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THE FIGHT. Synopsis.-With his grandfather. small Ramsey Milholland is watch ing the ".Decoration Day Parade" in the home town. The old gen'tle man, a veteran of the Civil war, endeavors to Impress the young ster with the significance of the great conflict, and many .years aft erward the boy was to remember his words with startling vividness. In the schoolroom, a few' years afterward. Ramsey is not distin fuished for remarkable ability, hough his pronounced dislikes are arithmetic. "Recitations" and Ger man. Tn sharp contrast ,to Ram sey's backwardness is the precocity of little Dora Yocum, a young lady whom in his bitterness he denomi nates "Teacher's Pet." CHAPTER I1.--Continued. --3-. - Here was a serious affront, at least to Ramsey MIlholland's way of think Ing; for Ramsey, also now proved sensitive. He quieted his friends "Shut UP!"-and advanced toward Wesley. "You look here l. Who y6u eallin' 'pups"I "Everybody I" Wesley * hotly re. turned. "Everybody chat goes aronlnd mentioning. ladies' names on the pub. lie streets are pups l" "They are, are they?" Ramsey as hotly demanded. "Well, you just look - here a minute; my own father men tions my mother's name on the public streets whenever he wants to, and you just try callin' Imy father a pup, and you won't know what happened to' yout" "What'll you do about it?" "I'll put a new head on you," said Ramsey. "That's what I'll do, because anybody that calls my father or moth er a pup--" "Oh, shut up! I wasn't talkin' about your ole father and mother. I said - . everybody that mentioned Dora Yo eum's name on the public streets was a pup, and I mean it i IEverybody that mentions Dora Yogum's name on the pub-" "Dora Yocum I" said Ramsey. "I got a perfect right to say it anywhere i want to. Dora Yocum, Dora Yocum, Dora Yocum --" "All right then, you're a pup t" Ramsey charged upon hiin and re ceived a suffocating blow full in the face, not. from Mr. Bender's fist but , from the solid bundle of books at the end of the strap. Ramsey saw eight or ten objectives instantly: there were Wesley Benders standilng full length in the air on top of other WVesley Ben ders8, and more Wesley Benders zig zagged out sidlewise from still other Wesley Benders; nevertheless, he found one of these- and it pr'oved to be flesh, lie engaged it wildly at fisti -cuffs; poundled it upon01 the countenance and drIove it awvay. Then hie sat down upon the curbstone and, wvithI his dizzy eyes shut, leaned 'forward( for the bet ter accomnioda tion of hIs ensanguined nose' Wesley had retreated to the other side of the street, holding a grimy handkerchief to the midmost parts of lisa pallid face. "Therie, you ole dI-n pup !" lhe shouted, in a v'oice whileh threatenedl a sob. "I guess that'll teachl you to be careful how~ you men tion Dora Yacumi's name on the public streets !" At this, ltamiisey mamde a motion as if to rise and1( pursue, whereumpon WVes ley fled, wailing back over lisa shoulder as lhe ran, "You wait till I ketch you out alone on the public streets and His v'oice was lost in an outburst of hooting from his former friends, who sympathetlcahly surrounided the wvounded ilams~ey. But ini a measure, -at least, the chivalro',us fugitive had wonl his point. Ile was5 routed andl outdone, yet whamt' sur'vived the (lay was a rumor, wh'leh'l heenmeiIi a sort of tenuous legend among thos)e lntei'est ed. There had been ai liht over D ora V oentim, it appeiredl, anid liiiasey Mil l'oi 'and hadl a ttempted to mia intaini i.'et hing der'ogator'y to thei 1lady3, u'hi 'e Wesley defended heri as a ''Ily youth should. hioys, unmindlful of proper' gal 'upported Riamsey on account ay he had persisted in lickin' iout of Wesley Henider after - r'hat preliminary wallop from ' lackjack bundle of books(. Ti' . - otted and championed Wes Iey .iked outrageously of his comn -ercely declaring thait lie * ough arrested; and for weeks they "dI a new manner townard him. 'pt their. faciuti expres sions "aut perhaps this was more r -nother's benefit than for Rams 'ud several of them went so. 1 thteir way to findi even privi ."ities for r'epriov ing him tih- . observer might have suspec' "live been less Indignant tI. ''d-bit not Ramsey, Hie all hated him, and Raid hi t Dora was a non, -he little . adg was so diligen1 ' sh 19 A riqhtsjn Doubleday.Page &COmpan. gave never the slightest sign -of com prehending that there had been a fight about her. Having no real cognizance of Messrs. Bender and Miiholland ex cept as Impediments to the advance of learning, she did not even look demure. CHAPTER IV. With Wesley Bender, Ramsey was again upon fair termus before the win ter had run Its course; the two were neighbors and, moreover, were drawn together by a community of interests which made their reconciliation a ne cessity. Rtamsey played the guitar and Wesley played the mandolin. All il feeling between them died with the first duet of spring, yet the tinkling they made had no charm to soothe the savage breast of Itunisey whenever the Teacher's Pet came into his thoughts. He day-dreamed a thou sand ways of putting her in her place, but was unable to carry out any of them, and had but a cobwebby satis faction in Imagining discomfitures for her which remained imaginary. "Just once I" he said to Fred Mitchell, "That's all I ask, just once. Just gimme one chance to show that girl what she really is. I guess if I ever get the chance she'll find out what's the mat ter with her, for once in her life, any way." Thus it came to be talked about and understood and expected In Itam sey's circle, all male, that Dora Yo cum's day was coming. "You'll see !" said Ramsey. "The time'll come when that ole girl'll wish she'd moved out o' this town before she ever got appointed monitor of our class I Just you wait I" They waited, but conditions appeared to remain unfaverable indefinitely. Perhaps the great opportunity might Up?" .7 have arrived if Rlamusey had becen able to achieve a startling importamnce in any -'of the "'various divergent yet pa ralll lIines of school endeavor"-onte of the phrases by means of which teachers andl princllpal clogged the mindIS of their unarmedI auditors. But though lhe was far from being the dumbi driven hienst of misfortune that lie seemed in the schoolroom, and, in fact, lived a double lIfe, exhibiting in his out-of-school hours a remarkable example of "secopdary personal ity" ai creaIture fearing nothing and( capalie of laughter; blue eyed, fairly robust, and1( anything but dlumb--he was never thness without endowment or attain muent great enough to get hinm distine tIon, lie "tried for" the high-school eleven, and "tried for" the nine, but the experts 'were not long in elimul nating hinm fromh either of' these com lpetitions, and he htad to content him self with cheering instead of getting (cheeredl. lie was by no manher of means athletie, or enough of anything (e1se, to p~ut Dora Yocum in her place, andl so lie and the great opportunity were still waiting in May, at tihe end of the second year of, high school, wheni the class, now the "10 A," revert ed to an old1 fashion and decIded to entertain itself with a woodland plc They gathered upon~f the sandy banks of a creek in the blue shallie of big, pattchy-hiarked sycamores, with a dlane hng sky on top of everything andl gold dlust atwinkle over the water, Hither Ihe naipkin-covered , haskets were brought fr'om tihe wagons tad assem bledin he sade where theyap peaired as an alttettlve Jittle meadIt~ow of' wbtlie Innpery, amd gave both sur priise and lenatIure to comnitiilea of nu ts andtte to othemr or'iginmal settler's of t he ne'lighboirhmood. Fro'aam this nmucleums or hendqi'ters of the picnic, 'various expeditins seti forth up and down the creek andi through the ,woods that Owrdeied I, Two envied boy fishermen established themselves upon .a bank up-stream, with hooks and -lines thoughtfully brought with them, and poles which they fashioned froin young saplingg. 'hey took mussels trom the shallows, for bait, and having gone to al) this trouble, declined to share with friends less energetic and provident the per. quisites and pleasures secured -to themseJves. Albert Paxton was one person who proved his enterprise. Having vis ited the spot some days before, lie had hired for his exclusive use throughout the duration of the pienic an old row boat belonging to a shanty squatter; it was the only rowboat within a mile or two and Albert had his own uses for it. Albert was the class lover and, after first taking the three chaperon teachers "out for a row," an excursion concluded in about ten minutes, he dis embarked them; Sadie Clews stepped into the boat, a pocket camera in one hand, a tennis racket in the other; and the two spent the rest of the day, ex cept for the luncheon interval, solemn ly drifting along the banks or ground ed on a shoal. Now and then Albert would row a few strokes, and at al most any time when the populated shore glanced toward them, Sadie would be seen photographing Albert, or Albert would' be seen photograph Ing Sadie, but the tennis racket re. malned an enigma.. They were six teen, and had been "engaged" more than two years. On the borders of the little meadow of baskets there had been deposited two black shapes, which reniained un disturbed throughout the day, a closed guitar case and a closed mandolin case, no doubt containing each its proper instrument. So far as any use of these went they seemed to be of the same leisure class to which Sadie's tennis racket belonged, for when one of the teachers suggested music, the musicians proved shy. Wesley Ben der said they hadn't learned to play anything much and, besides, he had a couple o' broken strings he didn't know as lie could fix up; and Itamasey said he guessed it seemed kind o' too hot to play much. Joining friends, they or ganized a contest in marksmanship, the target being a floating can which they assaIled with pebbles; and after that they "skipped" fla't stones upon the surface of the water, then went to join a group gathered about Willis Parker and Heinie Krpsemeyer. No fish had been caugiht, a lack of luck crossly attributed by the fisher. men to the noise made by constant ad. vice on the part of their attendant gallery. Messrs. Milholland, Bender, and the other rock throwers came up shouting, and were ill received. "For heaven's sakes," Heinie Kruse meyer demanded, "can't you shut up Here we just first got the girls to keet their mouths shut a minute and I al most had a big pickerel or something on my hook, and here you got to uP and yell so he chases himself away Why can't nobody show a little sense sometimes when they'd ought to? A fish Itn't goin' to bite when he can't even hear himself think I Anyhody ought to know that much." But the new arrivals hooted. "Fith I" Ramsey vociferated. "I'll bet a hun dred dollars there hasn't been event a minny in this creek for the last sixty year's !" "There is, too I" said Heinle, bitter ly. "But I wouldn't be surprised there wouldn't b~e no longer if you got to keep up thIs noise. If you'd shut up just a minute you could see. yourself there's flsh here." itmsey leaned forth over the edge of the overhanging bank, ai dirt preci 1)lee five feet above the water, and ipeered into the lndectermninable depthsq below. The pool had( been stlirred, partly by thme Inexpert pokings of t he fishermen and partly by simall clodat andl bits of dlirt dlislodged from above by the feet of thle andience. The wn-. ter, consequenitly, was but brownly traniislueient and reveailed its secrets r'e. luemntlm y ; nevermthleless certIain dIimi lit tle shiapes had1( been observed to move withlint it. and( were still there. 11am sey foiled to see them at first. "Where's any ole fish?7" lhe inqiuired, s'orniifully. '"Look !" whispered the girl who stood niearest toi Iamsey. She point i'd. "There's one. 'lighit down there by Wills' book. Doin't you see him ?" llamsey was Impressed emiough to whisper. "Is there? I don't see him11. I ennm't-" The girl came closer to him and, the bet ter' to show him, leaned -out over' thle edlge of thle bank and. for safety in mintaininmg her balance, reted1 her left hamiti upon0 his shoulder while she poinitedl l wi her righit. Thereupon soimetluig happlened'( -(o Itamtsey. This touch upon1 his shold~ier wa'Is almost noth ifig, and lie had never taken the slIghtest initer'est in Mill Itust (to whom thamt simall warni hand1( belonged), though she was thle ('hiss beauty, and long e'sttablishied in the (flice. Now, all at once, a p~eculimir and heretofore en tirely unfamiliar sensation suddenly became important in the upper part of his chest. For am momient lie hieldl lis breath, an Involuntary actionahe seemed to be standing in a shower of flowers. "Don't you see it, Itamsey?" Milla whiisperedl. "it's a great blig one. WVhy, it must lhe as long as--as your shos! 'Look !" Ramsey sow nothing but the thIck round1 curl on Milla's shoulder. That curl -swas shot with dazzling fibers of sunshine, lie seemed to b~e trembling. ." The old resentment r-ose he'd 'show' that girl yet, some day." (TO HE CONTINUIED.) Sorrow often binds people ing~ten BRIDE "BUMS" WAY WITH HEI HUSBAND Haled Into Court, Judge Takes Up Collection add Sends Them on Way. Chlicago.-A honeymoon tour en the rods of -freight tralins ended for John Bower and his wife, Helen, each twenty-three years old, when they were arraigned before Judge John F. Hass, in Chicago, on charges of disorderly 6nt ct. With $15 collected in the court room, the couple finished their journey fromt Chicago to Grand Rapids, Mich., "on the cushions." A special watchman passing through the Chicago railroad yards saw two forms huddled closely together on the rods of % freight train. They were Arraigned Before Judge Haas. taken to a police station. The desk sergeant looked with unconcern upon what he believed to be two dirt-be smeared men. They were dressed alike. "I'm his wife," said the smaller one. "You're his what?" asked the sergeant, gazing at Mrs. Bower's cloth ing. She admitted that she had dressed as a man in order that she might re main with her husband In his travels. And she added that she "would rather ride the rods with John than In a Pullman with any one else." Bower said he was married January 9 and with his wife went to Cedar Rapids, In., on his honeymoon tour and to obtain a position witij his brother, a farmer there. When he reached Cedar Rapids lie hand only 50 cents. He failed to get work and lie and his wife rode "blind baggage," into Chicago. SLEUTH PLAYED BOTH ENDS Chicago Detective Lived With Woman He Had Been Hired by Husband to Find. Chicago.--The story of a detective living wi th the wife of a man who had sent him out to find her was tol by Dr. Sebastian Becker of Chliengo, who .anys the sleuth presented e'xpensie tie when'i the(y were pid. A wiarrant has bee'n swoirn out for' te arrest of Itny W. Smedlley, thle dtect''Iivt. lheker's wvife dIisa llpeared sev'eralI weeks aigo, ther hu tshain says, andit Smed'ile'y (etnme to him i offerinzg to fintd thie missinig womani. 'lThere be'gan ten, t' doctor says, what thle Itought 'vas eel ved fr~om all parts of Ite coun iiry. 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