Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-09-05
The Right Girl
BY MARGARETTA BRUCKER
@ Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
&XAHEN the time comes I'll pick
wv the right girl" Don Farrell had

"WHEN the time comes I'm pick
said. You'll see"
Don had come to Gainesville on a
government engineering job. He was
a tall goose Iimbed fellow with deep
set gray eyes, and an infectious smile.
He hao made the quoted remark on
his first day in Gatesville. Bob Haines
had just told him he'd better watch
out for his heart for we had the pref
test crop of girls south of the Mason
and Dixon line.
Don had just grinned-picked up his
grip and asked: (which way to the
best boarding house?"
"Mrs. Ann Nelson's over on Myrtle
street." Bob had replied. Then he'd
winked at the fellows standing about
the soda bar in the drug store. What
Won bet you'll start picking that girl
before you're "a hours older?"
"rm pretty hard to suit" Don had
called back over his shoulder.
"Wait It'll he meets the Nelson
twins" Bob had said then. wonder
WHICH one he ii Idll IOT
Don hadn't been in Gainesville two
days when he had them both down to
the drug store and 1t didn't take half
an eye to see that he was falling
fast but which one? that was
the puzzler.
Carrie Lou and Emmy Lou were
their names and when their own moth
er couldn't tell them apart how was
a long-legged Yankee going to come
to any decision? He had the whole
town wondering.
There's no romance can get under
got to drop out. One of the twins
had to be disqualified. Evidently the
strain began to tell for gossip had it
that the girls were swapping at each
other. Two weeks after Don's first
appearance he turned up at the drug
store one evening with one twin :.
but which one? D
Bets began to run high around the
soda bar.
From betting on Don the whole
community started betting on the twins
They'd flirted before, with fellows from
Georgia to the Mississippi basin and
never had had a heart flutter. Now
this gangling Yankee engineer had
sunk them both.
Then one afternoon a man from the
T. V. I. drifted into town and said
something about Don's wife. Say
that burst the town wide open. 1t was
about four O'Clock in the afternoon
when the twins came into the drug
store Both were in white-just their
belts different. one blue and one red.
The preachers wife was in the store
buying catnip for that big Maltese tina,
always sits in her front window. She
marches right over to the girls.
There was man in here a minute
ago who said that young Mr.. Terrell
has a wife," she says. The preachers
wife is all right but she feels it her
duty TO look after the morals of the
young
If Don hadn't followed right at her
heels it wouldn't have been so dra-
matte. AS it was it knocked all the
home talent shows in Gatesville right
into a cooked hat. Don burst through
the screen. His eyes were almost
black. He came right over to where
the girls were sitting.
The preachers wife backed off but
the fellows around the soda bar stuck
and stared and figured that all that
money they'd bet on the twins was as
good as gone.
One of the twins was beating a reg
ular tattoo on the floor with her slipper
and the other was fiddling with soda
straw and breaking it into little pieces
guess they felt pretty queer.
"What have you heard?' Don de-
manded. He didn't sit down. He stood
leaning across the table and his glance
included both the twins. His long
brown fingers gripped the edge of the
table,
"That you were married." said one.
She said it quiet-like, but there was a
lot behind her tone. Some folks don't
show their emotion by being noisy.
The other twin did. She said: "Yes.
that you were married" Her
voice was thin and sharp. SIS it
true?" she demanded.
Eyes, it's true"
The one with the blue belt who had
spoken first opened her lips, closed
them and sank back into her chair.
The soda straw was torn to chaff and
lay scattered about the chocolate soda
which she hadn't tasted. The twin
in the red belt burst into regular tor
rent of abuse. She told Don what she
thought Of him #. what she thought
Of all Yankees well /. Fl. it
was almost as if she'd stripped off her
clothes and stood there naked. Most
of the fellows skunk out of the store
ashamed for her. Being the soda
'jerker had to stick.
Finally the twin in the blue belt be-
gan to cry. Dan stepped right around