Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1938 — Page 21

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SERIAL STORY = HOLD EVERYTHING OUR BOARDING HOUSE OUT OUR WAY By Williams » ZZ 70 Ld Li randy ddd 7 a 2 ' % 7 % IT DAT CAR. IT WONT WORK NE’ This Man BT A — 0 SUA WWSTR Sar 7 ) 7 GOIN’ QUICK J ex... THEY WONT US. HOME 4 ’ RD IF DEY EBBER WAS A 7 ALAS, JASON | BVEN / AN HAD FOM ADOPT AN ORPHAN A THEY ALL WiLL! £3 FELLOW MEMBAN OB DE |” 1 AM NOT IMMUNE 97 OE DEER COUNTRY] |) LIKE FOLKS DO... /> THER HAIN'T M IE : 2 BOOSTER LEAGUE DAT : A TO CIRCUMETANCES rAd Cpl ET LO a Raise NO SYMPATHY 3 i - L Joe urray i aly : NEEDS DE Spl —~EGAD/ THE GREAT : RANGE! THA. THEY KIN RUSTUE RST rout | : : : HAND, =n SITS ME- EST MINDS OF FER THEMSELVES -- sO BRING MAK Hi | \ | ’ THEN THEY'RE RIGHT [ALO ' By William Core 1 : | OH= my {AN YOU KIN OUR DAY INDORSED LONG AN’ SAVE y orcoran 1 We (ER HELP ME! JEST EXTEN MY IDEA OF A BOOSTER WELQOMEm. HIM TH WALK CAST OF CHARACTERS Eb ii : A | {RE YO' HAND WIFE DAT LEAGUE, BUT 1 HOME! JOE MURRAY-—Liked new places, new k Eg 33 34 TWO BUCKS IN IT EALED 10 SAIN THE Jobs, new girls, BOA) ] HELEN—Fell in love—hard—once. ] X Ls : YOU HOSSED ME OUT NECESSARY FOLLOW= TERRY MALLOW-Found love—and 1 : A 3 OB LAST WINTAH AN’ ING TO CARRY ON wept ns, ——— : AND BE AllLw~ —— KARTE « KAFE = Yesterday: Slowly Joe falls for Terry, Ww > though he scarcely realizes it. No, he is : - p> is oF BUT BE ASSURED not alone, even without Helen. 3 i SA : \ qf: 5 1 SHALL HAVE AF : ef —— OTHER SCHEMES vn CHAPTER NINE 3 3 = | 2 & DEFEAT HAS NEVER HERE was & loneliness looming | fu rr ; 3 SULLIED THE HOOPLE imminent and near, nonethe- / i Praca ; BRE N NAME / or less. This game, this little world : ZZ of make-believe, could not go on and on. It must arrive somewhere and Joe was troubled to devise ®& destination. He was crowding the whole world out of Terry's life, who ; needed so badly to meet the whole § EN Se we iH ® . world and have her own chance to : , EE / = 2 Nh y gamble for happiness. i i He did not fool himself. He could ! Sie : i . wl : ao 7-48 o | Uv) AR = [lg £3 Bl ei re o

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let days go by without seeing Irene, 2 and be none the worse. Terry had | > wi become a habit, a life-filling sort of “That's a picture of my old beau taken with a statue of Hercules . A ARE A ao THEROES SRE MADE NOT BORN

habit, that would leave something | that's Hercules at the right.” of an emptiness. WAS SURE TS ALL 1 WE Fl \/ - “> He told Terry one night what was| FLAPPER FANNY s ; A . wz NO , BOYS-AN oy sin | [RAE He Os JSGAT ZZ uiiittio.

on his mind. He was dumbstruck NOI “LIK by her reception of it. She was | io BODIES THRASHING A TOMRY” } A . PZ NAGE 1S Dou terrified. | IN WATER fo URE OERERINE SON A i “No: vou won't do that, Joe?” she | { ¢ ; 3 EF ; said, grabbing at him and holding | | on and looking into his face with | | her big eyes. ‘You won't go away | and leave me?” : “I don't mean to leave you ex-| actly, honey,” he said with some | compunction. “But this is going | on and on. Where's it going to end?” “I don’t care.” “You've got to care.” “Then I do care. You won't go. | 1 can’t let you go. Don’t you un- | derstand? Because I love you.” He looked at her. Then he laughed, shortly, embarrassed. He tried to explain. It was &| yeiosepetfnry mit I A I a re] SURE GREAT TO IN Ce Spi THEY HAD | | FELICITIONS HOMBLY RECID. FLY TO WASHINGTON ? PARDON, JACK , BUT OEDERS TO RETURN TO NEW determination that she “loved” | | US WORRIED ABOUT A MYS ~ CATED, FRIENDS, BUT MISSION| | wHY LEW, SHE CAN'T THIS TELEGRAM | YORK IMMEDIATELY FOR SPECIAL him. He said that love was some- | | f/| SEE YOU AGAIN TERIOUS VISITOR AWAITING 1S DEEPLY IMPORTANT! SUG 1 | Do THAT! WE - THAT JUST CAME FO’ ASSIGNMENT? THEY CAN'T DO thing different from their—well, | OLR RETURN) GEST MYRA PREPARE FOR Po - - THAT. TLL WIRE IN) MY | FLIGHT TO WASHINGTON tod RES/NATION.!

affection. They liked each other a lot, sure. But love was something | AT ONCE / Pr that came along with a rush and | —r set vou on fire so that you crackled | and roared with the flaming of it. | “Don’t vou think I'm on fire?” | she asked him. “You kiss me once in a while as if it were nothing, | and never think what it does to me.” |

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love to her, had never made him- | self out a romantic sort of man, | GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty ¥ 5 : a a Cy TL You Te WE GOT 'E Y 4 SLAUGHTER? i RN 4 3 N Se = - i \ _— ’

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feet. There was suddenly a whole new world of ideas intruding. He saw this child as a woman suddenly, & grown woman with a body and feel- { y ings and a hunger and a capacity y 2 / : \ . : = for delight. It was disturbing. She k 4 wo 3 . 3 \ y g FR had always been a soft and cuddly 81 ON EY kind of thing, insinuating herself into his arms, nudging with her

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unoccupied and placing it around | 1 a — her waist. She was such a lonely Da NER)” x a ig | COPR, 1938 BY NEA SERVICE, TNC. TM REC U.© PAT OFF little one: those things seemed as ] \ 5 3 : TER 7 7 , rr ery natural and unaffected as a baby's AR Bi : yi te y Tq. / @ WELL / 4 “& arms waving at you to be picked up. 4 Af : rl "Lg : iy T™ Oo NURS 1 ot Terry did not drop the matter. BH gi 9 A § NUTTY ! WE OUGHTA : 4 PECT IN Th She did not mention it, but you | 1 Xs 3 ’ ki LET HER WIN THE GOSH , WHO Ts could almost see her hugging it to J . J AND THIS PRIZE / her without ever letting it go: her | ANYWAY, EVER SINCE fear of losing him, her insistence I WAS A LITTLE KID, that she loved him, her going “on I'VE WANTED A HAND - fire” when he kissed her. She did EMBROIDERED PINCUSHION | not mention it, but there it was, | iy always there. It was no longer possible to kiss her casually, even to touch her casually. Joe had invited a baby

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and she a woman. - dome N= ME Joe Murray was not the only “Yep—it needs a pinch of lemon, Calvin!” panty” \ >

Wg aware of what was happening. Irene Murray, after watchin him enigmatically for ® long time, | THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson took occasion to speak to him once alone in a very dry tone indeed. “You've sort of let yourself in : for something. haven't you, Joe?” ati i re 4 “What do you mean?” he re- | | ii ge IL \

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you certainly know hy now where / MOUNTAIN WRN 1 TOLD NOU ABOUT ,\ THAT Te CHEAP, ’ N WAY OFF BY (TSELF, 50 WE CAN DO dU% WHATEVER | [| GEE DARLIN - \T YOUR THREE -DAY HONEYMOON ON THE TRAIN ,60ING [| BOOTS « THAT

you're headed. Don’t you think WN v : it's time to pull up?” > 3g | WE DERN PLEASE MONEY ~'N'NOT BE BOTHERED ALL SEEMS 08 AND COMING L BUT 1 WAVE AN DEA LOOR' Ti SWELL! \DEA ip?” : LIKE A OREAM BORROW A PLANE AND FLY You LP WW THE » EY aro 3 MOUNTAINS RIGHT AFTER TRE CEREMONY www 4 J

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“All right!” She shrugged, re- | signedly. “I brought it on myself. | You were always such a smart | one, so ready to give advice and | clip people one. I thought you | could take it for once. Let's for- | get 1 ever mentioned it.” But Joe did not. Put just that | / / a wav, it was too unpleasant. -.# ees ro » : & Mrs. Murray a was the next | LAND ANIMALS / YET MANY 5" i ho 5 - b ) AT f “ OF THEM LIVE THEIR ENTIRE LIVES || ay KL & ov J 1938 BY ETL 8. nar ‘ore RAR ION y , ! \_ COPR. 17 M. REC . : 4 J THEIR x

Mallow, Joe?” she asked abruptly, | { : THE BOY WANTED / LONG AS THERE’S A GET MARRIED RIGHT AWAY OUlk 130 5, CIT SRY: RD ry / | AD? OPPORTUNITY TO WORK - TWENTY-FIVE BERRIES PAY TWENTY- | | FAINTLY INTERESTED? \ 7 | 14, MY WAY UP TO THE Nr WON'T BE ANY CINCH, FIVE BERRIES

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fair?” -~ Joe's face flamed, but before he MISS ALMA : could find words, she added, “Now PLANTE jp / don't fly off the handle, Joe. I'm 1S EMPLOYED BY AND TEMASRATUIRE. | /A your mother. Whatever you do PEIRCE #e FLORIST... . 5 with your life, I'll have to stand NEW BEDFORD, MASS. TH 777 .

for it, and I'm more than willing. | L 1 think you might in return stand i for a little of my impertinent — iw curiosity.” . ! i . - Joe looked at his hands. “0. K.” I think she did. That's what I| manded passionately. He saw the § : fhe said. “I'm not flying off the | keep remembering.” whole thing once again. “Why | : IR gH : DR i ¢ 3 Jules 3 a + Se} said quietly, “It was the Will | gidnt I have sense to realize how pe . ~~ — h ou don't love her, do you?” | of God some way, son. dangerous it was? It was my |

“ "No." “Yeah? I heard th “That Helen still on your mind?” I don’t think so a Detar: So. waving my aims at her that made 6 g To his blinded amazement, his | had no hand in that business . her step in the way of that special. | H £ A L T F L

eyes misted with tears. Polack! .. .| I don’t want to go around blaming If I'd left her alone, she ‘might |

“I guess so,” he said. “I can't| God for it. Any more than blam- | have taken care of herself help it, ma. It's & ‘hangover and 1 ing myself.” : nt ee te rr ary You | 1 can’t get rid of it. “How could you blame yourself?” 11

“She must have loved you a lot,| “Why did I let her walk on the (To Be Continued) » 5 ”» ts. tracks With my lunch? he de- | 41 Tick, "SR ily “ihn;

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