The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-03-03
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CHAPTER x. 81 3.
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Kamsey kept very few things from
Freds MITCHELL and usually his conf
6snces were; Immediate upon the ocea,
Sion sof thefh; ynt allowed several
weeks to efapse, before sketem.s for
his roommate. khe eutiinesEof THIS aa-s
venture. -
..One thing thatSwas> kind O funhy
| about It, Fred" he said, II didnt
know what to call her
Mr.. Mitchell stretched upon the
window seat in 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
toward the window and away from his
| COMPANION. what did you want TO
, call herr" he inquired In serious
voice. "Names?"
mo. You know what ! mean.
| mean | had To keep calling her you !;
! and that gets kind of freaky wheh
you're talkin' to anybody good whiie
| like that When she'd he lookin' away
| from me. for instance, or down at the
river, or somewhere, and Ia want TO
start sayin' something to her, you
know. why, wouldn't know how to
get started exactly, Without calm her
something A person doesn't want to
he always startin' Off with See here
ar things like that
YOU" said Fred From how you've
always talked about her. you had
perfectly handy way to start on with
anything YOU wanted to say to her.
What with?"
"Why didn't you just say, oh. you
Teachers Pet" That would"
Get out What | mean is, she
called me Ramsey without any both
err; it seems funny got stumped every
time started to say Dora Some way
couldn't land it, and 1t certainly
would IA sounded crazy to call her
Miss Yocum after sittn' 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 herr" Fred
asked.
".Just nothin' at all. ! started to call
her something or other a hundred
times, ! guess and then I'd balk. III
get all ready, and kind of make Il sort
Of a sound, and then I'd have to quit
"She may have thought you had a
cold" said Fred, still keeping his back
turned.
II expect maybe she did-though
don't know; most the time she didn'
seem to notice me much, kind Of"
'She didn't?'
mo. She was too upset, | guess, by
what she was thlnkin' about"
But If IL hadn't been for that,
Fred suggested, you mean she'd have
certainly paid more attention to wh'
was stt nut = W. e sh5A M MN hfr wu-
Everybody those few days thought W,
were goin'~to have war. and she wa.
4 Just sure of 1t, and 1t upset her o.
course most people were lot more
upset by what those Dutchmen did t
the Lusitania than by the idea Of war
and she seemed to feel as broken up as
anybody could be about the lIusitania
but what got her the worst was the
notion of her country wantln' to fight
she said. She really was upset. too
Fred; there wasn't no putin on
about ii. guess that ole girl GER
tainly must have good deal Of feel
Ing, because, doggoned, after we'd
have to get out her handkerchief. She
kept her face turned away from me-
just the same as you're dom now tC
keep from laughin--but honestly, she
cried like somebody at a funeral.
, felt like the darndest fool"
I'm not laughing" said Fred, but
he did not prove 1t 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. hut II
anybody had to see her cry she minded
it less because 1t was an old school.
mate. What struck me 30 kind O.
funny about that is---why, IL looks as
If she never knew the way ! always
hated her So
Eyes" said Fred. at wasn't fiat.
tering!"
| "Well, sir, 1t isn't. kind Of" Ram.
| sey agreed, musingly. at certainly
isn't when yOn look at 1t that way"
"What did yon say when she said
| that?" Fred asked.
"NOthin'. | started to, but I sort Of
baked again. Well, we kept on sitting
there, and afterwhile she began to
talk again and got kind OF excited
about how no war could do anything
or anybody any good, and all war was
wicked, no matter what ii was about.
and nothin' could be good that was
founded on fear and hate. and. every
war that ever was fought was always
founded on fear and hate. She said
II the Germans wanted to fight us we
ought to go to meet them and tell
them we wouldn't fight"
what did you say?"
"Nothin'. l kind o. started to-but
what's the use? She's got that in her
head. Besides, how are you goin' to
argue about thing with a person
that's crying about 1t? tell you, Fred.
| guess we got to admit. after all, that
ole girl certainly must have lot of
heart about her. anyway. There may
not be much fun to her--though OF
course | wouldn't know hardly any
way to tell about that--bur there
couldn't be hardly any doubt she's got
lot Of feeling. Well, and then she
went on and said old men made wars.