The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-09-18
His Attention Was Directed to Two Pearls Young
Planted Directly Across

far as saying to Raymond, after he
didn't get to be Captain, that he
would have all right if Edna hadn't
queered him by going to the Super
intendent and some of the Boys
and shooting off her Mouth and get
ting everybody sore at her. All of
Which was Pack of Lies, becuz
Edna never opened her Face about
Basketball unless she was asked
and then said, in a Nice Way, that
she hoped Raymond would be Cap
tain.
Probably Raymond was a Goner
unless somebody could get to him
an6 give him the Low-Down and
Inside on the Trouble-Maker, becux,
say what you will, Raymond wasn't
such Bad Scout. Just weak, that's
all. Claudine had sewed Buttons
on him becuz the Simp believed
everything she passed out to him
right or wrong.
Sooner or later he would find out
what she had told Mr.. Finch, who
ran the Picture Show. 1t seems
that she had been waiting out IN
Front for the Poor Egg to show up
and take her in to see "Unprotect-
co Women" and Mr.. Finch, in a
joshing Way, started to kid her
about Raymond and she said that
he was nothing in her Young Life
but she couldn't give him the AIR
becuz he was Nuts about her and
tagging at her Heels every Minute.
Those were the very identical
Words she had used, becuz Mr..
Finch had told Mrs. Finch, who
had impaired the Big Sensation to
Alberta Wilcox.
SWIPING THE OLD GREEK
BADGE
The very Idea of her saying that
Raymond had been chasing her
when everybody in Town knew that
she had been making Googy-Eyes
at him for Year and doing lot
OF other things that no Girl who
had been well brought up would
think of doing. For one Thing. he
couldn't back the Car out of the
Garage without her being on the
Corner, all diked up like a Horse
and Buggy to flag him.
us funny where they went rid
ing at Night. Her mother didn't
seem to have the slightest Control
over her. She could get away with
all that Murder for a While but
sooner or later she would get such
Hard Name that she wouldn't be
able to break into a Public Dance
with a letter Of Introduction from
Herbert Hoover.
Raymond wasn't such a Goose
he'd remember what she pulled on
George Spelvin while he was home
from the Academy. She told around
that he gave her the Frat Pin, but
II was purity well known that she
just the same as swiped it and then
gave him the Old One about losing
1t, which is awful Coarse Work. II
anyone should ask. Kit Lawrence
had told Fife Dusenberry that che
knew Claudine still had the Badge.
II that didn't make a Thief out of
her, what would you call it? l ask
you.
AS for having a Chance to 90 to
Hollywood and be in a Picture. all
that Chatter just proved that she
was Crazy in the Head. Somebody
had told her she looked like Nancy
Carroll and since then there had
been no living with her.
1t seemed that the Future of the
Universe was now Ringing on the
Junior Prom. She (Claudine) had
been buying Things and Telling
around that Raymond was going TO
take her, but Edna and Blanche
said, wouldn't it be q Good Joke
If he gave her the Toss?
While further Plans for saving
the much-to-be-desired Raymond
were on the Fire, the Traveller had
to alight and he may never know
what happened to the Eternal TrI-
angle.
MORAL: Suffering in Silence has
become Lost Art.