Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-04-15
CHAPTER VII


him picture postal" from Oconomo-
woe, Wisconsin, which his father dis
engaged from the family mail, one
morning at breakfast, and considerate-
ly handed to him without audible com
ment. Upon 1t was written, "0h, you
Ramseyr' This was the last of Milla.
Just before school opened, in the
autumn, Sadie Clews made some reve-
lations. 'Mllla did like you,' said
Sadie. "After that time you jumped
in the creek to save her she liked you
better than any boy in town, and l
guess II 1t wasn't for her counsin Mih
up In Chicago she would of liked you
the best anywhere. / guess she did,
anyway, because she hadn't seen him
for about year then.
"Well, that afternoon she went
away / was over there and took In
everything that was goin' on, only she
made me promise on my word OF honor
wouldn't even tell Albert. They
didn't get any wire from the uncle
about the touring car; 1t was her cou-
sin Milt that jumped on the train and
came down and fixed 1t all up for
Milla to go on the trip, and every
thing. You see, Ramsey, she was
turned back a couple Of times in school
before she came in our class and /
don't know how old she 10 and she
don't look old yet, but I'm pretty sure
she's at least eighteen, and she might
be over. I didn't think such a great
deal of this Milt's looks myself, but
he's anyway twenty-one years old, and
got good position, and all their fam
lily seem to think he's just fine! 1t
wasn't his father that took In the tour
ing car on the debt, like she said she
was writing you; 1t was Milt himself.
He started out In business when he
was only thirteen years old, and this
trip he was gettin' up for his father
and mother and Mlla was the first
vacation he ever took. Well, Of course
she wouldn't like my tellin' you, but
I can't see the harm of 1t, now every
things all over"
"All--all over? You mean Milla's
going to be-to be married."
"She already Is" said Sadie. "They
got married at her Aunt Jess and TN
Gle Purv's house, up In Chicago, last
Thursday. Yes, sir; that quiet, little
Milla's regular old married woman
by this time, / expect, Ramsey
When he got over the shock, which
was not until the next day, one pre-
dominating feeling remained: 1t was
a gloomy prlde--a pride In his proven
maturity. He was old enough, it ap
peared, to have been the same thing
as engaged to a person who was nov
q Married Woman. His manner thence
forth showed an added trace of seri
BUSINESS and reconsideration.
Having recovered his equlpolse ant
something more, he entirely forgot that
moment of humble admiration he hat
felt for Dora Yocuif on the day of his
--LATEST prostration. When he saw hel
sitting In the classroom, smiling bright
ly up at the teacher, the morning ot
the schools opening In the autumn
all his humility had long since van
ished and she appeared to him NO
otherwise than as the scholar whose
complete proficiency had always beer
30 irksome to him.
"Look at her!" he muttered to him
self. "Same ole Teachers Pet"
Now and then as the days and sea
sons passed, and Dora's serene prog
ress continued, never checked or ever
fiawed, there stirred within him som'
| lIngerngs Of the old determinatio'
to SHOW her; and he would conjur'
ND day-dream of Dora In loud Ia
mentation, while he led the laughte
of the spectators. But gradually hi
feeling about her came to be merel!
q dull oppression. He was tired o
| having to look at her (as he state'
IT. and he thanked the Lord that tn
time wouldn't be 30 long now unit
he'd be out of that ole school, ant
then all he'd have to do he'd just tax
care never to walk by her house.
was easy enough to use some othe
street when he bad to 90 down town
| "The good ole class Of Nineteen