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Rho b it her lip.
rtn
¿.s v r n
“Nothing like one.
W e were Just I cd to gel an answer to my question. [ the Halsey degree staff put on trie
guyin' him about— about gettln' slicked ' You'd better be running back.”
w >rk
There were thirty io ti e
“ Well— "
sides, there's more to It than y o u —' up, kind of, because he sat In front of
H ilaey delegation. G-orge Drink -
He stood irresolute, not sure that he a «• and wife of Brownsville were
"No, there Isn’t,” she Interrupted y o u ; and he hit me with his book strap
“I t ’s Just the old brutal spirit that na and I chased him off. Gracious, no; wanted his dinner Just then I t would
p eient and Albany was well rep
have amazed him to face the fact de
lions Inherit from the time they wen that wasn't a fight I”
"But you fought Llnskl only last Uberately that perhaps he preferred resented.
>nly tribes; It's the tribe spirit, a id
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a fall."
At a meeting at the eourthor e
Ramsey
chuckled
again.
“T h a t
tooth. I t ’s those things and the love
Monday io form a branch of lt,<
of fighting— men have always Io ed wasn't even as much like a fight as the
I just told this
State Tax Reduction league W .
to fight. Clvlllza'lon harn’t taken It one with Wesley,
out of them ; men «till he e the brute Llnskl I was goln’ to give him a punch
Jones, speaker of the house in ti e
In the an----- - I Just told him to look
In them that loves to fight !’•
last regular session of the legieln.
I don’t think so,” said Ramsey. out because I was goln' to hit him, and
ture, derided the last special l«j_-
“Anierlcuns don’t lore to fig h t; 1 don't then I did It, and waited to see if he
islature as being one of the nn-i
know about other countries, but ws wanted to do anything about It, and he
extravagant
in the history of the
don’t. O f course, here and there, didn’t. T h a t’s all there was to It. and
state, appropriating $2,000.000
there’s some fellow that likes to hunt It w a s n t any more like fighting than
more than the previous r > ular
around for scraps, but I never rnw —than feeding chickens la."
session, when piic-s were at lop
She l«ughed dolefully.
“I t seems
more than three or four In my life that
peak.
acted that way. O f course a football to me rather more like I f than that I ”
"W ell. It wasn’t."
team often has k Scrapper or two on
They had begun to walk oo again,
It, but th a t’s different."
J. Tomasek of Albany has a
“No," she said.
“I think you all and Rumsey was aw are that they had
Rhode Island red hen that laid an
passed the "fra t house." where his
really love to fight.”
egg 8 inches in circumference one
dinner was probably growing cold. He
Ramsey was rooked to become argu
way snd 61 the other.
Come on
mentatlve. “I don’t see where you get was aw are of this, but not sharply or
with your egg stories.
Curiously enough, he did
the Idea. Colburn Isn’t that way, nnd insistently
back at school there wasn't a single not think about It. H e had begun to
find something pleasant in the odd in
boy that was anything like that.”
Six bids were received for the
“ W h a t!” She Stopped, and turned terview-, and In w alking beside a girl,
1125,000of Linn county road bonds
even though the girl was Dora Yocum.
suddenly to face him.
offered for sale Saturday, but non*
He made no attem pt to account to
“W hat's the matter? be said, stop
of them were up to par and all
ping, too.
Something he sold had him self for anything so peculiar.
were rejected.
Bids came from
For a while they went slowly to
startled her. evidently.
Portland,
Spokane
and Chicago.
gether,
not
speaking,
and
without
des
"How can yon say such a thing 1"
tination, though Ramsey vaguely took
she cried. “You love to fight I"
It for granted that Dora was going
“Me?”
Chairman Booth of the Ft te
But she wasn't.
They
“You do I You love fighting. Yon somewhere.
I Don’t Think
Have Very
highway commission promises that
emerged from the part of the small
always have loved fighting."
Much Appetite
end Yeeter- the east side
Pacific highway
He was dnmfounded "W hy, I never town closely built shout the university
day," She Said.
(which goes thru Halsey) will be
nd
came
out
upon
a
bit
of
parked
had a fight In my life ! ”
completed this year.
She cried out In protest of such pre land overlooking the riv e r; and here icing with Dora Yocum to eating.
Dora's steps slowed to an Indeter However, he faced no such fact, nor
varication.
W ell, I never did,” he Insisted, minate halt near a bench beneath a iny fact, but lingered.
The Eustachian Tuba.
maple tree.
m ildly.
The Eustachian tube gets It* name
“W ell— ” he aald again.
“I think I ’ll stay here a while," she
from an Italia n physician to whom
"W hy, you had a fight about m e !”
“You’d better g o .”
s a id ; and as he made no response, she
Pope Plus rv granted permission to
“No, I d id n 't”
“I guess I can get my dinner pretty
asked: "H ad n ’t you better be going «ear any time. I don't— " He had t
dissect human hodles In the further-
“ W ith Wesley B ender!”
ante of anatomical knowledge. Orig-
Ramsey chuckled, “T h a t wasn’t a hack to your 'fra t bouse' for your din bought. "Did you— ”
ner? I didn’t mean fo r you to come
fight I"
Inal manuscripts of his works have
“Did I what?”
out o f your way with me; I only wnnt-
'It wasn't?"
Just come to light.
“Did you have your dinner before
-net you?"
"H e was only
p reten día*— I see that now I"
“I guest he m utt 'a' been." eeld
Ramsey, w ith adm irable simplicity
“H e didn't talk about anythin * Ilk»
that last night. H e was as much for
I t as anybody.'*
" I’ve no doubt I"
Ramsey made bold to look at her
out of the aide o f his eye, and as she
was gazing tensely forw ard he contin
ued his observation for some time. She
was Obviously controlling agitation, al
most controlling tears, which seemed
to threaten her very wide-open eyes; I
fo r those now fully grown and notice
able eye-winkers of hers were subject
to fluctuations Indicating such a
threat
She looked "hurt," and Rum-
say was touched There was something
There Was Something Human About
Her, Then, A fte r All.
human about her, then, a fte r all. And
If he hud put hie feeling Into words at
the moment, he would have said that
he guessed maybe he could stand this
ole girl, for a few minutes sometime
better than he'd always thought he
could.
“W ell," be said, “Colburn prob'ly
wouldn’t want to hurt your feelings
or anything. Colburn— "
“He?
He d id n 't!
I haven’t the
faintest personal Interest In what he
did."
“O h !" aalil Ramsey. "W ell, excuse
m e; I thought prob'ly you were sore
because he'd Jollied you about thia
pacifist stuff, and then— "
"N o !" she said, sharply. "I'm not
thinking of his having agreed with
me and fonllrfg me about It. H e Just
wanted to make a pleasant Impression
on a girl, and said anything he thought
would please her. I don’t care whether
he does things like that or not. What
I «are about Is that the principle
didn't reach him und that he mocked
R I I don't care about a petty treach
ery to me, personally, but I — ”
Fraternal loyalty could not quite
brook thia. "Brother Colburn Is a per
fectly hnnor'hle man," said Ramsey
•olemnly.
"H e Is one of the moat
hnnor'hle men In this— "
“O f course!" she cried. "Oh. can’t
I make you understand that I ’m not
condemning him for a little flattery to
me? I don’t care two straws fo r his
allowing that I didn't Influence him
He doesn’t Interest me, plcese under
eland."
, Ramsey was altogether perplexed
"W ell, I don't eee n lia t makes you go
for him ao hard, then.”
" I don't.”
"But you said he wag treach— "
" I don’t condemn him for It," she In
elated, despairingly. “Don’t you see
the difference? I'm not condemning
anybody; I ra only lamenting.”
"W hat shout?”
"About all of you that want w a r !"
"M f
g olly!"
Ramsey exclaimed
"You don't think thoae Dutchmen
w-ere right to drown hahlea and__"
”N " ' I think they were ghaath
m urderers' I think they were detesta
hie and fiendish and monstrous and— "
“W ell, then, my goodness I W hat do
you wani I ”
“I don't want w a r!"
"You don’t?”
“I want C h ristian ity!" the cried. "I
c a s t think of tha Germans without |
hating them, and ao today, when all |
the world la hating them, I keep nty
•e lf from thinking of them as much as 1
I « an. Already half the world la full I
of w a r; you » a n t to go to w ar to .
make things right, hut It won’t ; It » ill
only make more w ar I”
"W ell, I —"
‘Dou t you a r* » h a t you've dong
yon hoys?" she said
"Don’t you see
what you’ve done w ith your abgurd
telegram? That started tha rest: they
thought they all had to send telegtama
tike that."
"W ell, the facility— "
"Even they mightn't have thought
of It If It hadn't been for the first one.
Vengeance
la
the
most
terrllde
thought; om-e you put It Into iwople a
minds that they ought to hure It, It
nine away with them."
"Well, It Isn't mostly vengeaace
wo re a fte r at all There's n lot more
to It than Just getting even w ith__”
fihe did not heed him
"You r * all
b lin d ’ You don’t see » h a t you're do
lo g ; you don't even see what you’ve
done to this peacaflil place here
You’ve filled It fu ll of thought* of fury
and killing and mu star re— "
"Why, no," «aid Ramsey "It was
“No-"
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“ Well, aren't you—”
She shook her head. “I don't want
any."
“ Why n o t r ’
" I don’t think people have very much
appetite today and yesterday," she
said, w ith the hint of a sad laugh, “all
over Am erica.”
" N o ; I guess that's so.”
" ft’s too te rrib le !" she snld.
“1
can't ait and eat when I think of the
Lusitania— of all thoae poor, poor peo
ple strangling In the w ater— "
"N o; I guess nobody can eat much.
If they think about that."
“And of what It's going to bring. If
we let It," she went on. "As if this
killing weren’t enough, we want to add
our k illin g ! Oh, th a t’s the most ter
rible thing of a ll— the thing It makes
»•(thin u a ! Don't you understand?"
She turned to him appealingly, and
he felt queerer than ever. Dusk hud
fallen. Where they stood, under the
young-leaved maple tree, there was but
a fain t lingering of afterglow , and
this mystery her face glimmered wan
and sweet; so that Ramsey, Just then,
was like one who discovers an old
pan, used in the kitchen, to be made of
chased sliver.
"W ell, I don’t feel much like dinner
right now," he said. “W e— we could
¡It here aw hile on this bench, prob'ly.”
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