Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-02
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Decoration Day Parade" in the home
town. The old gentleman, a veteran of
the civil war, endeayors to impress the
youngster with the significance of the
great conflict, and many years afterward
the boy was to remember his words with
startling vividness.
CHAPTER II.--In the schoolroom, a
few years afterward, Ramsey was not
distinguished for remarkable ability,
though his two pronounced dislikes were
arithmetic and REGULATIONS" In sharp
contrast to Ramsey's backwardness Is
the precocity of little Dora Yocum, a
young lady whom in his bitterness he de-
dominates Teachers Pet"
CHAPTER HIN high school, where
he and Dora are classmates, Ramsey
continues to feel that the girl delights to
manifest her superiority, and the vindic-
tiVeness he generates becomes alarming
eliminating in the resolution that some
day be would "show" her.
CHAPTER IV.-At class picnic Ram
sey, to his intense surprise, appears to
attract the favorable attention of Miss
Milla Rust. a young lady of about his
own age and the acknowledged belle of
the class. Milla has the misfortune to
fail into a creek while talking with Ram
sey. and that youth promptly plunges to
the rescue. The water is only some three
feet deep. but Milla's gratitude for his
heroic act is embarrassing. He is in fact
CONSERVATION.
CHAPTER V.-The. acquaintance ripens
Ramsey and Milla openly keeping COM
pany," while the Nformer's parents Won
der. His mothe. Indeed goes so far as
to express some dlsapproval of his choice,
even limiting that Dora Yocum would be
a more suitable companion, a suggestion
which the youth receives with horror.N
"How do you mean waltz Albert
inquired. "You don't expect her to
come pokin' along with Sadie and me,
do you? She'll keep on sittin there at
home just the same, because she
wouldn't have anything else to do, if
you don't come like she expects you to-
She hasn't got any way to stop wait
in'w
At this, Ramsey moaned, without af-
fectation. II don't expect | can. AL
bert" he said. ''I'd like to if | could
but the way it looks now, you tell her
l wouldn't be much surprised maybe !
was startin' in with typhoid fever or
pretty near anything at ALL" He
moved away, concluding feebly II
guess / better crawl on home, Albert,
while I'm still able to walk some. You
tell her the way it looks now Pm liable
to be right sick"
And the next morning he woke to
the chaf1ngs of remOrSe, picturing
Milla somewhat restored in charm
waiting hopefully at the gate, even
after the half-past seven, and then, as
time passed and the sound of the dis
tant horns came family through the
darkness, going sadly to her room
perhaps weeping there. 1t was a pic
ture to wiring him with shame and pity,
but was followed by another which
electrified him, for out of school he
did not lack imagination. What if
Albert had reported his illness too
wildly to Milla? Milla was so fond
What If, in her alarm, she should come
here to the house to inquire of his
mother about him? What if she told
Mrs Milholland they were "engaged"?
The next moment Ramsey was project
ing a conversation between his mother
and Milla in which the latter stated
that she and Ramsey were soon to be
married, that she regarded him as al
ready virtually her husband, and de-
manded to nurse him.
In panic he fed from the house be-
fore breakfast, going out by way of
side door, and he crossed back yards
and climbed back fences to reach AL
bert Paxton the more swiftly This
creature, ladies' man almost profess
slonally, was found exercising with an
electric iron and pair Of flannel trou-
sers in basement laundry, by way Of
stirring his appetite for the morning
meal.
"See here, Albert" his friend said
breathlessly. Il got a favor. l want
you to go over to Millas-"
"Pm goin' to finish pressin' these
trousers" Albert interrupted "Then
I've got my breakfast to eat.'
"Well, you could do this first" said
Ramsey, hurriedly. ut wouldn't hurt
you to do me this little favor first.
You just slip over and see Milla for
me, if she's up yet, and II she isn't,
you better wait around till she is, be-
cause l want you to tell her I'm a
whole lot better this morning. Tell
her I'm pretty near practically all right
again, Albert and I'll probly write her
a note or something right sooner in
week or so, anyhow. You tell her.
''Well, you act pretty funny! Albert
exclaimed, fumbling in the pockets of
his coat. "Why can't you go on over
and tell her yourself? But just as it
happens there wouldn't be any use
n your goin' over there, or me- either"
why not?"
"Mlla amt there" said Albert, still
searching the pockets Of his coat
when we went by her house last night
to tell her about your headache and
stomach and all, why, her mother told
us Milla'd gone up to Chicago yester-
day afternoon with her aunt, and said
she left note for you, and she said II