A good many have already stopped speaking to her." Ramsey fidgeted with a pen on the table by which he sat.

"Well, I don't know," he said, slowly; "I don't know if they ought to do that exactly." "Why oughtn't they ?" Fred demanded, sharply.
"Well, it looks to me as if she was only fightin' for her principles.
She believes in 'em.

The more it costs a person to stick to their principles, why, the more I believe the person must have something pretty fine about 'em likely." "Yes!" said the hot-headed Fred.

"That may be in ordinary times, but not when a person's principles are liable to betray their country! We won't stand that kind of principles, I tell you, and we oughtn't to.

Dora Yocum's finding that out, all right.