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■lll ins "anguish he felt a paper nap
kin pressed gently Into his hand; a
soft voice said in his ear, "Wipe it ofT
with this, Ramsey. Nobody's notic
ing."
So this incredibly charitable creature
was still able to be his friend, even
after seeing him mayonnalsed! Hum
bly marveling, he did as she told him,
but avoided all further risks. He ate
nothing more.
He sighed his first sigh of Inexpress
ibleness, had a chill or so along the
spine, and at intervals his brow wai
bedewed.
Within his averted eyes there dwelt
not the Mllia Rust who sat beside him,
but an iridescent, fragile creature who
had become angelic.
He spent the rest of the day daw
dling helplessly about her; wherever
she went he was near, as near as pos
sible, but of no deliberate volition of
his own. Something seemed to tie him
to her, and Milla was nothing loth.
He seldom looked at her directly, or
for longer than an Instant, and more
rarely still did he speak to her except
as a reply. What few remarks he
ventured upon his own Initiative near
ly all concerned the landscape, which
he commended repeatedly in a weak
voice, as "kind of pretty," though once
he said he guessed there might be bugs
Ln the bark of a log on which they sat;
and he became so Immoderately per
sonal as to declare that if the bugs
had to get on anybody he'd rather
they got on him than on Mllla. She
said that was "Just perfectly lovely"
of him, asked where he got his sweet
nature, and in other ways encouraged
him to continue the revelation, but
Ramsey was unable to get forward
with It, though he opened and closed
his mouth a great many times in the
efTort to do so.
At five ?clock everybody was sum
moned again to the rendezvous for a
ceremony preliminary to departure;
the class found Itself in a large circle,
standing, and sang "The Star Spangled
Banner." Ordinarily, on such an open
air and out-of-school occasion, Ramsey
would have Joined the chorus uproar
iously with the utmost blatancy of
which his vocal apparatus was capa
ble; and most of the other boys ex
pressed their humor by drowning out
the serious efforts of the girls; but
he sang feebly, not much more than
humming through his teeth. Standing
beside Milla, he was inc«pable of his
former inelegancies and his voice was
ln a seini-paralyzed condition, like the
rest of him.
Opposite him, across the circle, Dora
Yocum stood a in advance of
those near her, for of course she led
the singing. Her clear and earnest
voice was distinguishable from all
others, and though she did not glance
toward Ramsey he had a queer feeling
that she was assuming more superior
ity than ever, and that she was icily
scornful of him and Milla. The old
resentment rose—he'd "show" that girl
yet, some day!
When the song was over, cheers
were given for the class, "the good ole
class of Nineteen Fourteen," the
school, the teachers, and for the pic
nic, thus officially concluded; and then
the picnickers, carrying their baskets
and faded wild flowers and other sou
venirs and burdens, moved toward the
big "express wagons" which were to
take them back into the town. Ram
sey got his guitar case, and turned to
Milla.
"Well—g'by."
"Why, no," said Milla. "Anyway,
not yet. You can go back in the same
wagon with me. It's going to stop at
the school and let us all out there,
and then you could walk home with
me if you felt like It."
"Well —well, I'd be perfectly will
ing," Ramsey said. "Only I heard we
all had to go back in whatever wagon
we came out in, and I didn't come in
the same one with you, so—"
Mllla laughed and leaned toward him
a little. "I already 'tended to that,"
she said confidentially. "I asked
Johnnie Fiske, that came out In my
wagon, to go back in yours, so that
makes room for you."
"Well—then I guess I could do it."
He moved toward the wagon with her.
"I expoc* it don't make much differ
ence one way or the other."
"And you can carry my basket 1/
you want to," she said, adding joTlclt
ously, "unless it's too heavy when you
already got your guitar case to carry,
Ramsey."
This thoughtfulness of hers almost
overcame him; she seemed divine.
"I—l'll be glad to carry the basket,
too," he faltered. "It —it don't weigh
anything much."
"Well, let's hurry, so's we can get
places together."
Then, as she maneuvered him
through the little crowd about the
wagon, with a soft push this way and
a-gentle pull that, and hurried him up
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the improvised steps and'found a place
where there was room for them both
to sit, Ramsey had another breathless
sensation heretofore unknown to him.
He found himself taken under a dove
like protectorship; a wonderful, inex
pressible Being seemed to have become
his proprietor.
"Isnt this Just perfectly lovely?"
she said cozlly, close to his ear.
He swallowed, fcut found no words,
for he had no thoughts; he was only
an Incoherent tumult. This was his
first love.
"Isn't it, Ramsey?" she urged. The
cozy voice had Just the hint of a re
proach. "Don't you think it's Just
perfectly lovely, Ramsey?"
"Yes'm."
CHAPTER V.
The next morning Ramsey came Into
his father's room while Mr. Mllholland
was shaving, an hour before church
time, and it became apparent that the
son had something on his mind, though
for a while he said nothing.
"Did you want anything, Ramsey?"
"Well—"
"Didn't want to borrow my razors?"
"No, sir."
Mr. Mllholland chuckled. "I hardly
supposed so seriously! Shaving Is a
great nuisance and the longer you keep
"And When You Do, You Let My
Razors Alone, Young Feller!"
away from it the better. And when
you do, you let my razors aloue, young
feJler!"
"Ye.s, sir." (Mr. Milholland's razors
were safe. Ramsey had already
achieved one of his own, but he prac
ticed the art in secret.)
"What is it you really want, Ram
sey?"
"I guess I don't want anything."
"Money?"
"No, sir. You gay' me some Fri
day."
Mr. Mllholland turned from his mir
ror and looked over the edge of a
towel at his son. In the boy's eyes
there was such a dumb agony of inter
rogation that the father was a little
startled.
"Why, what is it, Ramsey? Have
you—" He paused, frowning and won
dering. "You haven't been getting in
to some mess you want to tell me
about, have you?"
"No, sir."
His tone was meek, but a mute dis
tress lurked within it, bringing to the
father's mind disturbing suspicions,
and foreshadowings of indignation and
of pity. "See here, Ramsey," he said,
"if there's anything you want to ask
me, or to tell me. you'd better out with
it and get it over. Now, what is it?"
"Well—it isn't anything."
"Are you sure?"
Ramsey's eyes fell before the severe
and piercing gaze of his father. "Yes,
sir."
Mr. Mil hoi land shook his head doubt
fully ; then, as his son walked slowly
out of the room, he turned to complete
his toilet in a somewhat uneasy frame
of mind. Ramsey had undoubtedly
wanted to say something to him and
the boy's expression had shown that
the matter in question was serious,
ll stressing ajid, it might be, critical.
(To be continued)
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