Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-07-14

What" She stopped, and turned
suddenly to face him.
What's the matterg' he said, stop
ping, too. Something he said had
startled Ser, evidently.
How can you say such a thingY'
she cried. You Icye to fghti"
''Mer
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-
yarication.
well, I never did" he insisted,
mildly.
why, You had a fight about mel"
"No, / didn't"
with Wes;fy Benderi"
Ramsey chuckled. "That wasn't q
hghtp
sit wasn'tf"
Nothing like one. We were just
guyin' him about-about gettin' slicked
up, kind of, because he sat In front Of
| you; and he hit me with his book strap
and l chased him off. Gracious, no;
that wasn't a fghtl"
'sBut you fought Linsk; only last
fall"
Ramsey chuckled again. "That
wasn't even as much like fight as the
one with Wesley. 1 Just told this
Linski / 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 1t, and waited to see If he
wanted to do anything about 1t, and be
didn't. That's all there was to it, and
it wasn't any more like fighting than
than feeding chickens is"
She laughed dolefully. ut seems
to me rather more like 1t than thati"
"Well, 1t wasn't"
They had begun to 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. Curiously enough, he did
not think about it. He had begun to
find something pleasant In the odd In
teryiew, and in walking beside a girl,
even though the girl was Dora Yceura.
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
| it 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 a bit Of parked
land overlooking the river; and here
Dora's steps slowed to an indeter-
inmate halt near a bench beneath q
maple tree.
II think I'll stay here q while" she
said; and as 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 want
ed to get an answer to my question.
You'd better be running back"
well"
He stood irresolute, not sure that no
wanted his dinner just then. It 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.
"WelI-" he said again.
"You'd better CO."
81 guess I can get my dinner pretty
near any time. / don't" He mad a
thought. "3id you"
did what"
Odd you have your dinner before I
met your"
NO."
swell, aren't you"
She shook her head. II don't want
any"
"Why not7"
81 don't think people have very much
appetite today and yesterday" she
said, with the hint Of sad laugh, "all
over America"
"No; / guess that's So"
sits 100 terribler' she said. Il
can't sit and eat when / think Of the
Lusitania-of all those poor, poor peO-
pie strangling in the water"
mo; / guess nobody can eat much,
If they think about that"
"And of what it's going to bring, II
we let It," she went on. "As IL this
killing weren't enough. we want to add
our killingl oh. that's the most ter.
rible thing of all--the thing 1t makes
within usI Don't you understand
She turned to him appeallngly, and
he felt queerer than ever. Dusk had
fallen. Where they stood, under the
young-Ieaved maple tree, there was but
faint lingering Of afterslow. and in
this mystery her face glimmered wan
and sweet; so that Ramsey, just then,
was like one who discovers an old
pan, used in the kitchen, to be made OF
chased silver.
'sWeIl, / don't feel much like 1.Gaer
right now" he said. We've could
cit here awhile on this bench, probly."
CTo BE CoNTNUED,)
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