The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-05-10

the agitation Of hts shoulders b.
trayed him.
go on and Taught Well, 90 ~
stayed there quite while, but befope
we left she got kind Of more like every.
day, you know, the way people do. 1t
was half-past nine when we walked
back to town, and l was commencin'
to feel kind Of hungry. 80 l asked her
II she wasn't, and she sort Of laughed
and seemed to be ashamed Of 1t. as II
1t was q disgrace or something, but
she said she guessed she was; 30 I
left her by that hedge Of lilacs near
the observatory and went on over to
the Terra and the fruit store, and rot
some stuffed eggs and olives and half.
a-dOzen peanut butter sandwiches and
box O. trawberries-kind Of girl.
food, you knOw-and went on back
there, and we ate the stuff up. So
then she said she was afraid she'd
taken me away from my dinner and
made me lot Of trouble, and so on,
and she was sorry. and she told me
goodnight"
"What did you say then9'
moth Oh. shut up! So then she
skipped out to her Dorm, and came
on home"
when did you see her next, Ram.
sey"
n haven't seen her next" said Ram.
sey. II haven't seen her at all-not to
speak to. saw her on Main street
twice since then. but both times she
was with some other girls, and they
were across the street.. and I couldn't
tell II she was lOOkin' at mel kind Of
thought not thought it might look
sort O. nutty to bow to her II she
wasn't, so didn't"
sand you didn't tell her you wouldn't
be one of the ones to help her with her
pacifism and anti-war stuff and all
thatY
mo. ! started to, but Shut up!"
Fred sat up, giggling. $50 she thinks
you will help her. You didn't say any
thing at all, and she must think that
means she converted you. Why didn't
you speak up?"
swell, I wouldn't argue with her."
said Ramsey. Then. after a silence, he
seemed to be in need of sympathetic
ut was kind O. funny
though. wasn't it?" he said, appealing.
ly.
"What wasp
"The whole business"
"What whole bus"
"Oh, get out Her stoppin' me, and
me goin' pokin' along with her, and
her-well. her crying and everything,
and me being around with her while
she felt so upset, mean. 1t seems
we'll, it does seem all kind o. funny to
me-"
"Why does it?" Fred inquired, pre-
serving his gravity. "Why should 1t
seem funny to you?"
Il don't mean funny like something's
'unny you laugh at" Ramsey explained
aboriously. II mean funny like some
hing that's out Of the way. and you
wonder how it ever happened to hap
zen. mean it seems funny I'd ever
'e sittin' there on bench with that
ne girl never spoke to In my life or
lad anything to do with, and talkin'
bout the United States goin' to war.
What we were tallIin' about, why, that
Gems just as funny as the rest of it.
-ookin' back to our class picnic, f'r
Instance. second year of high school,
hat day jumped in the creek after
Veil. you know, it was when started
maxim fool Of myself over a girl.
Thank goodness, I get that out O. my
ystem; 1t makes me just sick to look
ack on those days and think of the
DOL things l did. and all l thought
bout that girl. Why. She Well, I've
ot old enough to see now she was
ust about as ordinary a girl as there
yer was, and If l saw her now l
couldn't even think she was pretty;
d probly think she was sort of loud
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