Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-17

yOU-yOuT--WPll. mean nOOut nef,
you know. I'm on all right know
It's pretty serious with you" He
paused
"lts--its kind OF tough luckl" his
friend contrlvcd to say; and he began
TO pace the floor agan.
"Oh--well--" he said
"See here, ole stick.In'the.mud,"
Fred broke oft abruptly, "After her
saying what she did Well It's none
o. my business but-but-"
"Wcll whnt2" Ramsey murmured,
II don't care what YOU say, II you
want to say anything"
"Well got 10 say It." Fred half
grouned md half blurtcd. "hftcr she
said thnt-and she meant it-why, IL
I We're In your place I'd be danod IL
I'd he seen out walking with her
again"
"Im not going to be-" Ramsey said,
quietly,
"Ry Gcorgel" And now Fred halted
In front OF him, both being huskily
solemn. 81 think understand little
of what that means to YOU, old Ram
scy; think do. think know
something Of what 1t costs you to
make that resolution for your coun.
try's sake" lmpuslvely he extended
his hand. IT'S pretty big thing for
you to do, VIII you shake hnnds2"
But Ramsey shook his head, ~
didn't do Il. wouldn't ever have done
anything Just on account Of her talk
In that way, She shut the door on
melt was a good while ago"
"She did What for1"
"Wcll, I'm not much Of talker, you
know, FredH said Ramsey, staring Mt
the pen he played with. "I'm not much
OF anything, for TINT matter. prob'ly
hut I-well--I-"
"You what"
"Well, had to tell her didn't feel
about things the way she did She'd
thought had, all along, ! guess. Any
way, 1t made her hate ME or some
thing, guess; and she called It nll
off expect there wasn't much to call
of, so far ms she was concerned, any
how" He laughed fcebiy. "She told
me better go and enlist
pleasant of herr Fred muttered.
Especially as we know what she
thinks enlisting means" He raised his
voice checrfully. "Well, that's settled;
and, thank God, old Mr. Bernstorff's on
his way to his sweet little vineclad
cottage home! They're getting guns
ON the ships, and the big shows liable
to commence any day. We can hold
M our heads now, and we're going to
see some great times, old Ramsey boy !
It's hard on the home folks-Gosh! |
don't like to think Of that! And l
guess it's going to be hard on lot of
boys that haven't understood what It's
all about, and hard on some that their
family affairs, and business, and so on,
have got EN- tied up so it's hard to 70
and of course there's plenty that just
can't, and some that aren't husky
enough--but the rest of us are going
to have the big time In our lives. We
got an awful lot to learn 1t scares me
to think of what don't know about
being any sort Of rear-rank pri-
vate. Why it's regular profession,
like practicing law, or selling for Il
drug house on the road.
"Gollyl Do you remember how we
talked about that, way back in fresh
man year, what we were going to do
when we got out Of college? You We're
going to be practicing law, for In
stance and well, f'r instance, re-
member Colburn; he was going to be
a DOCTOR and he did so to some medl-
cal school for one year. Now he's in
the Red Cross, somewhere In Persia.
Gollyw
He paused, then Chartered briskly
on. well there's one good old boy
was with our class for while, back
IN freshman year; | bet we won't see
him In any good old army Old rough
neck Lnsld that you put the knob on
his nose for. Tommie Hopper says he
saw him last summer in Chicago soap.
boXin', yelin' his head off cussin' every
government under the sun, but mostly
ours and the allies, you bet, and going
to run the earth by revolution and rep
resentatives of unskilled labor immi
grants, nobody that can read or write
allowed to vote, except Linsh. Tom
ME Hopper says he knows all about
LinSki; he never did days work II
his life-tOo busy trying to get the
workngmen stirred up against the peo
pie that exploit 'em! Tommie says hi
had big crowd to hear him, though
and took up quite little money fol
cause or something. Well, let hin
holler! guess we can attend to hin
when we get back from over y0nder
By George, old Ram, Pm gettin' kint
of iloppy in the sills!" He admins
tered resounding slap to his com
rade's shoulder. at certainly looks n
If our big days were walking towar'
u.s."
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