Show bobby and his hia choice I 1 by JANE OSBORN copyright 0 ought to do something ass u about bobby sighed hla his elder later slated as she ruefully regarded the much discussed young mail swaggering down tier her tiri really cully Il at twenty five lie ought to show noine moine signs of 11 leading ll g down now his drivers license lill hasteen has been taken anway for reckless driving really Ilen lly someone cono ought to do r about lilia t the other brother ned happened to be the only other occupant of the broad ver so BO lie he assumed d that tile the remarks were addressed to him somebody ought to do something about bbb all I 1 hear everyone Evo J says saye it and no one does anything of course I 1 cant do anything ile he bever did have any respect for cor ut advice ivice but ned decided that while lie he himself could do nothing to reform bobby somebody could some boine nice attractive animated young girl for instance maybe one reason bobby had spent so ho much time sowing wild olits oats wits was because things at home had been too tanie tame now if lie ned could produce pio lot let us say a rich r red N d wild rose lose that would satisfy bobby and at the same time cure him of his taste for wild oats ned drove rapidly along toward the country club a place that seemed to him roost most likely to te yield the sort eort of red wild rose rosa lie he was lit in need of hed find soine bome eminently sensible girl very attractive and fond of a good time and he would contrive to throw her in at the country club he saw sally drew sully sally was dark and slender and wonderfully graceful ned had met her once or twice before lie ile ard never thought much about her but now he realized that she possessed decided magnetism ile he contrived to talk to her but found himself unexpectedly j shy about abou tit it so ned decided to enlist his sisters help that night lie he told tier ser of his plan slid and suggested sally why in the world pick sally she exclaimed hobby bobby needs dionie ome big girl with ra a square jaw and a strong fast 1st no other sort of girl could handle him yi then snapped ned lie wont be handled no roan man likes that type of girl least of all a fellow like bob A girl like that would try to reform him now sally approve of tile the way bob behaves and lied hed realize that hed have to buck up without being told to ned had to manage with only halfhearted co operation from froin his sister burjust but just when they lind had launched their campaign find and hid had contil cont ved to io get sally to spend a weekend week end with them tit at their mountain lodge then it was that the arrant dobby seemed to bo be possessed with a renewed zeal for uncultivated 11 n oats and kept to himself hint self practically y the entire time that sally was ns at the lodge meantime ned became increasingly preoccupied chagrin chagi in over the failure of his hig plan added to the anxiety he felt over oer his brothers preoccupation n then came another reason for distress lie ile came rather suddenly to the realization that he himself was intensely in love with sally it was hopeless of course this infatuation but lie he was waa possessed with increasing desire to see what she would say and how she would look when he confessed his pas sion lion for her the confession finally came one afternoon on the broad veranda sally said she had no one to play with and and come to see neds sister butners but neds sister was out sally told ned that she elie felt that lie he wits was preoccupied about something and ned told her that he was concerned over his brother the audacious sally reached over from her chair and took one of neds trong strong hands in hera berm ned at the time leaning against the railing of the veranda bent over sallys hand anit and kissed it so solemnly that sully sally giggled a little then he stin stammered out its his concern over lils his brother and after that he told tier her mournfully of his own hopeless love for her lie ile had arrived at that point in hla his confession when the heartless sally jumped up from hev her chair released her hund hand that ned was still holding and down tile the driveway there was bobby walk ing up to the house with a woman be aldo ald min bob was not short but this strapping girl was obviously taller than thai he nedway ned waa struck by the strong set et of her jaw and the lie healthy althy glow of her face beside this young amazon bobby seemed for the first time in hla his life to look rather cut cal low leiv and stripling ned began bobby with m much uch embarrassment barras 1 I want to present you to my wife ned this Is inglus kier oil hang it all ali not Miss keeler nw now it its roy my wife jane and then after brief embarrassed joyous bob told neil ned and sally that tile tho girl of ills his choice was wa a settlement house worker jane Is going to reform me laughed bobby im sure shell be able to if could observed sally then the bride and bridegroom went indoors and sally looked archly at ned what were you saying when they interrupted us its ae i he asked 1 I wits was saying said ned pressing pressia pres sim sallys nind hand again to hla his lips that 1 I 1 lovo love you desperately 11 and I 1 love you too sally |