The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-03-16
She Had Risen Up Out Of the Pool
and Stood Knee Deep, Like a Lovely
Drenched Figure in a Fountain.

with a blurred vision of Milla Rust.
She had risen up out Of the pool and
stood knee deep, like lovely drenched
figure in fountain.
Upon the bank above them, Willis
Parker was jumping up and down,
gesticulating and shouting fiercely.
"Now guess you're satisfied our
fishin' is spoilt! Why'n't you listen
me? / told you 1t wasn't more'n three
foot deep! l and Heinie waded, all
over this creek gettin' our bait. You're
pretty sight!"
OF Milla he spoke unwittingly the
literal truth. Even with her hair thus
wild and sodden, Milla rose from i'm.
mersion blushing and prettier than
ever; and she was prettiest Of all
when she stretched out. her hand help
|lessly to Ramsey and he. led her up
out Of the waters. They, had plenty Of
assistance to scramble to the. top Of
the bank, and there Milla was sur
rounded and borne away with a. great
clacketing and tumult. Ramsey sat
upon the grass in the sun, rubbed his
head, and experimental with his neck
to see If it would "work." The sun
shine was strong and hot; in half an
hour he and his clothes were dry-or
at least "dry enough" as he said, and
except for some soreness Of head and
neck, and the general crumpledness of
his apparel, he seemed to- be in all
ways much as usual, when shouts and
whistlings summoned all the party to
luncheon at the rendezvous. The
change that made him different was
invisible.
Yet something must have been seen,
I for everyone appeared to take 1t for
granted that he was to sit next to
Milla at the pastoral meal. She her.
self understood it, evidently, for she
drew in her puckered skirts and with
out any words made a place for him
beside her as he driftingly approached
her, affecting to whistle and keeping
his eyes on the foliage overhead. He
still looked upward, even in the act Of
sitting down.
i Squirrel or something" he said
feebly, as.if in explanation.
"Where?'' AIilla, asked. M PSI
Cup there on a branch" He &C.
copied plate from her (she had pro.
vided herself with an extra one), but
he did not look at it or at her. He
continued to keep his eyes aloft, be
cause he imagined that all Of the class
were, looking at him and Milla, and
he felt unable to meet such publicity,
It was to him as If the whole United
States had been scandalized to atten
ton by this act Of his in going to 81,
beside. Milla; he gazed upward so lone
that his eye-balls became sensitive I'm
der the strain. He began to blink. .
can't make out whether it's squire
or just some leaves that kind O. got
fixed like one," he said. II can't make
out yet which it is, but guess wher
there's breeze, If it's squirrel he'll
prob1y hop around some then, If he''
alive or anything"
It had begun to seem that his eye
must remain fixed In that upward
stare forever; he wanted to bring then
down, hut could not face the glare o
the world But finally the brightness
Of the sky between the leaves settlet
. matters for him; he sneezed, wept, ant
for a little moment again faced hi
fellowmen. No one was looking a
him everybody except Milla had othe
. things to do.
, Having sneezed involuntarily. h