News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-02-15
CHAPTER VII

He never saw her again. She Sent
him picture postal" from Oconomo-
voc, Wisconsin, which his father dis
engaged from the family mail. one
morning at breakfast, and considerate-
ly handed to him without audible com
ment Upon 1t was written. "Oh, you
Ramsey" This was the last of Milla.
just before school opened, in the
autumn. Sadie Clews made some reve-
iations "Nilla did like YOU" said
Sadie After that time you jumped
in the creek to save her she liked YOU
better than any boy IN town. andgs
guess If ii wasn't for her cOunsin Milt
np in Chicago she would Of liked you
The bess anywhere. ! guess sire did
anyway. because she hadn't seen him
for about year then.
well. that afternoon she went
away | was over there and took in
everything that was goin' on. only she
made me promise on my word OF honor
| wouldn't even tell Albert. They
didn't get any wire from the uncle
about the touring car; it was her cou-
sin Milt that jumped on the train and
came down and nXed it all up for
Milla to go on the trip, and every
thing. You see, Ramsey, she was
turned back couple Of times in school
before she came in our class and l
don't know how old she is and she
don't look old yC- but I'm pretty sure
she's at least eighteen, and she might
be over. / didn't think such a great
deal of this Mills looks myself, but
he's anyway twenty-one years old, and
got good position, and all their fam
lily seem to think he's Just finel 1t
wasn't his father that took in the tour
ing car on the debt, like she said she
was writing you; it was Milt himself.
He started out in business when he
was only thirteen years old, and this
trip he was gettin' up for his father
and mother and Milla was the first
vacation he ever took Well, of course
she wouldn't like my tellin' you, but
| can't see the harm of it, now every
things all over"
"All-all over? You mean Milla's
going to be-to be married?"
'She already u.s." said Sadie. "They
got married at her Aunt Jess and Unxs
Gle Purv's house, up In Chicago, last
Thursday. Yes, sir; that quiet, little
Millas regular old married woman
by this time, l expect, Ramsey!"
When he got over the shock, which
was not until the next day, one pre-
feeling remained: II was
a gloomy pride-a pride in his proven
peared, to have been the same thing
as engaged to person who was now
Il Married Woman. His manner thence
forth showed an added trace of seri-
BUSINESS and self-consderation.
Having recovered his eQuipoise and
more, he entirely forgot that
moment of humble admiration he had
felt for Dora YOcum on the day of his
--LATEST prostration. When he saw her
sitting in the classroom. smiling bright
ly up at the teacher, the morning Of
the schools opening in the autumn,
all his humility had long since van
ished and she appeared to him not
otherwise than as the scholar whose |
complete proficiency had always been |
so irksome to him.
Look at heri" he muttered to him |
self. "Same ole Teachers Pet!'
Now and then. as the days and sea-
sons passed, and DOra's serene prog |
ress continued. never checked or even |
fawed, there stirred within him some |
IingeringS of the old determination
70 "show" her; and he would conjure
lp a day-dream of Dora in loud la
while he led the laughter /
IF the spectators. But gradually his
feeling about her came ~ be merely
, dull oppression. He was tired of
having to look at her las he stated
y and he thanked the Lord that the
line wouldn't be so long now until
ned be out of that ole school, and
hen all he'd have to do he'd Just take
are never to walk by her house. it
vas easy enough ia use some other
treet when he had to go down town.
THE good ole class of Nineteen
'ourteen Is about gone" he said to
fred Mitchell. who was still his most
Intimate friend when they reached the
enior year Yes, sir; it's neid to-
either good many years. Fred, but
fter June it'll be busted plum up, |
nd hope nobody starts a move to
ave any reunions There's a good
many members Of the ole class that
can stand and there's some / can't.
mt there's one | Just WON'T If we
yer did call reunion. that ole Yo-
0irI wouia
um 49,. -u START IN right away
nd run the whole sheiung and that's
here ia rcs'rn, Non know. Frod
he thing I thinks is the one biggest
pnciu of graduating from th.s ole
hrult lis never -,-eIu' Dora lOcum