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YOU'RE HANGING YOURSELF? WHY?
AW.NOBODY WANTS A^. LITTLE GUY LIKE ME!
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By BUD FISHER
WELL,THAT'S NO WAY
-TO HANG YOURSELF! WHY DON'T YOU TIE THE ROPE AROUND, YOUR NECK?
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VICIOUS CIRCLE
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Bill
Bill Tipton had a feeling that the had the resources to make theirs girl expected him to kiss her. On the usually enjoyable. But to-night heels of this came a warning that if looked forward to nothing but a miser- he did kiss her she would be disgusted. able evening of not kissing Elma. This frightened him. More than any- There were about sixteen people at hamburgs thing else, he wanted her respect. Ho the party. They cooked didn't want to ruin this feeling of and hot dogs over an open fire on the mutual admiration which now existed beach in front of the Nasons'. cottage. between them.
Then they sat around and sang and Her name was Elma Riche, and told stories until the moon came up. the Nasons' Aubrey Rollins had introduced them Then they went up to at Aubrey's house party. They had house and dressed for swimming, been attracted to each other from the The fire was almost out when Bill first, and thereafter each had been came back to the beach. He was wear- ing his swimming trunks and was
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She was spending the summer with alone.. His bare feet made no sound her folks down at Boulder Point. This in the sand. The beach was deserted fact delighted Bill, for Bill, as usual, save for a couple who stood over near had come to Racer Beach with his own the boat house. Bill glanced at them folks. The two villages were only idly, They hadn't yet dressed for three miles apart.
swimming, had apparently lingered He didn't want to appear too eager, behind for a few moments alone. They so he waited five days before he call were, Bill saw enviously, making the ed her and asked her to go dancing most of those few moments. with a party at the Surf Pavilion. All Then suddenly the girl laughed, and knew that during that eveing Bill had the feeling Bill's blood froze. He whenever they were alone, that she laugh, and as he looked up quickly he
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expected to be kissed, and he valiantly recognized not only Elma, but Avery determined not to try. He knew that Nason. As he watched, Avery reached. girls who accepted a man's invitation out and Elma came into his arms. to go out usually expected to have to . For a moment Bill watched in stun- pay a sort of toll for the evening's, ned silence. Then a wave of uncon- entertainnment.
trollable devastating fury possessed
So he did not attempt to kiss her him. With a throaty cry that smacked that night at the pavilion, and he was of insanity he threw the towel he was aware of a faint glow of satisfaction carrying into the air and charged like and grateful. After that first night there a maddened bull. were many others, and Bill did not so He saw the couple leap apart, turn much as hold her hand. It gave him a alarmed faces toward him. He heard Then sense of superiority, a sort of mar- Avery swear and Elma scream. tyrish feeling.
he leaped at Avery's throat.
and Bill But as the days passed Bill became But Avery side-stepped
went faintly troubled. He had decided some- tripped over something and time ago that he had fallen in love sprawling. The fall partly stunned with Elma Riche. He wanted her him. When finally he sat up, Avery more than he ever wanted anything. had gone. He could ear Avery laugh- Without her he would never be hap- ing in the distance. Elma had drop- Py And now he was confronted by ped to her knees beside him. the fact that some day soon he was "I'm going to kill him!" Bill said going to tell her so, seizing her in his quietly. "And you too." arms and kissing fiercely and passign- Elma laughed, a strange sort of joy-. ately without regard for his fine re- ous laugh. "You goose! Avery's my solutions or her possible reaction. uncle. We've been waiting out here This bothered. him. Suppose when for fifteen minutes for you to appear so he revealed this, human and weak side he could kiss me for your benefit. My well, of his nature she should resent it? goodness, I had begun to think, - Suppose it destroyed the splendid feel anyway, I wanted you to know."
Dear Bill blinked.
heaven. he ing of admiration she now felt towards him? It was quite likely that it thought, if the others will only stay up would, for, he knew, she had come to there at the house five minutes longer! regard him as a sort of superman be- (Released by The Associated New- cause he never yielded to his instinctive spapers); Impulses.
Bill brooded over the situation. It made him unhappy. It kept him awake nights. It robbed him of appetite and the ability to enjoy things that any young and healthy youth should en- joy. He was in love. He had the respect and admiration of the girl he loved. Yet if he gave evidence of his love he would lose the respect and ad! amiration which he felt was necessary. to happy uniona. For the first time in his life Bill gave some thought to the meaning of the expression; "vici- ous circle.'
Another week passed and Bill and Elma were invited to attend a beach party given by the Avery Nasons, Bill had known the Avery Nasons for 8 year. They were a happily married, attractive couple in their early thir ties. Both of them had known. Elma before Elma came with her folks, to Boulder Point":
| ir Ordinarily Bill would have looked ard to the party, Beach parties always a lot of fun. The Nasons
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