News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-03-22

on, meant think 1t began that eve
ming in our freshman year. after tn,
Lusitania, when | stopped You on the
campus and you went with me, and
couldn't help crping, and you were sc
nice and quiet l hardly realized then
that it was the first time we'd ever
really talked together-of course | did
all the talking and yet we'd known
each other so many years. l thought
of it afterward. But what gave me
such different view of you, I'd al.
ways thought you were one of that
truculent sort of boys, always just
bursting for a fight; but you showed
me you'd really never had a fight in
your life and hated fighting, and that
you sympathiZed with my feeling about
war" She stopped speaking to draw
in her breath with sharp sigh. "Ah,
don't you remember what I've told you
| all along? How it keeps coming
| closer and closer-and now it's almost
here Isn't it unthinkable? And what
can we do to stop it, we poor few who
| feel that we must stop it?"
"Well-" Ramsey began uncomfort-
ably. "Of course II"
"YOu can't do much" she said. 81
| know. None of us can. What can any
| little group do? There are so few of
us among the undergraduates-and
only one in the whole faculty. All the
rest are for war. But we mustn't give
up we must never feel afterward that
we left anything undone; we must
fight to the last BREATH"
"'Fight'?" he repeated wonderingly,
then chuckled.
"Oh, as a figure of speech" she said
impatiently. "Our language is full of
barbaric figures left over from the
dark ages. But, oh, Ramsey !''-she
touched his sleeve-"Tve heard that
Fred Mitchell is saying that he's going
to Canada after Easter, to try to get
into the Canadian aviation corps. If
it's true, he's dangerous firebrand,
think. Is it true"
Il guess so. He's been talking that
way, some"
But why do you let him talk that
way?" she cried. Hes your roommate;
surely you have more influence with
him than anybody else has. Couldn't
YOU"
He shook his head slowly, while upon
his face the family indicated model
ings of a grin limited of an inner
laughter at some surreptitious thought.
WELL you know, Fred says himself
sometimes, | don't seem to be much of
a talker exactly"
Il know. But don't you see? That
sort of thing is contagious. Others will
think they ought to 60 if he does he's
popular and quite leader. Can't you
do anything with him."
She waited for him to answer
Cant your" she insisted.
The grin had disappeared and Ram.
sey grew red again.
He seemed to wish to speak, to
heave with speech that declined to be
spoken and would not rouse up from
his inwards. Finally he uttered words.
"I-I-well, /"
"Oh, | know she said. "A man
or boy always hates to be intrud-
ing his own convictions upon other
where he might be afraid of some
idiots thinking him unmanlike. But |
Ramsey" Suddenly she broke off |
and looked at him attentively; his dis |
comfort had become so obvious that |
suspicion struck her. She spoke sharp |
ly. Ramsey, you aren't dreaming OF |
doing such thing, are you?"
"What such thing?'
Fired hasn't influenced you. has he? /
You aren't planning to go with him,
are your
"Where?
ITO join the Canadian aviation"
NO; hadn't thought of doing it,"
She sighed again, relieved. 81 had a
queer feeling about you just then
that you were thinking of doing some
such thing. You looked so odd-and
you're always so quiet, anybody might
not really know what to think. But
I'm not wrong about you, am /, Ram
seyf"
They had come TO the foot of the
steps that led up to the entrance of
her dormitOry, and their walk was at
an end. As they stopped and faced
each other, she looked at him earnest
ly; but he did not meet the scrutiny,
his eyelids fell.
I'm not wrong. am l, Ramsey?"
About what1" he murmured, I'M
you are my friend, aren't your"
yes"
Then it's all right" she said THAT
relieves me and makes me happier
than I was just now, for of course If
you're my friend you wouldn't let me
make any mistake about you. be-
ieve you, and now, just before l 20
IN and we won't see much of each
Dther for a week-if you still want me
to go with you again next Sunday"
"Yes-won't you, pleaseTr