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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1957)
Learn The Truth About THE CATHOLIC CHURCH By Mail.,. At No Cost! Will the child who did it please stand up?" Miss Dilly waited. She looked out at the leaden sky, the dripping trees. No one stood up. It was Robert, she was sure of it. . "You will stay after school, Robert," she said suddenly. He ducked his head. The redness in his face reached his blond hair. He had broken her vase. He would have to admit it. After all, it was a matter of principle. He might as well learn that now. yyr three o'clock, Miss Dilly led her orderly group into the hall. The clang of the bell meant liberation, and the children knew it. She kept them in line to the outside door and watched them break formation to race home. Back in her room, Miss Dilly closed the door firmly and went to her desk. "Robert, come up here." He came, slowly, shuffling. "Robert," she said severely. "I insist on the truth. Did you break my vase?" He looked as if he might cry, and his voice was un steady. "No, Miss Dilly." "Why don't you tell the truth?" she persisted. "I didn't do it," he protested sturdily, but she saw the sud den trembling of his lower lip, the brightness of his eyes. "Do you know who did break it?" she questioned. He was looking down at his shoes. "No, ma'am." Miss Dilly sighed. Sudden ly, a feeling of utter failure swept over her. She could not reach this stubborn child. "All right, Robert, you may go home now." He raised his head and stared silently at her for a long moment. Then his words jumped at her, in a childish, jerky treble. "You don't believe me, do you, Miss Dilly?" He turned and ran out of the room, and Miss Dilly watched him go. The slam ming of the door echoed loud ly in the deserted hall. Anger bubbled up in her, and yet there was another, stranger feeling. The words hadn't mattered so much, it was the accusing tone, the deep look of injustice on his face. She kept seeing it. Miss Dilly stood up, then wearily leaned down and picked up the shining crystal pieces and put them in the basket. She walked to the closet, to get her coat. It was still wet, and she sniffed the damp wool distastefully. She sat down abruptly on the first small desk, still hold ing her coat. How long ago had it been? She hadn't been any older than Robert. Sud denly, in one brief moment, the years sped backwards. The whole scene, the old feel ing, leaped alive for her. How proud and self-conscious she had been when the fourth-grade teacher had "borrowed" her from the sec ond grade. She stood straight shouldered and tense against the blackboard in a spelldown with the older children, and she had won. Back again in her own room, she looked eagerly to her own teacher, Miss Bates, for approval. But Miss Bates had her back turned and didn't see her. She slipped into her seat and opened her book. Miss Bates swooped down the aisle behind her, her voice loud with scorn. "Ann Dilly! For shame! Cheating during a test!" Little Ann Dilly had pro tested. "But ... I just . . ." "Leave your seat and go to the cloak room," Miss Bates interrupted firmly. "We do not like children who cheat." It had been raining that day, too, and Ann Dilly pressed her face against the wet wool coats to muffle the sound of her crying ... to soothe her hot face ... to quiet the deep, angry feeling of injustice. Miss Bates had not seen her come back into the room, and had never let her explain she had not known a test was in progress. Against Miss Bates' anger, little Ann Dilly had never been able to find the words to make her believe she had not cheated. "Robert." Miss Dilly moved her lips soundlessly. "Robert!" Quickly, she put on her coat and ran down the hall, out into the rain. Ahead, she saw a small blue-clad figure trudging slowly. She hurried after him, through the rain. She caught up with him and laid her hand gently on his shoulder. Robert looked up at her, his tear-streaked face startled. 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