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THE INDIANAPOLIS

AL STORY—

SKI'S THE LIMIT

‘By ADELAIDE HUMPHRIES

: CAST OF CHARACTERS SALLY BLAIR—heroine. She. had

‘everything that vopularity could win

- her, except ] E DAN " REYNOLDS~hero. He might ~ ‘have had Sally but while he was king " COREY PORTER was king of the social whirl. So . . | But go on with the story.

- Yesterday: When Dan tells Sally that . some day he will make good, overcome his infirmities, shd knows she can wait for him forever. 2 CHAPTER FOURTEEN ALLY and Dan were indeed friends now. Dan came out to ; the house often, sometimes for dinner, again to spend an evening. Oc--casionally Sally met him in the city for a luncheon date and every Sunday they spent the entire day to-

gether. They went on long hikes, Dan swinging beside Sally, deter-

mined to keep step despite his limp, | -

almost because of it. On such a day, when Sally had packed a lunch and they had tramped far into the hills, resting ~now in the shade of a row of weeping willows that| dripped their lacy fouage into a brook, Dan suddenly asked a question that had been bothering him for some time. “Sally,” he said, “may I ask you something? Something that’s none of my business, that I've no right

promptly. “Are you‘engaged to anyone, Sally

moment. > aged!” Sally straightened up on one elbow. “Whatever made you think that? No, of course not. I'm fiot engaged to anyone.”

| “I see,” Dan said. He didn’t. Corey

Porter distinctly had given Lim to understand that he was engaged to Sally. That night when he haa brought him to her birthday party. ‘Corey had said, “Oh, by the way,

tion it since no one else knows about it yet, that Sally and I are going to be married one of these days.” Ais tone, his whole manner as he had said this, had made it an establislied, unquestionable fact. : But, of course, Sally would no have denied it so emphatically if it was. Unless she, too, did not want it known yet. Say until after Corey graduated, perhaps.

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“f wish to heaven youd stop annoying me—now I'll be &s nervous as a cat the rest of the day!”

FLAPPER FANNY "By Sylvia

THIS, ALVIN, IS A WOODEN "IT ISN'T TH! KIDS FAULT FOR BOOT, THE MOST IMPORTANT | WANTING MORE WHEN HE ONLY , UNIT OF MY EPOCH-MAKING . GOT HALF A HUNDRED INVENTION THAT LT AM IN HIS SOCKS WITH'GIMMIES HAVE ABOUT TO PERFECT war BEEN A BLIGHT ON TH' HAR-R-R-RUMPH : ‘HAW, FAMILY FOR LAD, THE MONEY DERIVED AWA : FROM ITS SALE WILL PROVIDE PICKLE YeH ! THE ORIGINAL

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Ny we. AIRWAYS, LIMITED : orients nts J. M. REC. Ug. PAT. OFF. ’ : . J —By Al Capp

WHEN H HOME.Y-THET = FLOPHOUS RE ABABY AN’ \ KID HOME. BUT NOW WERE YO. /&.) LIL AE

NO TWARNT/-HE WRONG AGAIN, ) BUT-2HOW COULD \ YOU NEVERWERE LI] SAID HE. BRANG STUPIDY- / AH OF BIN FREDDIE.\ ABNER,STUPID/-HE. | FREDDIE FLOPHOUSE ) FREDDIE <3 FLOPHOUSE BROUGHT THE WRONG

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GOODNESS !-- WHAT'S THE MATTER, NANCY?

—By Bushmiller

BAW W-W---IT'S A MWHoLE YEAR “TIL NEXT CHRISTMAS!

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A tion,” Sally said. There is only

"one person I shall ever become en-

gaged to, Sally thought. And she hed said she would wait—forever it need be—until that person had licked the things he felt had got the better of him. |

“I just wondered,” Dan returned. She had asked what had mace him think she was engaged. But Corey had asked him not to say that he ‘had told Dan. “Do I act like an engaged person?” Sally smiled at him. “You act just as you should,” Dan said gravely. *‘You are a swell person, Sally Blair.” “Does that mean you’ve changed

~~ your mind—a little? Once you

know,” Sally reminded, ‘you told me I was the sort of girl for whom vou had no time at all. You said you-did not believe in me.” : “I'm sorry I said that.” His gray -eyes looked into hers. “I was wrong. You see I had always been afraid of girls like you, girls who ‘were so pretty, so popular, who had everything, in fact. And you . . well, you were the prettiest, the most popular of them all. Queen of the carnival. Corey Porters’ girl. A glamour girl, in fact.”

“Is that such a terrible thing to

be?” Sally asked. “Terrible enough to scare me to death!” His expression was so

~. serious that Sally laughed. “You

were right, when you called me a coward,” Dan said, after another moment, ~~ “I was—still am, I guess—when it ¢omes to a girl like that. . But 1 don’t believe you are that kind o. girl, Sally. Except maybe on the outside. I think, deep down inside, that you're as sweet and simple and

. [natural as - those spring beauties

| growing under these trees.” { “Thank you, kind sir,” Sally re-

( "plied demurely. But her heart

- swelled with a fierce, warm joy.

i" Dan did believe in her. He no

longer could deny that. Oh, she must be exceedingly careful not to break that belief again. She

must be the sort of girl he thought |

her, live up in every way to that. 8 = =

1> changed my mind about a lot of things,” Dan went on. “I see I was wrong about a lot of things, too. For instance, after I had the accident I thought it was no use going on. I didn’t want to go on, to be honest. \I had had my life ‘all planned out. What I wanted to do.” ~ No need to tell Sally what that had been, this boy who had been a

: king on his skis, who had been a

very part of the mountains in which he had been born and raised. : “I thought—this was while I was laid up—it would be better if I didn’t get well. I hoped I wouldn't, when I found out I might never walk, when I knew I never could ski

again. But I see now I was a

. coward fo think that ...”

' “No, no!” Sally broke in softly. |. . She knew the extent of this boy's

courage.

“Yes I was.” Dan’s mouth was grim. “You were right, again, Sally, - when you told me I was afraid of the world at the foot of the mountain. You see I knew nothing about it. Then I learned that someone— from that other world—wanted to help me, someone who sent for the ‘best surgeon available to fix my leg, who paid all the expenses, who said be would sfand by and see me through.’ * 2 : » # » DIDN'T suppose there was anyone like that in any world,” Dan . His ‘eyes were shining now. “A _ s0 fine, so understanding, so . This same man, Sally, sent for to come to Boston, offered me e position I have now. This same an—-and I don’t even know his ,.as his lawyer says he prefers at way—still believes in me— at I'll come through. Is it any sonder I see things differently now? h ‘want to make the most cof Yepay this man for his faith hat I am determined, not ‘ll walk as good as ever

“There’s no card—can’t you guess who sent it?” “No, and now I suppose I'll have to be nice to everybody.”

GRIN AND BEAR IT ; By Lichty

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xou snouidn’t have told him we were married-—he’s an old family friend and he feels hurt because he didn’t marry us.”

THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson

PRIONAPTERIX, . WHILE IN THE CATERPILLAR. STAGE, BUILDS TUBES OF WEB'/ AND SAND TAA ROUSG A THE AIR FROM ONE BUSH

Whar IS THE Dl BETWEEN A

- TROPICAL. YEAR AND A

Ge JAKE. POSEY, od ; OLD TIME CIRCUS ~~ | ORIVER,, HANDLED Ca) TOO FEET \) OF REINS WHILE DRIVING A 4O-HORSE TEAM.

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. SWER—A tropical year is the interval between two returns of the sun to the equinox. Its length is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds. The sidereal is the interval between two passages of the sun past the same star. Length: 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes.

ing now. For if he could believe tains that, he could make her believe it conquer - Moun: » Bub She never

as well. ’| had looked upon it before.

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has done for me. You'll see, Sally. dp ; : tah No in this world—or any other COMMON ERROR ay

WASHINGTON TUBBS II

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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

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MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE

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THE GLAM

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