Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-07-14

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~ Never Liked Any Girl Enough to
90 and Call on Her."
on, meant think 1t began that eve
| ming in our freshman year, after the
Lusitania, when / stopped you on the
campus and you went with me, and
couldn't help crping, and you were so
nice and quiet. hardly realized then
that 1t was the first time we'd ever
, really talked together-of course l did
all the talking land yet we'd known
| each other so many years. l thought
| Of 1t afterward. But what gave me
! such a different view of you, I'd al
ways thought you were one of that
| truculent sort of boys, always just
bursting for fight; but you showed
me you'd really never had fight in
your life and hated fighting, and that
you sympathized with my feeling about
war;" She stopped speaking to draw
in her breath with sharp sigh. "Ah,
! don't you remember what I've told you
all along? How 1t keeps coming
| closer and closer-and now it's almost
| here! Isn't it unthinkable? And what
| can we do to stop 1t, we poor few who
| feel that we must stop it?"
swell" Ramsey began uncomfOrt-
| ably. "Of course Il"
"You can't do MUCH" she said. II
| know. None Of us can. What can any
| little group do? There are SO few of
| US among the undergraduates-and
| only one in the whole faculty. All the
| rest are for war. But we mustn't give
| up we must never feel afterward that
we left anything undone; we must
| fight to the last BREATH"
Flight" he repeated wonderingly,
then chuckled.
ooh, as figure of speech" she said
impatiently. "Our language is full of
barbaric figures left over from the
dark ages. But, oh, Ramsey !"-she
Fred Mitchell is saying that he's going
to Canada after Easter, to try to get
into the Canadian aviation corps. If
it's true, he's dangerous firebrand, /
| think. Is it trueW
| II guess so. He's been talking that
way, some"
"But why do you let him talk that
way?" she cried. Hes your roommate;
| surely you have more influence with
him than anybody else has. Couldn't
| you"
He shook his head slowly, while upon
his face the family indicated model
ings of a grin limited of an inner
laughter at some surreptitious thought.
"Well, you know, Fred says himself
sometimes, l don't seem to be much of
talker exactly"
| II know. But don't you see? That
sort of thing Is contagious. Others will
think they ought to go If he does; he's
popular and quite a leader. Can't you
do anything with him?"
She waited for him to answer.
Cant your" she insisted.
The grin had disappeared and Ram
sey grew red again.
He seemed to wish to speak, to
heave with speech that declined to be
spoken and would not rouse up from
his inwards. Finally he uttered words.
"I-I--well, I"
"Oh. KNOW" she said. "a man
or a boy always hates to be intrud-
ing his own convictions upon other
men, especially in case like this,
| og~.h4 H1 80, 30
idiots thinking him unmanlike. But
Ramsey" Suddenly she broke off
and looked at him attentively; his dis
comfort had become so obvious that
suspicion struck her. She spoke sharp
ly. Ramsey, you aren't dreaming of
doing such a thing, are you?"
what such thing?"
Erred hasn't influenced you, has he?
You aren't planning to go with him,
are your"
"WhereY
"To join the Canadian aviation"
"No; I hadn't thought of doing It."
She sighed again, relieved. II had
queer feeling about you just then
that you were thinking of doing some
such thing. You looked so odd-and
you're always so quiet, anybody might
not really know what to think. But
I'm not wrong about you, am I, RAM
seyT
They had come to the foot of the
steps that led up to the entrance Of
her dormitory, and their walk was at
an end As they stopped and faced
each otheg. ss1a looked at him earnest