Show ramse milho rin 0 ay by BOOTH copyright by doubleday pago P Com Parry DORA YOCUM syn synopsis pals with his grandfather small Is watching the decoration day parade in th hometown home town the old gentleman a vs veteran ran of the civil nar ar endeavors 0 o impress the young star ter with ehte significance of ilia great conflict and many years afterward tile boy was as to remember his til words with startling vividness viviane 8 S in the schoolroom a few ears afterward ramsey Il anisey Is not distinguished for or remark remarkable ablo ability though hla his pronounced pronounce are arc arithmetic and gernian german in sharp contrast to g rain tin deys eys backwardness Is the precocity of little dora yocum a young lady whom in his bitterness he denoma nates teachers pet in high school where lie and dora are cla climates mates ramsey continues to ta feet feel that the girl delights to man manifest her superiority and the nin in he ge generates becomes alarming culminating in the resolution that some da day y he will show her at a dais picnic rammy Is captured bag and baggage by arilla rust kust the t class beauty and endures tile the agonies of Ws his first love Rams cys parents object t to 0 milla and wish hed taken up with dora yocum ramsey kisses ki milia than MIIA suddenly leaves ton town n CHAPTER VII 7 lie he never saw her again slie site sent him a picture portal from woe wisconsin ihla his father disengaged engaged from the lie family nail mail one morning at breakfast and con considerately iterate handed to him without audible comment upon it ans as written ritten oh you Runis ekl tills this was the alic last of I llla just before school opened in the autumn ulu iun sadie clews cles made some revelations 11 ellla ild d id like ilke you said sadie after eliat time you jumped in the creek to save tier lier she liked you better than adv any boy in town and I 1 guess if it tor for tier her counsie mut lilt up in n chicago slie she would of liked like you them the best any anywhere here I 1 guess slie she lid did anyway because she seen him for about a year then their well that afternoon she die went sway away I 1 was over oer there and took in ID everything that was goin on in only she inada anade me promise ou on my word of honor 1 even tell albert they get any wire nire from the uncle about the touring car it ws was tier her cou aln ain milt that jumped on the train and came down and axed it nil up tor for bailla to go eo on the trip and everything you see ramsey slie she was turned back a couple of times in school before slie she came in our class and I 1 dont know how low old slie she ter and ab she e dont look old yet but im pretty sure ailes hes at least eighteen and the she mitat be over I 1 think such a gibat lea deal of this milts looks myself but ties lies anyway twenty one old and got a good position and all their family seem to think hes just fine it if ills his father that took in the touring car on the debt like she said she was writing you it was milt atilt himself ile iio started out in business when he was wag only thirteen years old and this trip he was gettin up for his father and mother and milla was waa the first vacation he ever took well of course she ehe like my tellin you but I 1 cant see the harm of it now nov every things all over all all over you mean millas going to be to be marriell married 1 she already Is said sadie they kot got married at her aunt jess and uncle purrs house bouse up in Ch chicago lengo last thursday yes sir that quiet little mallas a regular old married woman by this time I 1 expect 1 I 1 when he got over the shock aich which was not until the next day one predominating feeling remained it was a gloomy pride a pride in ili ills his proven maturity lie he was old enough it ap appeared to have been the same thing as engaged to a person was now dow a blar married ried woman ills manner thenceforth showed liow cd an added trace of seriousness ous neRis and self consideration recovered hn his equi equipoise and something more he entirely forgot that inocent of humble admiration lie he flat biad felt for dora yocum on the day of his flattest prostration when he saw aw i tier her bitting in the classroom smiling brightly up at the teacher the morning of the schools opening in the autumn all his humility had long since frince vanished and she blo appeared to him not otherwise than as the scholar whose complete proficiency ball eways ays been so FI irksome to him look at her berl lie he muttered to him bilm at kalt if same ole rs ft ical I 1 now and aben as the days and sea lions passed and doras serene progress continued never hooked or men cien flawed there stirred within him bilm some of the old determination to show tier her ant and he would conjure up a daydream day dream of dora in loud lend lamentation while shile he be led the laughter vf if tile the spectators hut but gradually ills his feeling about her came to be merely mere ly a dull oppression ile ho was tired of trying to look at her as lie he stated it and tie ho thanked the lord that the time be so long now until hed bed be out of that ole school an and d then all hed have to do hed just take tal e care never to by her house it was wag easy enough to use some other treet street when h be bad to go down town the good f ol 01 class of nineteen fourteen Is about gone lie he aid to t fred who was still ills his most mos friend when nhen they reached tin the senior year yes sir its It beld to gether a good many lunny bears oars fred but bui after june 1111 ile he busted plum up and I 1 hope nobody starts a move to t have liny any reunions theres a good many members of the ole class that thai I 1 can stand rind and theres some I 1 cant lilt hut theres one I 1 just wont 1 it if we ever did call a reunion that ole yo curn cum girl would start in rl right bt awny anny and run ran the whole shebang and where here id resign 1 you know fred the file thing I 1 think Is the one biggest benefit of 0 graduating from this ole school its never sebin dora yocum again tills this was again his file theme as he sat by the same friends side in the rear row of the class at coin in en cement listening to the delhery of the valedictory dIc tory thinks sites just soo blime dont she ile he whispered morosely she trade with the fresl dent of tile the united states right now nener anvor reindl just about a half nn an hour more and llie lie last 0 o you tile girl yes sir fredone fred one thing vie me can fe feel 1 pretty good over this ills Is where xe vie get through with dora torum and fred ila biad arranged to room together at greenfield the sent scat of the state university and they made tile the short journey in company the following september they arrived lil ili barlous lar lous anticipating pleasurable ex cite ments in the way of fraternity and initiations encounters will sophomores class meetings and elections and also they were not absolutely sol without interest in the matter of girls for the state university was nas educational coeducational co and it was but natural to expect in ili so broad a field all new to them a possible vision of something rather thrilling they whispered cheerfully of all these things during the process of matriculation and signed the registrars book on a fresh page but when fred had bad written ills his air 1 lie what on earths the matter ramey sey name under and blotted it lie took the liberty of turning over the lent leaf to examine some of the autographs of their future classmates written on the other side bide then lie he uttered an exclamation more droll than dolorous though it affected to be hotly holly the latter for tile the shock to fred was by no means so ao painful as it was to his friend ramsey leaned forward and read the name indicated by freds forefinger DORA DOHA when they got back bach to their pleasant quarters at airs meggs facing the campus ramsey was nas still unable to talk of anything except tile the lamentable nor were his companions camp inloes in lons burlesquing efforts to console him of great avail though fred did become serious enough to point out that a university was different from a high school iiii not like limin to use one big room as a headquarters you know Every things all split spilt up and she might happen not be in a single single one of your cla classes stes you dont know my luck the afflicted boy 1 coleste A 1 I wish id gone to the way my father wonted me to why this Is just the alic worst nuisance I 1 eier struck youn see sec shell he be in ever tiling there ther Is just tile the way she wao wan bark home bone lie he appeared appi appt ared to lie corroborated by the events of ft the next day when they attended atten deil the first rne meeting eting to organize the new nev class the masculine marcul lne clement predominated but dora yocum was elected vice president you see ramsey kamsey sald said I 1 tell you you see what happens hut but after that she ceased lor for a time to intrude upon his life find lie ile admitted that his harassment was less grave than he had anticipated there were about live five hundred students in tho the freshman alwi cli iv he seldom saw her and when hen lie he did it was not more th than an a distant glimpse of tier her on one ot of the lie campus paths her thoughtful head bent over a book ns as slie site hurried to a classroom this was bearable anil and in the flattering agitations of being sought and even hunted by several fraternities simultaneously de of his becoming a sworn n brother rother Il he be almost forgot tier lier after it hazardous month the roommates fell into the arms of the last frat to seek them find and having undergone fin an evening of outrage which concluded with ing rhetoric and an oath taken at a midnight they proudly wore jeweled symbols on their breasts and free to turn port part of their loi to other affairs especially the affair of the eleven however they were instructed by the older brethren of their order whose duty it xing was to assist in ili the proper maneuvering of their young careers that although support of the varsity tennis teams was important they must neglect neither the spiritual nor the intellectual products byproducts by of undergraduate doings therefore the they y became members of the college Y 31 a A and of the lumen society Soe lety according to the charter which it hall had granted itself the lumen society was an organization of male and female students so adian advanced ced was as this tin s university for tile the development of the powers of debate and oratory intellectual and sociological progress and the discussion of all matters relating to philosophy metaphysics literature art and current events A statement so formidable was not without a hushing effect upon malholland rind and matchell Ml they went to their first lumen meeting in a state of fear and came away little reassured 1 I get up there ramsey declared 1 I stand up there before fill all that crowd and make a speech or debate in a debate to save my soul and gizzard why id just keel right over and hat haf to be carried out well the avny I 1 understand I 1 it t said fred we cant get out of it the seniors in the frat said we had to join and they said we ine resign either we had joined they sat said we just had to go through it and after ii a while wed get used to it and not mind it so much 1 I will ramsey insisted 11 1 I any more stand up tip there on my feet and get to spout ln about sociology and the radical 1 chorus 1 of 1 the bazo ozum than I 1 could fly a alyin machine why WI I 1 t oil oh that anything fred interrupted tile the only one that talked like that lie he aca vs that blickens 1311 ekens lies a tutor or something and really a member of the faculty most 0 the others just kind hind of blah around slid and what any of em tried to get g t off their chests hardly amounted to terribly much 1 I dont care I 1 do it at all I 1 well the way it looks to me fred observed we simply got tot from what they tell me the freshmen got to do more than anybody every other friday night its all freshmen and else you get a postal card on monday morning in your mall mail and it says assignment on it and and then its got written underneath what you liaf haf to do the next friday night oration or debate or maybe lust just read from some old book or something I 1 guess we got to stand up there and try anyway all right said ramsey it if t they hey want mant me to commit suicide they can send me one 0 their ole assignments I 1 wont need to commit suicide though I 1 guess all ill do ill just fall over in a fit find and stay in it and in truth when he rec received elied his first assignment one monday day morning a month later inter he seemed in a fair way to fulfill ills his prophecy the attention of his roommate who sat at a window of their study was attracted by sounds of strangulation what on earths the matter ram sey look look at this fred took the card and eTti examined mined it an amazement gradually merging into a pleasure ril altogether together too perceptible cep tible A S S I 1 G N I 1 E NT kweli e debate class of 1918 subject resolved that germany Is s both legally rind and morally justified ili n tier her invasion of belgium I 1 cl glum Ite debaters baters are notified that bac will be m livid held strictly to the following sched ule ile affirmative 4 min first negative ive 4 min first Aff affirm irin 2 min sec orld ind neg 2 min second affirmative n 13 negative Ne gaille D YOCUM 18 the lumen society ty debate debat R Mil bolland vs v D yocum TO BE CONTINUED |