The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-05-04

But Ramsey sfopok his head. II
didn't do ". 7 wouldn't ever have done
anything just on account OF her talk
In that way. She shut the door on
me N was q good while ago"
"She did What for7"
"weil I'm not much Of a talker, you
know, Fred" said Ramsey. staring At
the pen he played with. "T'm not much
Of anything. for that matter, probry,
but T--weIl-T-"
"You what7"
well, I had to tell her I didn't feel
about things the way she did She'd
thought had, all along. I guess. Any
way II made her hate me or some
thing, ! guess and she called II all
on ! expect there wasn't much 10 call
on, 80 far as she was concerned, any
how" He laughed feebly. "She told
me better go and enlist"
"Pleasant Of her" Fred muttered
Especially as we know what she
thinks enlisting means" He raised his
voice cheerfully. "well. that's settled (:
and, thank God, old Mr.. Bernstorff's on
his way to his sweet little vine-clad
cottage home They're getting guns
on the ships, and the big shows liable
to commence any day. We can hold
up our heads now. and we're going to
see some great times, old Ramsey hoy !
It's hard on the home folks-Gosh!
don't like to think Of that And
guess It's going to be hard on lot Of
boys that haven't understood what It's
family affairs. and business. and so on,
have got 'em tied up so it's hard to 70
and Of course there's plenty that just
cant and some that aren't husky
enough-but the rest Of us are going
to have the big time In our lives. We
got an awful lot to learn; It scares me
to think of what don't know about
being any sort OF rearrank pri-
waite. Why. it's a regular profession,
like practicing law, or selling for
drug house on the road.
"Golly, DO you remember how we
talked about that. way back in fresh
man year. what we were going to do
when We got out of college? You were
going to be practicing law. for in
stance. and well. rr instance. re-
member Colburn; he was going to be
a doctor, and he did go to some medi.
cal school for one year. Now he's In
the Red Cross, somewhere In Persia.
Golly"
He paused, then chartered briskly
on. We'll, there's one good old boy
was with our class for q while. back
In freshman year; I bet we won't see
him In any good old army Old rough
neck Llnski that you put the knob on
his nose for. Tommie Hopper says he
saw him last summer in Chicago soap
boIin', yellin' his head OF cussin' every
government under the sun but mostly
ours and the allies. you bet. and going
to run the earth by revolution and rep
resentatives of unskilled labor immi-
grants, nobody that can read or write
allowed to vote. except Linski. Tom
Linskl: he never did q days work In
his life-too busy trying to get the
workinglnen stirred up against the peo-
Pile that exploit 'em! TOmmie says he
had big crowd to hear him, though,
and took up quite a little money for
a cause or something. Well, let him
holler! guess we can attend to him
when We get back from over yOnder.
BY George, old Ram. I'm gettin' kind
II hoppy In the gills" He admins
tered IA resounding slap to his COM
rade's shoulder. 1T certainly looks as
II our big days were walking toward
us!"
He was right The portentous days
came on apace. and each one brought
u new and greater portent. The faces
Of men lost u driven look besetting
them in the days of badgered waiting,
and instead Of that heavy apprehen-
sion one saw the look mems faces must
have worn in 1910 and 1851, and the
history Of the old days grew clearer
in the new. The President went TO
the congress, and the true indictment
he made there reached soothing Pots
dam with an unspoken prophecy some
what chilling even to Potsdam. one
guesses-and then through an April
night Went almost quietly the steady
word: We were at war with Germany.
The bugles sounded across the CONT
nent; drums and flies played up and
down the city streets and in town and
village squares and through the cOun-
Family in all ears there was
"A multitudinOus noise like distant,
h"arse cheering and a sound
like that was what Dora Yocum heard,
one night, ns she sat lonely in her
.oom. The bugles and flies and drums
had been heard about the streets Of |
he college town, that day and she
bought she must die Of them, they |
un her So, and now to be haunted by
- imaginary cheering
She started. Was il imaginary?
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