Thrilling Romance Of The Ball Field

Chap. L- "This, then, Miss Bangs, s your final auswerí" "Irrevocably 10," was the proud reply. Chap. II.-- Tliey malte a pretty picure standing iii the doorway of her ather's mansión ; he, the Captain of the tfelon Stealers, tall and strong in Ümb, md tile hcro of his littlo first base in muiy a liöt c'oütested iaöféi She, the ianghter of the banker wlio had wagered ihe ontiie sisSetS of the bank and deposita )f many a poor táah on the rqtui-n game jetween tJae Moth Eradicatord aiid the lome club on the followiug day. Our iero's answer cuné hot and quick: " Then,!' cïifed b.e, " to-morrow's settíng im will shirie upou tho beggaï dMÉgbtei lï a rnined man. It rest with me io shrow tko game on which jour proud Eather's wealth is stakéd. You have tonight settled your own fate. So be it. Good night:" and turning himself soven times l'Ottnd on his lieol, at the aame time boring a laigë liole in tile hall carpet, Mose Fitz Allen was gone. Chap. III.- Prominent among the immense crowd assembled on the grounds is the palé face oí Amelia Bangs. The Moth Eradicators aro at tho bat on the last half of the ninth inning, with two men out and one man on the third, and the sco.te stands 53 to 63. "Will that man get in ?" ia tho breathless question -whicii peitades tho sceHe. Blose Fitz Aliena standing olí tho nrst Dase, mutters, " Ñow for revenge ! Ñow do I give the tliinga-way ! Ah !" and kis face was distortéd -tfith passion liko amudball dried in the sun. " Two strikes !" yells tho umpire. The batter must hit it next time. He does hit it, and a fly raounts and desoends beaut.ifully to Mose. " Take it Mose," goes out from the throat of Banker Bangs and hundreds of his friends. "Notif Moseis thoroughly acquainted with hlmself," is his low response, and the ball passes through his haüds and tile man oü third goes home. Score, 54 to 5B. Chap. IV.- Two months later flnds Amelia Bangs taking in plain sewing, her father the janitor of the Old Exchange, and Mose, though somowhat roubled in mind, still takes his beer.- OU Cüv Defrith,