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Ramsey Milholland

CHAPTER XV
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You didn't say anything at all, and she must think that means she converted you.
Why didn't you speak up ?" "Well, _I_ wouldn't argue with her," said Ramsey.

Then, after a silence, he seemed to be in need of sympathetic comprehension.

"It _was_ kind o' funny, though, wasn't it ?" he said, appealingly.
"What was ?" "The whole business." "What 'whole bus'-- " "Oh, get out! Her stoppin' me, and me goin' pokin' along with her, and her--well, her crying and everything, and me being around with her while she felt so upset, I mean.

It seems--well, it does seem kind o' funny to me." "Why does it ?" Fred inquired, preserving his gravity.

"Why should it seem funny to you ?" "I don't mean funny like something's funny you laugh at," Ramsey explained laboriously.


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