Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-06-23
CHAPTER WII.-continued.


swell, I'm glad you gave that Linski
a fine little punch, Brother Milhol-
1apd," he said at the door. ''It won't
do you any harm in the frat or with
tha Lumen, either. And don't be dis
couraged about your debating. You'll
lesrn. Anybody might have got rat
tlesa by having to argue against as
clever and good-looking a girl as that y
The roommates gave each other a
lce3 of serious puzzlement as the door
ctsed. "Well, Brother Colburn is a
rightly nice fellow" Fred said. Hes
kind of funny, though"
Ramsey assented, and then, as the
t77o prepared for bed, they entered in
e. a further discussion of their senior
friend. They liked him "all right"
tFey said, but he certainly must be
h'nd of queer, and they couldn't just
f6e how he had "ever managed to get
where he was" in the "frat" and the
liamen and the university.
Ramsey passed the slightly dis1g-
Ered Linski on the campus next day
without betraying any embarrassment
ezy making a sign of recognition. Fred
F.itchell told his roommate, chuckling,
that Linski had sworn to ''get" him,
and, not knowing Fred's affiliations,
had made him the confdant of his
oata. Fred had given his blessing, he
Esd, upon the enterprise, and advised
L0nski to use a brick. "He'll hit you
on the head with it," said the light
hearted Fred, falling back upon this
old joke. "Then you can catch it as
it bounces off and throw it back at
him"
However, Linskf proved to be mere
u an episode, not only so far as Ram
ssy was concerned but in the Lumen
aad in the university as well. His sus-
pension from the Lumen was for a
year, and so cruel a punishment it
proved for this born debater that he
n3isily declared he would found a de-
hating society himself. and had a
poster printed and distributed an
nouncing the first meeting Of "The
~
ell" Several town loafers attended
the meeting, but the only person con-
nected with the university who came
was an oriental student, a Chinese
youth of almost intrusive amiability.
I5nski made a fiery address, the towns
men loudly applauding his advocacy
of an embargo on munitions and the
distribution of everybody's property
but the Chinaman, accustomed to see
students so madly in earnest only
wAen they were hurlesquing, took the
whole affair to be intended humor, and
Uttered politely without cessation
except at such tines as he thought it
proper to appear quite wrung with
laughter. Then he would rock him
self. clasp his mouth with both hands
ard splutter through his fingers.
Linski accused him of being in the pay
Of capital"
Next day the orator was unable to
show himself upon the campus with
ont causing demonstrations; whenever
he was seen a file of quickly gathering
students marched behind him chanting
repeatedly and deafeningly in chorus /:
asDown with Wall Street! Hoch der
Kaiser! Who loves Linski? Who,
who. who? Hoo Lunl Who loves
Linski? Who, who, who? Hoo Lun I"
Iinslzi was disguised, resigned from
the university, and disappeared.
"Well, here it isn't midyear Exams
vet. and the good ole class of Nineteen
Eighteen's already lost MEMBER"
said Fred Mitchell. 81 guess we can
bear the break-up"
81 guess So" Ramsey assented.
''That Linski might just as well stayed
here, though"
"WhyY
"He couldn't do any harm here. He'll
nrob'ly get more people to listen to
him in cities where there's so many
new immigrants and all such that
don't know anything, comm in all the
time"
ooh. WELL" said Fred. "What do
we care what happens to Chicago
Come on, let's behave real wild, and
90 ON over to the TERRA and get us a
couple of egg sandwiches and sass
prilly."
Ramsey was willing.
After the strain of the "mid-year
Exams" in February, the chums lived
a free-hearted life. They had settled
lpto the ways of their world; they had
grown used TO it, and it had grown
used to them; there was no longer any
lRnamlny In being freshman. They