The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-11-12
She Leaned Forward.

as your rotten paper is concerned, 1t
can get along without its talented
editor for few MONTHS" added the
doctor, sarcastlcally. "If you died this
very minute, they'd keep on getting
out their morning editions just the
same, you know"
And so it happened that Holster
found himself on the Allison farm,
some two miles from Chenille, and
forty miles from a town of any size
at all on a certain morning In the mid
die of May. His status as paying
working guest was somewhat Of q
puzzle to Pa Allison, who came In for
a moment when HOLSTER ate his
o'clock breakfast and wondered If he
ought to call him down for not get
ing up at o'clock to help with the
chores before the family breakfast at
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But there were no more 8 O'Clock
breakfasts for Holster for some time
to come. By the middle of July he
was writing DIR. Dubbs that he was
''strong as q horse-had gained twen-
ty pounds-and guessed he was
cured"
The belligerent Doctor Dubbs head
ed him off imperatively, but two weeks
later HOLSTER wrote that he was Ego
ing bugs" He couldn't stand it any
longer He was feeling fine, but would
soon be dead from the neck up. The
iYo 1nhoa 20 hi q
swore that in another month his last
brain would have departed. Couldn't
he have a typewriter? Maybe he could
start that novel he had In his head.
But DR.. Dubbs sat on that proposition
with decision and dispatch. A type
writer would mean too little sleep.
Did he want to lose all he had so far
gained by sticking to orders?
However, for fear that HOLSTER
would eventually kick over the traces,
throw over the cure in its most critical
stage, the willy DIR. Dubbs decided to
call for assistance, and to that end
sought out his favorite niece.
"What do you say to a month in the
country, Milly? he asked that young
woman, pinching her round arm.
'Really?" she asked. do you mean
it, Uncle Doc7"
provided" said the doctor. judi
ciously.
provided what?" she demanded
curiously.
provided you go where 1 send you
and do as you're told when you get
there"
And then the doctor explained about
HOLSTER.
"And all I've got to do is to enter.
tain this nice man until you think he's
ready to come back to his work." she
asked.
"All you've got to do is to interest
him and keep him interested. You
must meet him in such a way that he
can't help noticing you. He needs
something to occupy his mind"
"I'll feel like q vampire" she mused
But she went,
So q few days later Mildred Nor
rison was established as the star
boarder on the Jackson farm on the
other side of the road and quarter
of mile below the Allison place.
HOLSTER heard Of 1t at breakfast the
next morning. Mr.. Allison said that q
right pretty looking city girl had come
to board with the JacksOns for a
while, but he didn't think much about
1t until some time later in the week
the day he went fishing, to be exact.
The weather was perfect and work
had slackened enough so that Hol-
lister felt that he could take day of
with q clear conscience, so he walked
| through the woods and the fields to
the Horton pond some three miles
away. There at the grassy foot Of q
steep bank some ten or twelve feet
high he made himself comfortable and
set out couple of lines.
He was all unaware that Mildred
had been stalking him for the past
several days. She had seen him sew
eral times, but there had been no op-
| portunity to meet him in any othe!
than an ordinary way, and Mildred
meant to obey Uncle Docs orders If II
was possible to do so. That afternoon
In her wanderings she came to fence
that ran along the top of an unexpect
eddy high bank, and peering down dis
oovarad IN har ayfrnrfca thn unSuSnpPf.