The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-11-08

dssapproyed out loud. Time came when
Hathaway pere lay close to death OF
pneumonia, and an impaired constitu'
ton led his physicians to deDair. He
pulled through, however, and cronies
Of club and imbiding trooped in to con
graduate him.
Great victory for us VETS" Hath
away chortled to them. He was lying
wan but convalescent on a bed placed
near the window. Nevertheless, ne
swore off.
This, then was young Williams In
heritance. 1t troubled him little, and
on Yale field he outgrew 1t. 1t trou
bled Elizabeth not at all.
She had cut few of the leaves OF the
book of life, and none of the book OF
eugenics For small favors William
had something to be thankful that Au
gust day she once again illuminated
his outlook.
Whether Elizabeth was or was not
a pretty girl is needless to the unfold
ing of this story. Some thought SO
others not. Bill adored her-tip tilted
nose, corn colored hair, what he was
pleased to call her cerulean eyes, and
all.
AS for Bill himself, he never had
been thing of beauty, and was less
so after he took to playing football
| with more nerve than caution. Woman
| like. Elizabeth mentioned this to him
| once when he annoyed her. The week
following he broke his nose in the
| Syracuse game.
How shall / have 1t set?" he wired
her. Greek OF Roman?"
J "The brute" she thought. "No re-
finement, no culture Culture was
a fayorite word with Elizabeth. 1t had
made her it's own.
So she invited young Englishman
whom she had met casually, to join
her father and her friends in the party
they were making up to see the Yale
Harvard game in New Haven the lat
ter part of November.
The young Englishman did diction-
airy work in New York at salary oil
twelve dollars a week. For which oc-
| cupation Oxford had equipped him
mentally and for nothing else.
He lived, however, on money sent
| him from England by father whose
idea of what to do with third son
was inspired by the somewhat vague
advantages of shipping him off to The
States.
So they went up to New Ha IN :
| gray November day, a pleasant gatn-
ering Of Elizabeth's new friends
| among whom her father and mother
felt unhappy. People they were, who
put on Eastern manners as they would
a garment, because they think it be-
| comes them. Mr.. Trevor had suggest
ed that they picnic from a basket al
| the field.
at really isn't done," Elizabeth In
| formed him They lunched in town
and in the absence of a motor car
walked afterward to the field. In in
tent at least, they were truly patrician
what a fine place." Elizabeth re-
marked casually surveying Yale fields
| wooden bIeachers-"wha fine place,
II it were in England for the militants
to burnt"
"Aw.r said her Englishman.
| "Girls will be girls" Mr.. Trevor
| contributed anent the militants.
| A whistle sounded shrill through
the crisp November air. The crimson
line up spread out across the center OF
| the field. After few preliminaries
| the ball rose with a thud and settled
comfortably into Bill Hathaway's out
| stretched arms.
! AS he began his fleet footed lodging
| Elizabeth jumped to her feet, only to
see him tumbled to the ground by a
lank Individual in a crimson jersey
| who dove at his knees.
'Sit down. grumbled a man be-
hind her. II can't see."
what horrible manners thes>
Americans have,' thought Elizabeth.
She sat down, and told her young Eng
lish friend not to mind the disagree
able person in the rear. He didn't.
| The annual struggle was on. II
swung back and forth across the
white lined field without result till
| the middle of the second half.
Then, Unexpectedly, while the
stands volleyed and Numbered, com
mingling roars of hold 'em," and
"stone WALL" and take her down,
light haired STRIPPING, slender but
lithely built, af1ash with scarlet as he
raced across the dirt dug turf, ran In
behind the Harvard line up and
touched the towering Cambridge full
back on the shoulder.
A moment later the newcomer
stood far behind the tensely braced
forwards, his arms outstretched. He
opened his fingers, and describing q
long arc, the pigskin fell neatly into
his hands and sailed away from his
foot with sharp report.
The youngster came to earth with
a crunch under the combined charge
| of three Yale men, but the ball, tumb
ling end over end through the air, fin
| oIIu fell poafIv fhrOy1oh tho goal pno&o