| Show SOME ISOME GIRLS DONT DON'T KISS I BEGIN HERE Ruth Wilson just out of college signs a contract to teach at Wake Wakefield field The he contract is a very strict one but Ruths Ruth's family are in financial straits and she must take the job Rolf Rolt Harwood who loves Ruth escorts es es- es corts carts her to Wakefield at the opening of school and by dallying along alone he gets jets her to her boarding place quite late ate thus embarrassing her Jim Baile Bailey farmer and school bus driver Is smitten by her charms anc and he and Rolf have a fight over a date with Ruth She becomes the subject of gossip and the school board frowns in n her direction J. J W. W Dillon president of the board suddenly takes an interest in Ruth as does Alton Radcliffe the superintendent dent Ruth despises them both but bu must conceal her dislikes They have havethe havethe havethe the power to discharge her Ruth feels that her troubles are caused because she has tried to be a good girL CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR Rolf Roll Harwood stood waiting uncertainly uncertainly un un- un certainly on the front porch of the Dillons He despised himself himsel that he couldn't keep away from the Golden Girl She had so he believed told him lim a falsehood about the night Jim Bailey had taken her back to Wakefield Wakefield Wake Wake- field At any rate he had suffered a terrific ter ten humiliating beating on her account ac count count and and there was no possible way wayn in n which he could retaliate True he could have had Jim arrested for assault assault as as- sault but even in his furious anger he ic knew that such a course would avail him very little There were plenty of people at the Dillons' Dillons who could testify that he had hac started the thc quarrel himself He had been humiliatingly conscious of their curiosity that night when he drove away battered like a losing prize prizefighter tighter fighter and with no one to demonstrate demon strate any sympathy for him The girl Coral was deeply in love with Jim He sensed that easily enough in his brief talk with her before Defore the fight No revenge revenge and anc Rolf Roll Harwood was determined to ge get even even could could not come through a mere assault and battery charge LONELINESS There must be some way to get even with Jim Baile Bailey and trust Rolf RoU Hanwood Harwood Har Han wood to find it At first he sulked and nursed his bruises drawing on the contents o olis of his lis hip flask to feed the flames of ofus his us wrath But there came the mornIng morn morn- ing ng after Day after day went by One cannot cannot can canS not draw forgetfulness from a hip flask lask forever Rolf sobered up eventually eventually ally and spent a few days dilYs feeling decidedly decidedly de de- de ashamed of himself although himself although the he desire for revenge had lessened not the slightest But now a new feeling ng entered In loneliness for Ruth Wilson In his heart icart Rolf Rol Harwood knew that he loved the Golden Girl more than he could ever love anybody but himself He Ic had been a spoiled e egotistical boy He le was an opinionated egotistical man Ruth Wilson was the only thing in n all the world that he hadn't been able to get for the mere asking Girls' Girls kisses well well he boasted that he kissed any of them whenever he wanted to ANXIOUS WAITING Ruth of them all remained aloof aloot and nd he knew in his heart that that was the reason he cared so desper- desper He tried first a letter to Ruth Ruth and and she he retaliated with a cool little note that hat made him swear that he didn't care arc whether he ever ever saw her again Other efforts at reconciliation failed as dismally But now here he was wa he e told himself scornfully lIke an any country jakc waiting jakc wailing anxiously for or Ruths Ruth's appearance His heart almost stopped when Ruth luth doin doing bit a-bit of acting for the Dillon illon household opened the door and nd greeted him eagerly Look who's here Ruth said as gaily aily as though the very verj person in inthe inthe inthe the world she most wanted to see sec stood in the doorway to greet her Lets ride She closed the door quickly hearing the astounded gasps of af the Lillions as she did so Rolls Roll's spirits soared So the Golden By PRISCILLA WAYNE Girl had come to her senses at last Well it was about time LIFE IS GOOD I They rode Roll Rolf who must find lind vent for his exuberant sense of trIumph triumph tri tnt somehow drove like a demon I I know shell she'll do 60 Ruth laughed but 40 suits me Lets Let's talk What's the news from Gods God's country I thou thought ht you'd come to feel that way Rolf Roll triumphed Getting about enough of Wakefield huh I Rolf Roif I dont don't know Some of the I things about Wakefield I hate and I Isome some I love I dont don't mind being a I school teacher The actual work is isI I wonderful Its It's the little petty annoyances annoyances an art- that drag feeling drag feeling that my soul isn't my own for one thing Why I felt exactly like a criminal criminal criminal crim crim- inal when I came down the stairs a afew afew few tew minutes ago to meet you I just said to myself Im Tm going Im I'm going to have a date with Roll Rolf wood Hat I tonight no matter what they say or what they the do Now that's just how desperate I was to get out and have a good time Rolf RoU threw back his head and laughed It was good to be alive good to feel the throb of the powered high motor under his hands good to know that the Golden Girl rode at his side BLACK EYES He ventured a remark about the I fist fight He was in such good spirits that even those bitter memories rankled rankled ran ran- kled less painfully tonight Ive meant to come out before but I I- I well I waited until unlit I lost the black eyes It was Ruths Ruth's turn to laugh now And be magnanimous too Well Rolf you gave as many black e eyes es as you got remember that Yes it started out to be bc a wonderful wonder ful evening They stopped at a roadhouse roadhouse roadhouse road- road house ate sandwiches listened to a violet orchestra and watched an even more violent group of or young people dance Ruth was glad that she did n not t recognize recognize rec rec- any of the young joung people Glad that none of them came seemingly front from rom the Wakefield district For their actions somehow put a damper to her own gay defiance It was evident that something a bit more exciting than mere water or I Inear near beer could be obtained at this this' place Ruths Ruth's cheeks flushed with shame to see s home omo of the youngsters youngsters- Shameless girls held close in the arms of maudlin boys oO so O youthful and callow callow cal cal- low appearing that one line knew instinctively instinctively this was one of or their very first trips away from the parental hearth Its a shame Ruth s said ud every school teacher impulse in her coming cuming to the foreground for young people to be so undisciplined SILLY KIDS Oh I dont don't know Roll Rolf shrugged shrug ed his lis handsome shoulders expressively This sort of thing merely typifies modern life They all do it the it-the the old ones most of all Why shouldn't the youngsters take their cue from their parents They dont don't Ruth contested hotl hotly These poor silly mistaken kids dont don't know any better They think this is the life me Y Yeu Yc-j 1 say Roll Rolf that everybody does it this it-this this silly drinking and carousing I say they dont don't I know dozens of sane sober folks They know where their children arc are arcand arcand and what they ore arc doing There isn't a mother of one of these silly little girls who wouldn't b be shocked beyond words to know where her daughter is right now and what wha she's doing That's just the point point- they dont don't know They let their thel youngsters get ahead of them Well Vell we should worry Ruth RoI said Never had the girl seemed s so adorable so perfectly irresistible a ashe as she seemed tonight Lets dance This may be a wild wicked party but bu that music is certainly heavenly BROKEN DREAMS IS They danced Ruth knew then how the music could throb in year 16 hearts hearts it it throbbed in her own with wit suffocating sweetness Rolfs Rolf's arms arm around her tightly her crown of rel low hair at his shoulder his black blac blackeyes blackeyes eyes mad with love and desire shining shining shining shin shin- ing down Into her own it own it was in in- Wakefield seemed a thousand miles mile away The Sund Sunday lY school the school school- schoolroom schoolroom room the debating club club club-a a million miles away all to be brushed out o of ones one's mind instantly to make room for the music the dance Rolf held her closer she closer she could hear his heart pounding Ruth honey honey hon hon- ey cy youre you're sweet sweet just just sweet an anthen and then through the m madness of it alRuth all al Ruth became conscious of a curious tableau at the door Jim door Jim Bailey am and Coral They had just come Into the hall Jim Bailey stood staring at the dancing dancing dane ing lag couple couple he he had forgotten Coral forgotten everything but the fact that tha there before him in his rivals rival's arms was the girl sirl he loved the loved the girl who had snubbed him unmercifully To be continued Will wm Jim and Rolf Roll renew rene their hostility hostility hos hos- |
