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FRIDAY, DEC. 25, 1936 FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia

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BEGIN HERE TODAY The gaiety of the Christmas party to talk #t the de Forest hacienda. Thunder : : » » r

Mesa,” has a tragic ending when Pearl HE servants’ quarters hummed

Sam de Forest, oldest of three brothers, is found dead beneath the Christmas with activity, very much in contrast to the empty silence of the rest Was open. The Indian who had

free with a knife in his throat. There are many strange things about of the house. Soft-voiced Mexican | guarded the trail down the canyon | hander Mesa” besides the fact (hat women padded to and fro, and sev- | Was standing on the porch outside. mame Pearle Peart Sonn enahe fret leral dark-skinned children played | “Promise me you'll do it, Broken | Pearl Pierre mext Others at tne Quietly near the big cook stoves. Shield!” Tante Josephine was say- | house are: Tante Josephine, old ana Rows of shining pots hung on the ing, her voice showing more than an invalid; Betty Welch. her companion; | walls, and long strings of gaily-col- her usual excitement. | Raymond Vasquez and Angelique Abevta, ored dried peppers were festooned | The Indian seemed to hesitate | Kuests at the party: Professor Shaw, from the rafters. A stout refecto y und again came the insistent de- | archeologist, and Beb Graham, tire table stood in the center of the mand, “Promise me!” salesman who stopped at the hacienda room, with the evening meal set The two young men strained forupon it. There were no men in sight. | Ward and heard him reply, “Si, | Conversation ceased as Pearl Jobin { Sevier I promise.” The window

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ried on, as though he did not wish ; into the shelter of a huge pillar of the porch. | Tante Josephine's high - pitched voice came to them plainly and Bob

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when his ear broke down. Pearl Pierre, now head of the family, has his brother's body removed to the and Bob came into the room. | slammed shut then and the Indian | “Where are Agapito and Jesus?” eieq away. asked Pear] John of the woman who | 1m going to Tante Josephine's

house chapel. Later he sends word that every one is to ga there for a funeral They arrive—but the body has disappeared

Rervice,

NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

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{room, You can come,” Peari John !

burn Christmas,” she answered. “They not vet come back.” “I want to see them when they do,” Pearl John told her. “Send them to my room.”

CHAPTER NINE ae Bob remembered looking out the chapel window | at the column of smoke rising from the distant edge of the mesa

| T= old lady's wizened face ap- |

| when she saw her nephew she

said wit “Senor Pearl Pierre send them | g.ikeq ot

sudden decision. He = = tJ

peared almost at once, but

he window and knocked. |

where the Christmas greens were being burned. The smoke, against the leaden sky, made a suitable backdrop for the weird drama being enacted in the chapel, as Pearl Pierre, frowning coldly, faced the group in the room.

As the door closed behind them, | turned pale. “What do you want ” Bob heard the conversation resume | she demanded, visibly trying to reimmediately, and imagined he de- gain her usual matriarchal manner. tected a new note of suppressed ex- | What did that cursed Indian of citement in it, but since Pearl John | YOUrs promise to do, Tante Jose- | did not seem to notice, he said |Phine?” Pearl John asked sternly. nothing about it. | “What do you know about the things : | that are happening here?” “The family sleeping quarters are | my. a4 lady shook her tremblin on that side, so we'll cross the patio | act and her voice rose to a as here,” remarked Pearl John, open- “Listen to the boy! Listen to him! ing a heavy door. You will dare threaten your old | aunt, will you? Oh, why must I live on in this den of cut-throats and liars? My life's not safe. It'll be

- *So Christmas is for the kids! Get your hat, Chuck, and let's go to a

\(T™ wii par ors LI'L ABNER

MERRY CHRISTMAS, ANYWAY. 1-25

“You can all see, 1 suppose, that the body is gone,” he was saying, his thin lips biting off the words ignificantly “If any one here has an explahation to offer. I should be glad to hear it.” " ww = His penetrating glance included ever: Angelique sobbed hysterically, and Ramon put an arm about her Old Tante Josephine rapped her cane sharply on the tiled floor.

8 | y + fat, tut

—By Al Capp

YO' SAVED MAH LIFE,

iE SCENE SF 70 SKU, HOLLOW (LEGENDARY ENEMY OF Sy hel me RE PAPPY HAS UN- MISTAH CLAUS? snuffed out any minute. I'll be mur- 5 ha aR i Ay RL ERE 7 A ERIS dered in my bed! Betty, where are 7 i 7 you? Betty, I say!” 7 Her fury brought running footsteps. Quickly Pearl John closed the window.

(To Be Continued)

YO' LIFE IS MAH

N a minute they were outside on G-GREAT GOIN

the snowy veranda, and Bob shivered as the cold struck him. They passed. several lighted windows where the curtains were tightlly drawn, and made directly for another door on the opposite side of |the vard. Suddenly, Pearl John {grasped Bob's sleeve and drew him

PARTIES FOR PIERRE

By May Wilson McBee Daily Short Story

LAN BRITTON stood at a here,” he stammered awkwardly. window in his hotel room, “How—how about going to the looking down on the Christmas movies with me after you've had throngs in Baronne-st. He was | supper with the lady in 6162” waiting to play Santa Claus to a| The boy shook his head. “Can't. newsboy. It seemed odd to be| She said she'd take me home in a ‘counting so desperately on the taxi. Song!” | company of a ragamuffin—to have | rw ow

one's entire Christmas spirit cen- | tered in one small boy. LAN He B a edling as Lhe Five years ago he and Merry had | oor closed on the uncou had their first Christmas together | RTO hie lady ju SI nay here in New Orleans on their way | Some A or ne in hE 8 home from their wedding trip | ews Sav a So didn't get very far, trying to lay De a othr esac | moment's consideration, he decided ’ | to take them to Pierre in Suite 616. | Maybe, if he offered to come across

that on us, did he? Pearl Pierre was then a great one to crawl out of Tt . he ba about Alan's heart | : things by putting the blame on the |. nd : h | with a taxi, the boy might change 8 : . . tightened as he tried to recall just | : next fellov'! But I'm not afraid of 4 | his mind about the movies. n how it all had started. A differ- . him. No. sir! Tante Josephine never A maid answered the door.

treid of anv of the de Forests! | PCE of opinion and a bit of stub- | va s afraid of any 0 “7° bornness had soon become a matter | “Is there a boy here by the name 1€]

v v mustn't ex- of principles and individual rights. | of Pierre Labat?” Alan asked. . on Betty drew | Then had come Merry's infuriat- | “There's a boy here, sir. Perhaps cite yourseili & ‘ A h

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Pear] Pierre! You herd in here to pray over Pearl Sam, who would laugh if he could know about it, and now he's gone. Why don’t you tell us what you've done | with him? Pearl Sam was not a small man, and it wouldn't be easy for any of us to carrv away his bod You are the onlv one who could have managed it.”

” un n ER black eves glared at her nephew; then, after a minute, his manner became less belligerent and he ran a hand across his forehead with a weary gesture “I beg your pardon, Tante Josephine,” he said. “The events of the last few hours have rather unnerved me. And now, with the officers coming to see about a murder and no body to show them He strode out of the chapel, without looking to right or left The others followed more slowly, old Tante Josephine chuckling over her triumph and telling Betty, “He

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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

MERRY CHRISTMAS, OH, FRECKLES, THAT WAS TON! IT CAME OVER SWEET OF You TO REMEMBER TO BRING YOU A p LITLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT!

—By Blosser |

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS WISH ALL THEIR READERS A VERY MERRY TIME

DURING THE HOLIDAYS.”

—By Hamlin

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Answer to Previous Puzzle

OR a moment startled, then he turned it off with his usual shrug. “Maybe he wants to find out more about it. Remember, I met Pearl John in Santa Fe and he was the one who asked Angelique and me up here. The rest of the family had never seen me before. And, of course, vou're only here because of the storm. By the way, did you notice the expression on Professor Shaw's face in the chapel?” “NO.” It was worth seeing,” Ramon went on. “I'd give a good deal to know all that goes on in the old

Ramon looked

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4 ingly cool suggestion of incompati- | Wa, the little old woman away toward ” ge p | his or 4 n to stop the thing. that?” Ramon asked Bob as Tante i a WITH YOU? YOU i LEAS, John had gone ahead into the liV- yaarg indirectly, that she intended | drew him into the room. BEST FRIEND. / A LOT OF ing cushions behind her head. Then had dreaded it. Then. with the | gaily colored balls, was on the table drink suddenly boarded a train for the [been five years before. | Bob answered. “Don’t forget that from every one he knew, and just | it to me! She said the guy she fixed | send for the officials. Now, if there y ww % | was mistaken—" Pear] Pierre wants to hold us here " ] |A t late he was in hi But his plans hadn't gone so well. moment later, she was S | very dirty newsboy who said his Pierre,” she remembered to 00, roung fellow!” Alan supplemented | a promising host. WHE END. by | Merry had done. In fact, it iooked | The characters in this story are fictitious. | The phone rang. Alan picked it when addressing any question of ing the boy. S:nd him up, please.” | Service Bureau, 1013 13th-st, N. Pearl John joined them then and | Who Was coming should like him. nor can extended research be Gi looked at the youngest de Forest ” Ww Ww orner of the new one-dollar |

Res ‘Own FONE. bility and the test of a year's sepa-, put Pierre had heard his name ALLEY OOP | “Oh, say, mister, c'mon in 'n’ pipe Josephine's cackling laughter faded ,..o.¢+ “he had expected her to re- | AS IF YOU ) I OUGHTA HAVE! He caught Alan by the sleeve and ing room with Angelique and hey |, reside abroad permanently. | A brave little Christmas tree, glit- DIRT - he went to get her something to holiday only three days off, he had between the windows just as it had | I think she may have come gouth, impelled by an irresistible | “Ain't it swell, mister!” Pierre was | Pearl Pierre overheard us in the Ji- a5 he and Merry had spent it five |it fer ain't come.” 1S NO corpse to show, why the offi- E was waiting now to repeat | Over the boy's dark. unkempt on th sa.’ ne In the first place, he had been able | rms. name was Pierre Labat. The other | after a time. turned him down Perhaps he was | And then, he didn't know how 1936. United as though the party were going to | . Ask The Times up. tact or information to The InAlan waited, strangely eager that W., Washington, D. C. Legal and in a minute Ramon went to see Lresently, a knock sounded on the undertaken. curiously His pleasant face had SMALL. swarthv. dark-eved way to Soviet

” . ration. But he had been too proud | “Well, what do you think of P and was at the door. ors Tr TATRR EEE T re) Merry had gone to England. Each | away down the corridor. earl | turn—but she hadn't. He had even | HAD LOST YOUR {IM DOIN’ FOOZY could see him seating her and tuck- As Christmas had approached, he | tering with tinsel and lights and K | nearer the truth than she expected,” | qesire to spend the season away saying breathlessly. “The lady give | . 1 . ’ 11 + i i + | brary talking about forcing him to | years before. | “But he's come now. Pierre. I—I | cers? For some reason 1 think their ‘Christmas Eve party. | head, Merry smiled mistily at Alan. to corral only one guest, a small, | “But you may still have the tree, urchins Alan had approached had | And anything eise you want, too unhappy to look the part of Sratefully. {to rig up a Christmas tree as | Syndicate. Inc.) be a washout. Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply “Hello. . . . Oh, yes, I'm expectdianapolis Times Washington bov's ‘mind ” this unprepossessing scrap of a boy | medical advice can not be given, how Angelique was feeling. Bob door, and he opened it. Q—Does the circie in the rightal atime lines of weariness etched on it, as boy, with longish, untended hand c

though he had not slept much since hair. walked in without a word of | Vills relate in any

} ris ’ | i Wie Chiisinms panty. response to Alan's greeting, placed Russia?

everything, seemed to be a real i | bath day's journey”? " fruit on the table. | TT there's anvthing I could do—" “Its yours” said Alan, “to take | ba Theis oid he ‘began, putting a hand on | home with you." oe Yara og pel on the | : | ¥ ; 3 : ; Ne : Pear] John's arm. The boy said nothing. | Rl “iy — ne walled limits of | " _ SE LE E A A rao nt A > 2 7 18 ngs” i) “There is,” Pearl! John told him Alan cleared his throat. “Well, | Sa th, om e + : lak 2 if Zi of = Ls Bem A AS RN ‘> “7 1 “I'm going to make a thorough now that you're here, 1 guess I'l |® _— Cus. ildew be removed | 3 ; ; Sf . san A | search of the house to see if I have our Supper ‘semi up. Hel, Tow San m | can find out something, and I'd Started toward the phone. To Wash it wi lution of cal- | like you to come with me." “But I aint goin’ to stay to eat.| A— t with pi a Ee Ler 1 aaid water or vineges. | Use “Y ’ ve supper | : wi ue Peni of cold water to rinse the Pierre shook his head, edging over | canvas after washing. | | to the basket of fruit. Q—Are sweepstake winnings sub- |

“Well, let's see what Santa Claus | ject to income tax? | A—Yes. |

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OB nodded assent and followed down the corridor. So Pearl John was afraid of something! He was so afraid that he was willing

to ask help from a stranger. Pearl John opened several closed doors and, together, they peered inw empty rooms, closets, storerooms, and bedrooms—all of which had windows opening in a courtyard, Bob noticed. | After they had turned down one

or two branching hallways, Bob lost |

all sense of direction and had the sensation that he was weaving through & sort of mystic maze.

“You passed a door there on the |

left,” he told Pearl John. “Did you intend to?” “Yes, There's nothing there. It's locked,” his host replied. But Bob had the distinct feeling that Pear! John was none too well

pleased that the door had been |

mentioned. For that reason Bob

turned and looked back at it curi- |

ously. It had an antique brass knocker, earved in the shape of a lion's head that seemed to glare at him with

left here for you.” Alan tried to hide the note of | Q—What office in Canada corre-

disappointment in his voice as he Sbonds to the United States War | handed over a small package. The | Department? boy opened it to find a scout knife. | A—The Ministry of National De- | His hands fumbled with the numer- Sense Jud RIAL Rah, which | | ous ts on it as Alan explained . Ian e | a age! Q—What is the value of a United | “Nifty!” Pierre States large copper cent dated 1 | “Whacher give fer it?” Toma are cataloged at | Q—When was it the rule ball that five called balls' e

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you like that?" | | He buckled a watch about the Q-—How many counties has the | boy's soiled wrist. state of Texas? “Swell!” breathed Pierre.

“Don’t just stand there—can't you wave your shirt?”

ant ae rst He, oT, “Say, it's ten uv seven 'n’ I tole | the lady in Room 616 I'd be there

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