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'I r HM 1!' Waritnt. BED CLOUD. NEBRASKA, OHJJW t. If WMI ciiintmni!iiirrminniHiiHiiiiniiii!iHmmi!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiitiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirTi?irmmnmt)nj S I ... ' . I M S. Ramsey Milholland By BOOTH TARKINGTON Ciiiittiitiitifitiiiitiiiitiiiifiiiiiiiiiitiiftiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiitfifiitifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiifiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffiiiim CHAPTEfl IX Continued. 11 Moat uncomfortably nstonlshcd, Ramsey took his hnntls out of his pock ets, picked n leaf from n lllnc bush be ldc the path, nnd put tho stem of the leaf seriously Into a corner of his mouth, before finding nnythlng to sny. "Well well, nil right," he llunlly re sponded. "I'll tell you If It's Any thing I know About." "You know nbout It," snld Dorn. "That Is, yon certainly do If you were t your 'frnt' nicotine last night. Were you?" "Yes, I was there," Ramsey an swered, wondering whnt In tho world she wanted to know, though he sup posed vaguely that It must be something- about Colburn, whom he hud several times seen walking with her. "Of course I couldn't tell you much," he added, with nn afterthought. "You soc, n good deal that goes on at n 'frnt' meeting Isn't supposed to be talked about." "Yes," Rho said, smiling faintly, though with a satire thnt missed him. "I've been a member of a sorority since September, nnd I think I have an Idcn of whnt could bo told or not told. Suppose we walk on, If you don't mind. My question needn't embarrass you." Nevertheless, ns they slowly went on together, Ramsey was embarrassed. Ho felt "queer." They had kuown each other so long; In a way had shared so much, sitting dally for years near each other and undergoing tho same outward experiences; they had almost "grown up together," yet this was the first time they hnd ever talked together or walked together. "Well" ho Raid. "If you want to ask anything It's all right for me to tell you well, I Just as soon, I guess." "It has nothing to do with the secret proceedings of your 'frnt,' " said Doru, primly. "Whnt I want to usk about tins been talked of nil over the placo todny. Everyone bus been snylng It was your 'frnt' that sent the first tele gram to members of the government offering support In case of war with Germany. They sny you didn't oven wait until today, but sent oft a mes sage last night. Whnt I wanted to ask you was whether this story Is true or not?" "Why, yes," said Ramsey, mildly. "Thnt'sUvhat we did." She uttered an exclamation, a sound of grief1 and of suspicion confirmed. "Ah I I was nfrnld sol" '"Afraid so? What's tho mnttcr?" lie asked, and because she seemed ex cited ami troubled, he found himself tot quite so embarrassed ns he hnd been nt first; for some renson her ngl Intlon made him feel easier. "What vns wrong nbout thnt?" "Oh, It's all so shocking nnd wick a nnd mistaken 1" she cried. "Even Iho faculty has been doing It, nnd half the other 'f rats' and sororities I Ami t was yours that started It." "Yes, we did," he said, thoroughly puzzled. "We're the oldest 'frot' here, ml of course" he chuckled modestly "of course we think we're the best. Do you mean you believe we ought to've snt back and let soiircbody else start It?" "Oh, no I" she answered, vehemently. "Nobody ought to hnve started It I That's tho trouble; don't you see? If nobody had started It none of It might hnve happened. The rest mightn't have caught It. It mightn't lmve got into their heads. A war thought Is the fliost contagious thought In the world ; but It It can bo kept from starting, It call be kept from being contagious. It's just when people hnve got into an emotional state, or a state of smoul dering rage, that everybody ought to 1)0 so terribly careful not to think war thoughts or moke war speeches or send war telegrams I I thought oh, I was so sure I'd convinced Mr. Col burn .of all this, the last time wo talked of ltt lie seemed to under stand, nnd I was sure he agreed with me." ' She bit her Up. "He was only pretending I see that now I" "I guess he must 'a' been," said Ramsey, with admirable simplicity. "He didn't tnlk nbout anything like that last night. He wns as much for It ns anybody." "I've no doubt I" Ramsey made bold to look at her out of the side of his eye, And as she was gazing tensely forwurd he contin ued his observation for some time. She was obviously controlling ngltutlon, Al most controlling tears, which seemed to threaten her very wide-open eyes; for those now fully grown And notice able cye-wlnkers of hers were Bubject to fluctuations Indicating such a threat. She looked "hurt," and Rnm Bey wns touched. There wns something humnn nbout her, then, nftcr all. And If he hud put his feeling Into words At the moment, he would have said that ho guessed maybe he could stand this ole girl, for a few minutes sometime better than he'd always thought he could. "Well," he Bald, "Colburn probly wouldn't want to hurt your feelings or anything. Colburn" "He? Ho didn't l I haven't the faintest personal Interest In what he did." "Obi" said Ramsey. "Well, excuse wcii thought Mcfr'lutQu wr aULrallx.lftY. toflbt.H because he'd jollied you about this pacifist stuff, nnd then" "Not" she said, sharply. "I'm not thinking of his having agreed with me and fooling did ubout it. He Just wanted to make a pleasant Impression on u girl, and said anything he thought would please her. I don't enre whether ho does things like thnt or not. What I care about Is that tho prlnclplo didn't reach him and that he mocked ltt I don't care about a petty treach ery to me, personally, but I " Fraternal loyalty could not quite, brook this. "Urotlier Colburn Is a per fectly honor'blc man," said Ramsey, solemnly. "He Is one of tho most honor'blo men In this M "Of course I" she cried. "Oh, enn't I make you understand thnt I'm not condemning him for a little fluttery to mo? I don't care two straws for his showing that I didn't lnflucnco him. Ho doesn't Interest me, please under stand." Ramsey was altogether perplexed. "Well, I don't seo whnt makes you go for him so hard, then." "I don't." "Hut you said he waB trench" "I don't condemn him for It," she In sisted, despnlrlngly. "Don't you see the difference? I'm not condemning anybody; I'm only lnmentlng." "What about?" "About nil of you thnt wnnt wnrT "My golly l" Rumsoy exclaimed. "You don't think those Dutchmen were right to drown bnblcs nnd " "No I I ' think they were ghnstly murderers I I think they were detesta ble nnd fiendish uud monstrous and " "Well, then, my goodness I What do you wnnt?" "I don't wnnt warl" "You don't?" "I want Christianity I" sho cried. "I can't think of the Germans without hating them, nnd so today, when all the world Is hating them, I keep my self from thinking of them ns much ns I cnn. Alreudy half tho world Is full of war; you want to go to war to make things right, but it won't ; it will only make more warl" "Well, I" "Don't you see whnt you've" done, you boys?" she said. "Don't you see There Was Something Human About Her,' Then, After All. what you've done with your absurd telegram? That started tho rest: they thought they all had to send telegrams like that." "Well, the faculty" "Even they mightn't hnve thought of It If it hadn't been for the first one. Vengeance Is tho most terrible thought; onco you put It Into people's tnhuls that they ought to have It, It runs awuy with them." "Well, It Isn't mostly vengennco we're nfter, nt nil. There's a lot more to it than Just getting oven with" She did not heed him. "You're nil blind I You don't see whnt you're do ing; you don't even seo whnt you've done to this peaceful placo here. You've filled It full of thoughts of fury und killing and massacre " "Why, no," snld Ramsey. "It wns those Dutch did thnt to us; nnd, be sides, there's more to It than you" "No, thero Isn't," she Interrupted. "It's Just the old brutal spirit thut na tions Inherit from the time they were only tribes; It's tho tribe spirit, and an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It's those things and tho love of fighting men hnve Always loved to fight. Clvlllzntlon hnsn't tnken It out of them ; men still hnvo the bruto In them that loves to fight I" "I don't think so," said Ramsey. "Americaus don't lovo to fight; I don't know about other countries, but we don't. Of course, here and thero, there's some fellow that likes to hunt around for scraps, hut I never saw more than threo or four In my life that acted that way. Of course a football team often has a scrapper or two on It, bat that's different." "No," she said. "I think you all &!& w jl fj Copyright by DouModay. Pm S Company I E Ramsey wns roused to become argu mentative. "I don't seo where you get the Idea. Colburn Isn't thnt way, und back at school there wasn't a single boy that was anything llko that." "What I" Sho stopped, and turned suddenly to face him. "What's the matter?" ho said, stop ping, too. Something he said had startled her, evidently. "How can you sny such a thing?" sho cried. "You love to fight 1" "Me?" "You dot You love fighting. You always have loved fighting." He wns dumfounded. "Why, I never hnd a fight in my llfol" Sho cried out In protest of such pre varication. "Well, I never did," he Insisted, mildly. "Why, you hnd a fight nbout mol "No, I didn't." "With Wesley Render I" Itnmscy chuckled. Thnt wnsn't a fight I" "It wnsn't?" "Nothing llko one. We wore Just guyln' him nbout nbout gcttln' slicked up, kind of, because he sat In front of you; and he hit me with his book strap and I chased him off. Gracious, no; thnt wnsn't a fight I" "Rut you fought Llnskl only Inst fall." Ramsey chuckled again. "That wnsn't even ns much like n fight as the one with Wesley. I Just told this Llnskl I wns goln' to give him a punch In the sn I Just told him to look out because I wns goln to hit him, nnd then I did It, and waited to see If he wanted to do anything nbout it, nnd he didn't. Thnt's All there was to It, and It wnsn't nny more like fighting thnn thnn feeding chickens Is." She Inughed dolefully. "It seems to mo rather more like It thnn thnt!" "Well, It wnsn't." They hnd begun to wnlk on ngaln, nnd Rnmscy wns nwnre thnt they hnd pussed tho "frnt house," where his dinner wns probnbly growing cold. Ho wns nwnre of this, but not sharply or Insistently. Curiously enough, he did not think nbout It. Ho had begun to find something pleasant In the odd in terview, nnd In walking beside a girl, even though the girl was Dora Yocum. Ho niado no attempt to Account to himself for Anything so peculiar". For n while they went slowly to gether, not speaking, nnd without des tination, though Rnmsey vaguely took It for grunted thnt Dorn was going somewhere. Rut she wnsn't. They emerged from the pnrt of the smnll town closely built nbout the university nnd cnmo out upon n bit of parked land overlooking tho river; and here Dorn's steps slowed to nn lndeter mlnnte halt near a bench beneath a mniJe tree. "I think I'll stny here a while," sho said ; and ns he made no response, she asked: "Hadn't you better be going hack to your 'frnt house for your din ner? I didn't mean for you to come out of your way with me; I only want ed to get an answer to my question. You'd better bo running back." "Well" , He stood irresolute, not sure thnt ho wanted his dinner just then. It would hnve amazed him to fnco the fact de liberately that perhaps he preferred being with Dora Yocum to eating. However, he faced no such fact, nor any fact, but lingered. "Well" he said ugaln. "You'd better go." "I guess I can get my dinner pretty nenr any time. I don't He had a thought. "Did you" "Did I what?" "Did you have your dinner before I met you?" "No." "Well, nren't you" She shook her head. "I don't want any." "Why not?" "I don't think people hnvo very much appetite today and yesterday," sho said, with the hint of a sad laugh, "all over America." "No; I guess that's so." "It's too terrlblo!" sho snld. MI can't sit nnd ent when I think of the Lusltunln of nil those poor, poor peo ple strangling In the water " "No; I guess nobody can cat much, If they think nbout that." "And of what It's going to bring, If we let It," sho went on. "As If tills killing weren't enough, we want to add our killing I Oh, thnt's tho most ter rible thing of all the thing It makes within usi Don't you understand?" She turned to him nppcnllngly, nnd bo felt queerer thun ever. Dusk had fallen. Where vthoy stood, under tho young-leaved maple tree, there was but a faint lingering of afterglow, and In this mystery her fnco glimmered wnn and sweet; so thnt Ramsey, Just then, was llko one who discovers nn old pan, used In the kitchen, to bo niado of chased silver. "Well, I don't feel much like dinner right now," ho said. "WeY-wo could sit hero nwbllo on this bench, prob'ly." (TO BE3 CONTINUED.) Right End First. Blggard Of course It Is possible for a roun to acquire ease and plenty. Muson Ah, but not In tk wrdar Lnamcd. London Answers Amemn LEGION (Copy for Thl l?rpftrtmnt Supplied by the American tfglnn Noit StvIi-o ) HOPE WARS ARE AT AN END Statuette of Archangel Michael, Pre. sented by General Diaz to the Legion Commander. Wnrs are at an end when tho Arch angel Michael sheathes his sword. This Is the hope expressed In the silver stutuefte presented by Gen. Armundo Diaz, the hero of Italy, to Commander Hnnford MncNIder of tho American Legion, nnd now preserved In tho nn tlonnl trophy room of the Legion. Replica of Famous Bronze Statue. The statne Is n replica In miniature of the grcnt bronze statue of St. Michael that crowns the fortress of Son Angelo in Rome. Snn Angelo is also known ns Hndrlnn's Tomb, having been built In the Second century A. D. by the Emperor Hndrlnn for his mausoleum und Inter converted Into a fortress. Twelve hundred yenrs ngo Pope Gregory drenmed ho saw the Archangel nbout to sheath his sword, and soon Afterward a great pestilence, disappeared. The statue was cast to commemorate tho event. PUNS RELIEF OF AFFLICTED President Illinois Federation of Labor Proposes Arrangement In Co operation With Legion. John H. Walker, president for tho last eight years of the Illinois Stntc Federntlon of La bor, has proposed nn oillclal ar rnn cement be tween orgnnlzed labor and tho American Legion tor the relief of the sick nnd wounded of the World war and their dependents. Commander Mnc NIder of the Le gion has respond ed to this heartily and the mutter Is tinder consideration. Walker stnrtcd work In the Illinois mines beforo he wns ten years old nnd nt eleven wns a member of the Knights of Labor. At some time or other he bus served In pructlcnlly every subordinate oillce In the min ers' organizations of Illinois. Steel Helmet Inventor Dead. The mun who saved numberless lives through his Introduction of the steel helmet In the World wnr died recently In I'nrls. He wns Doctor Monprollt, n member of the chamber of deputies of Frunce and n veteran of the French nmbulnnce corps. Had the war con tinued It Is very possible thnt the struggling urmlcs would have gone out In Bteel body nrmor ns well us hel mets, for tho plnns of Doctor Mon profit for tho uso of brenstplntes of steel had been practically perfected at the time of the armistice. Doctor Mon profit conceived the Idea of the "tin hnt" while campaigning In tho Bui kans In 101-1. Keeping It Dark. "Go right buck nnd tell your boss," roared a squlro In a New England town, "that he's n blinked 'fool, nnd thut he's to coino here right nwny nnd tlx up thnt carpentering Job und fix It right." Tho upprentlco vnnlshed, nnd n few minutes Inter the boss enrpenter ap peared, aching for a fight. "Do I understand," ho bellowed, "thnt you told my apprentice that I wns a blinked fool?" "Why, yes," replied the squire, beaming. "Didn't you wnut him to know lt?"J-Amorlcnn Leglou Weekly, Correspondence Courses. Correspondence courses In cnvnlry, lnfnntry nnd nrtlllcry work Is the lntest thing In the Wnr depnrtment. Theso courses huvo been estnbllshed In nccordnnco with the movement for citizen training backed by tho Amerl cnn Legion, A national plan has been worked out for tholr application nil over the country. Five courses of in struction are offered In enclt brunch of tho service. it 1 l( ' l4. . mill TO SEND HOME TOWN PAPER American Legion and Auxiliary En deavoring to Supply News to Dis abled Men In Hospitals. There nre 30,000 young Amerlcnns who were wounded "while fighting dur ing the World wnr or who hnvo be come sick following their service In fluid nnd camp, now confined to hos pitals over tho United States. Most of them nre hundreds nf thou sands of miles from their home town, friends nnd relatives. Mnny of tiiem can do nothing but rend to pnss nwny the time. Tho American Legion auxiliary, composed of the wives, mothers und sisters of service men, Is endeavoring to have personal, cheerful letters written to these mn. Now the Legion Is trying to have people In the men's home towns sent I be homo-town newspnper to thelit, cither every day or every week. There nre not more thnn five or six ex-service men from nny average-sized town In hospitals, the Legion esti mates, nnd asking newspaper editors to send free copies of their papers to their home-town boys In hospltul Is not usklng too much, nor more thnn citizens would be willing to do. The Legion Is forwarding to Its ofllcluls In each stnte lists of names of men from thnt stuto In hospital, und nsklng thnt local newspaper editors send their pa pers to theso men. Newspaper edi tors who nre Interested, the Legion an nounces, nre nsked to signify tholr willingness and to request lists of numes of men from their towns, from nuttonnl hendqunrtcrs, Indlnnnpolls, Ind. AIDS STRANDED EX-SOLDIERS Bill Franklin, Washington (D. C.) Post Commander, Assists Men Seeking Claim Adjustments. Every stranded cx-soldler who drifts Into Washington, D. C, In hope of getting n com pensntlon claim adjusted, swears by Bill Franklin, local post corn mnnder of the Amerlcnn Legion. These men nro caught In govern mental red tape sometimes In the matter of their claims und go broke while wnlt- wtzoikaw mti BSS-. ing. Bill Frank lin hunts them up nnd If their com pensation clnlms hnve n chnncc of set tlement they nro tided over by Frank lin nnd his unit, the Vincent B. Cos tello post of Wnshlngton. TAklng enre of these men stnnds the post an Average expense of over $5 a mnn. If men come In with hopeless clnlms they nre helped In getting home. The District of Columbia has recently tuken over a largo share of this work. EXPERT ON ARMY PAPER WORK "The Walking Encyclopedia," Unoffi cial Army Title of Marlon E. Pollock of A. E. F. 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