Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-06-09
CHAPTER VI.--Continued.


Mllla hung weightily upon his arm,
and they dawdled, drifting from one
side Of the pavement to the other as
they slowly advanced. Albert and Sa-
die, ahead Of them, called good night"
from a corner, before turning down the
side street where Sadie lived; and
then, presently, Ramsey and Milla
we're at the latters gate. He went in
with her, hating at the front steps
We'll, g'night, Milla." he said.
"Want to go out walking tomorrow
hlght1 Albert and Sadie are"
~ can't tomorrow night" she told
him with obvious regret. isn't 1t the
worst luckl l got an amt comm to
visit from Chicago, and she's crazy
#about playing Five Hundred and
mama and papa said hat to stay in
D 90 make four to play it. She's liable
90 be here three or four days, and I
guess l got to be around home pretty
much all the time she's here. It's the
worst luck !"
He was dOleful, but ventured to be
literary. "Well, what can't be helped
must be endured. I'll come around
when she's gone"
He moved as If to depart, but she
still retained his arm and did not pre-
pare to relinquish it.
well" he said.
swell what, Ramseyf"
"Well--g' night"
She glanced up at the dark front
Of the house. Il guess the family's
some to bed" she said absentiy.
II s'pose so"
Well, good night, Ramsey" She
said this, but still did not release his
arm, and suddenly, in fuster, he felt
mat the time he dreaded had come.
somehow, without knowing where. ex-
eept that 1t was somewhere upon what
seemed to be blurred face too full
Of obstructing features, he kissed her.
She turned instantly away in the
oarkness, her hands over her cheeks f;
and IN panic Ramsey wondered if he
hadn't make dreadful mistake.
"Scuse mel" he said, stumbling to-
ward the gate. "Well, l guess / got
70 be gettin' along back home"
de woke in the morning to a great
senIoathi1g; he had kissed a girl.
Alngied with the loathinG was a curl
GUS pride in the very fact that caused
ene loathing, but the pride did not last
4ong' He came downstairs morbid to
breakfast, and continued this mood
sIIerward. At noon Albert Paxton
brought him a note which Milla had
asked Sadie to ask Albert to give him.
bearie: / am just wondering II
s0u thought as much about something
20 sweet that happened last night as
u4d you know what. 1 think 1t was
e sweetest thing. l send you one
"'tn this note and / hope you will
NuinK 1t Is a sweet one. / would give
sOu d real one If you were here nov
-Ia hope You would think 1t WA
s"eeter still than the one put in this
1--WE II Is the sweetest thing now yor
Sle nine and am yours forever kiddo.
n you come around about friday eve
" Whl be all right. aunt Jess will be
sue back home b. then so come early
=. %uu we Will get SADIE and Alb to go to
: ,ae oand Concert. Don't forget what
1nd about my putting something
s@se1 IN this note, and hope you win
ing ing 1t is a sweet one but not as
, y%eet as the real sweet one would
al this point Ramsey impulsively
. 'ore the note into small pieces. He
80. LED cold as his Imagination pro-
go sketch Of his mother In the
~ ~ Of reading this missIve, and OF
"a oppression as she read the SEN
-1e 1T Is the sweetest thing now
49,, are mine and / am yours forever
80 80 BE wished that Milla hadn't
.,- '1sh kiddo." She called him that,
M1suFnea. but In hen warm little voice
NssS scanned not at eli what 1t did