| Show SOME SOM E GIRLS DONT DON'T KISS By PRISCILLA PRISCILL WAYNE BEGIN HERE Ruth Wilson starts her career as a school teacher by signing a contract that forbids dating petting and other extra curricular activities indulged in by young joung people From the first Ruth has difficulty because Rolf Harwood her boyhood friend and sweetheart insists on coming com ing to see her Ruth has become deeply deep ly interested in Jim Bailey full ex-full back and Rolf RoU is jealous Ruths Ruth's chum Coral Brown Is madly mad mad- ly b in fl love with Jim and when the two boys fight over R Ruth th Coral becomes friendly with Jim by telling him she will intercede for him with Ruth Ruth docs does not know th this s and is hurt when Jim calls for Coral Coral is double crossing both Jim and Ruth inan in inan inan an attempt to win Jims Jim's favor CHAPTER TWENTY Jim drove on silently He was sorry sorry sor sore ry that Coral had brought up the old question He had thought thought hoped hoped that ler er feeling for him had changed That girl and arid boy friendship had been beena a mistake all along He had realized it even if she But he hadn't wanted to hurt her feelings Coral sulked away from rom him now hurt by his silence You dont don't care for or me Jim you never did she ac I like you CoraL Ive I've always liked you you you-as ou as as a good loyal little friend Coral was silent thinking that statement statement statement state state- ment over And nothing more Jim Hang it all Jim wished that he had never come on this ride knowing full ful well vell that he never would have come if Coral had not come to him with her plan to arrange a meeting for him with RuthI Ruth I I DONT DON'T LOVE YOU She had nervously explained her failure the instant after she closed the door on the astounded Dillons and their roomers She wouldn't come Jim But she sent a message to you Coral had said hastily Come on and ride Ill I'll tell you when we get away from tram here I couldn't very well tell tel you jOU before them all could I I couldn't couldn say Well Jim I asked Ruth to mcc meet you vou and talk it over but she wouldn't wouldn do it I couldn't very well humiliate you like that before all of them And riding along in the darkness by Jims Jim's side Coral had smiled triumph antly to herself at the way she ha had managed By her sly game she had proved to all of them especially to Ruth Wilson that big Jim Bailey came cam cameto cameto to call on her And after this night nigh Jim would never speak to Ruth Wilson Wil son again Everything is fair tail In love and war Coral Brown believed exactly that But you dont don't love me she insisted no now No Coral I dont don't love you jOU Jim would have given every cent he possessed pos pas se seised sed to be away from the moody eyed girl that instant A CRISSCROSS WORLD Coral was sobbing unashamed Ifa Its If Usa a mean old world Jim Everything i is crisscross and upset I love you an and you love Ruth Wilson and Ruth Wi Wil Wil- I Ison son on loves that city man you beat up the e other night And he loves her I dont don't think he docs does Coral lied Hed shamelessly I think he loves some girl irl hes he's always talking about who lives vos in the city But Ruth is simply crazy razy about him because hes he's got money and prestige It'll break her heart icart If he doesn't marry her Jim listened bitterly Yes the world was vas all crisscross and topsy He lie drove rove back to the Dillons' Dillons early Ive got ot a big days day's work tomorrow he told old Coral making an excuse to get geta a away I 1 ve ye got a lot of at farm tarm work laid out ut to do and Mathias hes he's he's hes a ne neighbor neigh neigh- gh bor jor who got my job ob driving the school bus called bus called up tonight to ask if Id I'd drive the bus a few days while he goes In n to Chicago IM I'M SHAMELESS Dont you like me me-a me a little Coral asked as he let her out at the gate Do you think Im I'm well Im well Mrs Dillon would call me a shameless hussy if she he knew how Ive I've run after you But Im m Im shameless Jim where y youre you're ure con con- She lifted lilted her full tull red lips to Jim and he caught her into his arms Youre a good little pal Coral he said aid huskily for the second time that night and he returned her kisses kiss for or kiss There are few men who can withstand the direct adoration of a pretty girl In the days that followed Coral need not lot have worried about reconciliation between Ruth and Jim Bailey For Forn in n the days during which big Jim drove the school bus for his ne neighbor they did not even speak The two each with his own Interpretation interpretation inter Inter- o of their hostilities treated each other as positive strangers Jim remembered Ruths Ruth's open condemnation con can the night he had fought fough with Rolf Harwood and the message Coral reported she had sent TRIUMPH FOR CORAL He would be a chump he told himself himself him self savagely when the impulse came over him to go to her and see sec if there could be any hope that her unfriendliness ness was just imagined to pay any anymore anymore more snore attention to her And Ruth was not able to forget forge that Jim had bad deliberately snubbed her made a point of calling for Coral Cora Brown when everyone in the household household house house- hold knew that he had been deeply interested in Ruth Wilson Watching this daily snubbing from her window upstairs Coral Brown was wa filled with triumph She loved Jim Bailey She was open and brazen in confessing it and she determined nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing in all the world would stop he her if lC she had a chance to win his love Not even the fussy superintendent Mr Radcliffe who stood at her door doo the first morning after her amazing date with Jim Bailey He began hi his conversation abruptly just as he a. a nl al ways did Miss Brown I want to talk to you So Corals Coral's voice was insulting mockery About Jim Bailey I Imagine imagine magine Miss Brown the superintendent thundered if so insignificant a man could be said to thunder Dont be impudent You know perfectly well that lat that dis disgraceful incident last night ight was a direct challenge You did id it purposely You wanted to show the other teachers that you could break your contract and get by with it il What Coral was frankly astounded astound- astound ed d. d The only thing she had wanted to 0 do was to be with Jim Bailey I say that you broke the rules of your contract when you dated with that hat bus driver last night Im I'm asking Mr Dillon to speak to you Oh yeah Coral asked insulting insulting- ly y Well I hope he says nothing more than good morning Im I'm busy and nd she walked over to the blackboard and nd started writing problems on it ready cady for Cor her first math class REPORTING CORAL Alton Radcliffe put on his hat and walked out of the school building Such a direct and insulting defiance of f authority merited only one thing that that the superintendent go immedIately immediately imme- imme lately and lay the case ease before the great J. J W. W Dillon himself He found the president of the school board in his office a tiny room inthe inthe in the he rear of the story one-story brick bank building He had just finished giving giving ing ng dictation to his one stenographer and nd he sat as Radcliffe entered with his us back to the door a troubled expression expression ex ex- ex written plainly upon his face The superintendent cleared his throat and the bank president jumped as though a bank burglar had told him himo to 10 o hold up his hands That thought struck truck J. J Alton Radcliffe forcibly at sIght ight of ot Dillons Dillon's ashy white face and trembling hands I didn't mean to startle you he apologized anxiously I just came over ovet to report something to you jOU that I 1 thought you ought to know He sat down importantly Its about Miss Hiss Coral Brown You were present last ast night and saw what happened I attempted to speak to her about it t this morning and she defied me Simply defied me mc Defied you ou too CERTAIN REASONS If Radcliffe had expected the words to cause a furor of ol anger in the breast of the school board president he was disappointed Mr D Dillon merely continued turning the pencil he held in his hand around and around as though he had turned it around and around since early morning and the success of the day depended on how many revolutions the pencil made Wed better not say anything about it he said finally There are well arc well there are certain reasons why I think it would be be be-be be inadvisable just now It would have hurt the school board president in his own estimation at least to say quite frankly I gave Coral Brown her job in payment of ofa a political debt I If she doesn't choose to obey the mandates of the school hoard loard there Isn't anything vcr very much that I can do but grin and bear it LEADEN DAYS One by one the leaden days slipped by jy for Ruth Wilson Life had become just a dreary routine punctuated by a visit home every four weeks and the Saturday morning brightness of her debating classes which she thoroughly thorough thorough- 1 ly enjoyed Her second visit at home had not I been seen happy Peter was worried Day I after day of constant search had failed I to land the job he needed so badly And her husbands husband's despondency had a natural reaction on Katherine We hate to take every penny penn you earn daughter You need new clothes There arc are just a lot of things a girl can do with her money It makes your our father and me mc ashamed to be so hard up Nonsense Katie Ruth laughed though her heart was heavy I guess maybe now Im I'm getting a chance to todo todo todo do some of the things for you that youve you've always done for lor me To be continued Can Ruth Continue to o Conceal Her Desperate Struggle from Her Mother Copyright Register Reister and Tribune Syndicate |
