The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-03-03

pet Killed. too; and then there
wouldn't he anybody hut the Dutchmen.
left and that'd be one fine wor'o'
wouldn't IT," II
eyes, said. Ramsey. Course
thought of that"
"Did you tell herr"
NO"
"What did you saw -,
"Notiin'. couldn't get started any.
way. hut besides. what was the use
But She didn't want the old men TO go;
she didn't want anybody to CO.
"What did she want the country 70
do?" Fred asked impatiently.
"Jnst what It has been dom. ! sup
nose. Just let things simmer down.
and poke along. and let them 40 WHAT
they like Ia us"
~ guess So" said Fred. Then,
afterwhile. when they got some free
time on their hands. they'll come over
and make II really interesting for us.
hccause they know we won't do any
thing hut talk Yes. I guess the way
things are settling down ought to suit
Dora There. isn't goin' T" he any
war"
"Sho was pretty sure there was.
though" Ramsey said thonghtfn'ly.
"Oh Of course she was then. we
all thought so those few days
NO. She said she thought II probly
wouldn't come right away. hut now u
was almost sure to come sometime
She said our kilograms ami all the talk
| and so much feeling and everything
| showed her that the war thought that
was always In people somewhere had
| been stirred up so 1t would go on ana
on. She said she knew from the way
| she felt herself about the Lusitania
| that a feeling like that In her would
| never he absolutely wiped out as long
| rs she lived But she said her other
feeling about the horrihleness Of war
| taught her to keep the first feeling
| from breaking out, hut with other PEG
| plc Il wouldn't: and even II war didn't
| break out right then, IT would always
he ready to. all over the country, and
sometime II would. though she was
goin' to do her share to fight II. her
self, as long as she could stand. She
asked me wouldn't he one Of the ones
to help her"
| He paused. and after moment
Fred asked. well? What did You say
to that?"
| "NOthin' | started to, but"
| Again Fred thought It tactful to
| ho xxtn1 tS,hll q
the agitation of his shoulders be-
trayed him.
"Go on and laugh! Well, so we
stayed there quite while, but before
| we left she got kind Of more like every
day, you know the way people do. 1t
back to town, and ! was cOmmencin'
to feel kind of hungry, so I asked her
IL she wasn't, and she sort of laughed
and seemed to be ashamed of it, as II
! 1t was q disgrace or something, but
she said she guessed she was; so
left her by that hedge of lllacs near
the observatory and went on over to
the Terra and the fruit store, and got
some stuffed eggs and olives and half
| a.dOzen peanut butter sandwiches and
! a -hnx-n' strswherries=-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 them"
"NOth- Oh. shut up! So then she
| skipped out to her Dorm, and | came
on home"
"When did You see her next, Ram
sey?"
Il 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 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 I didn't"
"And you didn't tell her you wouldn't
be one of the ones to help her with her
pacifism and snttwar stun and all
that?"
mo. / started to, but Shut up"
Fred sat up. giggliag. $50 she thinks
you VIII 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?"
well, l wouldn't argue with her."
said Ramsey. Then. after silence, he
seemed to be In need of sympathetic
comprehension. 1T was kind o. funny
though. wasn't it," he said. appealing.
~.
what WASP"
THE whole business"
What whole bus"
"Oh, get out! Her stoppln' 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, I mean. 1t seems
well, 1t does seem all kind O. funny to
me-"
why does it?" Fred inquired, pre-.
serving his gravity. "why should II
seem funny to you?"
Il don't mean funny like something's
funny you laugh at" Ramsey explained
laboriously. II mean funny like some.
thing that's out OF the way, and you
wonder how 1t ever happened to han.
pen. | mean 1t seems funny I'd ever
De sitfin' there on bench with that
ole girl never spoke to In my life or
had anything to do with, and talkin
about the United States goin' to war
"hnt we were talkin' about, why, that
seems just as funny as the rest of II.
Lookin' back to our class picnic, FIR
instance second year Of high school.