Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-07-21
CHAPTER x.
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Ramsey kept very rev InlngS I1Sm
Fred Mitchell, and usually his conf
Fences were immediate upon the occa-
lion of them; but allowed several
reeks TO elapse before sketching for
bis roommate the outlines of this ad,
senture.
zone thing that was kind o. funny
,bout it, Fred" he said, 81 didn't
NOV what to call her"
Mr.. Mitchell, stretched uDon the
rindow seat in their study" and look
np out over the town street below
Ind the campus beyond the street, had
lready thought it tactful to ambush
rs profound amusement by turning
mon his side, so that his face was
howard the window and away from his
companion. "What did you want to
call herr" he inquired in serious
soice. "Names7"
mo. You know Nhat mean. /
mean / had to keep calling her you;
Ind that gets kind of freaky when
yOu're talkin' to anybody good while
Ike that. When she'd be lookin' away
Irom me, for instance, or down at the
liver, or somewhere, and I'd want to
start sayin' something to her, you
know. why, l wouldn't know how to
yet started exactly, without calm her
something. person doesn't want to
be always startin' or with See here
Or things like that"
81 don't see why you let It trouble
you" said Fred. "From how you've
always talked about her. you had
perfectly handy way to start off with
anything you wanted to say to her"
aWhat within
"Why didn't you just say, oh, you
Teachers Petr That would"
Get Quit What / mean is, she
aIed me Ramsey without any both
b; 1t seems funny I got stumped every
tns started to say Dora Some way
COULDN'T land it, and 1t certainly
you'd "a sounded crazy to call her
Mss Yocnm' after sittin' In the same
Eoom with her every day from the
baby class clear on up through the end
of high school. That would "a made
pne out an idiot"
"What did you call herp Fred
asked.
"Just nothin' at ALL started to call
Per something or other a hundred
times, | guess, and then I'd balk. I'd
get ell ready, and kind of make sort
Of a sound, and then I'd have to quit"
"She may have thought you had a
COLD, said Fred, still keeping his back
turned.
i expect maybe she dld--though
don't know; most the time she didn't
seem to notice me much, kind Of"
"She didn't?"
NO She was too upset, I guess, BY
what she was thinkin' about"
But If 1t hadn't been for that"
FRED suggested, you mean she'd have
certainly paid more attention to who
was sitting on the bench with herr"
Get outl You know how IT was
everybody those few days thought we
were goin' to have war, and she was
JUST sure of 1t, and II upset her. OF
course most people were a lot more
upset BY what those Dutchmen did to
tne Lusltania than by the idea of war !;
ala she seemed to feel as broken up as
anybody could be about the Lusitania.
Vut What got her the worst was the
louon of her country wantin' to fight,
sne SAID She really was upset, too.
feu; there wasn't no putin on
suout 1t. / guess that ole girl GER
@lnly must have good deal of feel
e because, doggoned, after we'd
Veen slttln there while If she didn't
ra'e 70 get out her handkerchief She
ep' ler face turned away from me
sus' tne same as you're DOM now to
cs sp from iaughin'-but honestly, she
t lieu /. hke somebody at a funeral. I
''i. IKE the darndest foolI"
I'm not laughing" said Fred brt
&C. - Ua not prove it by turning 50 that
sayp n what uid she
IN, she didn't say such an awful
a. one said one kind o. funny thing
~ough; she said she was sorry she
s0 0u,un quite control herself. but If
,1uyoody had to see her cry she minded
n, .eSS because it was an old school
az. What struck me so kind o.
n at aoout that is-why, it looks as
A,t pus i, never knew the way always
81
teringl" ~ n wasn't nat
,sv wen, Sir, it isn't, kind off, Ram
~. agreed musingly. 1T certainly
arS SHsn you look at it that way"
tb.. saat did You say when She said
ui az, Fred asked.
q b,ls so1ain l started to, but / sort Of
tAes ssaAn, Wen we kept on sitting
slt ana afterYhfle she began TO
s5a.. again and got kind Of excited
&sn,t Wv no war could do anything
steE r5Ooay any good, and all war was
aad 49,, nv matter what 1t was about.
IoVpSays, could be good that was
sIr r.. % fear and hate. and every
IoVps.s ever was fought was always
aa. On fear sad hate. She said
asrrlsns wan4.,s i.