Show 0 ams ana 6 10 KA 4 0 YI el 1 V B elar 0 ahral 16 bh 6 1 0 aa axa 0 V 11 anim 1 layers g 0 bowe V page kompany Oom pany CHAPTER X 12 hanisky kept very jew things from fred fid mitchell Ml and anally his confidences were immediate upon the ocen slam of them but allowed several weeks to elapse clapie before sketching for his roommate the outlines of this adventure Vii venture iture one thing that was kind 0 funny about it fred he said 1 I ka know w want to call her mr mitchell stretched etched upon the window seat in thele their study ll 11 and looking out over the town street streel below find the campus beyond tile the street had already eady thought it tactful to ambush his profound amusement by turning upon Us his side aide so GO that ills ids face was toward the win window dow an daway from his companion what did you want to call her he inquired in a sellout voice names no you know what I 1 mean I 1 nican clean iba d to keep calling tier houi you and that gets kind of freaky when youre to anybody a good while like that when shed be lookin away from me for instance or down at the river or somewhere where and rd IM want to s tali start sayla say la something to her you know chy I 1 would ift know h haw to 0 o get started exact exactly li without something A person want to be always off with tsee see bere or things like that 1 I dont clort see wily why you let tt it trouble you said fred from from liow chow youve always talked about aboud her you had a perfectly handy lynndy way to start off with anything you vou wanted to say to liall her what with why you just say oil you teachers I 1 ical eil that would 11 I 1 get out I 1 what I 1 buean Is fi ahe ci called tilled me i Ilat tisey without any bother it seem s funny I 1 got stumped every time I 1 started to say any dora some way I 1 land lt it and it certainly would a sounded eray crazy ito call ther jer mil miss after altum ilu an the dafne same room with her eiery evary day from the baby cloiss clear on up through theand he end of high school that we would uld V a made me out an idiot I 1 p what did you call ther aher ared vred asked jut just noth at nil ail I 1 started ito call her something or other A a hundred times I 1 ju guess ess and then id balk id get gc oil all ready lindblad and lind kind klad of make 41 sort of a 5 sound and nd then IM ibave to quit 1 she may clay have thought ou had a cold said fred still kee iphy Us back turned 1 I expect maybe mabe stee st ee did though I 1 dont know most tile the time she che didat alan t seem to 6 notice me much und of I 1 site she no site she was too upset I 1 gielis by what she was th inkin about kut but if 1 it bew been or that v fred suggested suggest til you iou mean mean shea lie id have ce i paid more attention to is who was sitti sitting tg on the bench with lier ber get you know how it was wag jery body those few days day thought we wre were coln to have hate war war and ow was J just t sure surd of it and it upset lier iter of bourse ourse most people were a lot more upset by what those dutchmen did to the he lusitania than by bj tile the iden den of war and site she seemed tofeek ns ai broken up as a nii bodi could be about the jut but what got her tile worst wa was 9 tile lie notion of tier her country counters hantla to ti figlia sloe slie said she really was wa upset too fred fied there no putten on about tt it I 1 guess that ole girl certainly must have a good deal of feeling lecause te cause doggoned otter afier wed been battin there a while if she hive to get out her handkerchief 1 she kept lir face abc acc turned awny away from me just the same mine us ra youre doln now to fo keep from laugh ln but honestly lion estl she c cried r led like somebody at a funeral I 1 ft uke I 1 ke the darn dart dest idest tool 1 P If fl riot not laughing raid fred hilt lie did not prove prokp it by turning to eo that his fits face could lie ile seen what did the site sio pay ON of she say such an awful lot she sold one kind 0 funny thing tho urh she said site she was surry sorry she quite control herself tint lint it if anybody had to see her cry she minded jt t less because it as an old school dilate what attick mo me so kind 0 fill funny 4 about lint alint Is 19 why it looks fis as if ii sl e never knew the way I 1 always alwaes bated liniel her so af tes said eald fred it flut flat veil sir it h ind kind of ham r sey ey agreed inu singly it cero only I 1 ian sn f when yo you q look at it that wy vant ahat lid did you iou say blen site she suld eld tanu fred bied naked Not lih i I 1 to hut but I 1 sort of lvell arll we kept on sitting there anil and arter while site she hegan to to tall tali again and got kind of excited vb t linw no war coald do iny anything thing or any go god od slid and till war was ns anvie aed no inetter alint it was about on and feln fh ln cound be good lint was founded nn inn fior and hate bete wi api every war that wr ever was fought w always founded on fear and hate she sald abild it the vurmal wanted tn agut us we ae ought to go to meet them and tell them we fight what lid did you bayl say No Noth thIn ln I 1 kind hind 0 started to but but th thease the euse ashes got that hut in tier her head besides how aati aiti anro you coln to argue about a thing avith ith a person crying about I 1 tell you fred I 1 guess we got to admit after all that ole girl certainly must have a lot of heart about her anyway there may not be much fun to lier her though of course I 1 know isnow hardly any wily way to tell about that but ill there ere be hardly any doubt ashes got a lot of feeling well anti and then site she went on and said old men mode made wars but light fight they left the fighting to the boys and the suffering to the boys mothers yes I 1 fred exclaimed and upon that lie he turned tree free of mirth for the moment the woman of it I 1 guess send the old men to do the figh fighting for the diat matter ter of that I 1 guess my eatherd fat herd about a thousand times rather go himself abal see 11 me e and my brothers go but fathers so BO fat he cant cadt stoop I 1 you got to be able to stoop to dig n trench I 1 guess I 1 well suppose we sent cent our old men up against those dutchmen them the dutchmen ni n would just kill hill the old men and then come after the boys and hc boys be ready and get killed too and then 4 there be anybody but tile dutchmen left and he 16 one fine world t it I 1 yes said ramsey courve course I 1 thought of that did you tell her no what did you bay No Noth thin ln I 1 glut get anyway but besides what was the u use ue e but she want the lie old men to go eo she want anybody to go what did she want the country to do fred asked impatiently aist what it hns has been doln I 1 sup pose just lc things simmer down it I 1 i I 1 no I 1 started to but upil and poke fill along ong and let thew do what they like to us 1 I guess sol fald bred vlen when they got boie sowe tree free time on their lianda hands come oer ever end ninke make it really interesting for us because they hey know we wont do anything iut talk yes I 1 guk buesa alifi the file way thip bilings asare are settling down ought to bult dora dor a there coln to he any war she WIB pretty sure there 4 as though Thi nisey anil thoughtfully oh of course she noa then we all thought so those few days no site she suld said she thought it come right away hut now it 11 was wan almost sure to come sometime site she fold cald our and all the talk and and so much feeling and everything showed her that the wat war thought that in people somewhere W tind mid lieen been up sn it would ko feo on oil and on she said she ate knew from tile the way hay she frit felt lipri herself self about tile the Lus itallia that a 11 feeling like thirl hot t lc in lier let would never bp absolutely wiped put olit as long us site alic lived lint she sald mild her oilier feeling about tile lie of vor nr tier her to keep the lie first fir st feIl feeling ng fram breaking out bill with other poo po o and even it if ilant breal out right it emild T illi always be ready to co a nil 11 over the iou country nad sometime it would though site she was nils doln it to do tier her share to fight it her fiela ns IS long aa i tap could stand ahr asked nie me woul dat I 1 he be one of nf the lie ones os to ill help hr ile paused rind after n ino mobie inea fred red well alint did you say buy to that Not Noth liln itil I 1 started to tai but ini 11 again fred thought it tactful to to turn and look out the win window dovy while tie the agitation of hla his shoulders lit lio brayed him go on oil and laughl laugh I 1 well so PO afi stayed staled there quite a while but before we left she got kind of more like everyday you sou know the way people do it was half past nine when we walked back to town and I 1 was has to feel klud kind of hungry so I 1 asked her if site she and she sort gort of laughed and seemed to be ashamed c of if it as it it was a disgrace or something but she suld site she guessed she was so I 1 left her by that hedge of lilacs near the observatory and went on over oer to the iho terla and the fruit store and got some stuffed eggs and olives and halt half ti peanut butter sandwiches and aad a box 0 strawberries kind hind of girl food you know and went vent on back there iberia end and we ate the stun stuff up so then she said she was afraid shed elied trilan ti n cn me away from my dinner and atna made me a tot lot of trouble find anil ro BO on and she was sorry and she fihe told me goodnight good night what did you say then thany noth oh shut up I 1 so then she skipped out to her dorm dorai and I 1 come canie on home I 1 when did you see lier ber next ram tey 1 I seen her next said ram nam sey 1 I seen tier her nt at all not to 16 to I 1 saw her ter on main alain street twice ilice since then but both times she was with ath sonie boine other girls and they were across the street and I 1 tell if site she was lookin at nie me I 1 kind of thought not I 1 thought thou klif it might look ook sort 0 nutty to bow to 11 lier er it if she so I 1 and you tell tier her you iou be one of the ones to help her with her pacifism and antiwar anti war stuff and all that no I 1 started 0 but shut cupl fred sat pat up giggling so she th thinks inks you sou will help her you say bay anything at all and she must think that means mean 8 s she he con converted cried you why ion yo t i speak up ula well I 1 argue with tier lier said ramsey then after a silence he seemed to be in need of sympathetic comprehension it was kind klad 0 funny though it ire said appealing ly y want Wha was the whole busl business ness IW what I 1 bat whole foxhole bus 11 oil get out I 1 tier stopple stopp stop pir ln roe me tind m tiie d eoln along her ber and her ajer well tier her crying and every everything think and roe me being around with her hee while sho felt so upset I 1 mean it seems well it does seem all kind 0 0 I 1 funny io roe me why does docs it lit fred pre his fits gravity why it is seem L em funny to you 1 I dont mean funny like funny you laugh atI at lamsey explained laboriously 1 I mean funny like something out of the he way and you wonder liow how it ever happened to hi hup P en I 1 it seems funny ill id ever ee can e ittin there on a barcli wilt that ole girl I 1 never neer spoke to in my any life or had anything an tiling to ao 10 lo na and about tile lie united jolln to war vant we were about why that seems just ai funny funn yas as the relt rek of f it lookin back to our ea class 11 s a picnic ic fr cr instance second year ear of high school abot lint addy I 1 jumped in the creek after well you know it waw when I 1 started walan a fool of bf myself over eer a girl thank goodness I 1 get gat that out 0 my system fO Steni it makes me just jast alck lck to look lack back on those days and think of the fool foal things I 1 did and till nil I 1 thought about aboud that girl wily Wh yolie alie well ive got old enough to see now naw site ahe was aa just about qs as ordinary a girl as there thera ever was end and it if I 1 saw tier lier now I 1 even een think phe edie was vas pretty id fd grobly think slie site wits was sort of loud loolian loo liln well passed Is past tind and it elther liere here nor there what I 1 started to say was this that tile the way it begins to took look to roe me it looks us if nobody can tell in ili this ills life n darn tiling thing about golno to happen and the things that do happen are tho the very ery ones cues swear were UK last ast that could I 1 mean look back to that day of tile lit plyle fe my I 1 but I 1 yas as it a rube then well I 1 mean you look hack to that day and whist what do you suppose id have hale thought tien then it if toine some bodyl told me tile the line would ever come whon id Ls ile way oil off here tit at college on it a bench with dora yo cum with dora yocum in the arst peace picc und and tier lier cryl crying tig find and both of ua its talking about the united states coln to war with germany Germun 1 dont it seem prett funny t 0 you red too 11 I 1 hut in t ali a near ait ab 1 I can CAB make out fred said that lant what happened wily why it you say land and both of us ua talking talk ln and so BO on As near as I 1 can make inake out you say anything at all well veil I 1 much ramsey admitted and returned return eil to tilt tila point with almost pathetic peril persistence stence but it seem kand hillid ul 0 funny to you fred 71 well I 1 dont know 1 does to we me insisted it certainly ta me die yes said fred cruelty cruelly ive noticed you waldso said sald so s lut lint it dont look any ful funnier liller then than you jou do wilen when you say it ill suddenly lie he sent forth a startling shout wow I 1 Y youre 0 ure is na red us as a blushing beet 1 I um am not I 1 Ya ynie rel shouted sli fred bowl tin tha ole woman daters haters get the flushes bushes oh ob louk at tin pretty jiw I 1 TO DE DC CONTINUED |