Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1936 — Page 15

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Because I wanfed to say good-night and good-by.

HE town clock, raising its light- | their rendezvous ‘and had gone away. She almost ran back. a face fa ae sold maos; When she arrived everything was grunted and whirred and its mam- | ,o care ag it was when she had THE DREAM moth bell thudded down in a single | Jeft. People were still hurrying past. BOOK. = stroke. And there was no Bill. Now, she was ; “Clang.” mad because he hadn't arrived. It 1936 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. 7. : just went to show what he really Betty Barth, blond, tall, just now thought of her, no matter what he flery-eyed and tight-lipped, walked | tgld her when he had his arms

to the curb at Third and Vine, |around her. He just didnt care| FRECKLES AND HIS F RIENDS— 5 : Fy : : —By Blosser

looked up and down the dark but|about her. She thought of the

Srowied eh Shared up at oe humiliation he was making ner on. Yr E A clock an en turned and walked | dergo at that very moment. el BW . < from the curb to the corner of the |took up a new position against the § HEY, COME BACK drug store and turned again and |wall of the drug store, quite a ways HERE, You THIER... walked back to the curb. back from the corner, and watched You vou She stood there tapping her feet the people passing her. sey sore

1 against the sidewalk. She gla Two girls were coming toward her. b, R A I oe at the clock again. : glanced As they came within hearing dis- M UDER

he first one say: | |%. mr ~Half past nine!” she said to her- es pa re know vot self, “and he’s not even in sight. | stood for from that bum. He'd 7%. And that adds me up as the world’s | break dates and I'd wait for him prize dumbbell. Keeping me wait- | for hours. Well, I was a sap. I ing a half hour on the busiest street admit it now. And I also admit that in town. And then, standing me] might be one to this minute. But up. Say! He must think I'm ga sap. | jast Tuesday he hung me up so I And is he right or is he right? Cer- | went looking for the reason. And tainly I'm a sap! what do you think I found, Mame? “I've given that big dumb animal | No. Don’t tell me because I think the best year of my life. And what | maybe you know the answer.” does he do for it? He stands me #8 #8 =n

\ up on every street corner in the| O. T don't, Hazel” the other fi Ty F > So | e ¥ I He 7" city. Just like a lamp post. And| 32 Cont did vou ind?” | AY ; = ) > J : Ih \g oe 6 AEX skavice, inc. Wo we're only engaged. I suppose when girl said. “What did you ? : , .

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‘h : > 1 SOWell, we're 10t Boing 1a bo rear. | him out with another woman. And | WASHINGTON TUBBS II ried. That's that. Unless he’s here | Was she frowzy! Whatever he could : : i ; in three minutes—Oh, give him five see in her! I had a good mind to WANT ME TU IT OVER TO THE DID YOU HEAR. THE NEWS | SURE, ( THAT AIN'T THE HALF OF Iv, SON. (STRUCK OIL. 12,000-BARREL WELL. A GUSHER) 3 Ww AIN'T THAT TOUGH? IF HE HADN'T DIED, HE'D OF Z\ S| |. BIN A MILLIONARE — :

minutes. I've given him a year al-| Walk up and give him a piece of my , ON YOUR WAY ABOUT JEFF PICKET, EASYZ JHE THEY JUST STRUCK. OIL ON veady. I can spare him five min. | mind. But then I thought to myself, 10 Jake Rips ZEN Jour ’ AE or utes more. But that's his last why should Ido such a thing? Why TO THE BANK? JEFF PICKET=- HIS PERSONAL 2 ' . chance. If he isn't here then, he's | should I forget\I'm a lady just be- : AFFAIRS, ENEMIES AND out of my life for good. I'll break | cause he didn't appreciate one when : FAMILY, : our engagement. So nelp me—— | he had me. So I didn’t say anything. “That kind of thing was all right | I just went home. But did I give in the good old days when men |that ape the air!” were men and women were just| That little story, overheard in the : - rags and bones and hanks of hair. | night, had offered her another and LIVERY STABLE My! The good times our fathers | quite convincing explanation of why : ‘must have had! They could do| Bill had kept her waiting there in anything to women. They could | the chill cold night air. ; stand them up on street ccrners or| Of course! Bill was out with anleave them home while they went {other woman. . Some: cheap thing + out and got drunk. he’d picked up. Some woman with oa a rolling eye and low morals. Bill : was so conceited. He thought every “RUT that’s all over now. Women | woman who happened to glance at : : AH By have changed. Woman's place | him was in love with him. He 2 ; Lo : {|

is no longer at the washboard or in | thought he could have any woman : the kitchen. It’s in the office with |he Co Fon to have. This often ’ 0 © §:1936 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REC. U. SPAT. OFF. the man. She's just as good as he is | amused her. But it didn’t tonight. aren . a) before the law nd, if Jou ask ie, It hit her hard becqtise. pens cona darn sight better everywhere else. |ceited that way, Bill' would prove Walt till Bill does arrive. I'l tell |easy prey for any designing female | ALLEY OOP him something!” who threw an eye at him. — yi rae CA are | hurried past her bound on| And women would look 2 Ei (so YOU WANT MY HOME IS NOT VERY . Wi fe WELL, FOLKS - ousands of errands. invitingly because he was big and : . J : : ih ! K “I wonder,” Betty said to herself, | good ir: in a soft, goofy way. FAR FROM HERE-BUT SEEIN j AI HERE WE ARE... WHY, ALLEY, “where all these people are going, |So that’s what he had done! ; , HOw DO YOU WHAT A How many of Wiese Nomen passing EE : ’ L : i A PERFECTLY me are going through life letting ir : ! : 1 some man make a goof out of them? ELL, no matter what or how ’ : BEA kre. 1 suppose only a few. Only about 10 he and that other woman did, : : A : ‘IM ? : : R out of every 100. Women have| he certainly had thrown her, Betty, A : 22 " changed. Oh, what is keeping Bill?” | over. : ane The siren of an ambulance shrieked | “Another woman!” she muttered : down the street and came rushing | to herself through tight-shut teeth. toward her. The traffic cop shrilled | “Why, the dirty Well, I'm . his whistle and became very busy | going! Ill call him up and tell stilling the traffic. = | him to come and get his ring. And “Pull over there,” he ordered. “Pull | when he comes, I'll say to him: over!” “‘Listen, you—you two-timing The ambulance flew up the street | numskull. Here's your ring. I and a sudden thought stiffened her | give you my love. And what do you as though some one had hit her | do? You rat! You stand me up on with a club. the town’s busiest corner while you “Oh, my God!” she said. “Maybe | tell some other sappy dame how

it’s Bill! I. know it's Bill! Hit by a truck or a hit-and-run driver while he was on his way to meet me. And here I was doubting him!” A sudden determination seized her. “I'm going to see!” she told herself. “No,” she said after an instants hesitation. “No, I'd better not. Maybe it isn’t ‘Bill. And maybe he'd come while I was away.” 2 #® "

HE leaned over and looked after : the ambulance. She saw it swing to the curb about a block and a half away and come to a stop. Suddenly she had to know. She started to walk toward it and her steps quickened. Soon she was al‘most running. - As she reached the ambulance, a man, one of those officious volunteer announcers who miraculously appear at every accident scene was giving out his gratuitous information. “They're putting it in the ambulance now,” he said. “See? The cop . and the orderly. Hey, move over there. Let me through.”

other traffic policeman saying: ~ . “All right. Hurry up there. Come ‘on with that car.”

good you are. Well, there’s the door! Open it before you go out. But don’t wait or I'll have my father throw you through it without opening it at all.’ . “And I'll stick to it. Because I don't love him any more. I hate him! I wouldn’t care if I never saw him again! I wouldn’t care if—" “Hy, Baby!” “Oh, so it’s you, is it?” she said sarcastically. “Well, I'm glad you arrived at last. Because I wanted to ‘say good night—and good-by!” “Hey!” Bill demanded. “What's the idea of the high hat? And what's the idea of waiting here . when: I said to meet me at Fourth and Vine?” ;

“NH Bill” Betty wearily pro-

Pu sides, it insults my intelligence “Pardon me!” Bill's voice was icy

with angry sarcasm. “But I didn’t |

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