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FRIDAY, AUG. 27, 1037

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CAST OF CHARACTERS KAY DEARBORN—heroine who berits a vacht for vacation. MELITA HOWARD—Kay's and co-adventurer. PRISCILLA DUNN-—t{he third adventurer. FORREST BROTHERS and GRANT HARPER—voung scientists whose expedition turned out to be a rare experience.

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Yesterday: The problem of where to spend their combined vacations is suddenly changed for Kay, Melita and Priscilla when Kay learns that her uncle has left her a yacht. The girls decide to look it over.

hundred dollars ought to put her in shape, if you want to do some of the painting and polishing yourselves.” Melita and Priscilla were weakening fast. They knew that among the three they could manage the hundred—counting in the next pay day. But Kay was still a little dubious. “I don’t know. None of us has ever operated a boat.” “Easier than drivin’ “a “car,” claimed Jim Pike loftily. “You got {a forward and a reverse and a

NEA Service, Ind speed lever. “there ain’t no brakes.” “We'll have to have some put in then,” Priscilla insisted. Pike roared. “Not while you got

a seagoing automobile, lady.” Priscilla was not abashed. use her for our vacation,” she cried, and Melita agreed. “Well,” said Kay, “let's get some food first and talk it over. We'll let you know tomorrow, Mr. Pike.” “That's okay. You'll do it.”

(To Be Continued)

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CHAPTER TWO

INNER was forgotten in their | excitement. The letter from | Uncle Ben's attorney gave the ad- | dress of the dock where the boat was | in storage and Priscilla was all for having a look at Kay's new possession immediately. Kay and Melita | were not far behind in enthusiasm, and it was agreed they should visit | the boat moorage before dining out. The three slippad into beach clothes | first. | A 20-minute ride in Kay's car brought them to within a block of | that section of the bay shore where | Uncle Ben's boat had long been idle. | ( 4 : {a AE 2, 6 s 1 2 i “ 4 , 3 / / « / | y y . ; s yo] : | BB ait; ? \ |. “You sce, each clan has its own plaid and every family started toward the huge black and | tn it wears that plaid. white sign which marked the place. | “Not bad—nobody would know Soon they got a glimpse of the] sister's old dresses.” boats moored there, some still can- | vas covered and a few uncovered | and outfitted for the new

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2 Tm = E ARNE PAPER COMPANY [when he walked into Dotty’s office HE moorage seemed deserted | order desk——. Oh, hello, | one day—he being a tall, handsome at that hour, but Melita saw a | how are you today, honey?” | young man, whose smouldering dark small houseboat whose front bore | “Hello, Clyde.” replied Dotty in a [eyes fired her heart to some fast and the succinct advice, “Ring the bell.” | ypjce carefully business like. “Will | fancy palpitating. He gazed upon Tentatively Kay obeyed, was startled | you please send us five reams of | her with what seemd to be an un- | at the sound which rang out all | Nomad Bond. No. 20. white?” | reasonable amount of astonishment. | over the place. Almost immediately | “Boss around?” | After all, she was not the prize ex- | a small, merry-faced man appeared, | “Yes.” | hibit at the State Fair, though some ! wiping his lips with a napkin. | “I thought you sounded unusually A People did say she was darned good “What can I do for you, ladies?” |efficient. He can't stop me from | looking.

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word and give me that date?” “Yes, of course.’ » Dotty’s low laughter was music in ” Wu wy Crandall. ’ The little man grinned. “Owned |S €ars. “Oh—some ‘day. 1've got | E SAT down on a chair facing el 5 Dra .. |you on my preferred list, you and 3 : by you now, isnt she® I'm Jim if... other order clerks. Just keep her desk, and Dotty resumed Pike and I'm mighty glad to Know | : her work. She could feel his eves you. Mr. Crandall’s attorneys sent | pow-"L SSErious:

sking.” . X . Bae kidding following her slightest move. Finally, me all the papers and I've got them |v, .ve heen putting me off like that |N€ Spoke. gn ready for you. Of course you'll have | ¢ . vars BR = still there?” | ‘When did the other girl leave?” GEE POP,

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UT I wasn't planning on taking the boat out now,” Kay rushed in. “I just wanted to look | at her.” “I reckon you wasn't planning on taking her out,” Pike smiled. “She's been neglected for quite some time. A boat’s a good deal like a woman, | you know. and then expect them to be ready | and waiting when you're in mood. But I've kept the ‘Chinook’!

in fair shape, and with a little fixin’ |

she’ll be all right.” He looked at Kay and her two | friends appreciatively. “Y'know when I got the letter from Mr. Crandall’s attorney I figured that this Miss Dearborn was probably a

fussy old schoolteacher who wouldn’s |

have no use for the boat and would want to sell her right off.” " n ® - AYBE 1 will want to sell her. You see, Mr. Pike, we don’t know anything about boats.” “There again,” said the loquacious Jim Pike, “a boat's like a woman. Nobody exceptin’ maybe the oldest master mariners really knows much about them. Just when you think you got them figured, they fool you a little, one {gay or another. But you three ain't too old to learn.” He tossed the napkin somewhere inside the door, and grabbed up a weather-beaten blue _yachting cap. “I'll show her to you.’ Obediently Kay, Melita, and Priscilla followed down the boardwalk toward the water. Pike led them to a vast outdoor moorage, walked half way along one of the runways, and pointed. “There she is ladies.” The trio stared. They hadun’t known what to expact, but the very word “yacht” in the attorney's letter had connoted something a bit | grander than the “Chinook.” She | wasn't large, and she wasn’t particularly natty. Unschooled in pleas- | ure craft, the girls were seeing all | her bad points and none of her ‘ood | ones. 3 on o EEDS a plank or two, some paint and polish, and a bilge cleaning,” Jim Pike explained. “Did Uncle Ben really cruise in that boat?” Kay inqured. “He certainly did,” averred Jim Pike. “And I and two others were with him. She'll sleep four easy. Those settees to port and starboard in the cabin fold into upper and lower berths. She's husky— and a 40-footer is ideal for you girls. Plenty of cruising on inside water around here.” “We—we’d thought some of taking our vacation with the boat,” Priscilla blurted. = n u IM PIKE nodded really ever had a vacation until

you've taken one in your own little boat—sail or power—with no sched-

ules to make except maybe the tide. |

Wear what you want. want. Just let the world go hang.” “It sounds nice,” Kay said, after she had climbed up to the bridge and gripped the wheel. She tossed her head back in a riotous smile. “But we don’t know anything about navigation.” “Shucks, you don’t need navigation in inland waters like these around here. I can teach you some piloting—how to read a chart and lay out a course, and use the compass and know what the buoys mean. You got common sense, I can see that. I'll teach you what you ought to know while you're getting the boat ready.” “B-but, you see, Mr. Pike, I'm not gure we can afford to trouble you—"

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“But Clyde, you've never seen me,’ | protested Dotty, “and I'm not so | keen on blind dates.” “I've heard you though, and your | voice is tops with me.” “I'm really not so much; you | { might be disappointed. You know, | we have so much fun this way, just | talking on the phone—I'd hate to have anything spoil it.”

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EALLY., now, you can't be| bad.” Her repeated objections | | were having the expected effect on | | him, however, and there was more | {than a trace of doubt in his voice | Inow. *“‘Anyway, you're taking as big fa chance as I am; I don’t guess I could capture any beauty prizes either so far as that goes. But I | think we could manage to stand each other for an evening. How about it—tonight?” “All right,” sighed Dotty resighedly. “But remember, you asked for it. Tonight at 6 on the corner of Third and Willow. I'll wear a— umm—a green polka dot dress.” “Good. Ill match you with 3a green polka dot tie. Don't fail me!” “Not if I can help it. 'Bye.”

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S SHE replaced the receiver, Dotty was conscious of a happy little feeling of excitement. As secretary to Mr. Kelton of the Kelton | Printing Co. she had been placing | orders with Clyde for a year now, and a very gay, informal friendship had flourished between them over the phone. Clyde had a warm, deep voice and Dotty thrilled to her fingertips when he called her all the silly little pet names he had concocted for her. She had long toyed with the idea | of yielding to his pleas for a “date,” and she was suddenly glad that she | had impulsively squelched her in{born sense of reserve and finally agreed. At last she would be able |to see if he lived up to his voice. Daylight was fading, but there {was still plenty of light to make | polka dots easily distinguishable. A rather plump girl with a straw-like thatch of hair and too much rouge, dressed in a blatantly green-dotted dress walked slowly down to the corner of 3d and Willow precisely at 6, and leaned against a plateglass window, chewing gum proficiently. At practically the same moment a meager-looking specimen of manhood sporting a gay greendotted tie approached from the opposite direction. He peered nearsightedly through the heavy lenses perched on his rather prominent and slightly red nose at the girl on the corner, who had straightened abruptly.

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ELLO. Are you Dotty?” “Yes. You're Clyde?” “Yes,” a sigh, “I'm Clyde.” The two gave each other a comprehensive looking over. Then Clyde said | “Listen, I'm sorry about tonight. A —a rush order came in and I'll have to get it up right away. I won’t be able to take you to dinner after all.” “That's funny. I meant to tell vou that I wouldn’t be able to make {it tonight either. My mother telephoned me just before I left the office and told me we have company from Pittsburgh.” She giggled a bit nervously.” “Too bad, isn’t it? Nice to have met you anyway. We'll have dinner some other night. Well, goodby.” “Yes, some other time. by.”

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OTTY missed the morning exchange of badinage; since that memorable evening neither one seemed to be able to think of anything to say to the other. Somehow, now that she had seen Clyde, the fun of talking to him had simoly vanished. How could anyone with a voice that simply oozed personality over the phone make such 1 hopeless appearanc?e It wasn't more than a week later

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“The girl in the office next door. |

| I was in the drugstore watching. | “I was at the newsstand, pre- | tending to read a paper!” They seemed to have suddenly run out of conversation, but Mr. Kelton, coming into the office a moment later, had to clear his throat three times before they were aware of his presence.

THE END

The characters in this story are fictitious

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