RANSVESTIA

I couldn't find the use of my tongue, and solemnly nodded my head in the affirmative.

Turning back to Debby, he stammered out. . . "You mean you have been keeping company with this boy all along, and he has been dressing as a girl to deceive me? How could you do such a thing to me?" His an- ger was returning.

"Just a minute daddy!" she cut in. "When you forbad us to go together Gene walked away. I figured out this ruse to continue to see him. I love him. I'm going to marry him as soon as we both graduate from college. If anybody is to blame it is you for trying to pick me out a husband.”

"What I said to you then still goes you are not going to marry this boy. With a college education he is still the son of a sharecropper. I'm not going to have it!"

At this Debby stood in front of him, and with her hands firmly planted on her hips he said: "You listen to me you overbearing tyrant... you get your way with everything . . . or you have. But this is one time I am not going to knuckle down and obey you. I'm going to go with Gene White . I'm going to marry Gene White and you are not going to stop me."

He began to get ever paler, as she spouted at him. He tried to speak and she cut him off . . . “I mean it daddy. I'm not interested in any other boy. If you won't let us go together, I'll leave home and we'll go some- where together. You'll never see me again."

I was feeling better already. I didn't know that my girl had this much nerve. She wasn't the least bit afraid of him and I was!

For a few minutes he sat in silence . "I suppose," he answered, "that you have been intimate with him already?”

She didn't hesitate . . . "I'm not going to lie to you yes, we have been, twice... but it wasn't at his urging. He always tried to stop me, but I took the aggressive part. He has been perfectly nice to me. Not once has he tried to get me to do it. I'm the one who is to blame for that.”

I tried to speak up and shoulder some of the blame but she motioned for me to be silent. "We only wanted to be together, and we couldn't any other way. I thought of this, and persuaded him, and helped him fool you all."