| Show Some Girls Dont Don't Kiss By PRISCILLA PRISCIL WAYNE nE BEGIN HERE RE I Ruth Wilson school teacher gets getsIn getsIn getsin In trouble with her school board by byl going to a 3 road house with Rolf Roif Harwood Harwood Har- Har wood who loves her Ruth loves loyes Jim Bailey but when Jim went with another girl she accepted a date with Rolf BoLt Rolf RoIf leaves her in a rage when she refuses to pet and his car str strikes kes a 8 boy People think Ruth was with Rolf Bolt and she is discharged But her debating class strikes and the board narks marks time until after the forthcoming forthcoming ing jug debate Rolf RolE returns and clears Ruth The community rallies to her support but she is unhappy because she has lost Jim In the meantime the girl who has caused the trouble trouble trouble trou trou- ble between Ruth and Jim learns that he loves Ruth and decides to vanish from the community Ruths Ruth's team wins vIns the debate She is riding on the crest of tho the W e. e News comes that Jim Bailey ha has been killed by the president of th the school board CHAPTER 36 I Opal Hatcher followed Ruth Wl VII Wil sons son's swift footsteps silently down dow I Wakefield's long Main street I Kind Miss Hatcher could sense th the misery in the girls girl's heart Once sh she had known the same experience th the girl was facing She too had loved loveda a big gray eyed man and the mes- mes sage had coz coI come e c to her that he was wai dead But Ruth had more than she had had Opal Hatcher reflected bitterly Ruth could go to her dead dead could stand at his side and mourn Bushe But Bu she blinked bUnked the tears back when sh she realized that after all Ruth could not have that comfort even openly JIMS JIM'S ALIVE She tried to dissuade Ruth from her grim purpose of finding him It wont won't do any good for us to go I down there dear You cant can't help Jim You will only break your heart beart But Ruth kept on in her determined determined determined deter deter- mined pace All along Main street they saw excited groups of ot people talking it over Opal Hatcher won where they had taken Jim Dozens of people lined the walk leadIng leading leading lead lead- ing to the bank and she saw the sheriff of the county prominent among them It came to Miss Hatcher with a distinct shock that there would be bea bei a i trial Someone had murdered Jim Bailey Someone would have to pay And that instant Jim Bailey came walking walkin toward them From where he stood in conversation conversation conver conver- with someone in front of the bank ank he had seen them coming He had lad Ruth Wilsons Wilson's face face- I It seemed to Opal Hatcher as though she had seen a grave itself itsel open and a man long dead emerge from it But Jim Bailey Dailey wasn't dead He wasn't even hurt if it one could judge from the lon long strides the almost leaps he took that brought him swiftly to Ruth Wilsons Wilson's side UNASHAMED My dear My dear the Golden Girl said as he caught her into h his s arms They said you jou were dead but butI I couldn't believe it it-I it I wouldn't believe believe be be- lieve it it Opal Hatcher felt fell her own middle middle- aged prosaic heart in which romance had died turning over swiftly at sight of the two young youn lovers arms around each other unashamed before the crowd breathing their love and thankfulness that fate had not parted them All AU the world loves a lover and Wakefield paused for a 1 minute to smile tenderly upon its pretty young English teacher and the big boy who adored her But the two most concerned in inthe Ithe he the tender chuckles for forgot ot Wakefield forgot Opal Hatcher forgot every every- r thin thing but each other and found their way vay to the privacy of at Jims Jim's car Their conversation was a 1 series of staccato sentences sentences kisses kisses are more satisfying in times like that than mere words But she said you were killed A V COMMON ION CRIMINAL I UI wasn't even hurt He had the automatic in iii his hand I knew he meant to kill himself I grappled wit him and we sure had a scuffle Th The gun went of off several times Dilon Dil Dil- Ion on caught one of the bullets in his arm And it isn't serious Only a flesh wound Hell He'll live to stand tand triaL I Ruth caught her breath at that J. J W. W Dillon the pompous on trial like ike a common criminal But how did you jou know Jim dear I I knew my dad had paid him money on the mortgage I knew we ve weren't in as bad as he hc said we wc were vere what you were quarreling over that day in his office I said he was a crook and 1 I set setout setout setout out to prove it He has cheated these I people blind just as he tried to cheat me The bank examiners say his defalcations will run into many thousands thousands thou thou- sands ands of dollars And all the time he was acting so o righteous Superintendent of the Sunday s school hool and president of the school chool board trying to make his lus teachers eachers be perfect paragons of be- be havior navior HOW now TERRIBLE And then big Jim Bailey took time ime off from his lovemaking to voice a pertinent truth When a person gets ets so pious that he tries to regulate regulate regu- regu late ate the lives of an entire community then hen watch out out out-he he may not practice all lIe he preaches He lie was deathly pale when the man manent sent ent the note up to him in assembly Ruth mused That Ahat was his cashier ashier in on the know kno coming to tip him off that the bank sank examiners were at work at the bark bank The Golden Girl in her happiness found time to think of at the unhappiness ness of another woman Poor Mrs Dillon DiBon she whispered from the safe shelter heller of big Jim Baileys Bailey's arms I feel eel so sorry for her Sweetheart you needn't Mrs Dilon Dil Dil- lou 1011 on will be happier than she's been in m inmany many nany years Its It's terrible enough to toive live ive in the same community with a J. J W. W Dillon but did you ever stop to o think how terrible it would be to belong to him him ugh SERVING YOUTH Fortunately there were other happier happier hap hap- pier more satisfying things to think about When two people madly inlove inlove in love oye for weeks finally make up their minds to tell each other about it there here is considerable to sa say 9 F Gray shadows of a November day closed swiftly over the little town of Wakefield It was just too bad that J. J W. W DilIon Dillon Dilon Dil- Dil lon Ion on president of at the school board sat satIn satin in n a rather restricted room in the county hoosegow waiting for a few of the last guard to rustle about and arrange bail for him Yes it was a shame indeed that indeed that he hadn't been there months before But this in no noway noway noway way dulled the gay celebration of ol Wakefield's triumph Hadn't the Wakefield debating debatin team won von a colossal victory True they thought of young Bill Dillon staying suying forlornly home with his mother They thought of him kindly for his mates loved BilL But there'd I come a time when young Bill would smile again just as he deserved to In the meantime youth celebrated They ate juicy hot dogs hungrily They roasted marshmallows over the coals of their big bonfire and then they built it ft up again so that the flames lames leaped hi high h to the arching blue black sky and they fairly yelled the theold theold theold old school song of ot triumph FOR JIM JI AND RUTH And then in a lull of at the merrymaking merrymaking merrymaking merry merry- making when everyone else had stopped to catch his breath Douglas I Graham stood forth his tall slight figure silhouetted in the glow from the great fire the tho matter with our Miss Wilson he demanded Over in a parked car near the school schaal schoolyard schoolyard yard a girl sat with a boys boy's arms tightly encircling her just her just an older boy and girl watching the younger boys and girls at their antics They listened breathlessly while the dancing dervishes proclaimed lined their adoration for their teacher in hearty cheers straight cheers straight from their clean young oung hearts Big Jim Baileys Bailey's lips found the lips of the girl who wouldn't be kissed How long he hc demanded huskily between kisses are arc you going to keep me waiting It will wUl take Ruth said shyly hiding hid hiding ing her head on his shoulder the rest of ot this semester to get a trousseau ready a whole month You hardhearted hardhearted hardhearted hard hard- hearted girl Jim Bailey Dailey scolded But i whatever his sweetheart had to sa sain say in reply couldn't be heard She was I graduating rapidly from the ranks a of the girls who dont don't THE END |
