Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1936 — Page 14

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and all other spiteful Bobbs Neck- a / She was silent for some moments. anal) 0 a ON CARS! HE \

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(Marcia goes to the dramatic club try- | “Oh, heavens, so I did!” said Mar- | have always been open With its and is given the leading part in » |cia. “And I only thought I was be-|other, I m iW play. Afterward Marcia loses » |ing funny.” ably in, : “——and when your name was on | how om her friend. Helen Weadell. Mar- [the list of passengers missing on the | from you” 4 | | | i ides to go there. She shes the arst |Dlane from Chicago, Dorothy added | Marcia impulsively put her arms fl 5 HY “Wr Schenectady fo Chicago and spelled | about her friend. ' : | "Meanwhile Frank again disappears. | | out Prank Kendrick.” “It didn’t hurt me, Helen,” she HE) 1

_ Tony Stellicel suspects his brother, said. more than 0d , of being Involved in the holdup, nu 2 been aot aay It was Frank's | )

Bares maker sian. 1» sotarn home. ARCIA smiled ruefully. HOW| grouble here in Bobbs Neck that x the passengers is Bruce Me- could one explain the impulses | really hurt. And the trip did me Dougall. 5a sto af. the Lotencr 1 that drove irresistibly at critical mo- | ‘some good. It made me see that There » rm a e plane is _ s Boroed dows. Toe passengers seek shel. |Ments when only action, not| I hoa beth in, Jove. Hot wits |; : Rh ]

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Now Go ON Wire THE STORY. us 5 Sosa oui? Row wats he was. The idea was } ) CHAPTER TEN | Kendrick embezzlements that she| “This affair hasn't given me the \ I (| ; | : : . x thie storm refugees awak- | Nad excellent intentions in their traditional aching heart at all. And E. | 1] 8 | ¢ : Fi : "WV ined in the farmhouse on the | behalf, instead of only for herself? get we given Be 4 Shien, Pui XL : | oi ea . second morning following the un-|In heaven’s name, did they think think I Fave a talent or an apti-’ : { = iE Be | Toi Sale : . hecuied nding of tls plane, | she had rushed Out to Chicagt FC or uses. 1 suppose mar-| | === 3 Ba 3 ound that government a ) ) : . ee ~~ “1 114 act 50 at parties ; Ji ublic utility had combined to reinstatement in the defaulter’s | Hag® 18 FOS Savest faf Roth Lt | A ey es SofllWZ] }| | “Wellyou ca cxpec hem 1 preserve their dignity in alcohol”

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'm; telephone trouble shoot-|all the harder. Theyll say, ‘Ir| “Well, marrying is out, of [ers had repaired the wires. It wag [Marcia had only let some one elsc|course—and, as I sa d, there are

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ble to send word to anxious know, 2 might have ‘caught up |no Segtels on hat oe — Ii ; a tives, possible to go by car to 2’... You know, no one is | must #dmit eaves me feeling a ; ; - : mr ” i ——— . - ‘nearest town and so continue [actually certain that you'd found |bit unsettled. I was going to be VAN PEW -3 - SNARVARD © SHOTGUN ’ y NRE KS Ore TD SNARIARD 1 yt ; ig ein HIS AT J ABNER J A FORWARD ‘New York by train. out where Frank was— married and the future was ar- RA CL 7 : PASS ~ BEHIND fous - ‘Marcia dispatched two telegrams | Marcia straightened. “But Ill ad- ranged. Now I'm not going to be Pid aR ARES Y HE GOES TEA ING DON by way of the telephone, one to her | mit I did,” she said. married—and the future is disar- yo: IDJIT? Yo’ MAH PAPPY. NT : THE ; HARD E24 Ins father’s o in New York, to be| Helen appraised her grimly. | ranged. | : FUMBLE GAVE A TETCH) ED NO MO. ; A D Liss= relayed to in Florida; and one As I have said before, I admire| “Do you suppose rn be an old N EO’ TH’ / AND > : : : : :

(To Be Continued)

UCK HANLON, the most unromantic and unsentimental pilot that ever flew a plane, was grounded with frozen feet. : He was in a wheel-chair when 1 dropped in to see him. “What happened?” I asked. “Didn't you see the newspapers?” Buck shot. back. “Yeah. ou were forced down somewhere up in the Canadian wilds. You had three passengers aboard—two men .and an heiress to a lumber fortine. You had some narrow escapes. Cold, wolves and

so on.”

Buck grinned. “All right. I give you the story.” He lit a cigaret and proceeded: ” ” ”

“Y)HILIP BLAIR, secretary to Jacob : Randell, the lumber

king, chartered a cabin plane to fly a party of three to-his boss’ hunt-

ing camp up in Canada, and hired

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come. I also had a pocket compass. We set out, breaking through the

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when, suddenly, we halted, listening. My heart skipped .a beat. Not far off sounded the howl of a wolf. There was no mistaking that long-drawn-out, hungry sound. Another howl. Then another.

“ ‘Wolves!’ said Bill Marsten. And |.

when I got out my revolver: ‘Give me that gun. I'm a crack shot. I'll make every shot count!’ “ ‘Okay,’ I said, giving him a dirty look, and ‘also -the gun. “Wolves are good hunters. They attack from all sides at once. We huddled together as the gaunt, gleaming-eyed animals came closing ‘in. - They were half-starved, I could see. Hunger crazed. They hurtled toward us, fangs bared. I kicked at one. It snarled, snapped at my foot. Ann screamed.

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| ALL IVE HAD SINCE I HOOKED UP WITH YOU,IS TROUBLE! ~ NOW WHAT KIND OF A BRIGHT IDEA ~~ WAIT = ‘ARE YA GONNA. / ALL ISN'T LOST, “| | BRING UP TGET\ VYET-I HAVE | US-OUTA THIS

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that the news of her safety be given | as long as you are going to handle| «let me in on any bets” said ‘$0 the Canfield servants and to her | it that way, count on me to be in| gejen, | friends, and with the additional in- | there fighting for you. And may | find Frank Kendrick. Automobiles then were ordered from the town and the recent refcraft to await orders. By Joseph Lewis Chadwick wl #2 8 = ) iy ARCIA found herself riding Daily Short Story threatening ‘morning with a chatter of dull, complaining conversation. It would have been more amusing, glanced back. The car in which he was riding was not in sight. The women's car reached the in 20 minutes. Marcia did not xnow that the passengers in the McDougall car change a tire by the side of the snow-banked road. ~The news that Marcia was safe nxiety came to an end. There owed, so paradoxical are hu‘man | sympathies, a period of ally accepted, on the basis of no [an inoffensive, bookish sort of chap. | | more| than Dorothy Osborn’s sus- | He wore glasses, and was short of tho patie Shor, $04 mived: Bg picions, that Marcia’s sudden and | stature. He was new to flying, had pack off tor a he un scare e ] some as yet unexplained way, with “On the day we were to leave, I ; the missing Frank Kendrick, #2 8 = yesult of the visit of several young matrons to Helen Waddell, as Mar- | gia’s closest friend, in midafternoon

Helen Waddell, with a request | your courage- and honesty. Well, | maid?” "formation for Helen alone that she [heaven reward Dorothy Osborn ‘had not succeeded in her efforts to S ee oom nd i Bours ot CRACK SHOT crew with ‘their damaged , with { three ~women, who matched the mood of the gray and Marcia reflected, to have the cheerful McDougall as a companjon. She town and proceeded directly to the railroad station. | There would be a train were still half an hour away, im- ~ patiently watching their driver \ spread quickly ' through Bobbs Neck and the hours of neighborly “aounting hostility. The gossips 3 > DIY Were busy, and it became gener- | me to pilot it. I sized him up as ego oat, you ‘fooll” I yelled at). wnannounced (and therefore | never been in. a ship. ‘He asked a (™". Scowlod ot pon D rsten. ‘I thought guilty!) journey had to do, in [lot of questions. you were & crack shot,’ I bins 51K § 1S condition of the community mind was promoted as a while Marcia’s train was drawing . elose to New York. As women, these

car rolled out onto the field and Blair stepped out with a girl and a big broad-shouldered chap. The girl was Randell’s daughter, Ann, and the swaggering chap was Bill Marsten, polo player, big-game hunter, champion pistol shot, and

so on. “From the take-off it was easy to

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‘HE gulped, ‘but said nothing, The wolves—10 of them, at least—rushed again. Marsten shot again, and missed. The yelping pack backed off, rushed again. Another shot. Marsten fired five shots, and missed every time! j “I never saw a man go to pieces so quickly. The sixth time he shot,

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"young wives of men who had lost|see that Blair and Marsten didn't | po 0604’ o chance of hitting ar : h Kendrick were not | like each other. The reason was— : ; g STING VV Nos Seige ; a Willing as their husbands % for- | the girl. And Miss Randell obvious. | Siephact. Fl Was trembling al ie eens 8 nea seavich hc F. Monee. us. mar. ovr.) : give and forget a financial misfor-|ly favored Marsten, laughed and |. on 4 ihe Shae x 1 oF , he : : 6. = tune at the hands of a friend. - talked with him, She seemed hard- | t1OPPeE, 120 BUA ANC. cove —By Herblock : - = Th spokesman, over the tea-|ly to notice Blair. “ : 8 = ; ‘ cups Which Helen brought out for| “Before we'd been aloft 20 min- Bac i Mavstenthag changed, = ie CROSSWORD PUZZLE . her unexpected callers, was Mrs. | utes, I'd begun to dislike Marsten |, : / 75) ie Yb Charles Horton. By her own proud | 8s ig ne “Got any more cartridges? he 7 | ; : Es He a | yose iy SR NE vas an amateur pilot seid SY oe, Jim soiue HOBIZONTAL Answer {o Previous Puzzle 11 Northeast. | advised purchase of furniture, but | himself, and he wanted to show off revolver : L, 7Golf cham- 1 : 14 Being. 6 the moment her mind was con- | before Ann Beteel J new BS | «Tne pack circled, closing in. Phil pion, E|AlVIE WE EJRIE 15 To sink. | gentrating on an even $1000 which (Was getting places : shot, and bowled over a wolf! The 12Bed lath - RIAITIA . 18 Sandy tract. her husband had given to Kendrick zs = = .| pack pounced on the fallen one. 13 Rime, AIRICHENE S 19/Slipped for investment. bz . HEN we headed into.a snow- | Phil shot another, and another. 16 To declaim. H Cc pec’: © “It's around town, my dear,” said Y storm over the border, he| The pack began snarling and fight- 17 Morindin dye V11 Iv SEINICH 21 She is also the Mrs. Horton, “that Marcia knew [told Ann not to worry. Then he | ing over the carcasses. © 18 Contradic- PIGIR NIS HIRLEY British wn "where Frank was and flew out to|began ribbing Blair about being| “I saw Ann Randell look at Phil } tions. Asis EMPLE | 22 Oscine bird ‘meet him. Do you suppose that's | afraid. Blair had turned white as| with widened eyes. When we| Js 20 Myself - IN D “la 25 Lacerated, | true?” 3 a sheet when the snow began pelt- | started on, she was walking beside © 21 Voleano vents NIMRIAL 28 Pronoun, " “Don’t you think Marcia should | ing the windows. him, clutching his hand. ...” 23 Balcon -JAISICIE 30 Shower. avs She oppOriunity of SIVIng het | ina Sn a BALE An BOL YE 24 Genus of SEMEL 36 Land righ own wers?” Helen. “It|C an T ’ : nd ri : doesn’t seem. vers friendly, T must | we gob out of the snow. Clouds| JRUCK HANLON, the most unro- frogs; Cc EG IATE] 38 1s En. 8 She'll be home this ’ evening fogged about the place, but I was mantic and unsentimental pilot 26 Musical note. - Soi 39 To furnish ‘| used to fiying blind, and I kept my |that ever flew a ship, moved his 27 Sound of 46 Pep. VERTIC, 5 : ould we talk about her in brn dh , bandaged feet and groaned. pl . 7 S0Neme AL anew with “Well except that ft would Be|_ ‘It Was an hour or so later that | « “No wonder Ann Randell became | 20 Affected with 51 Hearkens. ppoooiPh. Mee emparrassing to go to her |I Put on the radio earphones and to Philip Blair,” I cried. 1| necrosis. Native metal, 2Pertaining. p70 ; the blunt WD One | tried to contact the home field. I | “Saw the announcement in the pa- 32 Boundary. 55 Gibbon. to wings To renovate, like to know the answer in Ee scowl told Phil Blair pers, Sus pedi, gg : 33 Weighed for 57 To make 3 Pertaining ne era yed q some was wrong. y a : mend. . if you understand what I| shat is 1?" he asked, scared- | through in such herolc style?” | 34 Pair. Ebel aan | Iobeck sway, Ee like. B i. “You know,” he 35 : ol eC ire ama | *E LL" L 5 sn |said, “I didn’t remember, until we 35 To Ser el 55 prophet, _ 5.To exaggerate. 48 To smile Maseia arjved in] New York soon bh ADIO dead’ I-said reached a trapper’s cabin, that here 39 For ity native ng. ap vadly » Selephoning Sar : shortly. | were blanks in that gun Ww Work: Fpeand ilkworm ~ 48You - yj 7suches Boke Neck sn hos a than or looked more fright- | nandeq it to Bill Marsten.” Sk 0 Dand. 1Too’late. ~~ 52Street rved by a relieved ‘Awkins. m—up here in these wilds?’ (Copyright, _ 1836. United Feature dramas. —— golf title, 2 Domesiica Road, “So many people have been call- en to Gloomy Gus!’ Bill Shain Ta RSs LITT is re. 58 Type standard fe aie. ing ill happen, Phil; Any | TO charseters tn this siery are fititions. ; - ; E PP . y i g 4. > iz . GI Sr pe RR abe ONE Ae you were safe, although, of Ts = = : Ask Th Times : . 3 i Loh A Ce 5 2 i