| Show 0 aj q 10 16 14 w ap 0 A gl qa 4 v 0 4 vv v er le FA B effi bu 4 ty 01 ani ayer Is aay boesl TO esl 1 9 double dav rage pay company CHAPTER XIII continued i is lie ile seer seemed ried to wish to speak to heave with speech that declined to be spoken and would not rouse up from froin ills his inwards finally he atte uttered red words 1 I I 1 veil e I 1 oil oh I 1 know phe said A man or a boyl always hates to be intruding lifs his own convictions apon upon other men especially in a case alko this where lie might be afraid ot of some thinking him film hut but biais ey suddenly she broke off und and looked sit at film attentively his discomfort hod had become so ko obvious that suspicion struck tier her she spoke sharply Ila you arent dreaming of doln doing g such cuch a thing filing are you ou what such a thing fred fed influenced you ou has fins he be you arent planning to go with him are you where WI ere to join the canadian aviation no I 1 thought of doing it shi she sighed again rell relieved eyed 1 I had a queer feeling about you just then that you were we thinking rethinking of doing some such thing you looked so odd and youre always so quiet anybody might not really know what to think but vin not wrong about you am I 1 ram bey they hail had come to the foot of the steps that led up to the entrance of ler her dormitory and their walk was fit at aai an ena end As they stopped and faced each other she looked at him eirl earnestly iest but lie did not meet the scrutiny his eyelids fell tin im not wrong am 1 I I 1 about what he murmured mur muied uncomfortably you are my friend rland arent youl iou yes yea then its nil all right site she said that relieves rl I 1 eves me and makes we me happier than I 1 was just now for of course if youre my friend you let me make any mistake abdul you iou I 1 believe eyou you find end now just before I 1 go in and we wont see much of each other for a week it if you still want me to 0 ga go with ith you ou again next sunday yes wont you vou please yes if you like but I 1 want to tell you now that I 1 count on oil you ou in all ahls ev even ero though you ou dont talk much as you say I 1 count on you more than khan I 1 do on anybody else and I 1 trust you ou when jod you say atly youre my friend alend andrt makes maka me happy and I 1 think perhaps right 0 t fred mitchell talk tant c everything ery 1 thing nobody knows that better than 1 I talk so nil and I 1 think that instead of talking to fred 6 steady quiet influence like yours would do more good than any amount nf if arguing so I 1 trust you you see and im sorry I 1 had that queer doubt ot of you she held out her ber hand band unless i happen to see you ou on the campus for a minute in the meantime its good hie until a week from today so well so goodbye good bye until thena then I 1 walt said ramsey what Is 10 it lie he made a great struggle im not influencing fred not to go lie he sold said 1 I dont want you yon to trust me to to do anything an at hing like that Wl Wb mt 1 I think tta its all right for or him to go if he wants bunta to ramsey said bald miserably you yon dot do t por for him to go to fo fl slit lie he yes oh I 1 sue slie cried arned even redder than he and ran up tile the stone steps Buti before the storm doors closed upon her she be looked down to where lie he mood villi his eyes still si I 1 lower adi a lonely seeming figure upon ullon tile the pavement below tier voice chught upon it 11 0 aoh son ds as slip she spoke if you rou f feel 1 like that you might as well go and enlist yourself our gelf site she sold said utterly biti erly 1 I cant I 1 speak to yon job again after this I 1 CHAPTER XIV it was crisy enough for him to evade fred mitchella BlItch ells ahme datys the he sprigs mood was was truculent i not toward ills roommate but toward town rd icon con brex which was iego less in flery fiery than he to he be definitely at war with Gerni germany ony ball through tile the university the th 0 had come athletics in other years si spotlighted pot lighted at the center of the lie stage languished suddenly thren threatened tenet I 1 with students working for senior honors forgot them everything woo waa forgotten except that growing thunder lit in the soil soft several weeks elapsed after doras bitter or of ramsey before she was mentioned between the comrades then aine one evening fred red asked ns 09 lie ho restlessly paced their study loon billave you ou seen been your our pacifist friend lately nc INC not exactly nally nc lly wiy wily well for iny in pait jart I 1 lbook she ought to be loc kellup F fred re A said angrilli angrl li have vou liburd what she file did this i wr 1 wai its all over college she got up in the class ln la jurisprudence uris prudence and made a speech its iti a big class you know over two hundred under dean dealt burney lies iles a great lecturer but lies he an a pa ancl el list the only one on the faculty and it friend of Dori doras dorilia lit they toy say he enczur aged her to make this break and led the subject around so she could to do it and then called on tier her for an opinion as the highest stand student la in the class site she got up and claimed there any such thing a it legitimate cause cpr war either legally or morally and said it was a sign of weakness in a notion nation tor for it to believe that it did time have it cause for nr well it was too much for that little littie spunky joe stansbury antl and lie he jum jumped ed up and argued with her lie ile made her admit all the germans lave have done to us the sea murders and the land murders the blowing up of factories the propaganda the strikes trying to turn the united states into a german settlement trying to get japan and mexico to nuke inake war on oil us and all the rest ue ile even made tier her admit there was proof they menu mean to conquer us when hen they get through with the others and that set out to td rule the world arld for their own benent benefit and jinhe whoever else they kindly allow to UK live work ark for them she baldit said ft might be true but since nothing at nil all could be a right cause for war then all this be a cau cause sefor for waa war of course she had tier her regular pacifist logic working she said tant since war esthe Is the worst tiling thing there ts Is why all other evils were mere k he swallowed yes I 1 lisser lesser and u lesser evil tont thant be it just list cause fur for a greater she got tei rally excited they say any but kept right on site she said bald war was murder and there coude t banny any other way if to look arlt ar it and shed shed heard then here wo mas already talk lit in the university of students thinking about mid and whoever did such a thing was nas virtually enlisting to ti return murder for murder then joe stansbury lierly her if slie she beani meant that shed fell toward adv Y student that enlisted ti the I 1 e way alie 91 e would toward a murderer and aie said aid yes es shed have a horror of any r student that enlisted well that broke up the lie chasn joe turned from tier her to the platform and burney that lie he was is depou repou re apul M I 1 hie for allowing allow ing such talk in ills his lecture roamn and joe paid filid so no far as lie he v was us concerned hi 1 resigned berneys Bur classes right there that started it and practically the class got up tip ind walked out with joe they said burney streaked riff off home find and dorn dora was wan left alone in there wh her lienti town down on her desk dek and I 1 puen gues she certainly deserves it A good ninny have ol al really real stopped speaking to lie her r fidgeted with a pen on tile lie table hy by which he pat cat well I 1 dont know lie said gold jowly 1 I dont know if o aright to cohut eart 1 they fred fard de weinand inand id CA sharply well it looks ro in me as it if she he was only for tier principles she tiei liua ili i li jbv more ll 11 tut tarson personate ito tick to their why the moie I 1 believe the person must have thing pretty flue fine about em likely yest sold bald the bot bended beaded fred that way may be lit in ordinary times but not when ilien a persons principles are liable tb betray their country I 1 we gmt stand that kind of principles I 1 tell el you and we he to dorn ending that out all right she had tile lie biggest position of any girl in this place or any boy either up to the last few weeks and there any sta ant lent or hardly even a member of the faculty that hint had the influence or was more admired and looked up to she he had tile the whole but now since ashes just the tha some as called cabied nuy city student a murderer if lie he enlists to fight for his hl country and flip flig well now she got anything nt at all and if ohe iho keeps on oil shell shel I 1 have hae even less lossl I 1 lie ile paused in ills walking to and fro and came to a halt behind ills his friends leiila fr chair looking down compassionately upon the tack of ramseys Ram Rain motionless head ills tone changed 1 I guess it just the ticket me to be talking this way to you Is it lie said alt with a trace of huskI huskiness noss oh its oil all right ramsey murmured not offering altering ills his position 1 I crint help blowing vp up fred went on 1 I want to say bay though I 1 know im not very ery considerate to blow up about her to you this way ive been playing horse with you ou about tier ever since freshman year but well weil you must hare understood ram ilam I 1 never meant anything uny thIng that would really both er you much end and I 1 thought well 1 1 I really thought it was a good tiling filing you your well I 1 menn nebout tier her you know im on oil all right I 1 know its pretty serious with you lie ile paused its its kind of tough luck ill ills his frienzi friend contrived it to say anny and lie began to pace the floor again 1 oll oh av mell ell 11 lie said see here olp stick in the mud pred fred broke out abruptly after tier her saying what slie she did well its ita none 0 my but hut but well what murmured 11 1 I dont rare fare what you say it if you want it to say anything well I 1 got to say it fred half groaned gron nort anti balf blurted after slip she said that and she meant it why it if I 1 were li in your place id ile he darned if io ia he be seen out walking with nith her apin again tm im not ping going to be dainsey said quietly illy hy georgel anti and now fred hil hillien lied in front of hint him both being huskily solemn 1 I think I 1 und understand ersland n little yant that menns to you old raw nam I 1 think I 1 do I 1 think I 1 know something of what it costs you to malce make that resolution for your coun arys sake impulsively lie extended ills hand its ita n pretty big thins thina for you to ilo do will you shulie bandall lint shoo shook k his iteal 1 I do it I 1 ever have done anything an tiling just on oil account of tier her that way she eliut tbt door on me it wit a it good while lille ago 11 she lid did I 1 what forr aorl well im not much of a talker you know fred red said raid Rn insey staring at tile the pen he played with im not of liny thIng for that mutter matter grobly pr obly but I 1 well I 1 you what well wel 1 I 1 auld to tell her I 1 feet feel about things the way she did shed I 1 thought I 1 had nil all along olon I 1 guess anyway it made tier her hate we 1110 or something I 1 gaess and she called it all oft I 1 expect there mu ch to call off so hinr its site she was concerned any nn how flow ile he laughed feebly she told me I 1 11 IL etter go and enlist pleasant of herl berl fred muttered especially Esperi ally as we know what she thinks things trill enlisting stIng means lie ile raised lik hh voice cheerfully well settled and god old mr on oil ills hla ay agy to his fits sweet tittle ittle vine clad cottage homel home I 1 getting guns in the ships and the big alp shows visible to commence coin any day we can hold up our heads now and were going to see sea some great times old ramsey It anisey hoyt boy I 1 its hard ou on tile lie home folks gosh I 1 I 1 lont dont like to think of thail and I 1 guess its going to te be hard on a lot of boys boa that understood it alti a all it about all and hard un on some that their farally und and business and so sc on have got ern em tied up so a its liard hard to a and af f courte course theres plenty that ju just 1 at ann soine that arent husky enough but the re res of us ore are going to lune have the big timela alpe in our lives we got tin an awful lot to learn ll it scares roe me to fo think of what I 1 doht know about being any burt of a rear rank private why its A regular profession like practicing low law or velling for a drug house ou on tile the ramil goldyl do you w reinero lw how we talked about that way back in breidi I 1 man inn year car what we were going tt to do whan we at got out of college you svere ere g going ing to be practicing law for instance and I 1 well weli rr fr re pvn Jer colburn Lol burnt I 1 be was going to I 1 he le n doctor and he did p W tu to scale cut cal school for une one year now hes helm in tile the crops somewhere lit in Il Ier ersla gla golly I 1 TO BG ac CONTINUED |
