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THE TROUBLE 15, ALVIN, YOUR UNCLE DOESN'T KNOW HIS OWN STRENGTH!

By MARY K. MOORE

CAST OF CHARACTERS ANNE NORRIS—Wealthy college student, looking for thrills, enrolls in CAA flying course. GEORGETTE PARKER—Anne’s friend. Learning to fly is a serious business with her. TONY SCOTT-—College playboy, son of a gangster, envies Anne's social position. CAPT. DICK DOUGLAS—Instructor of the student flying course at Midland - University.

YESTERDAY-—The girl at the tavern ° calls Anne, urges her to warn Dick that Tony plans to tamper with his plane. Tony’s partner has talked. Anne rushes to the airport, finds two men working on the plane. As she hurries to call police, Tony rees her, knocks her unconscious.

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it was almost impossible to move. | ’ She started to call out, realized | BACK ¥ VAIL that a heavy cloth had been fast- | ened in her mouth, forced between | her teeth. In the next instant, she realized that her hands and her ankles were bound. There was a flash of incredulous horror, then her mind seemed to clear miraculously. She knew at once what had happened. Tony and his gunman, Jumps Daley, busy at the plane, had heard her trying to slip out of the hangar. One of J them had knocked her unconscious > X ited Pestute Sradicadt, Loc with a blow on her head, then she eo) - prune 2A . had been bound and gagged and : put in—where was she? ! As her strength returned, she! heard that same low, menacing oF E : murmur of voice. Tony's whispers, 4 N IN DEPISTOLIN' ROCKS, AND Daley's muttered answers. She must IA RB ZN A yy s THE CROOK, SHOTS AND still be in the hangar. Probably in a LANCER : ) 4% S RYDER! small supply closet o SXRD . 2 - VICK STOP. She strained herself to listen to X 1 \>¢ £2 IN N° x the voices outside. “How about the dame?” And Tony answered: “Don’t worry about her, she's all right. I've got| her tied up. Probably won't come to! for a while anyway.” Daley's voice demanding again, “How about afterward?” { And there was Tony's reply, “After | this guy takes off, I'll come back and get her. Don't worry, I'll take WE " = oe : a Ye care of her all right’ ARNETTE aw ; smc / : S ” / No pa Anne Norris felt again that ter-| PR ARR wildy W / - J iia OPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. WM. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF." rible, cold paralysis of fear. After ; i -_ y _. 1%¥2> takeoff—! And she was here, helpless, un- - > 2277, 22 7 able to move. A sob rose to her «My father was a barber, too— until he went nuts one day and carved | F I'LL WAIT A FEW : 7 Bo. 7 7 HELLO, VY UNCLE sLuGGo, throat. | up one of his customers.” YEARS AN’ DEN J 7 TL A, SLUGGO! J” Yi ye ——_— I'LL BE OLD ENOUGH . 2 > 7 AS SHE stood there, sick with FUNNY BUSINESS TO MARRY MISS

fear, she remembered some advice her uncle, Arnold Dwight, had once given her. “If youre ever in a tight spot, take a long breath, count five and relax. Then think what to do, and do it.” Perhaps there was still a way. She closed her eyes, counted slowly, somehow steadying herself. Then 2 % I ~ id she began trying to move her hands. > | 3 R _ 7 : ~ _ The ropes that held them were not Z ; tight, yet not loose enough for her to free herself. There was a knot that held them. There were a few hooks on the wall behind her, she could feel them against her back. If she could possibly reach them—! - ; f— Feeling her way carefully, she 7 | >’ 3 YOU SIMPLY FLY AROUND THE COUNTRY WELL, MY BOY, $50 A WEEK \ OM, pd WELL, BY GEORGE! HE'S DONE IT! worked the knot that held her CAA Z A / [= TAKING INDUSTRIAL PICTURES FOR MY DOES THAT BEAT | AND EXPENSES. | SENOR! ANOTHER HE'S ACTUALLY GOTTEN IN WITH THE Wrists against one oO the hock. c JX ) A 4 COMMERCIAL PILOT'S VOU ARE FLYING FOR SMOKE SURVEY, IF ANY QUESTIONS ARE WASHING DISHES | THINK OF IT! /'OW CAN MESSAGE FOREIGN ESPIONAGE AGENTS WORK: fastened in the wall. Slowly, vet - : S% {| [LICENSE EEN THEES MR. BLESSING ! NO || ASKED, JUS SAY YOU AREAN hyo FOR A LIVING? FROM £7 "NO WN THIS COUNTRY! surely, she was loosening it After dR J COUNTRY Ti AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER WII moments that seemed like hours. = RZ G / ON VACATION she felt it beginning to slip. With P a jerk that tore at the skin on her Z hands, she pulled herself free. ; J 7 i : / ro 2 . Free! The sense of relief that : ~——— ; ) oh (0 . . a Ih AR / 2 - swept through her was like a sud-| = ; 2 |

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Scott. | SAVING TIME 3 CENTRATE ON THIS w= «There's still a way. Leave things FIGHT «to me.” wioukg . < ‘ Yo Jue drew in a breath to call out, ANSWER: No. Thirty minutes in New Zealand and 20 on Africa's warn Dick of the menace that| S°ld coast.

waited for him in the shadows. He ‘ was walking, all unknowing, toward| Tony's answer. “You heard me.| be too late. A crash—no evidence.! / £0 the plane (Put ‘em up. That's better. Now— And there was no one who could | f= GN 3, = “Stick ‘em up, Douglas!” | start rolling out this baby and get | prevent disaster save herself! 4 R277 She must remain still, if she ready to take off. No funny busi-| All fears forgotten now, oblivious called out now, Tony or his gunman ness now—my friend is going tg of personal danger, Anne Norris] would shoot, unhesitatingly. She keep that gun right against your looked desperately about her for a heard Dick's voice, low and in-|ribs while you're doing it.” | weapon. credulous. That was it! They would force (To Be Continued) “What's going on here?” Dick to take off in the damaged

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