Show a mo s As 0 n r qa 0 sa V IS 0 it 0 04 by 1 01 11 9 myers ad I 1 7 by pou leay page THE FIRST KISS Synopsis With his hi grandfather mand father mill andall ramsey 1111 holland Is watching the decoration day parade in the home town the old gentleman a veteran of the civil war or endeavors to impress the younger ister with the 0 of the treat great conflict and many malty years afterward the boy was to remember mil him words with startling vividness in the schoolroom a few yearn afterward ramsey Is not dim tin for remarkable ability though ate ht pronounced dislikes are arithmetic recitations avid and german in sharp harp contrast to llam barn bayr backwardness Is tits hie precocity of little dora yocum a young lady whom in his bitterness he denoel nates teachers teacher pet in high school chool ii where lie he and dora are classmates ramsey continues to feel that the girl delights to manifest her superiority and the vin d furtiveness ho generates becomes alarming fulminating in the resolution that some borne day he will III show how her at a class picnic ram acy cy Is captured bag and bagga baggage ge by falln rut rust the class beauty and endures the agonies of his first love ramseys Rami Ram eyt parents object to willa milla and wish hed taken up with dora yocum 0 CHAPTER VL VI continued 6 hung weightily upon his lifs a arin rm arid nd they dawdled drifting from one lie of the pavement to the other its as slowly advanced albert and sa die ahead of them called good night pom nm a corner before turning down the elite irac street where rc sadie ched and then presently ramsey Ita insey arid and ellla arc at the batters lat pate gate ile he went la in valli tilt tier her halting boiling at the front steps well cililla he said bald alint tit in 10 go out walking king tomorrow albert ant aal sadie are 1 I cant tomorrow toto orrow right flight she told film with obvious regret it the rt luck I 1 got an aunt comin to isit bit from chicago und mid ashes crazy about placing five Il hundred undred and adania arid papa said I 1 liaf haf to stay in to inake four to play it ashes ilabee za le be here bere three or four days and 1 I buess I 1 got to be around home pretty prett Y vieb nil all tl tb time liere here its the borst luck ile he was mas hut but ventured to be lite binary tary vell abat cant be b bellied amit tie be an dured ill IH come around hen shei gone cone ile he mo d as if to depart but she I 1 still ills arm aria and did not prepare to relinquish it well mell lie he said welt v hat dainsey Ila Ra insey well enert ene ht r slie she glanced up at the dark front of the house 1 I guess the fam faint ilys lys gone one to bed the she said absently 1 I spose SO 0 o well good night ramsey she fald said this but till did not release his n ii irrin tin and suddenly in a fluster lie felt that the time he dreaded had come somehow without knowing where villere except that it was wa somewhere gome where upon what seemed to tie be a blurred face too full of obstructing features lie he kissed tier her she turned instantly away in the ness tier her hands handa over her cheeks isad nd to in a panic ramsey wondered it if he badent make a dreadful mistake me inel lie said stumbling to the gate well I 1 duesi I 1 got to tie be gettin along back home ile he woke make in the morning tit in a great self elt he had kissed a girl mingled with inith the loathing was a curl carl liia aus pride in the very fact that caused the loathing but the alide did not lt last long lie he came dori downstairs stairs niort morbid ild to breakfast and continued this wood at noon albert brought him a note which milla had ked sadie afe I 1 to ask albert to lo give bijil 1 dearie I 1 am just wondering Aon derIng it if iou ou thought as much about something avo sweet that happened IRRL insl night US as I 1 did you know kitow what I 1 think it m was US site ic sweetest thing I 1 belld ww YOU yon one ap with liole and I 1 hope ie you yf will 1 think it Is a tweet t i one I 1 would give aou w a real one it if you were here now low alid id I 1 hope sou would wink it was sio teeter still f titan than tile the one I 1 put in ill this vote fe it Is the sweetest swee teft filing now you are re mine and nd I 1 sin am ivert urs forever uddo it if you come coine around about friday ee it if III tie be till all right aunt jess jesia will be 4 gatte back home toy by then so conte come early wild nd we me will get sade and alb to go 90 to 10 the she bond concert it forget what I 1 sold bold about my pit putting fling something faw in thin note dote and I 1 hope vou ou will liblick it 1 is a sweet one but not ot as as B the real sweet one tie I 1 would elk vice a t to at this point ramsey impulsively 1111 toc toce akis tk note into small pieces lie he t tamed cold as his hi imagination tiro pro fitted a sketch of his mother in the act ct ot of rending reading this missie ml silie and at 0 i expression as ai she glie reail read tile the men aen aft it Is i the sweetest tiling thing now 00 you oo tire r mine and I 1 am ain yours youra forever tedilo kiddo ile he wished that illia Lw written ritten kiddo she called him film that but in her warm little voice etli the nom deemed im gt all whit what it did 0 is in fit ink lie ile wished too that lint the she sold said she was his forever suddenly ile he wits was seized with a horror of her moisture brofee out her hembly tilly upon him lie he felt 1 a definite sickness and mIs wishing IvIng for death went ment forth upon the mats 4 to in walk find and walk lie cared nut not whether so that its his feet took him in anny direction away from iella since they were unable to take tak lit him away froni from hl ot of whom he had ns its great a horror iler her loving face was continually before him find and its sweetness made ills his lash flesh creep mollii had been well too loo sweet when lie met or passed people it seemed to hini that peili aps they were mile to recognize upon him som somewhere embere the anark of bf lilt its low quality softy 1 ole file sloppy fool he muttered tid dresing blid himself self slushy tile ie mush anush I 1 and lie added yours forever kiddo convulsions seemed about to seize bilm turning a corner with tits his head down he almost charged into dora yocum site she wag mos homeward bound from a piano lesson and carried a rolled leather case of sheet music something he couldn coulden t imagine siella carr carrl ing ng and in her oung girls dres 4 which attempted to be nothing else she looked as wholesome as cold spring m water ater ramsey hamsey had bad always felt that she despised him and now ilow nil all at once he thought that she was justified leper chrit lie he had become be corno he was unworthy to lo be eien touching his capto tier her and as she nodded and went ent briskly on lie he would haie hae given anything to turn and walk a little way with her lor for it seemed to him that this might fumigate its his morals rut but lie he lacked the courage and besides lie he 1 7 1 IT I 1 1 I 1 I 1 pausing in an alley he H read her note not considered himself unlit unfit to be seen been walking fill her ile he had a long afternoon of on an gulches guis hes these thee becoming most violent when he tried to face the problem of ills his future course toward li lilla lie he did not fuce face it at all in fact but merely writhed and had evolved nothing when friday evening was upon him and nillia nailing for him to take her to tile the bond band cone concert e rt with alb all and sade lie fie made to seek a short with tilt albert just before dinner 1 I got a pretty rotten headache and my st stomachs omalis upset too lie he suld said drooping upon the Pax tons fence 1 I been gettin morse every minute tou and audle go by millas albert and tell tier her if im not there by ha pas seen tell leu her not dot to lo wait fur for me any longer lonK tr how do you mean wait all albert inquired you dont expect tier her to come poolin pikan along with sadie and me do ou U shell keep on there at home just jilka the anine because she have ana anything tiling else elmeto to do it if you dont come like site she expects you to she hat it got cot any ny fly tu to stop slop wait ini in I 1 at this It Anisey mn downed ined without affectation fec tation 1 I dont expect I 1 can at albert lie sold mid id like to if I 1 could but the wa it it looks now jou ou tell her I 1 ile mabbe mil be I 1 was mas start ln in mih typhoid fever or pretty near anything fit at all ile he moved away concluding feebly 1 I guess I 1 better crawl on home albert while im ab able le to awk walk some you tell her the way it looks now ira im liable to be right sick kirk and the next in ornIng lie woke to the channel of remorse picturing a milla somewhat restored in charm waiting hopefully nt at the gate even after the half past espien ond and then us hs time pressed pas led and the cound of tile dim alls horns came faintly through the darkness dark nebs going badly adly to tier room perhaps ing there it was wan a pic ture lure to wring him with cliame and pity alt but was wag fol followed lovied by another which electrified him for out of school he h 1 did not lock inck imagination what it if albert hod reported his illness too ton vividly to bailla atilla was so 10 fond what if in her ber alarm she khe should come here to tb the house to inquire of his film mother about him what if the she toll sirs mrs they vere engaged the next moment loment was wan project ing a conversation blot between meen his mother and molln in ili chih the latter tinted stated that slip she and were soon moon to be b married that she bile legai ried him as already virtually her husband and demanded to nurse him in a panic he fled from tits the hon home ge ht he fore breakfast going out by way of a side conr door ant and lie crossed back yards and climbed bark back fences to reach albert paxton the lie more swiftly this creature a ladles ladies man almoas probes mortally uni un i found exercising with an electric iron find a pair of flannon trousers la in a bri basement laundry by way of stirring ila his appetite for the rn morning ornIng meal see here albert his hl friend sold breathlessly 1 I got a favor I 1 want you to io a over to Mil liti 11 im coln to finish essIn these theme trousers albert interrupted then ive got my breakfast to eat well ou on could do this first said ramsay hurriedly it hurt you to do rue me this little favor first brt lou just juat slip over mer and see ellla for me it if ashes up yet and if she ion better wait around till slie she Is because I 1 I 1 want you to tell tier her 1 im in a whole lot better this morning tell her im pretty near kly all right again albert and ill grobly write tier her a note or something lilii right soon or in a week meek or so anyhow an how you tell her well you act pretty funny albert exclaimed tumbling fumbling in the pockets of ills his coat why cant you go on over oer and tell tier her yourself but just as it happens there be any use your coin over there or me either why not lot mijla aint there said albert still searching the pockets of his him coat when we went by tier her house last night to tell tier her about our hen headache hend acha dache and stomach and all why her mother told us mallad ad gone up to chicago yesterday afternoon with her aunt and said slie she left a note for you and she said if you were mere sick I 1 better take it and give it to you I 1 was coln to bring it over to your house after breakfast lie he found it I here fere ramsey thanked him feebly and departed in a state of partial stupefaction brought on by a glimpse of the instabilities of life lie ile had also not relief but a sense of vacancy arid and loss for I 1 lailla ll illa out of his reach once more became mysteriously lovely pausing in an alley he read her note dearle dearie thought I 1 ought to calt call you up tip but over the phone Is just nix for explanations as aa mama and aunt jess jes would hear everything and thought I 1 might seem cold to you not saing anything sweet on account of them listening und and you would mould conde why I 1 iv as so cold when telling you goodby good gond by for a wile wife maybe weeks it Is I 1 this aliis way uncle perv wired aunt jes lie has just taken lit in a big touring car on a debt and his vacation starts tomorrow so it if they were mere going to take tak a trip they better start right way may so aunt jess invited me now dearle dearie I 1 have hain to pack and write this in a hury bury so aou ou will not be Ills disappointed appoInted when lou come by for the B C to do D not po go pet get some other girl and take tier her for I 1 would mould hate her and nothing in it this world would make me false tor for one second to my kiddo boy I 1 do not know just when home again as the folks think I 1 better stay up tip there tor for a visit at aunt jess jes aud and uncle purvis hocq home I 1 in n chicago after afta the trip la Is over but I 1 think of you all the time and you must think of me every minute and believe your own dearie she will never no not for or one second be false so teu tell sade and alb goodby good by tor for me arid and do not be false to me any more than I 1 would mould be to vou ou and it will not lie IM long ill till nothing more III interrupt our sweet friendship As a measure of domestic prudence ramsey tore the note into irreparable fragment but he did this slowly and without experiencing any of 0 the revulsion created by mills millas former missive ile he was melancholy aggrieved that she should ti treat eat him so yes yc 0 r that quiet lita lit M illas a regular old married woman by th is time Ra nanray TO BE CONTINUED |