The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1922-05-25
CHAPTER X.
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sion Of them; but allowed several
weeks to elapse before sketchinS for
his roommate the outlines Of this ad-
venture.
zone thing that was kind O. funny
about 1t, Fred" he said, II didn't
b:low what to call her."
Mr.. Mitchell, stretched upon the
window seat III their study" and look
ing out over the town street below
and the campus beyond the street, had
already thought 1t tactful to ambush
his profound amusement by turning
upon his side, SO that his face was
towarN the window and away from his
compalion. what did you want to
cal her?" he inquired in u serious
voice. "Names?"
mo. You know what mean.
mean had to keep calling her YOU:
and that gets kind Of freaky when
you're talkin' to anybody good while
ike that. When she'd be looiin' away
from me, for instance, or down at the
river or somewhere, and Ia want to
start sayin something to her, you
now, why, I wouldn't know how to
>h started exactly, without calin her
netting. A person doesn't want TO
ot always startin' Off with See here
OF Nhings like that"
don't see why you let 1t trouble
yo''' said Fred. "From how you've
alw ,ys talked about her, you had
peri 'ctly handy way to start off with
anyt ,ing YOU wanted to say to her"
What with?"
WY didn't you just say, 'Oh you
Teach er's Pct!' That would"
&c, out What 1 mean is, she
called me Rams"v' Without any both
er; it seems funny got stumpcd every
time lFtnrtcd to say Dora Some way
coui0nt land 1t, and it certainly
would a sounded crazy to call her
= HNfss Iocum' after sittin' in the same
room with her every day from the
baby class clear on up through the end
of high school That would "a made
me out an idiot! -
"What did you call her?" Fred
asked
Just nothin' at all. started to call
her something or other hundred
times, guess, and then I'd balk I'd
get all ready, and kind of make a sort
Ct sound, and then I'd have to quit"
"She may have thought you had
G, Id" said Fred, still keeping his back
tt med.
I expect maybe she dd-though I
dt MT know; most the time she didn't
st EN- to notice me much kind Of"
"She didnt?"
mo. She was too upset guess, by
w at she was thinkin' about"
But If 1t hadn't been for that"
Ere | suggested, you mean she'd have
cert inly paid more attention to who
was lifting Oh the bench with her?"
"G t out You know how it was.
Ever! >ody those few days thought we
were oin' to have war, and she was
just S, re of It, and 1t upset her. or
course most people were lot more
upset by what those Dutchmcn did to
the Lustania than by the idea of wnr;
and she seemed to feel as broken up as
anybody could be about the Lusitania.
but what got her the worst was the
notion OF her country wantn' to fight,
she said. She really was upset too,
Fred; there wasn't no putin on
about it. guess that ole girl cer-
tainly must have good deal of feel
ing, because, doggoncd, after we'd
been sittin there a while if she didn't
have to get out her handkerchief She
kept her face turned away from me-
Just the same as you're don' now to
keep from laughin'-but honestly, she
cried like somebody at funeral.
felt like the darndest fool."
"Im not laughing" said Fred, but
he did not prove it by turning so that
his face could be seen. "What did she
say?'
"Oh, she didn't say such an awful
lot. She said one kind O. funny thing
though: she said she was sorry she
couldn't quite control herself, but if
anybody had to see her cry she minded
1T less because it was an old school
mate. What struck me so kind o
funny about that is--why, 1t looks as
If she never knew the way I always
hated her so."
"Yes," said Fred. ut wasn't fiat
tering!"
well, sir, 1t isn't, kind Of" Ram
scy agreed, musingly. "It certanl,
isn't when you look at it that way"
"What did you say when She soi,
thnt?" Fred asked.
"Nothn'. started to, but I sort o
balked again. Well, we kept on sittin,
there, and afterwhlle she began f.
tax again and got kind OF excite,
about how no war could do anytbin,
or anybody any good and all war wa
wicked, no matter. what it was about
and nothin' could be good that wa
founded on fear and hate, and ever,
war that ever was. fought was alway
founded on fear and hate. She sait