Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-01

few minutes of silence. he began rather
awkwardly, and David Arnold Duke
was not usually awkward:
"Carol, you'll think I'm cad to say
what I'm going TO, after doing what
| have Just done, but I'll have to risk
That. You shouldn't let men kiss you
1t Isn't right. You're too pretty and
sweet and fine for IT. know you don't
allow 1t, commonly. but don't at all.
hate TO think OF anyone even touching
Il girl like you"
Carol leaned forward, fitting back
her head, and looking up ut him
roguishly. her face a-sparkle.
He blushcd more deeply. "Oh,
know It," he said. "Tm ashamed OF
myself. But | can't help what you
think Of me. / do think you shouldn't
let them, and hope you won't. They're
sure to want to-"
"Yes," she said quietly very grown
up indeed just then, Eyes, they do
Aren't men funny? They always want
to. Sometimes we hear old women
say, Men are all alike ] never be-
lleve 1t. | hate old women who say It,
But-are they all alike, professor"
"No," he said grimly, "they are not
BIT ! suppose any man would like "a
kiss n girl as sweet as you are. But
men are not all alike. Don't you be-
lleve 1t. You won't, then, will your
"A, ont believe It? No"
81 mean," he said, almost stammer-
ing in his confusion, ~ mean you
won't let them touch you"
Carol smiled teasingly, but in n mo-
ment she spoke, and very quietly
"Pfessor, I'll tell you n blood-red Sc
ret IL you swear up and down you'll
never tell anybody. I've never told
Lark--well, one night, when 1 was Il
sophomore-do you remember Bud
GarvlnT
"Yes. the tall fellow with black hair
and eyes, wasn't he? In the fresh
man zoology class"
"Yes. Well. he took me home from
Il party. And Bud. well-he put his
arm around me, and-maybe you don't
know 1t, professor, but there's big
difference In girls, too. Now some girls
are naturally good. Prudence Is, and
SOS Lark. But Fairy and well
we've got lot of the original Adam
In us. Buds rather nice and | LEI
him-oh, just little, but II made me
nervous and excited. But l liked it
Prudence was away, and l hated to
talk to Lark that night, so I sneaked
in Fairy's room and asked If | might
sleep with her. She said l could, and
told me 10 turn on the light, II wouldn't
disturb her. But / was so hot | didn't
want any light. so l undressed as fast
rs l could and crept in. Somehow
from the way l snuggled up to Fairy
she caught on. ! was out of breath
really l was ashamed of myself but
| wasn't Just sure then whether I'd
ever let him put his arm around me
again or not. Put Fairy turned over,
and began to talk.
"She said that once, when she was
fifteen, one of the boys Mt ExmlnSter
! kissed her good night. And she didn't
mind ii bit. But father was putting
the horses In the barn, and he came
out just in time TO see IT,; 1t was n
moonlight night. After the boys had
gone, father hurried and took Fairy
indoors for little talk, just the two
of them alone. He said that In all the
years he ana my mother were married,
every time he Kissed her he rcmCm-
bered that no man but he had ever
touched her lips, aud it made him hap
4. I q
thanking God inside, whenever he held
her In his arms. He said nothing else
in the world made man so proud, and
glad and grateful, as 10 know his wife
was all his own, and that even her lips
had been reserved for him like sa-
share. lie said II would take the
mCancst man on earth, ana father
thinks there aren't many as moan as
that, to 20 back on woman like that.
Fairy said she hurst out CRYING be-
cause her husband wouldn't ever be
able TO feel that way when he kissed
her. But father said since she was so
young and innocent, and II being the
first time, IL wouldn't really count.
Fairy swore Off that mlnute-novcr
again! OF course, when | knew how
father felt about mother, | wanted my
husband to have as much pleasure In
me ms father did in her, and Fairy and
made solemn resolve that we would
never, even hold hands and that's
very simple, until we got crazy enough
about man TO think we'd like to
marry him If we got Il chance. And /
never have since then, not once"
Carol" he said in low voice, II
wish | had known IT. l wouldn't have
kissed you for anything. God knows
| wouldn't, II think am man enough
not TO have done 1t anyhow If | had
only thought minute, but God knows