News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-02-15
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| night? Albert and Sadie are
II cant tomorrow night she ttold
him with obvious regret oIsnl It the
worst luck got an aunI annin' to
visit from Chicago, and she's crazy
about playing Five Hundred. and
mama and papa said | haf to stay in
to make four to play it. She's liable
to be here three or four days. and
guess | got to be around home pretty
much all the time she's here, It's the
worst luck -
He was doleful but ventured to be
literary. well, what can't be helped
must be endured I'll come around
when she's gone"
He moved as if to depart, but she
still retained his arm and did not pre-
pare to relinquish it.
well" he said.
well what, Ramsey?"
"Well-g'night."
She glanced up at the dark front
OF the house 81 guess the family's
gone TO bed" she said absently
Il spose So"
well, good night Ramsey" She
said this, but still did not release his
arm. and suddenly. In fluster, he felt
that the time he dreaded had come.
Somehow, without knowing where ex-
cept that it was somewhere upon what
seemed to be blurred face too full
Of obstructing features, he kissed her.
She turned instantly away in the
darkness, her hands over her cheeks
and in panic Ramsey wondered If he
hadn't make dreadful mistake.
"S'cuse meV he said, stumbling to-
ward the gate. "Well. guess | got
to be gettfn' along back home"
He woke in the morning to great
self-loathi2g; he had kissed a girl
Mingled with the loathing was a curl
GUS pride In the very fact that caused
the lcathing, but the pride did not last
long. He came downstairs morbid to
breakfast, and continued this mood
afterward., AT noon Albert Paxton
brought him note which Mllla had
asked Sadie to ask Albert to give him.
"Dearle / am just wondering If
you thought as much about something
so sweet that happened last night as
l did you know what. l think 1t was
the sweetest thing l send you one
with this note and l hope you will
think it is a sweet one. would give
you real one If you were here now
and / hope you would think 1t was
sweeter still than the one | put in this
note. 1t Is the sweetest thing now you
are mine and am yours forever kiddo.
Ii you come around about friday eve
1t will be all right. aunt Jess Will he
gone back home by then so come early
and we will get SADIE and Alb to go to
the band Concert Don't forget what
| said about my putting something
sweet in this note, and hope you will
think 1t is a sweet one but not as
sweet as the real sweet one | would
like to-
At this point Ramsey impulsvely
tore the note into small pieces. He
turned cold as his Imagination pro-
jected sketch of his mother in the
ANl VI iCuhlllS litlS uiSSlNt, anu vi
her expression as she read the SEN
tence 1T is the sweetest thing now |
YOU are mine and am yours forever
kidd0." He wished that Milla hadn't |
written "kiddo" She tailed him that, |
but in her warm little voice |
The word seemed not at all What it did
IN ink He wished, too, that she hadn't
said she was his forever. Il
Suddenly he WAS seized with hor-
rOr OF her.
Moisture broke out heavily upon
lim; he felt "a definite sickness, and,
wishing for death, went forth upon the
streets to walk and walk. He cared
lot whittier. so that his feet took him
II any direction away from Milla,
since they were unable to take him
away from himsaf-of whom he had i
is great Il horror. Her loving face was
before him, and its sweet
less made his flesh creep. Mllla had
Deen too sweet.
When he met or passed people, 1t
seemed To him that perhaps they were
lble Ia recognize upon him somewhere
he marks of his low quality.
'S"fty. ole sloppy fool! he NUT
cred, addressing himself. "SluShy
he mush SpOonerw And
lie added, yours forever, kiddo!"
Commissions seemed about to seize
lin.
Turning a. corner with his head
own, he almost charged into Dora
'ocum. She was homeward bound
rom piano lesson, and carried a
oiled leather case of sheet music
he couldn't imagine Milla
in her young girls
ress, which attempted to be nothing
lSe, she looked as wholesome as cold
pring water. Ramsey had always felt
hat she despiSed him and now, all at
nee. he thought that she was justified.
.eper that he had become, he was I'M
'orthy to be even touching his cap to
er And as she nodded and went
risky on, he would have given any
hing TO turn and walk a little way