The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-14

as shown by the postmarks, and then
gave himself up to positive enjoyment
His countenance bore an expression
of unalloyed happiness and content,
and then look of startled perplexity
came over 1t. What he read was
miles across the sea to receive from
the girl he expected to marry. The
letter said:
you know in my last letter I said
/ might have something of great i'm
portance to tell you, but it was not
yet settled. Well, It's settled now.
This is my last letter. Good by.
SADIE"
meant Had she finally decided she
could not wait any longer for the lover
who had been willing to leave her and
20 to the war, and married the one
who remained at home? He could not
believe it, and yet he was constantly
tortured with the thought that an
urgent lover with plenty of money to
lavish upon a girl right at hand had
great advantages over one so far away
that even his letters were often two
months old when they reached her. 1t
was a whole month before another
transport came in with mail, and when
at last the Chaplin drove into the
Quartet with load of mail sacks, no
ones heart beat louder with anxiety
and eagerness than did Jules. At
last his letters were handed to him,
but there was no familiar envelope
The blow was 80 deadening that he did
not even open his other letters for half
an hour, but remained plunged in fruit
less thought and fear Of &hat 1t now
seemed to him 1t must mean. He had
certainly lost her. Suddenly it oc-
Cured to him that there might be
something in his letters to explain the
mystery, and he opened and read them
with feverish haste. but they contain
ed not word to throw light on the
subject. Next be had recourse to the
home papers, but no item of local
news, no wedding announcements, no
list Of marriage licenses gave him in
formation he sought, and yet dreaded
to find.
1t was day Of mental anguish for
julie, but with night came a change.
for that was the night when Aguinal-
dos army made an attack upon
Manila and encircled the city with
wall Of Ere from 10000 rifles from a
little after dark until daylight the next
morning. Under that hail of millions
Of bullets julie lay all night long, his
regiment being one of those detailed
t defend the city from an attack from
without. Firing but an occasional vol
ley In the direction of the forts, block
houses, entertainments and swamps
surrounding the city, within whose
protection the Filipinos remained
while pouring their heavy and continu-
Gus fire into the town, Jules regi-
ment waited impatiently for daylight.
With the first signs of day the FIJI
ipinos' fire ceased, but 1t soon broke
out again with increased intensity as
the American line began to move for
ward through the swamps to the at
tack. Wading in water up to their
breasts, crossing the swept bridges,
plunging through Jungles Of brush,
crossing open spaces exposed to the
full view Of the enemy, with men fall
ing dead and wounded on all sides,
the volunteers pushed steadily for
ward until they came within charging
distance of the forts and trenches, and
then they rushed into and over them
and swept the Filipinos out as rest
less food sweeps driftwood from
river.
1t was during this last desperate
charge that Jules fell with wound In
the head that rendered him insensible
A little later the litter bearers OF the
hospital corps found him, and carried
him back to the field hospital. where