and were In terrible condition. ana
poor Alice could only brace herself ana
| clutch the wheel, thanking her lucky
stars there was no one in the road.
She went over the last bump ana
down the final slope at an awfui speeu'
when suddenly young man In sol
dier's uniform came running out IRON
the side of the road. Alice reached toi
her horn, and in the second that FOL
lowed the steering wheel was wrench
ed from her other hand as the IRON
wheels struck rut. She felt hersel
going over, and then everything grew
blank.
When she came to, Alice round her
self lying on her auto robe with
young man in khaki bending over her
II did not take long to discover ina
she was miraculously unhurt, but IN
car was completely overturned. The
stopped passing farmer, and tn
young man, with his help, finally sue
ceeded in righting the car again. An
wonder of wonders-it was not dam
aged much, save for a dent In the mu
guard and broken windshield.
Alice discovered that Donald Wan'
for as such the young man Introduce
!. himself, was bound for the same tow
as she. So it was quite natural tina
she should invite him to go in her ca
1t does not take two young people ION
to get acquainted, and in the two nal
Nv weeks that followed they speI
much of their time together. just b'
fore Donald was called for servic
overseas he asked for and received \
ices promise that she would let HI
guide her car down the path of life
long as he promised not to tip her on
because" she declared, 1.-THE spill
gave myself was enough to last a III
time"
When Alice told her mother o. III
experience after reaching home safe
r she also showed her new ring TIL
+ sparkled and cleaned on her lie
: hand.
5 Now, mother" she teased, "arer
y you glad you let me go to see Au
{ Helen? Because" she added. even II
9 did have an awful scare, l never won
have met Don If 1t hadn't been for tn
wild, wild ride"