Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1938 — Page 20

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: CAST OF CHARACTERS +” NIKKI JEROME, heroine; blond, pepu- . lar, is engaged to six-foot, black-haired i { STEVE MALLORY. hero: who is acor :companying her on a trip to Nikki's Ae aunt and uncle on a Wyoming dude ,ranch. Nikki's father, PETER JEROME, is a wealthy New “York jewel merchant.

A PITCHED BALL THAT IN ALL MY DISTINGUISHED

$ - * Yesterday: Sarto is captured and trussed 7 7 up. Then Steve demands to know who Fiske is. Fiske turns swiftly.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN ? ‘

NCLE JIM let loose a great / roaring laugh and somehow . the tenseness went out of the situation. . Nikki and Steve looked at each other in bewilderment. “Maybe we're crazy,” said Nikki. | | = “No, honey,” said Uncle Jim. “Lo *But you can put down the rifle, Steve. Fiske yonder is a detec“tive.” = “Detective?” gi a N = pricy, it Te or “I warn you, cook, if your mistress and I have any more trouble with blame you for being puzzled. Per- you we shall walk right out of the house! -

haps I haven't acted very detectivelike. You see I knew exactly. who Bancroft and Sarto were and they suspected pretty strongly who I was. But I couldn’t act because this angle is just part of the entire case. If I tipped my hand too soon it would spoil the whole works.” : Steve laid the rifle on the bench. Nikki started to speak. Then Sarto stirred slowly and Steve raised the rifle again, but Fiske had the revolver in his hands and was stepping back. Sarto slowly opened his eyes .and sat up. His wavering glance finally centered on Fiske. : “Okay, copper,” he said, and turned away. “Bring the rope,” said Fiske. They led Sarto to the same tree around which he had ordered Nikki and Steve, and the returning ( searchers. Fiske gave Steve the pistol and he pulled Sarto’s arms back of him and around the tree, : ‘binding them securely. Then he tied his feet. : 2 8 = ‘NTIKKI, meantime, had pushed : her uncle away from Rance and taken over the first aid job, ‘working deftly and capably. Uncle Jim brought out a kit from the cabin and Nikki selected a long ‘swabbing stick and twisted cotton -around one end of it. She dipped the cotton end into a bottle of io dine and said: : “This will hurt” Rance was watching her admiringly. i \ . Swiftly she ran the cotton swab 3 through the wound, twisting it gently. Rance grimaced once and then grinned at her. The bleeding ‘had almost stopped. She took a roll of bandage, placed a fold of cotton at the wounds on each side of the shoulder and wound the bandage over and around the chest. “There,” she said. “Now we need a sling. Wait a minute.” * She unknotted the neckerchief from around her throat and fitted it on Rance. Suddenly, the job done, she felt a little weak. This ‘would be a fine time to faint, she thought, now that everything's over. Then she remembered. The sun was high in the heavens. So much had happened it seemed as though it should be night. It was noon. “Do you supose,” she said, resting one hand against the cabin and turning to her uncle, “do you suppose we could have something to eat? “My Lord,” said Uncle Jim. *“For a minute I clean forgot you two had been lost. Say, there's a lot of tellin’ to be done around here.” “There certainly is,” said Nikki. “There are a lot of things Steve and I want to know.” “From you and Fiske mostly,” Steve told Uncle Jim. 7 “That can wait a minute,” said Fiske. “I'll tell you the whole story, but first, suppose you tell me about Bancroft.” “Suppose we let both stories wait, until we give Steve and Nikki something to eat,” called Uncle Jim. “I'll sling a little chow together right quick.”

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FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia

MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE

ANIA GRABS DESPERATELY FOR MYRAIS SCISSORS AND THEN ENSUES A URIOUS BATTLE!

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to stand up?” “Not nearly as hard as it was to sit down.”

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By Licht QF HEN! WEBBIE MEWHOPE NEGLECTED TO SEND WW UIRGINIA A PROMISED BIRTHDAY GIFT, WASH a SENT ONE FOR [W. SUDDENLY, ON THE DAY AFTER:

GREAT SCOTT! HONE", I FORGOT TO SEND ‘A GIRL SOME FLOWERS, YESTERDAY.

—By Crane

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” ” » OODY wobbled over. “I can do it,” he protested. Uncle Jim waved him back. “Let Nikki look at your head. She’s the nurse around here.” Nikki found an ugly cut, daubed it with iodine and swathed his . head in bandages. : “Wish I had something wrong i with me,” said her uncle. “You will have if you don't hurry with the food.” “I'm a little hungry myself,” he replied. “We had quite a walk hunting for you all—while you were right back here in camp.” Nikki and Steven ate ravenously and the other joined them. When they had finished Woody took a plate over and féd Sarto, who ate sullenly. “You two certainly use teamwork,” said Nikki. and Woody dives.”

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THIS CURIOUS WORLD

By William Ferguson * ALASKAN BROWN BEAR, LARGEST FLESH-

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$ Nikki and Steve told then of the landslide and of their getting lost and spending the night in the hills, of hearing the shot the next morning, seeing Sarto, and of finding Bancroft’s body. “I suppose Sarto must have seen di us from the top of the hill,” finished yo Steve. “He didn’t know we had bit found Bancroft but he‘did know we

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