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RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHEEP , i r -&& 7tf. Sf CHAPTEn X. 12 Ilumsey kept vory few things from Fred Mitchell, Hiul usunlly IiIh conll dences were Immediate upon the occa sion of tliom; hut allowed Rovcrnl weeks to elapse before sketching for Ids rooinniate tlic outlines of this ud venture. "One thing thnt wns kind o' funny about It, Kred," ho said, "I didn't know whnt to call her." Mr. Mitchell, stretched upon the window seat In their "study," and look ing out over the town street below mid the campus beyond the street, hnd already thought It tactful to ambush his profound amusement by turning upon his side, si tliut his face was toward tho window and away from his companion. "What did you want to call her?" ho Inquired In a serious voice. "Names?" "No. You know what I mean. I mean I had to keep culling her 'you'; and that gets kind of freaky when you're tallcln' to anybody a good while llko that. When she'd be lookln' uway from me, for Instance, or down at tho river, or somewhere, and I'd want to start sayln' something to her, you know, why, I wouldn't know how to get stnrtcd exactly, without callln' her something. A person doesn't want to bo nlways sturtln' off wlU 'See here,' or things like thnt." "I don't see why you lot It trouble jrou,"'sulil Kred. "from how you'w nlways talked about her, you had a perfectly handy way to start off with anything you wanted to say to her." "What with?" "Why didn't you Just say, 'Oh, you Teacher's 1'etl' That would" "Get out I What I mean Is, sho called mu 'Itamsey' without any both er; It seems funny I got stumped every time I started to say 'Dora.' Homo way 1 couldn't laud It, and It certainly would 'n' sounded crazy to call her 'Miss Yocunr after Mttln' In tho same room with her every day' from the baby class clear on up through the end of high school. That would 'a' made tun out an Idiot 1" "What did you call her?" Fred nsked. "Just nothln' at nil. I started to call her something or other u hundred times, I gue.ss, and then I'd balk. I'd get all ready, and kind of mako n sort of a sound, and then I'd have to quit." "She may havo thought you had n cold," said Fred, still keeping his back turned. "I expect maybe she did though I don't know; most tho tlmo she didn't seetn to notice mo much, kind of." "She didn't?" "No. Sho was too upset, I guess, by what sho was thlnkln' about." i "Hut t it hadn't been for .that," Fred' suggested, ,Tyou niqnn she'd havo certainly paid more attention to who wub sitting on the bench with her?" "Got out I You know liow It was. Everybody those few days thought we were golu' to have war. and she wns Just sure of it, and It upsot her. Of course most people were n lot moro upset by what those Dutchmen did to the Lusltnuln than by the Idea of war; und she seemed to feel as broken up as anybody could bo nbout tho Lusltnnlu, but what got her tho worst wns tho notion of her country wnntln to fight, sho snld. She really was upset, too, ifrcd; there wasn't no puttln on about It. I guess that ole girl cer tainly must ha"c n good deal of feel ing, because, doggoned, after we'd lieeu slttln' there a while If sho didn't linve to get out her handkerchief I She kept her face turned nwny from mo Just tho some as you're doln' now to iecj from laughln' but lionestly, sho cried llko somebody at a funeral. I Xelt llko tho darndest fool!" "I'm not laughing," sold Fred, but ho did not prove It by turning so that his face could bo seen. "What did she say?" "Oh, sho didn't sny such nn awful lot. She said one kind o' funny thing though: she said sho was sorry she couldn't quite control herself, but If anybody hud to see her cry sho minded it less because it was an old school mate. What struck me so kind o' funny ubout thnt Is why, It looks as If she never knew tho way I ulwuys hated her so." "Yes," said Fred. "It waBn't flat tering I" "Well, sir, It Isn't, kind of," Ram sey agreed, musingly. "It certululy Isu't when you look at it that way." "What did you say when sho said that?" Fred asked. "Nothln'. I started to, but I sort of balked again. Well, we kept on sitting there, and uftcrwhllo sho began to talk again and got kind of excited bout how no war could do anything r anybody any good, und all war was Kicked, no matter what it was about, and nothln' could be good that was founded on fear and hato, and every war that over was fought was alwuys founded on fear and hate. She Bald .. Germans wanted to fight us we. tfVr mr7 jVJ rMi mmm Ji ft EA rW; -. iTM i 'WMsmksmm. -' .nu -- --"- . - r !fc352&&3i & ( i- ft. Illustrations by 'twin Aye: ct. "-m"" "r " &S-- . J- ? vv' kiO : .Copyright Jy Doubleday, Page fiCbrnpany. ought to go to meet them nud tell them we wouldn't fight." "What did you soy?" "Nothln'. I kind o' started to hut what's the use? She's got that In her hend. Hcsldcs, how nro you goln' to argue about a thing with n person that's crying about it? I tell you, Fred, 1 guess we got to admit, after all, that ole girl certainly must have n lot of heart about her, anyway. There may not bo much fun to her though of course I wouldn't know hardly any way to tell about that but there couldn't be hardly any doubt she's got a lot of feeling. WeJl, and then she went on and said old men made wars, but didn't fight; they left the fighting to the hoys, and the suffering to the boys' mothers." "Yes I" Fred exclaimed, and upon that ho turned, free of mirth for the moment. "Thnt's the woman of it, I guess. Send the old men to do the fighting I For tho matter or" that, I guess my fnther'd about a thousand times rather go himself tint ti see mo and my brothers go; but Father's so fat he can't stoop! You got to be nble to stoop to dig a trench, I guess I Well, supposo we sent our old men up against those Dutchmen; the Dutch men would Just 1:111 the old men, and then come after the boys nnywny, and tho boys wouldn't be ready, nud they'd get killed, too; and then there wouldn't be anybody but tho Dutchmen left, and thut'd be one fine world, wouldn't It 1" "Yes," said Ilumsey. "Course I thought of that." "Did you tell her?" "No." "What did you say?" "Nothln'. I couldn't get started any way, but, besides, what was the use? Hut she didn't wnnt the old inemto go; she didn't want anybody to go." - "What did she want the country to do?" Fred nsked, Impatiently. "Just whnt It has been doln', I sup pose. Just let things simmer down, "No. I Started To, but Shut Up!" and poke nlong, and let them do whnt they like to us." "I guess so4" snld Fred. "Then, nfterwhlle, when 'they got snmo free time on their hands, they'll come over and make It really Interesting for us, because they know wo won't do any thing but tulk. Yes, I guess the way things ure settling down ought to suit Dora. There isn't goln' to be any war." "She wns pretty suro there was, though," Kiunsey said, thoughtfully. "Oh, of course she was then. We all thought so those few days." "No. She snld she thought It prob'ly wouldn't come right nwny, but now It wns almost suro to como sometime. She snld our telegrams and nil tho tolk and so much feeling und everything showed her that the war thought that wns always In people somewhero hod been' stirred up so It would go ou nnd on. Sho snld she knew from tho way sho felt herself about tho Lusltanla thnt n feeling like thnt In her would never bo absolutely wiped out as long as sho lived. Hut she said her other feeling nbout the horrlbleness of war taught her to keep tho first feeling from breaking out, but with other peo ple It wouldn't; and even if war didn't break out right then, it would always be ready to, all over the country, nnd sometime It would, though sho was goln' to do her share to light It, her self, as long as she could stand. Shu asked mo wouldn't I be one of tho ones to help her." , Ho paused, nnd after n moment Fred nsked, "Well? What did you suy to that?" "Nothln'. I started to, but" Again Fred thought It taotfnl to .turn and look out the wludow. while tti agitation Ml Ihoulden ft trayed him. "Go on and laugh I Well, ro we stayed there quite n while, but before wo left sho got kind of more llko every dny, you know, tho wny people do. It wns half-past nluo when we walked back to town, nud I was commcnoln' to feel kind of hungry, so I nsked tier If she wasn't, nnd she sort of laughed and seemed to be ashamed of It, as If It wus a disgrace or something, but she said she guessed she wns; so I left her by thnt hedge of lilacs nenr the observatory and went on over to the 'Tcrln and the fruit store, nud got borne stuffed eggs and olives nnd half-a-dozen peanut butter sandwiches nnd n box o' strawberries kind of girl food, you know and went on back there, and we nto the stuff up. So then she said she was nfruld she'd taken me nway from my dinner nnd mado mu n lot of trouble, and so on, nnd sho was sorry, and sho told mr good-night " "What did you say then?" "Noth Oh, shut up I So then she skipped out to her Dorm, and I came on home." "When did you sec her next, Ram sey?" "I haven't seen her next," snld Ram sey. "I haven't seen her at nil not to spenk to, I snw her on Main street twice since then, but both times she wns with somo other girls, nnd they were across tho street, and I couldn't tell If she was lookln' nt me I kind of thought not I thought it might look sort o' nutty to bow to her If she wnsn't, so I didn't." "And you didn't tell her you wouldn't be one of the ones to help her with her pacifism nnd anti-war stuff nud all that?" "No. I started to, but Shut up l" Fred sat up. giggling. "So she thlnki you will help her. You didn't say any thing nt nil, and sho must think that means she converted you. Why didn't you spenk up?" "Well, I wouldn't nrguo with her," said Ramsey. Then, after a silence, ha seemed to be in need of sympathetic comprehension. "It wns kind o' funny though, wasn't It?" he said, appealing. iy. "Whnt was?" "Tho whole business." "Whnt 'whole bus'" "Oh, get out I Her stoppln' me, nnd me goln' pokln along with her, and her well, her crying and everything, and me being around with her whtla she felt so upset, I menn. It seems well. It does seem all kind o' funny io me." "Why docs it?" Fred inquired, pre serving his gravity. "Why should It seem funny to you?" "I don't mean funny like something's funny you lnugh at," Ramsey explained laboriously. "I mean funny like some thing that's out of the way, nnd you wonder how It ever happened to hap pen. I mean It seems funny I'd evet bo slttln' there on n bench with that ole girl I never spoke to In my life or hnd anything to do with, and tnlkln' about the United Stntes goln' to war. What we were tnlkln' about, why, that seems Just us funny as tho rest of It. Lookln' bnck to our class picnic, f'r Instnnce, second yenr of high school, thnt day I Jumped in tho creek nfter Well, you know, It wns when I stnrtpd mnktu' n fool of myself over a girl. Thank goodness. I get that out O my system ; it makes me Just sick to look bnck on those days and think of tho fool things I did, nnd all I thought ubout thnt girl. Why, she Well, l'vo got old enough to see now she was Just about as ordinary a girl as thero ever was, and If I snw her now I wouldn't even think she wns pretty; I'd prob'ly think sho wus sort of loud lookln'. Well, what's passed Is past, and It Isn't either here nor there. Whnt I started to soy wus this: that tho way It begins to look to me, It looks as If nobody can tell In this Ufa n darn thing about what's goln' to Imp pen, and the things that do happen nro tho very ones you'd swear were tho last that could. I mcun you look back to that day of tho picnic my! but I wus n rube then well, I menn you look buck to that day, and what do you suppose I'd hnvc thought then If somo body'd told me tho time would over come when I'd be 'way off hero nt col lego slttln' on n bench with Dorn Yo cum with Dora Yocum, In the first plnce and her crying' and both of us talking nbout the United Stntes goln' to war with Germany I Don't It seem pretty funny to you, Fred, too?" "Hut as near ns I can mako out," Fred said, "that Isn't what happened." "Why isn't It?" "You say 'and both of us talking' nnd so on As near as I can make out, you didn't suy anything nt all." "Well, I didn't much," Ramsey ad mitted, and returned to his point with almost pathetic persistence. "Hut doesn't it seem klud o' funny to you, Fred?" , "Well, I don't know." "It does to mo," Ramsey Insisted. "It certainly does to mo." "Yes," snld Fred cruelly. "I've no ticed you said so, but It don't look any funnier than you do when you say it." Suddenly he sent forth n startling shout. "Wow I You're ns red as a blushing beet I" "I nin not I" "Y'urel' shouted Fred. "Wow I Tho olo womnn-bnter's get tho flushes, Oh, look at tho pretty posyl" (TO DE CONTINUED.) Safety First. Johnny, only three years old, wns be ing entertained with some music on tho phonograph. He wns told by his aunty that ho would soon hear a bear growl. Johnny looked very much frightened, nnd then whispered: "Oh, Aunty, don't open dose doors on de Wlcktowla or bear might turn out." . Chicago Herald nnd UxAwlaer. (Cory for ThU Department Supplied by tun American I.rglon Wrnvn Birvlct.) REGARD FOR HEROES' WISHES Judtjo Ncterer of Seattle Holds fte. quest of Soldlsr Killed In War Demands First Consideration. Is tho last wish of n soldier dying on tho field of bnttle moro to be re spected thnn legal forms decked out with sealing wnx? The American Legion thinks It Is. Recent cuses be fore the courts huvo brought tho ques tion to the front. According to Federal Judge Ncterer of Seattle, the wish of u soldier killed in bnttlo is higher inw than nny departmental regulation. Ac cording to this decision Agnes ClalTy, slxteen-yenr old niece of Clarence Swank, Is awarded the residue of Swnnk's estate, amounting to $0,000. Swank was killed In France. Depart mental red tape cluttered up the case on nccount of the denth of Swunk's mother, tho original beneflclnry. In handing down his decision Judge Ncterer cited precedents extending bnclci to the days of Caesar and tho legionnaires of ancient Rome. - Tho latest case Is that of Miss Klcnore It. Knnpp of New York, whoso claim to the estate of Krnest Churl ton Mason of tho One Hundred and Sixth United States Infantry has been contested by Mason's uncle. In a muddy dugout before a general ad vance against tho Germans, Mason told his huddle, Oscar Westgate, tho story of his engagement, and added that he now felt that In this udvanco he wus slated to "go West." "If I don't come through this," fie said, ns they started over the top, "I want El enorp to havo nil my estate." Mason, nmong others, was cut off nnd captured by the Germnns. They were taken to the same prison camp. For ten days, n bunklo testified, Mason lay ill on the v ground with Intliieimi. Then he wns titken uway in an nmbu lanco nnd his dentil reported. Event ually a death certificate was Issued by the United States government. But tho attorneys for Mason's uncle con tested the ense to the extent of urgu Ing that the "proof of death" was un satisfactory. The Justice of the soldier's latest will has been upheld In startling fash ion by the highest courts of England recently. An English major of In fantry died nlone In his lodgings In London directly nfter tho armistice. Ho left no legnl will. Across the front of a photograph of his fionco he hnd hastily scrawled: "All to her." The case was brought before the high est tribunal of England und the "will" stood. TABLET GRACES LEGION SHIP Dronzc Piece In Main Dining Saloon Engraved With Dedication by National Commander. The steamship "Amerlcnn Legion" of the Munson lines, sailing between New York and Buenos Aires with an Amerlcnn Legion crew, now bears In Its mnln dining saloon n bronze tnblet rp?&'rxx'.t.,:fo;.&.-mmx-z. mi W W&iW r.'.. -t 'yi . . 'mJim'. I V r 4 -.'.J ' .-vf'S' 'V ;' f ' ' i . . $$$" iilaicu nati.fe -Wit-tat ' VSfcK'lli'fctl AA Mh .ffti.MlfL'ffil. t'.H'Xt rHix&a vm&!iwttmi txuAbic ' u -friiGUfeUurt VttliV Ifc-u 11U E-UIS, ;uaiaw.w.- u'Kft Li Tint timiiiu J&MJii i-wttt tKM'Rtl ar luHkihrjLUr t-flU'JU" iftM4. ,J.iJ s. &;. . -American Legion" Steamship Tablet. engraved with a dedication signed by the national commander of the Legion. The formal presentation of tho tablet wus mado Jn the presence of tho New York nnd Now Jersey oflldals of the Legion und two hundred guests. Send Diseased Poultry to France. Tho (lermuns are Inoculating with cholera tho fowls they are delivering tho French under the reparations agreements, according to French biolo gists. It wns noticed that tho poultry sent In from Germany sowi died. Prompt Inquests on tho dead fowls disclosed the cholera germ. The Paris Matin, ona of tho greatest French nowspnpers, calls for n government In vestigation. Pending. "Well, wnnt to marry my dnughter, 1 suppose?" snapped tho grouchy mil lionaire ns he glowered at the timid youth. Adjusttrrg his glasses he added : "By the way, uron't you one of my daughter's former suitors?" N "N-o-no sir," faltered tho cheerless one, "but I expect I soon will be." Amerlcan Legion Weekly. rii tylfe &&. (t; M6ttfc 10 IUC;' lbiftuv. mi; ot t'UjtiuiiUu, m? 'XiU.iti Ui rata PtdtLffc L& fili ; , " -1 . " 'i Ktl - au 'A. . READY FOR THE CAKE-EATERS Alton Roberto, Chairman of Legion Committee for Reception of Gucsto, Lands Choice Recipe. Tho man who mado a "enko-eater" of Marshal Foch during the marshal's tour of America has fallen for the habit himself. Al ton T. Roberts of Marquette, Mich., ('(julrman of tho "$ Aim-rlcnn Legion 'W &! committee for the jim&Z k reception of dis tinguished guests, hnd the pustry cooks of North und South Caro lina shadowed for two months to get the recipe for u certain angel food cake that was handed uboard the Foch train. Since Mr. Roberts finished with tho recent trip of Marshal Joffre across the continent the recipe has been found. Mr. Roberts Is now ready for tho eminent guests of the Legion nt the New Orleans convention next Oc tober. TO THE RESCUE OF THE FLAG Disgruntled Hotel Owner Make? Apology to Legion for Flying Emblem Upsldedovn. Before 2,000 people In the public square n hotel man of St. Augustine, Fin., hoisted the American flag, saluted It and made n public apology to the local post of the American Legion for flying the flag upsldedown, as u pro test against tho pitching of n carnival company tent near his hotel. In Littleton, Colo., two steeple Jncks from the local Legion post climbed the domo of tho court house nnd rescued Jcv-vXA . -rw Hoisting tho Stars and S tripos. a tattered nnd wenther-stnlned nntlonnl flag. The post hnd protested against such treatment of tho flag. The county commissioners had replied, "If you want that flag replaced hire a couple of steeple Jacka yourselves." RETURNS TO THE FOOTLIGHTS David Gardiner, Former Doughboy, After Months In Hospital, Re sumes Theatrical Work. From mntlneo darling to doughboy In the trenches Is a long step. From government hos pltal to Broad way vnudevlllo is n step fully as 1 o n g. D u v I d Gardiner of ,the One Hundred and Fifteenth Infan try achloed them both. A veteran of Chateau Thierry, St. Mlhlel nnd the Argonne, Gnr diner wns wound ed and gassed In service. Ho hns spent 10 months In hospital ns n re sult. On the morning of his releaso ho signed for a membership In the American legion and for n theatrical engagement In Now York. ? Carrying On With the American Legion .-- .-! -..-."-..,-".-- Since President Harding's order of May 10, 101, over GOO ex-eoldlers have been commissioned us United Stntes postmasters. Tho Montnnu state board of educa tion hns voted to erect memorials to student soldiers who lost their lives In tho World war, each memorial to cost SIO.OOO. The servlco flag Is still flying, only this time merchants are using it to let? tho public know how many ex servlco men ure employed hi their establishments. Commander Hnnford MncNIdor ef the Legion received Invitations to the number of 700 from all oyer the coun try 'for his npponrnnce on Memorial day. He accepted the Invitation of St. Paul, Mlun a&Wtokri$i v SK'ca'-' u X M I TfK8i m . i ( FTsF , 01 vv -r v. e v . fr!!vO-4 COULD NOT HIT A LICK FOR MONTHS Petersburg Resident Says She Had About Lost Hope of Getting Bet ter Now Well and Happy. "Tnnlnc has been such a blessing to me I enn't help singing Us praises," said Mrs. T. J. Archer, highly esteemed resident of 1147 Shepard St., Peters burg, Vn. "I had Indigestion so bnd I couldn't cat a thing without being In misery for hours, and the pain nround my henrt caused by the gas seemed nil I could stand. I constantly had headaches nnd nwful spells of dizziness. Then, to mako mutters worse rheumntlsm In my nrms, shoulders nnd knees nl most drovo mo to dlstrnctlon, und for three months I couldn't do n stroke of work. 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