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Iso SOME ME GIRLS DONT DON'T KISS I BEGIN HERE Ruth Wilson just out of college and desperately needing the job signs a no-dating no petting no-petting contract to teach at Wakefield From the start she is in difficulties because Rolf Roil Harwood her lover insists on dates and when he takes her riding he keeps her out late at night despite her protests Jim Bailey football ex-football player and now bus driver is Rolfs Rolf's rival for Ruths Ruth's favors Ruth loves Jim The two boys stage a fist fight over a date with Ruth There is gossip The school board frowns in her direction but J. J W. W Dillon its president takes a more than friendly interest in her The superintendent Alton Radcliffe also considers the time ripe to press his case with her Ruth despises both bothof bothof bothof of them but needs their friendship She decides that being a nice girl is useless When Jim takes another girl irl riding Ruth defiantly goes with Roll Rolf to a roadhouse CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE Why Girls Walk Home The sl sight ht of Jim Bailey staring at them hem from the doorway sobered Ruth Its warm in here she told Rolf Roif Lets go pointing anxiously to o a side exit O 0 K with me sugar but wait walt until I 1 get my check and pay my bill Rolf Roll turned back toward the table they hey had left very near the door Ruths Ruth's ruse to keep him from seeing Big Jim Bailey had failed tailed Oh hello helIo he said carelessly noticing noticing no no- Coral before he saw the big bigman bigman bigman man at her side but he did not flinch when he saw who her companion was For once Coral agreed with Ruth absolutely She had no desire to see sec another battle between these two nor even to hear an exchange of words She caught Jim by the arm Come on lets let's dance Jim Dont Don't pay any attention to that fellow SELF-ASSURED SELF They were dancing when Ruth and her escort left the hall hail Coral clinging to o Big BiC Jim radiantly happy Safe in the car with Rolf RoIf Ruth breathed a sigh of relief the matter Rolf Rol asked Afraid of another fist fight Well you needn't have worried I hadn't any desire to fight it out tonight A fellow ellow doesn't need to fight when hes he's got his girl Its It's the chap who loses out ut it that picks a fight He slipped By PRISCILLA WAYNE i an arm over the back of the scat as ashe he ho spoke guiding the car expertly with one hand So that's why he was v so jaunty so self assured Her actions tonIght proved to him that she cared cared cared-at at least he interpreted them that way Well why not Ruth asked herself Certainly thinly Rolf Roif Harwood had everything to offer a girl He was handsome well educated companionable and he loved her He had back of him the prestige of anold an anold anold old and influential name a father who would guide his financial bark out out Df any danger of disaster Of a sudden Ruth Wilson longed for just these things It would be wonderful back in her home cit city tobe to tobe tobe be Mrs 1 Rolf Roll Harwood To live in a beautiful home to be one of the young oung matrons of the social set as the columns of at the local paper would phrase it CONTRAST She contrasted the prospect with the life she had always known Peter Wilson was one of these whole kindly individuals known as the salt of the earth But the Individuals who are the salt of the earth gather no moss Ruth smiled at the way her thoughts twisted twist twist- ed the old adages Peter h had been able to make a comfortable living for his family all of the necessities and the more common of the luxuries but that was all alI When Then the neighbor families set jauntily forth in their second hand cars for a picnic Peter and Katherine and their daughter Ruth boarded the street car with their basket of lunch Yes dear Katherine would explain ex cx plain patiently to the impetuous wistful wistful ful child It would be nice to have havea a car and some day we will But not until youre you're through college Were We're laying the money away now little girl your father and I. I Youre You're going to have some of the advantages in life that we missed And her parents had carried their modest program through with never nevera a deviation Ruth went to teachers teachers' college She won distinction and filled the hearts of her parents to overflowing with happiness for her RUTHS RUTH'S CHANCE CliANCE She was one of the ten honor graduates graduates grad grad- in her class and Peter and Katherine wiped their eyes shamelessly shamelessly shame shame- lessly when she walked down the chapel aisle in her black gown that coveted sheepskin they had sacrificed sacrificed so valiantly to help her win held proudly in her hand Now she had a chance to pay it all allback back back in in more substantial form than by that miserable paltry a month The parents of ot Mrs Rolf Roll Harwood would naturally benefit by her advanced social position Rolf Roll Harwood had money of his own Surely his wife could give her own people some of the good things of life Ruth pondered this thought It was pleasant to contemplate She leaned back in the luxurious car at Rolfs Rolf's side To be surrounded by such things always motor always motor cars lovely clothes t trips tips Enough money to do some of the things one wanted Instead a life such as Opal Hatcher had lived stretched before Ruth The very thought terrified Ruth The middle aged Miss Hatcher had known romance romance so so incomplete And after that that prosaic prosaic days of ot school teaching One schoolroom was like every other schoolroom This years year's classes differed very little from last years year's and an exacting demanding school board is the same as any other where where- ever it is found ROLFS ROLF'S LIFE Corals Coral's ideal of life lite was different A farm If U Jim wants it Coral had confessed Anywhere Anywhere in in Iowa or wherever he wants to go Corals Coral's life would be bounded by such simple things yet such powerful power ful ul things the man she loved an old farmhouse taking on new beauty and dignity with the books the books the beautiful ful intimate things with things with which they would fill it Coral would be content to worry about the chickens about a 3 spring garden about canning fruit and vegetables vegetables vege vege- tables helping Jim Ruth shut her eyes eyes to to blink bUnk awa away the splendor of Corals Coral's dream But Rolf offered ease comfort lux lux- ury She opened her eyes suddenly Rolf Roif was parking the car at the edge of a country lane From where they sat under the slender branches of a leaf leafless leafless less roadside willow they could see sec car after car dashing by on the main highway less than a n quarter of a mile away lawa Cold for tor parking In November huh Rolf asked fondly leaning over ove overto overto to close the window at Ruths Ruth's side The nifty heater Ive I've got cot in this ca car gives one all the comforts of home and then some f I DONT DON'T EVEN LIKE YOU Perhaps he noticed that Ruth moved involuntarily away from him If he did it gave him only a passing pang of chagrin Rolls Rolfs spirits were running sunning high He had never felt more sure of himself more absolutely certain that at last Ruth W Wilson lson the Golden Girl the only girl who had withheld her favors for his asking was ready to come into his arms Nor would he put off his triumph for long The arm that had draped itself carelessly over the back of the seat slipped down now to the Golden Girls Girl's slender shoulders Rolf Rol gathered his sweetheart into frito rough eager arms You do love me Ruth you dol dolAnd dolAnd dolAnd And the touch of his eager cager arms arias dispelled the girls girl's dream One cant can't have the prestige and luxury that a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's name gives give without having the theman theman theman man too his arms about one his kisses his nearness With quick nervous hands Ruth pushed her companion away as though she loathed the very touch of him No Rolf Roll no I I-don't I don't dont even LIKE you LEFT ALONE Her words had the effect of at a whiplash whip whip- lash in Roll Rolf Harwoods Harwood's face Insane unreasoning anger stung him So this this this-thIs this girl had the nerve to come with him here herc to let him make a fool of himself over her just to repulse him lim again Fri Frightened by the anger in Rolls Rolfs face ace scarcely knowing what she did Ruths Ruth's hand reached out and found fount the door latch pushed It and the thedoor thedoor door loor of the car swung open The girl gir half stepped half lunged out of the car and onto the road catching herself herself her her- self sell from fallIn falling by clinging to the swaying door And the sight of that infuriated Rolf bit Harwood all aU the more He pushed her hand from the door and slammed the door violently Movie WHAT a movie he taunted wild with rage Why Girls Walk Home and in an instant he had started the car It lunged forward leaving the Golden Girl standing in the middle of the country road Rolf RoIf Harwood had driven miles before before be be- fore he came out of his insane fury enough to realize what a dastardly thing he had done Madly he drove back to the spot where he had left Ruth only to rind fine that the blackness of the night had swallowed up the Golden GirL TIlE THE ONLY WAY To the Rolf Roif Harwoods of life lite there theres is s only one way to cover coyer up an unmanly unmanly un un- un manly disgraceful action Back althe at al atthe atthe the inn where they had danced only a short time before there was plenty to make a chap forget forlet what a fool he had made of himself The few silly young people still dancing paid little attention to the theman theman theman man in the booth who proceeded as quickly as possible to go on as big a binge singe as he could To be continued I What becomes of ot Ruth |
