Show T1IE GARLAND TIMES FICTION she was thirteen FROM Mabry had been ashamed f her appearance It was then that she started ‘shooting up higher than the other girls She was awkward as well as tall and she was too thin By the time she was twenty she that her apwas fully convinced pearance was really something terrible All of the other girls seemed and cute and attractive No Uttle matter what Rilla wore it seemed wrong There was too much of her And thin to wear tailored clothes dresses hung around her in' folds All of the boys and girls in the crowd liked Rilla She was a fine girl —if you could the way she looked Even her was wrong-s- ort hafr 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 a grocery store Pat wasn’t any great catch — but then you really with her Rilla couldn’t expect looks to do any better Folks felt that Rilla ought to be well satisfied a Pat was nice looking boy and he certainly wasn't to be sneezed at Rilla didn’t 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 She’d have been satisfied except for the perfectly fact that she was in love with Shane Which did her a lot of Tennant good — for Shane was the catch of Shane's the town father was a banker — and ridh His mother was the social leader of the town Shane — was tall much taller than Rilla — end handsome besides Pat went into the grocery with Shane went into the his father That’s the way sons do in bank small towns unless they have definite ideals about law or one of the Rilla didn’t do other professions anything Her folks had just enough money so she didn’t have to work She went to parties with Patrick — and admired Shane from a disThe town folks felt that she tance would marry Pat that he'd take aver his father’s grocery store and that they’d settle down That might have happened if it hadn’t been for Leslie Durant Leslie Durant was— and still is — a well known illustrator And he came to to visit an aunt And got Morriville of taken to all of the parties The social lion of the seacourse son He stayed in town three days — lot a was but that long enough fur to happen Rilla was He saw Rilla Mabry! standing near the door— and she She was looking at Shane Tennant never knew how much her face she was thinking what showed noticed— but No one else about Durant being new took in the sit- - By THYRA On the second day of his visit Durant made his remarkable statement He declared to anyone who would listen to him that Rilla Mabry was by far and away the best looking girl in town One of the best looking girls he’d ever seen Rilla had never had a complShe iment about her looks before had always been shy and often miserable about her appearance And here the first authority on beauty who had ever been in town acclaimed her as the prize told her himself When Durant what he thought of her she was She managed filled with confusion to stammey her thanks And later very shyly she went up to him “I do wish you’d tell me how I can look better” she said “I’m not suited for the task of he told her “but maybe If we got together—” They got together the next morning Durant came to Rilla’s house and with Rilla’s mother acting as helper they did things to Rilla and made her Durant clothes Rilla’s stand up straight And rearranged her hair And told her what was wrong with the clothes she wore That night there was a dance for Durant— his last evening in town And as he had thought when he started things Rilla was for the Note of scale 20 Mimic 21 By 23 City of Chaldea 24 To contradict 26 Twelve dozen 51 Malt beverage Chief Shoshoncan Indian 52 56 56 57 Origin and development of the mind Withered Snakelike fish Pack of cards Vertical Persian 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 poet Motherly Before Compass point Maxim Always Born Colloquial: paid notice Rilla 20 22 25 26 27 28 29 Meadow Reference To burn Incentive Infrequent To aid Tow ard Heron Projecting arm of crane a 42 44 45 46 48 Comfort Wise man Pertaining 50 51 to hearing Piece of office furniture God of war Anwtr 53 54 Fish eggs To avail oneself of Symbol for cerium Man s nickname Fle Drawingroom Chalice troughhke box Confederate general 33 To embrace 34 Let it stand 36 Gaiety 37 Mermaid 39 Artificial language 40 Mannequin 41 Leaps on one foot fir Ik ski Yrila Ik taunt Partes ktd &&r before! t f Mabry June Mrs Slocomb Housewife BRANDS rr'Qj says: you looking at turn 31 Serlea tb r A fe a- f£ cn& THE NO LIKE camel!' f r w Simplicity Con )e m Bfflw We iovJ§I tyt ftian 0 U f JlRLS us 10 ®0WS WSjS?S®i BIG ? 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And to think that 1 was the cause!” He preened a little “Yes you were” said Rilla “It was very funny now when you look back on it There I was gomg with Pat Redding and in love with Shane And lernuly ill at ease and awkward And you came down and said I was a beauty —so automatically I became a beauty And the boys all rushed me And mained ‘Shane” ‘Wonderfull” said Durant And he beamed "How are ydu getting along now'” he asked as an after- thought “That’s the catch” said Rilla “You shouldn’t have asked “Shane and I married — and didn't get along any too well Though I was awfully happy in the beginning The Tennants lost all of their money in the depression— and my family had its money in the Teso our nnant bank by that time money went too Then Shane fell in love with a chorus girL I got s divorce of course I’ve been teaching in a girl'i school for the past three Knew LEARNED l 4$' ' DURING CIGARETTE SHORTAGE WARTIME Durant didn’t remember her “I’m Rilla Tennant — I was Rilla Mabry when you knew me You came to my home town and— and sort of made my life over Remember now?” “Of course I do” said Durant “I remember very weU’’ “You did a wonderful job!” said There was a curious note in RiUa her voice he didn’t understand “You married the boy you were in love with I see His name was Tennant wasn’t it?’’ “Why yes” said Rilla “But how did you remember the name' And bow did you know I was in love with him?" “I’m good at names And saw Alchemists 9 10 11 16 17 like' say: Bia Champions Jana Noma li “Maybe” said Rilla “You can Patrick never telL Love goes Redding took over his father'a grocery store— and married the cutest girl in town They have three chiAnd oh ldren and are very happy an ambitious yes he developed streak and started a chain of grocery stores Now he’s the richest and most important man in town” fruit dealings life love” a wheel 47 49 uneventful “That's too bad!” said Durant and began to feel inflated “But maybe that was better than marrying that other boy whom you didn't Wrath To hasten 50 To be sick 38 Place of barter 33 Nave of Pronoun Conjunction Type Hypothetical force Cereal grass Commercial her years” 28 29 33 40 41 43 44 45 Steps In treatment of many dogs’ disease! la given in our Weekly NewCover Service booklet No 78 spaper diet housebreaking teaching tricks etc Send 25 cents (coin) for ‘'How to Raise and Train Your Dog” to Weekly Service 241 West 17tb St New Print name addresi York 11 N Y booklet title and No 78 MANY That night for the first time in was belle of the ball 19 Former Justice Neat Bearing If your ble Gum along with 80f and we "EXPERIENCE IS THE BESTTEACHER! 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