The Aroostook Times, August 11, 1905

IV: C -.- a. l o o k l i n e public s£ &?fci- 'A* IMPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER. Houlton, Maine, August 11, 1905. No. 33. to make the distinction that, while bfr “ Gee !” said Burke, impressed with the sympathy boin of youth and inex The Chilled Steel Team played with reason for the invention. He couldn’t interest, in the former wee personal, the fairness of the statement, “ how perience. desperate courage, yet in the hearts of do anything dishonest or mean, if he h e r^ lb e rn the Utter wee purely much do you weigh ?” “ I’ve’ blabbed about this new en the men was that waver of apprehen tried. He left college under a cloud, athletic. “ About a hundred and eighty. If gine we are working on in the model sion which the untried and unproved but it came out afterwards that he was PA**fr*v “ Chuckle-headed idiot!” he repeat it was a boxing match for points, you room, the compound-turbine invention. must ever feel in opposing the victors shielding someone else, and the presi ed, with increased vindictiveness, as would win ; if it is going to be a fight, They worked it ou; of me before I of many struggles. They knew that dent apologized in chapel, although he gaaod at the ruined cam. He didn’t you won’t.” realized it, automobile ride, good din none in the city thought they could Berwyn wasn’t there to hear it.” Young Morgan made explanation to ^ m m a , m. blame Mica Allison in the least; his “ He’s a bluff trying to scare you ner, and all that, and I told all I knew win, and they played all the hardei for y &MA.U* anger wee directed wholfy against him- out,*’ interposed “ Mug” Peters, a hulk- out of pure sociability.” that. At leant, they would not be dis Mr. Allison, on the train homeward* MttF.lfc “ That’s pretty bad, Van,” said Mor graced. Time and time again the ‘It may seem a little queer, but there * Seam* •el/. He raised his eyss to see if any ing big brute of a man and something bed noticed his petulance, end dis- of a bully because of his strength. gan gravely. “ I think you had better Athleties found the other line like a isn’t any mystery about it,” he said. eov«t$d that the gsze of McBnrney, the “ He’s afraid to fight !” make a clean breast of it.” stone wall, and it was only in the last “ My real name is Morgan, Hamilton three minutes ef the first half that they Morgan, but I took my uncle’s name frwtman, and of Hollins, the heed For answer young Morgan strode to “ If I do I’ll lose my job and Uncle managed to make a touchdown by a draughtsman, was fixed upon him. ward Peters. With the quickness of Allison will throw me over. It would of Berwyn because he and my father trick play. wished it. My father gave up nearly Thereupon be blushed violently end a cat he sprung upon him, grasped him break my mother’s heait, and besides, there is a girl.” his whole life to an invention which footed ye guilty as he felt. about ihe che'.t, and brought his elbows Van Norman Curtis pushed his way It was singularly unfortunate ; for, down on .he big man’s ribs with a Morgan thought he knew who the into the dressing room to hear Morgan interested both of us more than any jtfht.hjrd known what they were talk- force tha‘ made them crack. Before girl was and he turned his face away. tell a rubber to look after the little thing else, except football. He liked aboqt, Ms expression would have Peters could recover he was whirled What he said was : “ Those fellows quarterback, who had been sadly man the game almost as much as I do, and entirely different. At that par- around, something struck his jaw, and were after me, too, and they are pretty handled. “ Don’t bo:her about me ; a lot of the plays I have been given ulsr moment Me Burney was saying ; the other men saw “ Mug” carried to smooth customers. The people in the I haven’t a scratch or a bruise ; the credit for were of his devising. I work ed w . th him so much that I got to be “ Of course, he is the newest men in the fountain and thrown into it. office know what they are here for and other boys need you more.” the room end I don’t know anything “ Billy” Burke ran up and held out I should think they would watch the “ Oh, Morg., it was great I” burst a pretty good machinist. We had our about him except that he is a good his hand. “ Gee, but that was great !” sneaks. After all, it is the piincible out Curtis. ‘ They are simply wild own workshop as long as the money lasted. My father worried himself to . i &soa. n worker. I hired him because he made he said. “ Why didn’t you do that to of the thing, for if they found out over the work of our boys. You’re a lijog A. M me like him no much I couldn’t turn me ?” everything we know about the engine wonder ! But that isn’t what I came death {after nil his money was gone, “ Well I kind of liked you,” con it wouldn’t do them much good.” and, when my uncle offered to adopt <U»r. *« him down. H e ; poems to be educated down to tell you. I heard they sus me and look after my future if I would 740 f. m. above his job; heknow* too much for fessed Morgan. He forgot about this conversation pected you about that leak, and I went an ordinary machinist, and yet he does The whole plant was willing to make because his interest in the team drove to Uncle Allison on the train, and made take his name, I decided to accept. not seem tp j^ave. bad much experience, a hero of the new man, but that didn’t everything else from his mind. It a clean breast of it. It is all right ; he My uncle has a lot of money. I was jftisia^ natural bent, I suppose, such as appeal to him at all and his reserve came back to him with force when acted like a brick. And I’ve got Milli- nearly eighteen when my father died. I was glad to go to college, be b* has for football, .from ell accounts. dissipated the suddenly acquired pop McBurney called him into the little cent with me, she’s the girl, you know cause I was crazy about football. I Ftl He eels all straight enough, bvt he is ularity. cubby-hole of an office, talking frankly as man to man. nad hard work passing the entrance ex kind of mysterious—keeps to himself He was courteous enough, but he re “ What’s that ?” aminations, and it was even more diffi - ' i M r and doesn't mix much with the others.” fused to be on friendly terms with any “I believe in you, Morgan, but the “ Millicent Arthur, the girl I’m en W > - M, cult to keep up with my classes in the Pretty suspicious, I should say,” one but Van Norman Curtis. But others don’t, at least, some of them,” gaged to, and she wants to meet you academic course. My uncle and 1 observed the heed draughtsman. “ 1 everybody liked Curtis, who was one said the foreman. “The head draughts right after the game.” quarreled because he wanted to make don’t believe in hiring men to work in of those cheerful, irresponsible, lovable man is bound to have you discharged. “Good old Van !” said Morgan. an ornamental lawyer of me and. I this room unless you know all about souls whose buoyant gayety, charming He says he has found out that you ©hurth. The other players saw a fine brave wanted to go in for the scientific course. St. ’’■" ' them. There has been a leak some manners and reckless generosity were made tracings of the turbine-engine light dancing in Morgan’s eyes, his I didn’t ^eem to be able to grasp any K.PUTNAM. where end we must trace it. It is the as the stamp of the mint on silver, drawings, and that you have been seen strong face glowing with enthusiasm, thing but football and machinery. He firit time anything of the kind has hap doubling the intrinsic value. Morgan with people who have been hanging r n v i G s s . as he rounded them up for final in cut off my allowance, but I had a little y l&ao ▲. h. pened and the old man is furious about always made Curtis welcome at his about here trying to find out what we structions for the game. money saved up, and I was on the 11.45 A. M. it.” room, but he never encouraged visits. are doing. He is after your scalp, and 100 F.K. “ Boys, here is where we win. We team, you know, so I kept on for a ] “ Maybe some of your draughtsmen He said frankly that he wanted to de if I were you, would quit. Anyway, held them in the first h a lfth e y scored year.

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