Washington telegraph., 1922-05-26
CHAPTER X.
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Sion of them; but allowed several
weeks to elapse before sketchlhs loi
his roommate the outlines OF TINS au'
venture. ia =, snnn,
about it. Fred" he said 1 uiun
know what to call her. .,
Mr.. Mitchell, stretched 1,,,.py H1oI heIoy
and the campus beyond the street, hat
already thought it tactful to ambusl
his profound amusement by turninl
upon his side, so that his face wa.
toward the window and away from his
companion. What did you want tc
call herr" he inquired in a serious
voice. "Names?"
mo. You know what | mean.
mean l had to keep calling her you
and that gets kind of freaky when
you're talkin' to anybody a good while
like that When she'd be lookin' away
from me, for instance, or down at the
river, or somewhere, and I'd want to
start sayin' something to her, you
know, why, ] wouldn't know how to
get started exactly, without callin' her
something. A person doesn't want to
be always startin' off with See here
or things like that"
u don't see why you let it trouble
you" said Fred. From how you've
always talked about her, you had a
perfectly handy way to start Off with
anything you wanted to say to her."
what within"
why didn't you just say, oh, you
Teachers Petr That would"
Get out What | mean is, she
called me Ramsey without any both
er; 1t seems funny got stumped every
time l started to say Dora Some way
l couldn't land 1t, and 1t certainly
would "a sounded crazy to call her
Miss Yocum' after slttln' in the same
room with sner every ry-da--z----e-e1Iu
That would "a made
me out an idiotl"
"What did you call herr" Fred
asked.
"Just nothin' at ALL l started to call
her something or other hundred
times, / guess, and then I'd balk. I'd
get all ready, and kind Of make a sort
Of sound, and then I'd have to quit"
"She may have thought you had a
cold" said Fred, still keeping his back
turned.
Il expect maybe she did-though I
don't know; most the time she didn't
seem to notice me much, kind Of"
"She didn't?"
mo. She was too upset, guess, by
what she was thinkin' about"
But If 1t hadn't been for that"
Fred suggested, you mean she'd have
paid more attention to who
was sitting on the bench with herr"
"Get out You know how 1t was.
Everybody those few days thought we
we're goin' to have war, and she was
ust sure of 1t, and 1t upset her. OF |
'ourse most people were a lot more
upset by what those Dutchmen did to
he Lusitania than by the idea Of war;
md she seemed to feel as broken I'D as
nybody could be about the Lustania.
ut what got her the worst was the
otion Of her country wantln' to fight,
he said. She really was upset, too,
red; there wasn't no putin or
bout 1t. | guess that ole girl GER
ainly must have a good deal Of feel
lg, because, doggoned, after we'd
cen sittin' there a while If she didn't
ave to get out her handkerchief! She
ept her face turned away from me-
lst the same as you're doin' now to
eep from laughln'-but honestly, she
ried like somebody at a funeral. /
eli like the darndest fool"
I'm not laughing" said Fred but
e did not prove 1t by turning so that
Is face could be seen. "What did she
iy7
"0h, she didn't say such an awful
t. She said one kind o. funny thing ,
Iough: she said she was sorry she {
'uldn't quite control herself, but II
lybody had to see her cry she minded !
less because II was an old school :
ate. What struck me so kind o. ,
nny about that is-why, 1t looks as =
she never knew the way | always )
tied her So" :
Yes" said Fred. 1T wasn't fat n
rlngl" a
well, sir, 1t isn't, kind Of" Ram r
y agreed, musingly. at certainly 4
ut when you look at 1t that way" r
what did you say when she said n
att" Fred asked. h
"Nothin'. ] started to, but l sort of b
liked again. Well, we kept on sitting s
ere, and afterwhile she began to g
TX again and got kind Of excited $
out how no war could do anything a
anybody any good, and all war was t,
cked, no matter what It was about,
d nothin' could be good that was F
unded on fear and hate, and every t,
IT that ever was fought was always
1nded on fear aud hate. She said