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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER Xhe- - fiction Cornet Information on How To Raise Your Dog BEST LOOKING GIRL IN TOWN n By THYRA SAMTER WINSLOW -- and parents approve this laboratory-pur- e, quality bubble gum! foil-wrapp- time she was , thirteen first time in her life, the belle of the, ball. Toward the end of the evening Durant had the satisfaction of uation. He saw Rilla, standing not quite straight because she didnt feel quite as tall that way, in a badly fitted dress and her hair not seeing Shane Tennant dancing atquite smooth and he saw Shane, tention. Shane Tennant, whom Rilla had looked at with longing eyes perfectly groomed for Morriville she was twenty she good looking. And and who had paid no attention to By the time then Pat came to ask Rilla to her. apfully convinced that her dance. Durant went back to his home in pearance was really something terrOn the second day of his visit New York. And forgot all about the; seemed ible All of the other girls attractive. No Durant made his remarkable state- whole thing. And years passed. And little and cute and wore it seemed ment. He declared, to anyone who the sequel happened just the other, Rilla what matter too much of her would listen to him, that Rilla Ma- day. wrong. There was Durant was lunching alone at a' clothes. And thin bry was by far and away the best to wear tailored looking girl in town. One of the best restaurant when an attractive, tall; around her in folds. hung jesses the looking girls hed ever seen. woman, past her first youth, came1 All of the boys and girls in Rilla never had a fine had a was She compliup to him. Rilla. girl liked orowd You dont remember me, she if you could for- ment about her looks before. She said. get the way she had always been shy, looked. Even her hair was wrong sort of stringy but she had a pleasant and rather attractive face. In spite of her looks Rilla had a boy friend. He was Patrick Redding and his father kept grocery store. Pat wasnt any great catch but then you really couldnt expect Rilla, with her looks, to do any better. Folks felt that Rilla ought to be well satisfied. Pat was a nice looking boy, and he certainly wasnt to be sneezed at. Rilla didnt sneeze at Pat. She was grateful to him for being nice to her. She was as jolly and as friendly as she could be. As a matter of fact she liked Pat a lot. He was fun to be with. Shed have been perfectly satisfied except for the fact that she was in love with Shane Tennant. Which did her a lot of good for Shane was the catch of the town. Shanes father was a banker and rich. His mother was tiie social leader of the town. Shane was tall much taller than Rilla end handsome, besides. Pat went into the grocery with That night, for the first time in her uneventful life, Rilla Mabry his father. Shane went into the was belle of the ball. bank. Thats the way sons do in small towns unless they have defi- and often miserable about her apDurant didnt remember her. nite ideals about law or one of the pearance. And here, the first auIm Rilla Tennant 1 was Rilla other professions. Rilla didnt do thority on beauty who had ever when you knew me. You Mabry anything. Her folks had just enough been in town, acclaimed her as the came to my home town and and money so she didnt have to work. prize. sort of made my life over. RememShe went to parties with Patrick When Durant, himself, told her ber now? and admired Shane from a disI what he thought of her she was Of course I do," said Durant. tance. The town folks felt that she filled with confusion. She managed remember very well. would marry Pat, that hed take to stammer her thanks. And later, You did a wonderful jobl said aver his fathers grocery store and she went up to him. very shyly, There was a curious note in. Rilla. that theyd settle down. I do wish youd tell me how I her voice be didn't understand.That might have happened if it You married the boy you were hadnt been for Leslie Durant. Les- can look better, she said. Im not' suited for the task of in love with, 1 see. His name was lie Durant was and still is a well he told her, but may- Tennant, wasnt it? known illustrator. And he came to , Morriville to visit an aunt. And got be if we got together Why, yes, said Rilla. But how-taken to all of the parties, of They got together the next morn- did you remember the name? And. course. The social lion of the seaing. Durant came to Rillas house, how did you know I was in love, son. He stayed in town three days and, with Rillas mother acting as with him? but that was long enough for a lot helper, they did things to Rilla and Im good at names. And I saw1 to happen. Rillas clothes. Durant made her you looking at him. Simplicity itHe saw Rilla Mabry! Rilla was stand up straight. And rearranged self! And to think that I was the standing near the door and she her hair. And told her what was cause! He preened a little. was looking at Shane Tennant. She wrong with the clothes she wore. "Yes, you were, said Rilla. "It never knew how much her face That night there was a dance for was very funny, now, when you showed what she was thinking Durant his last evening in town. on it. There I was, going look back when he about. No one else noticed but And, as he had thought and in love with Pat with Redding Durant, being new, took in the sit started things, Rilla was, for the Shane. And terribly ill at ease and awkward. And you came down and said 1 was a beauty so automatically 1 became a beauty. And the boys all rushed me. And I married Shane. said Durant. And "Wonderful! he beamed. "How are you getting along, now? he asked, as an afterthought. Solvtton Ib Next 1mb. Horizontal "Thats the catch, said Rilla. You shouldnt have asked. ISign of a future event. "Shane and I married and didnt B Numeral get along any too well. Though I 8 Cry of sorrow was awfully happy in the beginning. 12 Female horse 13 Night before The Tennants lost ail of their an event money in the depression and my 14 To remove family had its money in the Ten15 Devoured nant bank by that time, so our 16 Gibe money went, too. Then Shane fell in 18 Iranian love with a chorus girl. I got a diAmbassador to the U. S. vorce, of course. Ive been teaching 19 Note of scale in a girl's school for Hie past three 20 Mimic years. 21 By Thats too bad! said Durant, 23 City of and began to feel inflated. But Chaldea 24 To maybe that was better than marrycontradict 26 Twelve dozen ing that other boy whom you didnt 28 Wrath love. 29 To hasten "Maybe, said Rilla. You can JO To be sick never teU. Love goes . . Patrick 22 Place of Redding took over his fathers grobarter 23 Nave of cery store and married the cutest a wheel girl in town. 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