Show fill I 1 I 1 I 1 III III III III iii it jill i fill till aay 1 ah 0 11 in d B y BOOTH copyright by doubley page compi company 5 ill 1111 III m in Synopsis With hla his grandfather small 1111 malholland holland la Is watching the decoration day parade in the homo home town the old gentleman a veteran of the civil war to ti n pr e us the young youna 8 fler ter with the significance of the great rea conflict n and nd many years eara afterward e ward the boy yam was to remember h ahli r 1 is words w iab startling vi vIdnes I 1 in n the schoolroom achoo broom a few years afterward ramsey Is riot not distin g ul lied f 0 or r remarkable ability y th though ough his pt pronounced bounced dislikes ar arp e arithmetic tons and aerman in sharp cont contrast ramt to itam says gey 8 backwardness Is IB the precocity of little lettla dora yocum it A youns young I 1 lady dy whom in its bitter nemi lie he den denoma nates teachers ret pel in high se achoo hool where tie lie and dont doni uri are e classmates lassma t es continue 13 to I 1 feel ee th that at the girl delights to manifest manlest f her superiority and the yin lio ho generates becomes alarming culminating in 1 the resi reat lu gutlon i t that tonie some day he will glibow ow her at it ft class picnic itam him sey BC la is captured capture rt tins bag and baggage by ellla RUBI ajust the tha hissim beauty lie auty and the agonies of 0 his arst love parents object t to ellla and wish hod hed taken up with will dors dora yocum jamacy kiemes a then alila smi denly leaves town she marries enters tile the state university unlit rally avid and there la is dora yocum again ineeta dora in a world will wal debate and IB 19 in vanquished ramsey gives linski a pencil ot of a punch on the he snoot YS J chaiten VIII continued 10 vall well im gilld uni rno gave that Il billiski liski a lne fine little punch li brother land 11 lie fuld fold tit lit the hie door bloor it av bont ont ilo do you tiny liny aarni in the trot frat or with etli the lumen elther and ami dont he be dis als ci in ri dikil Kil about your lour debating lenin ea rn anybody am body linc have got cot liy by linking to argue abgill list us its clever mill and good looking it girl its that I 1 the roommates anve estach other a took look of serious ment us as the door closed well Brot lir colburn Is it might nice fellow felloe pred sald said iles kind of fall though 1 sey nold fill then na as tile llie 0 two o pre prepared parea for bed they entered into a further discussion of their senior friend they him all right they sold bald but tie lie certainly must bo be und kind of queer lui or find they just tco fee how lie lind liili arr ovel inA infringed rInged to get where lie was aa in ili the fint and the Ill I mell and the file a V it 4 0 0 passed tile the slightly wc ure on oil the campus next net t lay day betraying tiny any elit or vill ilik kIng liiK it sign of recognition fred mitchell told his chuckling that lint linski I had sworn to get him find not knowing freds adulation lind made bilm fill tile the of ills oath fred had given tits ills blessing lie sold aid upon the alio enterprise alit and advised linsel to use a brick hell lilt lift you ion on oil the ho liend head with ft ath aw it said tile the light fight hearted fred falling vack buck upon this old joke thou then yuu call catch it us its it bounces oft rind and throw it buck back ut tit him however linski proved to ho be merely tin an episode not only so far us its it llam tey sey was vtha concerned but tn ili the lift Lit lumen ineil and in ili tile the university as well ills oua aus piu slon from he lumen was for u year cair and so EO cruel a punishment it proved for foi this born debater that lint lie ho noisily declared lie ho would woula found a debating society himself and hill had n poster hosier arit ted and distributed all flouncing ti tie e first meeting of tile free speech and mosses masses counell council several town loafers attended the meeting but tile lie only person con necked with the university who a came ars an oriental student u chinese youth of almost intrusive made a flory address the townsmen loudly applauding ills his advocacy of an embargo on oil munitions and the lie distribution of ever blodys property but abut the chinaman accustomed to see students so madly in earnest only when they hey were vere burlesquing took tile lie whole v liole to be intended humor and tittered littered politely without except at such lucli times its as lie thought it proper to appear quite wrung arun with laughter infighter then lie won mould rode rock him elf clasp his mouth with both hands end and splutter through ills hla fingers misfit accused lilia of being in the lie pay capital next day tile the was unable to chow BIOW himself upon the lie campus with oft it causing demonstrations I 1 hencer whenever he neer he was vas seen a file of quickly gather kag students marched behind him chanting repeatedly and in ili chorus down vm wall hoch der who loves who who who hoo 1100 win I 1 who loves loes linskie f who ilio who aloo luni linsel was disgusted from the university and disappeared well here it lint midyear exams et ct and the good ole class of nineteen lost a member said cald pie fred 1 Mt k 1 t c fiell i i 1 1 1 I 1 guess we can bear the b breakup break fr e a k f up i fi 1 1 11 I giess g tess so ramsey assented that linsia might jutt just as well stayed cirre though ali why 11 he e to do any hano linnzi here re hell Iol 13 ly abet more eople to listen to tn i 1 ii I in ales ies wier viliore e nbc h r es ito 0 o ninny many to ix fittie and air IP such that dont know anything comin in ili all the time oil oh well veil sold fred what to do we vio care what happens to ChIc chicago agol come on lets rent wild and go on over to the terla and get us its a couple ot of egg sandwiches find hass prilly Ita insey was vm after the strain of the mid year I in ili life hie chums lived a freeh free h arted life aliey tin and settled into the ways of their world they hall grown gron used to it anil and it had grown used to t them there was no longer any ignominy lit in being a fresi simin they aliey romped upon the cati vilus mid and sometimes rioted harmlessly about tile the rl streets reels of the lie town in the evenings they visited their fellows and brethren and were visited til lit turn horseplay prevailed but collegiate gossip tint its turn and they looked so MI far ns as to talk vaguely agliola ag lIOl fit it plans for proCess professions processions prof chilona ions or business though to a freshman tills this concerned till nil almost ably prospect 1 I guess ill go in ili with my father in the wholes nile drug dring busino mild sald fred ity married brother nl fit ready Is 18 in the flip inn firm and I 1 suppose tenyu gho me die A show send roe me out on oil the lie rond road a year or two ho first mayhe tu to try ri me then ini im going to marry little butle and settle down what you golf botn to do 10 nn Ril insey loseY go 00 to law school find then come back and go in your fathers In office 1 I dont know guess go ao it wits ns always fred nho tit gilld most of the lie hiking Ita insey was quiet pilat fred told the trot seniors fren lors that Ita illsey was ns developing A whole lot liepp days fin aind lie told li lining litin self that hint lie he could tee see if 11 big cli clinnie clinn vinge pe in I 1 A N 60 1 0 who loves lova linski who who who hoo lunt him adding that lint tle the improvement was vas probably due to lining passed through terrible trials like that debate idumie Itu nisey kept to their rooms more than ills his con comrade trade did one reason for tills this domesticity being that lie he hall to study longer ih than an F fred red did to keep up 11 and another reason may have bee been n a greater creater shyness than fred possessed if indeed frel freil possessed rny shyness at all for frei was a cheery spirit tp to aballi and by the coming coaling of bering inc all of the best loul looking drig girl students in the place pince knew them bivil enough it appeared to renk of them riot not merely by their first names but by abbreviations of these lie iio had become fashions fasli lons sprig it a fusser fus und and butterfly and if ho reproached pro ached tits ills roommate for shunning tile ladles indies well the truth Is fred fied still said ham sey one lay dray responding darkly well hell you jou see tile truth Is fred le ive had a a ive had tin an experience so only did dd he refer to pred fred sold no more and it wits as comprehended ended between them that the past need naver be definite defInI tL ily referred to again but that it stood between itam ilam sey and any entertainment to be obtained of the gentler but less leas trustworthy sex ex and v thi hv other brethren of the frat frat would have pressed nahi sey to join liam them lit in various frivolous enterprises concerning let creeds crt eds or to be shored shared by alco coen co en ed fred thought it better to explain to tn them privately tely fill all being sacred ali among tiong brethren liow low ll amseys life so far ns as girls went wt fin had been loyed toad with by ono one now a married woman tills this created a great deal of 0 respect for Ita Itami insey ey it became understood everywhere that lie was a woman linter hater CHAPTER IX that early spring of 1015 the two boys and their friends and brethren talked more of the war or than they had in the au autumn thorah tile subject was vas not tit at nil all an absorbing one for the trenches of plunders flanders and france were ft ere still of the lie immense remote distance ily by no stretch of nt imagination these wet trench ep be thought gi eidt y to concern the frat the lanen rr or the university really important mat wire were taw ala doings of tile the crork benm now training in the ayin ail and on oil the varsity field a and od o vital still the prospects of tile the nine hut but lit in amny aln there cading a shock which changed things for a n time ulie the brought to every american it revelation of what lind had wit lain so go deep in lits his own heart that often lie bull not it t was there when the bermans ler ei minis mans lild bild in tile lie sell BOH und ind 1 sent down the lie gibat merchant with american babies and their ninth ers and gallantly dolog d lug american pen gen clemen there anie came a change even to girls and boys boa find professors until then so RO preoccupied with their own OMI little aloof world thousands of miles from the lie murder fred A 1 1 11 ever volatile and generous was one of those who went quite will wild no orator ho he nevertheless made a frantic speech tit nt the weeks frat meetings cursing the germona in ili the simple old words that their performance perform time hall demonstrated to bo be applicable and going on to demand that lift alic fraternity prepare for its share in ili the action of the country 1 I dont care how flow insignificant wo Q few fellows here tonight may seem lie ho cried we e can to do our tittle little and if everybody in thorf count rys ready to to do their own little why bo be plenty I 1 brothers dont you realize that all over the united states tonight tile the people tire me feeling just the way we are here millions lons find millions and millions of them I 1 wherever theres an american lies hes with us ui and you iou bet our bottom dollar I 1 there here tire are just a few inore americans in ili tills this country of oura than there tire are big mout lied lobsters like that fellow linski I 1 I 1 tell you 1011 if congress only gives the word there could be nn an briny of five million men in tills this country tobi tomorrow orrow and those dirty baby babi killin dachshunds would licar it i word on of two from your uncle samuel i 1 brothers I 1 denland that something lie be done right light liere here and now and liy by us I 1 I 1 move we telegraph the secretary of war tonight and offer him a regiment from this university to go 90 0 ver over and help living liang their d n Ic falser alser the motion was hotly seconded and instantly carried then followed a much flustered discussion of the form and phrasing 0 of the proposed tele grain but after everything to lime have been sett settled fed some one ascertained by b telephone that the telegraph company would not accept messages containing words customarily defined ns profane so the telegram in had bad to lie be rewritten row eltten this led to further amendment find and it was finally dually decided to address the senators from that state instead of the lie secretary of war and thus la in it somewhat modified form the message was fenall dispatched next lay day news of what the lie frat find lone done made a great sofr stir tn in the tint etley ver hersity etl sity ty other cruts sent so 0 o lid did the barbarann Barba rinn z finters haters of the frats brats but joining them its in this while 0 small hand band of lennan gertman american students found it their duty to t go before the faculty and report these br breaches enches of neutrality they protested heavily demanding the expel slon of the bren chers as disloyal cit izene therefore unfit students but ruf su ferch a for or the faculty itself lind had been sent sending ling telegrams of smilar similar spirit addressing bot not only the senators alit and congressmen of the state but the Il president resIdent of the united states flabbergasted the th german amerl ameri cans iet retired tred they were confused contused cont used and disgusted by bv this higher up outbreak of un neutrality it overwhelmed them thein that citizens of tte the united states should not remain neutral in the dispute between the lie united states and germany all tiny day the campus was in ferment at twilight Ita nosey was walking meditatively on ills his way to dinner nt at tile the rat frat house across the campus from tits his apartment nt mrs livery everything thing was quiet now both town and gown the students were tit nt their dinners nod so were the burghers burg liera ramsey was into inte but lid not quicken tits ills thoughtful steps which were those of if one lost in reverie lie ile hild forgotten shift springtime was nil all about him film with ills head down walked un tin regardful of tire the new gaieties flung forth upon tile the air by great clusters clu of lowering shrubs just come into white blossom and lavender lie he was unconscious that somebody behind him film going the ho same way rame cattle ba hastening to overtake him and called lils dinine kuhnl landl not until mull he had been called three times did lie he realize that he was being hailed find in n gl girls als voice I 1 ity ily that lint time the girl herself was be blile him hill and ramsey halted quite token aback the girl was dorn yocum she was pale a little breathless breith less and tier her pies eyes were bright nil severe 1 I want to spent speak to tn you she pat ald quickly 1 I 1 want to ask you about something mr colburn and fred ate the only people I 1 know in your sour frat except you and I 1 seen either elther of them today or id h ame ive asked one of them I 1 dora dor trios to impress ramsey with hr ear pacifist paci ritt blows P TO US OB CONTINUED |