Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-30

anu nuke II Icdlly ilISI ColllS IOl Us
because they know we won't do any.
| thing but talk Yes, / guess the way
things are settling down ought to suit
Dora. There isn't goin' to be any
war;"
"She was pretty sure there was
though" Ramsey said, thoughtfully.
ooh, Of course she was then. We
all thought so those few days."
"No. She said she thought 1t prob'ly
wouldn't come right away, but now II
She said our kilograms and 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 and
on. She said she knew from the way
she felt herself about the Lusitania
that a feeling like that in her would
never be absolutely wiped out as long
as she lived. But she said her other
feeling about the horribleness Of war
taught her to keep the first feeling
from breaking out, but with other peo-
pie it wouldn't; and even If war didn't
break out right then, 1t would always
be ready to, all over the country, and
sometime 1t would, though she was
goin' to do her share to fight it, her.
self, as long as she could stand. She
asked me wouldn't be one Of the ones
to help her."
He paused, and after a moment
Fred asked, swell? What did you say
to that?"
"Nothin'. I started to, but"
Again Fred thought it tactful to
turn and look out the window, while
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
was half-past nine when we walked
back to town, and I was commencin'
to feel kind of hungry SO I asked her
if she wasn't, and she sort of laughed
and seemed to be ashamed Of it, as if
1t was disgrace or something, but
she said she guessed she was; so l
left her by that hedge of lilacs 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
box O. strawberrieS-kind of girl
food, you know-and went on back
fhnp0 onH of tho cfr1ff YIN Go
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 then"
Moth Oh, shut up! SO then she
skipped out to her Dorm, and / came
on home"
"When did you see her next, Ram
seyY'
II haven't seen her next" said Ram
sey. II haven't seen her at all-not to
speak to. I 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 If she was lookin' at mel kind Of
thought not / thought it might look
sort O. nutty to bow to her if 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
that?"
"No. / 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
comprehension. ut was kind O funny
though, wasn't it?" he said, appealing
ly.
"What wasp
"The whole business"
what whole bus"
ooh, get out Her stoppin' me, and
me goin' pokin' along with her, and
her-well, her crying and everything,
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