once he thought tlutt she was Justified.
"When We went by her house last nigh
D *s « .. i _ u ; 1.1 hud bet o ne. he was un
to te ll her about yo u r lietulpche and
s t c :-..ih r i d ti'I. w! l 1e r m o . h r t
FC b
<* I92Î
H ALSEY E N T E R P R ISE
PAHE 3
worthy to be even touching his oap to
h e r! And as she nodded and went
’ ••I'1 Fred.
can’t get out o f It. T he
us M llla'd gone up to Chicago yester did become serious ettow h to p -tn t
' ' n l,,r* ,n ,he 'fra t' "«Id we had to
briskly on, he would have given any day afternoon w ith her aunt, and said out that a university was dl£em »<
from a high school.
I
and they suid we couldn't resign,
thing to turu and w alk a little way
she left a note for you, and she said
“I t ’s not like havin’ to u*e ore big
elther’ ■*»«■ »'» h«'i Joined. . They
with her, fo r It seemed to him th a t thia you were sick I te tte r take It and
might fum igate bis morals.
But he give It to you. I was goln’ to bring It room as a headquarters, you know. I 8,1,1 we lu , t had ,o K° »hrongh It. and
lacked the courage, and, besides, he over to your hour a fte r breakfast.” Ramsey. Everything a all split up. and i a fte r a while we’d get used to It anil
she might happen not be In a single * not mind It so much "
considered him self unfit to be seen He found it. "H e e !"
walking w ith her.
“I
w ill I” Ramsey
Insisted.
“I
Ramsey thanked ,,‘m feebly, and de one of your classes.”
couldn't any more stand up there on
He had a long afternoon of an parted In a state of partial stupefac
“You don’t know my luck I" the a f
guishes, these becoming most violent
my feet and get to spoutin' about
tion, brought on by a glimpse of the flicted boy protested. ”1 wish I ’d gone
when he tried to face the problem of instabilities o f life. He had also, not to H arvard, the way my father wanted
sociology and the radical metempsy-
his future course tow ard M llla . H e
chorus of the mettyphysical bazoozum
relief, but a sense of vacancy and loss; me to. Why. this Is Just the worst
did not face it at a ll. In fact, but mere
than I could fly a flyln' machine. Why,
You’ll see!
for M iU *, out of his reach, once more nuisance I ever struck!
ly writhed, and had evolved nothing
She’ll he In everything there Is. Just
became mysteriously lovely.
when F riday evening was upon him
“Oh. that wasn't anything,” Fred
Pausing in au alley, he read her the way she w»s back home.”
and M llla w aiting for him to take her
Interrupted. “T h e only one that talked
tote.
H e appeared to he corroborated by
to the “hand concert” w ith "A lb and
like that, be was that Bllckena; he's
“D e a rie : Thought I ought to call the events of the next day, when they
Sade. v H e made shift to seek a short
a tutor, or something, and really a
ou up hut over the 'phone Is Just nix attended the first meeting to organize
Interview w ith Albert, Just before din
.Copyright,by DouMeday. Page C om
The masculine ele member of the faculty. Most o' i he
'or explanations as Mama and Aunt the new class.
»pctny
ner.
less would
hear
everything
and ment predominated. but Dora Yocum
S Y N O P S IS
“I got a pretty rotten headache, and
'bought I might seem cold to you not was ele"ted vice president.
* * ? E ’ thE , " , t * r ’ S\ ‘ e He We° ' “ •
,rYou
iny stomach's upset, too," he said,
I h her, halting at the front step«.
C H A P T E R I . —W it h his gr& ndfath r
aylng anything sweet ou account o f see?” Rumsey said.
“D idn’t I tell
drooping upon the Paxtous’ fence. “ I
■m all R a m a e y M ilh o lla n d Is w a t c h X a T i
, “WeU’ « nl«ht. M llla .” he said.
hem listening and you would wonder you? You see what happensT*
been gettln' worse every minute. You
¿ « ° r*Th.n , . ^ y
*“
why I was so cold wheu telliug you
But a fte r that she ceased fo r a time
,
‘° , " ' s i l t i n g
tomorrow
and
Sadie
go
by
Mllla'a,
Albert,
and
t u h w Z c
iv
u
.V"1
1
“
“
“'
•
'
eler»n
°*
c iv il w a r, endeavors to im oreas the
good-by for a w ile maybe weeks. It is to Intrude upon his life, and he adm it
night? Albert and Sadie are.”
tell her if I ’m not there by ha’-pas'-
this way Uncle Purv wired Aunt Jess ted that his harassment waa less grave
“I can't tomorrow night," she told
seven, tell her not to w ait for me any
: S L X ^ X l~
r hU * u X “ -
he has Just taken In a big touring cur than he had anticipated. There were
him w ith obvious regret
“Isn't It the
longer."
on a debt and his vacation starts to about five hundred students In the
worst luck! J got an aunt cornin’ to
“ How do you mean ‘w a it’ ?” A lbert
morrow so If they were going to take freshman class; he seldom saw her.
rJEH A i> T E R , H .—In th e schoolroom. a
visit from Chicago, and she's crazy
Inquired. "You don’t expect her to ....................
fe
A
fte
a rd
j . n > ears
,
» 'i
v i rw
ww
r j, . R
n a am
in s aey
e y waa not
a trip they better start right way so and when he did It was not more than
about playing T h e Hundred.’ and
ctMue pokin’ along w ith Sadie and me, ( Aunt* Jess' Invited
d istin g u ish e d
fo r
rem ark ab le
_
------- . ____
a b ility .
me. Now dearie I a distant glimpse of ber on one of
liu h m '.« “
Pcvdmmced dislikes wire
wam* ,n d P«P“ "aid I haf to stay in
do you? S h e ll keep on g lttin ’ there nt
have to pack and w rite this in a tniry the campus paths, her thoughtful bead
~ m ~ “ cto“ ^ ; x c'.ta,b ^ ; . rId " „ °
'¿‘ V foor to p l,v IL Sh“ a » » “ «•
home Just the same, because she
so-you w ill not be disappointed when bent over a book as she hurried to a
the preco city o f lu tle Dor* Y « “
» '°
her* thr* * or ,o u r days, and I
wouldn’t have anything else to do, if
you come by for the B. C. to-night. Do classroom. This was bearable; and In
you don’t come like she expects you to.
not go get some other girl and take the flattering agitations of being
She hasn't got any way to stop w a it
her for I would bate her and nothing sought, and even hunted, by several
C H A P T E R I I I , —In h ig h school w h e r e 1 w o rs t ’ U C k r
in’ r
______ _
iu this world would make me false for "fratern ities" simultaneously desirous
he and D o ra a
. r re
e classm
atas. h a m se y ,
He w .s doleful, but ventured to be
At this, Ramsey moaned, without a f
S,o b t J ° ,e e l ,h a l
«>r l ¿ « llsh l» to
one second to my kiddo boy. I do not of hla becoming a sworn Brother, he
literary. “ Well, what can’t be helped
hh. ' r , u Pe r‘o r i,y. and the vlndic-
fectation. “I don't expect I can, A l
know Just when home again as the almost forgot her. A fte r a hazard»"«
tlveneaa he generates becomes a la rm in g
bert," he said. " I’d like to If I civuld.
must be endured.
I ’ll come aroum
c u lm in a tin g in the resolution th a t s on»
folks think I better stay up there for month the roommates fell Into the
when ¿he’s gone.”
d a y he w ould •» h o w " her.
hut the way It looks now, you tell her
a visit at Aunt Jess and Uncle Purvs arms of the last “fra t" to seek them,
He moved as i f to depart, but gh*
I wouldn't be much suprised maybe I
»evH
o i<in.V _ A t * c U “ Picnic R a m
home in Chicago a fte r the trip Is over.
still retained his arm and did not p i*
sey, to hla intense surprise, appears to
was startin' In w ith typhoid fever or But I think o f you all the tim e and and having undergone an evening of
u nBCtu ,h ? fa v o ra b le a tte n tio n of Miss pare to relinquish It,
outrage which concluded w ith touch
pretty near anything at all."
He
a * . i ° un* U d y
» bout his
you must think of me every m inute and ing rhetoric and an oath taken at
“W ell— " he said.
b.w " afce “ d ,h * ackn ow ledged bells of
moved away, concluding feeb ly:
"I
believe your own dearie she w ill never midnight, they proudly wore Jew"lp«t
t is class. M llla has the m is fo rtu n e to
"W ell what, Ratr.seyT”
ness I better crawl on home, Albert,
fa ll In to a creek w h ile ta lk in g w ith R a m
no not for one second be false. So symbols on their breasts and were
“W ell— g’n lg h t”
sey, an d th a t y o u th p ro m p tly plunges to
while I ’m still able to walk some. You
tell Slide and Alb good-by for me mid free to turn part o f th eir attention
the resells. T h e w t i . r la only some thres
She glanced up at the dark front
’ell
her
the
way
it
looks
now
I
’m
liable
fe et deep, but M llla 'a g ra titu d e fo r his
do not be false to me any more tluin to other affairs, especially the affairs
of the house. " I guess the family's
to be right sick."
heroic a c t Is e m b arrassin g. H e Is In fa ct
I would he to you and It w ill not l>e
e ,p ,t )ve by °>« f* l r one, to his great
gone to bed,” she said absently.
And the next morning he woke to long till nothing more w ill Interrup t of the Eleven.
constern ation.
However, they were In a tn id i i t-
”1 s’poae so.”
the dialings of remorse, picturing a our sweet friendship."
“Well, good night, Ramsey." She
C H A P T E R V —T h e a cq uaintance ripens
the older brethren o f their Or.i -
M llla somewhat restored In charm
“W h a t on E a rth 's
etait,-
As a measure of domestic prudence, whose duty It was to assist in fl.e
R am eey and M ills openly "keeping com-
said this, but still did not release his
\a ltln g hopefully at the gate, even
ha ,lX-
w hile th e fo rm e r's pa ren ts won
ry?”
Ramsey tore the note Into Irreparable
der
H is m o th e r Indeed gJSs » fa " i .
arm, and suddenly, In a fluster, he fe ll
proper maneuvering of their young <•»
ifte r the half-past seven, and then, as fragments, but he did this slowly,
to express some disa p p ro va l o f his choice
that the time he dreaded had come
other» Juat kind of blab t
time passed and the sound of the dis- and w ithout experiencing any of thé reers. that, although support o f 'he
even n ln tin g th a t D o ra Yocum would be
Somehow, without knowing where, ex
'varsity teams was Important. the>
around, and what any o f eui
ant horns came fa in tly through the
i-h fl-h ™ .? u l u b l® com paaion, a suggestion
revulsion created by MiUa's form er
w h ich ths y o u th receives w ith ho rror.
must neglect neither the spiritual nor
cept that It was somewhere upon what
'arkness. going sadly to her room—
Io get off their rheata hardly aiuo»
missive.
the Intellectual by-products o f under
seemed to be a blurred face too fu l!
ed to terrib ly much."
>erhapa weeping there. It was a pic-
He was melancholy, aggrieved that
CHAPTER VI
graduate doings. Therefore they be
of obstructing features, he kissed her
“I don’t care. I couldn't do It at
ure to wring him with shame and pity,
she should treat him so.
She turned Instantly away In tin
came members o f the college Y. M . C.
all I"
>ttf was followed by another which
Vacation, In spite o f Increased leis darkness, her hands over her cheeks
A. and o f the “Lumen Society."
lectrlfled him, for out of school he
“W ell, the way It lonka to me," Fred
C H A P T E R V II
ure, may’ bring inconvenience to people and in a panic Ramaey wondered If ht
According to the charter which It
lid not lack Imagination.
W hat If
ohaerved, “we »Imply got to ! From
In Ramsey’s strange but not uncom hadn’t make a dreadful mistake.
had granted Itself, the “ Lumen Sod
Vlbert had reported his Illness too
wbat they tell me, the freshmen p
H e never saw her again. She aent
mon condition. A t home his constaut
"S’cuae m e !” he said, stumbling to
Ivldly to M llla? M llla was so fond!
to do more than anybody. Every •
him a “picture postal” from Oconomo- I ety” was " an
" "Organization of male
a ir was that o f a badgered captive ward the gate. “ Well, I guess I got
woe, Wisconsin, which his fath er
‘ nd
.«tudenta”- , so “advanced'
What If, in her alarm , she should cooie
er F rid a y night. It ’» all freshmen
plaintively sLleitf under Injustice; and to be gettln' along back home.”
here to the house to Inquire o f his engaged from the fam ily m all, one was this university— "fo r the develop-
nothin’ else. You get a postal can.
he found It difficult to reply calmly
He woke in the morning to a great
ment
of
the
powers
of
dehste
and
or
mother about him? W hat I f she told
on Monday rooming In your mnll, and
morning at breakfast, and considerate
when asked where he was going— an
self-loathing; he had kissed a girl.
Mrs. Milholland they were “engaged
It aaya ’Assignment’ on It and— a rd -
ly handed to him w ithout audible com atory, Intellectual and sociological
Inquiry addressed to him, he asserted,
Mingled w ith the loathing was a curi The next moment Ramsey was project
then It’s got w ritten underneath what
ment. Upon it was w ritten, “Oh. you progress, and the discussion of all m at
every tim e he touched his cap, even
ous pride In the very fact that caused
ters relating to philosophy, metaphys
Ing a conversation between fils mother Ram sey!" This tvas the last of M llla.
you h af to do the next F riday nlg>
to hang It up!
the loathing, but the pride did not last
ics, literatu re, art. and current events."
and M ills In which the la tte r stated
-oratio n or debate, or maybe Ju>
Just before school opened, In the
The amount o f evening w alking he
long. H e came downstairs morbid to
that she and Ramsey were soon to he autumn. Sadie Clews made some reve A statement so form idable was not
I wouldn't even tell Albert.
T!
did must also have been a tria l to his
breakfast, and continued this mood
without
a
hushing
effect
upon
Messrs.
married, that she regarded him as a t
didn't get any w ire from Qie urn
lations.
“ M llla did like you.” said
nerves, on account of fatlgtie, though
Milholland and M itc h ell; they went
afterw ard.
A t noon Albert Paxton ready virtually her husband, and de Sadie. “A fte r that time you Jumped
about the touring c a r; It was her cou-
the ground covered waa not vast. M il
brought him a note which M llla laid manded to nurse him
In the creek to save her she liked you to their first “ Lumen” meeting In a
aln M ilt that Jumped ou the train uud
la's mother and fath er were friendly
state of fear and came away little
asked Sadie to ask Albert to give him.
In a panic he fled from the house be better than any boy In town, and I
ceme down and nxed It all up for
people, but snw no reuson to ‘‘move
reassured.
“D e arie:
I am Just wondering If fore breakfast, going out by way of a guess If It wasn’t for her counsln M ilt
M llla to go on the trip , and every
out of house and home,” as M r. Rust
" I couldn't get up there," Ramsey
you thought as much about something side door, and he crossed back yards up In Chicago she would of liked you
thing.
You see, 'tamsey, »lie waa
M id, when M llla had “callers” ; and
declared. “I couldn’t stand up there
so sweet that happened last night aa and climbed buck fences to reach Al
the best anywhere. I guess she did,
tUi »ed back a couplr o f times In school
on account o f the Intim ate plan of
before all that crowd and make a
I did you know w liat. I think It was
before she came In our class and I
anyway, because she hadn’t seen him
their small dwelling a visitor’s only
speech, or debate In a debate, to save
the sweetest thing.
I send you one
fo r about a year then.
don't know how old she la and she
alternative to spending the evening
my
soul
and
gizzard
I
Why,
I'd
Just
w ith this note and I hope you w ill
"W ell, that afternoon she went
don't look old yet, but I'm pretty sure
w ith M r . and Mrs. Rust as well as
keel
right
over
and
h
af
to
be
carried
think it Is a sweet one. I would give
aw ay I was over there and took In
she's at least eighteen, and she might
w ith M llla , was to Invite her to “go
out."
you a real one I f you were here now
everything that was goln’ on, only sh.
he over. I didn’t think such a great
out w alking.’
“ W ell, the way^ I understand Jt,”
and I hope you would think It was
made me promise on my word of honor I
desl of this M llt'a looks myself, hut
Evening a fte r evening they walked
sweeter still than the one I put in this
he’» anyway twenty-one year» old, and
and walked and walked, usually In
note. It Is the sweetest thing now you
got a good position, and all their fam
are mine and I am .vours forever kiddo.
ily seem to think he'» Juat fine I I t
I f you come around about frlila y eve
wasn't hla fath er that took In the tour
It w ill be all right, aunt Jess w ill he
ing car on the debt, like she auld she
gone hack home by then so come early
was w riting you; It waa M ilt himself.
and we w ill get Sade and Alh to go to
H e afarled out In business when he
the band Concert. Don’t forget what
was only thirteen year» old, and this
I said about my putting something
trip he was gettln* up fo r hla fath er
sweet In this note, and I hope yon w ill
and mother and M llla was the first
think It Is a sweet one but not as
vacation he ever took. W ell, of course
sweet ns the real sweet one I would
she wouldn’t like my tnlllo' you, but
like to—
I can’t see the harm of It, now every
A t this point Ramsey Impulsively
thing’s all over.”
tore the note Into small pieces,
lie
“A ll— all over?
You mean M llla'a
turned cold as his Imagination pro
going to be— to he married?"
jected a sketch of his mother in the
"She already Is," auld Sadie. "Thpy
act of reading this missive, and of
got m arried nt her Aunt J ess anil Un
her eapresaion as she read the sen
cle Purv'a house, up In Chicago, last
tence: “I t is the sweetest thing now
Thursday. Yea, a ir; thnt quiet, little
you are mine and I sm yours forever
M llla'a a regular old m arried woman
by this time, I expect, R a m s e y ! "
kiddo." H e wished that M ills hadn't'
written "kiddo.” Hl.e called him that,
When he got over the shock, which
sometimes, but in her wann little voice
waa not until the next day, one pre
the word seemed not at all what It did
dom inating feeling rem ain ed : It was
In Ink. He wished, too, that she hadn't
a gloomy pride— a pride In hla proven
said she was his forever.
m aturity. H e waa old enough, It ap
P ausing In an A lla y , H a Read H a r N ote.
Subscribers paying in advance are the
Suddenly he was seized w ith a hor
peared, to have been the same thing
mainstay
of
a
small-town
taper.
W
ith«
bert Paxton the more aw lftly. T h u
ror of her.
as engaged to a person who was now
out subscribers no advertising could be
creature, a ladies' man almost pr«?e»
a M arried Woman. Ills manner thence- *
Moisture brok> out heavily upon
had,
and
advertising
is
wliat
brings
in
slonally,
was
found
exercising
w
ith
so
him ; he felt a definite sickness, and,
forth showed an added trace o f seri
retu ns to pay expenses.
electric Iron and a p air o f flannel tmu-
wishing for death, went forth upon the
ousness and self-consideration.
•ers in a basement laundry, by way ot
Subscription money pays for w hite pa
streets to w alk and walk. He cared
H aving recovered his equl|M>lae and
stirring his appetite for the morning
not whither, so that his feet took him
per and presswork. W hen subscribers
something more, he entirely forgot Hint
E ven ing A fte r E ven ing T h e y W a lk e d
meal.
in any direction away from M llla,
do not pay in advance the publisher has ,
moment o f humble adm iration he hod
and W a lk e d and W a lk e d .
"See here, Albert," his friend said
since they were unable to take him
felt for Dora Yocum on the day of h's
to pay these items fifty-tw o weeks be
breathlessly. "I got a favor. I want
away from himself— of whom he had
flattest prostration. When he saw her
fore he gets returns
W ith several hun
company— at perhaps the distance of
you to go over to M lU a ’a— ’’
as great a horror H e r loving face w as
sitting In the classroom, smiling bright
h alf a block— w ith Albert Paxton and
dred
subscribers
in
arrears
this
amounts
“I'm goln’ to finish preaaln’ theye
continually before him, and Its sweet
ly up at the teacher, the morning of
8adl<» Clews, though Ramsey now and
to a heavy burden to a m«n of small
trousers," A llw rt Interrupted.
“Then
ness made his flesh creep. M llla had
the school's opening In the autumn,
then felt disgraced by having fallen
meant,
whereat
in
paying
in
advance
I
’ve
got
my
breakfast
to
eat."
been too sweet.
all his h um ility had long since van
Into this class; fo r sometimes It was
each
subscriber
has
to
produce
o
nly
“
Well,
you
could
do
thia
first.”
said
When he met or passed people. It
ished and she appeared to him not
apparent that Albert casually had his
Ramaey, hurriedly. “I t wouldn't h u rt
$1 SO.
seemed to him that perhaps they were
otherwise than as the scholar whose
arm about Sadie's walat. This allured
you to do me thia little favo r first.
able to recognize upon him somewhere
H e lp the publisher to carry h it load
complete proficiency had alw ays been
Ramsey somewhat, hut terrified him
You Just slip over aad see M llla for
the
marks
of
his
low
quality.
so Irksome to him.
and he can give you better service.
more. He didn’t know how such m at
me,
if
»he's
up
yet,
and
I
f
she
I
s
n
'
t
'
"S ofty! Ole sloppy fo o l'” he mat
“Look at h e r!” he m attered to him
ters were managed.
In Halsey a m ajority of the people pay
you better » a lt around till she is. be
tered.
addreslng
himself.
“Slu-hy
self
"Same ole Teacher’s Pet I”
Usually the quartet had no destln*
for th eir paper in advance, but a few of
cause I w ant you to tell her I ’m a
ole mush! . . . Spooner!”
And
tlon ; they Just went "out w alking’
Now and then, as the days and sea
them
in
town
and
many
outside
are
in
whole lot better this momlng.
Tell
lie added, “ Youra forever, kiddo!”
until ten o'clock, when both girls had
sons passed, and Dora's serene prog
arrears. Moat of these, if they realized
her I'm pretty near practlck'ly all right
Convulsions seemed about to aeize
to he home-—and the boys did, too,
reaa continued, nevei checked or even
what an improvement could be made in
again,
Albert,
and
I
’ll
prob'ly
w
rite
her
him.
but never adm itted It. On F riday eve
flawed, there atlrrei! w ithin him some
the
paper
w
ith
a
little
monny,
would
a
note
or
something
right
soon—
or
In
Turning a corner w ith hla head
nlngs there was a "puM lc open-air con
lingering» of the old determ ination
town, he almost charged Into Dora
a week or so, anyhow. You tell her— "
probably pay promptly. That i t the
cert by a brass hand In a small park
to “»how” h e r; and he would conjure
"Well,
you
act
pretty
fu
n
n
y
!”
A
lb
ert
j
Yocum. She waa homeward bound
way to make a good neW-paoer in a
and the four were always there
up a d ay -d m tu i o f Dora In loud In-
exclaimed, fum bling In the pockets of
from a piano lesson, and tarried s
small town. A ll must co-operate.
M ills hung w-elghtlly upon hla arm.
mentation, w hile he led the laughter
his coat. “ Why can't vou go on over !
rolled
leather
caae
of
sheet
muaii
—
and they dawdled, d riftin g from one
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they slowly advanced. A lbert and Sa carrying—and In her young girl's
dull oppression.
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paper.
your goln' over there, or me, either."
dress, which attempted to he nothing
die, ahead of them, called “good night"
having to look at her (as he slated
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else, she looked as wholesome as cold
from a corner, before turning down the
It ) and he thanked the I» g d that the
"Mills ain’t there," said Albert, still
spring water. Ramaey had always fe lt
aide street where Sadie lived; and
tim e w ouldn't he so long now until
searching the pockets of hla joat.
that she despised him and now, ail at
he'd he out of that ole achoel, andg
then all he'd baye^to do he'd Juat t a k e !
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