The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27

went and owned up to it like a man.
1 can't stand liar, 1 tell you, and I've
just about decided that we might as
well call everything off between us"
Nina was genuinely angry. She
: had planned shopping trip in antici-
patton of her wedding a month hence,
and the announcement that she would
be obliged to forego her visit to town
because the auto would not rum
aroused her wrath.
Jay was a city-bred boy who was
attending college when his parents
bought 120-acre farm. Shortly after
the purchase jays father died and
left the land to the boy and his moth
er. Neither of them was acquainted
with the science of farming but JAY
was DESTROYS of learning something
about it, so he and his mother.
disposed of two-thirds of their I'M
terest to Nina's father, who was on
who agreed to a partnership Of the
whole 120 acres, rather than to a pur-
chase of part of it. Jay and his moth
er continued to live in the small
dwelling that Mr.. Perkins had erected
on the land, while the Martins built
the other house.
Nina was attending boarding school
at the time of the transaction, but
when she finished and came home she
and Jay struck up companionship
that quickly ripened into something
deeper, and they had become engaged
three months before the Washington
birthday anniversary with which this
tale deals.
"See that book in the bookcase?"
that's the Life of George Washing
ton,' and you would do well to read
1t. Now, go ahead and-and keep
your date with the other girl"
Jay opened his mouth to remon-
strdte, but the look on her face caused
him to change his mind; so he left the
house, carrying a sickly grin, and
mounted the horse that was waiting
for him.
Her nose pressed against the win
dow, and tears creeping from her eyes,
Nina watched the mare gallop out Of
sight with her fiance.
think of anybody trying to tell me
such barefaced lie-such weak ex-
cuse!" she snorted. "Tm disappoint-
ed in that man. The old automobile
would run on the bottom of a lake,
and l know it."
This brought an idea, but she hest
tated before acting on 1t.
81 guess father wouldn't care" she
unused. IF he were here I'd ask him."
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin were spending
the day at the home of relative In
the adjoining county, having travelled
thither in the spring buggy; for Mr..
Martin had not got to the point Of
trusting himself at the wheel of
"EbeneZer."
Nina left the house and approached
the car, which was standing outside
the entrance to the barn. 1t was a
relic of the early days of motor trav-
| ell, but it always had given good serv-
ice and had been used nearly every
day during the present winter, which
happened to be one of the open kind.
There was only a patch of snow
here and there over the landscape
but the air was just sufficiently biting
to make it exhilarating.
"Just the day for ride" she told
herself, "and Pm going to take one
and prove that Jay Perkins told me a
fb."
She returned to the house and pres
emily appeared with a heavy Jacket
hat and gloves. She set 'Ebenezer's'
spark and gas throttles at the righl
angles and proceeded to crank the
motor. On the second turn the engine
began humming.
"Therel Listen to that" she sale
triumphantly, and climbed into The
machine. She let in the clutch, shift
ed the gears and "Ebenezer" rolled
smoothly down the road.
Didn't / tell your" she laughed. ="
think I'll go on to town and do m!
shopping and show Mr.. Jay that he'
not at all necessary to such trip"
But as ''Ebenezer" was approaching
the line that marked the boundary o
the Perkins, Martin land, something
happened. The car stopped dead still
in the road, although the engin
roared.
Clutch must have slipped out" de