Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-05-13

DICK at schoW there wasn't single
boy that was anything like that"
"Whatl' She stopped, and turned
suddenly to face him.
whats the matterY he said stop
ping, too. Something he said had
startled her. evidently.
How can you say such q thing"
she cried. "You love to fightr'
"Me?"
"You dol You love fighting. You
always have loved fighting"
He was dumfounded. why, never
had fight In my lifel"
She cried out In protest OF such pre-
varlcation
swell, I never did," no insisted.
mildly.
why, you had a fight about mev'
"No, didn't"
"With Wesley Benderl'
Ramsey chuckled. THAT wasn't
fight''
ut wasn'tf"
Nothing like one. We were just
guyin' him about--~about gettln' slicked
up, kind Of, because he sat In front of
you and he hit me with his book strap
and | chased him Off. Gracious, no;
that wasn't flght |"
but you fought Linski only last
fall"
Ramsey chuchled again. "That
wasn't even as much like a fight as the
one with Wesley. | Just told this
LinsM was goin' to give him a punch
In the sn-- just told him to look
out because was goin TO hit him, and
then did IT, and waited to see II he
wanted to do anything about 1t. and he
didn't. That's all there was to 1t, and
II wasn't any more like fighting than
than feeding chickens is"
She laughed dolefully. "It seems
to me rather more like II than that I"
"Well, 1t wasn't"
They had begun 10 walk on again,
and Ramsey was aware that they had
passed the frat house, where his
dinner was probably growing cold. He
was aware of this, but not sharply or
insistently. Curionsly enough, he did
not think about It. He had begun to
find something pleasant in the odd In
terview. and In walking beside a girl,
even though the girl was Dora Yocunl
He made no attempt to account TO
himself for anything SO peculiar.
For while they went slowly to-
gether, not speaking, and without des-
tination, though Ramsey vaguely took
II for granted that Dora was going
somewhere. But she wasn't. They
emerged from the part of the small
town closely built about the university
and came out upon bit OF parked
land overlooking the river; and here
Doras steps slowed to an indeter-
inmate halt near bench beneath q
maple tree.
Il think I'll stay here WHILE she
said; and ais he made no response, she
asked. Hadn't you better be going
back to your frat house for your din
ner? / didn't mean for you to come
out Of your way with me; only wait
ed to get an answer to my question.
You'd better be running back"
"Well--"
He stood irresoiute, not sure that he
wanted his dinner just then. II would
have amazed him to face the fact de-
lIberately that perhaps he preferred
being with Dora Yocum to eating.
However, he faced no such fact, nor
any fact, but fingered.
"Well--" he said again.
"Yoa'd better CO."
IT guess can get my dinner pretty
near any time. don't" He mad
thought. "DId YOU"
ibid | WHAT"
ibid you have your dinner before
met your"
"No."
well, aren't YOU"
She shook her head. II don't want
any"
"Why notf"
II don't think people have very much
appetite today and yesterday" she
said with the hint OF sad laugh, "all
over America"
mo; guess that's So"
tits TOO terriblel" she said II
can't sit and eat when think OF the
Lusitanlaof all those poor, poor peo-
pie stranglIng In the water"
"No; | guess nobody can eat much,
II they think about that"
And Of what It's going to bring, II
we let H." she went on. "As II this
killing weren't enough. we want to add
our kllllngl Oh, that's the most ter
-ible thing of all--the thing II makes
within us Don't you understands
She turned to him appeallngly, and
re felt queerer than ever. Dusk had
allen. Where they stood, under the
maple tree, there was but
| faint lingering OF afterglow, and In
his mystery her face gImmered wan
md sweet; so that Ramsey, just then.
vas like one who discovers an old
ian, used in the kitchen, to be made OF
'hased silver.
well, don't feel much like dinner
light now" he said. "We--we could
III here awhile on this bench, prob'iy,"
gro BE coNTINUED.)
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