Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1939 — Page 22

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" |He had sent her flowers and . candy, books and perfume; he had " squired her around, escorted her to “all She gay spots, courted her in away that would have won any girl's heart. Except Sally’s, which was| broken. .| “No, there isn’t any reason,” Sally| | answered. Truthfully. There really| . was not. For now Sally knew, after ' these three long months of heart-|| “ache, that Dan never would come| . back. 1 “Then why don’t you name the - day?” Corey persisted further. This Ho was on her way home from a foot-| Hd ball gainegihe Thanksgiving game, = in whic! tmouth had scored a]; triumphant victory over “Gornell.| | They had stopped at a favorite inn -for coffee and sandwiches and to “get warmed before the long drive | - back. : :

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MANY OF THEM! r= man any girl might well be glad to { ~marry. So blond and easy to look | ” ‘at, so gay and glamorous, so. mueh | i . a part of the luxurious easy world 3 | _that Sally always had known. : 5 There was no use now in hoping that Dan ever would return. She| | _might as well forget him! She might | | as well destroy the letter that was] the one thing she had left of him.| She might as well mend her broken heart as best she could. Yet she could not bring herself _to say the words that might do that, GRIN AND BEAR IT

| dered, looking at Corey. He YED--- THAT'S OH, AUNT FRITZI-—N OH, I DON'T KNOW-—) : '-had been very good to her, very|{’ B= | N WHAT'S YOUR __ A I LIKE A GREAT By | patient—for Corey. He’ was a young FANQRITE - ° |

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the words that Corey wanted her to say. She supposed she would say . them some time. It was very difficult to hold out against such persistency as Corey's. And Sally was So awfully tired. : “I've got something for you,” Corey said now, his blue eyes looking into hers across the intimate “little table. “Since.you admit there's ' no reason why 'you shouldn’t accept it, my sweet, I want to give it to -you today.” : - He put his hand in an inside pocket, drew forth a tiny square box. ~He had been carrying that box for a long time, waiting for just such a moment. He felt that that moment “had come. | I. The inn was practically deserted, || except for a few scattered parties. : | . The lights were low, the room warm and cozy, the gypsy orchestra was _ | murmuring a love song.

Hi ” ” ® . | OREY opened the box, took something from it, reached || across for Sally’s hand. Before she could stop him he had slipped a | ring on her third finger, a square-

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soft rosy light. Corey had had no : right to purchase a ring, to puf it N :on her finger, when she had not $2 :given him any reason to think she ‘could accept it. But it was like him to do it in just that way, re- 3 “i fusing to admit that she could do Cope. 1939 by United Feature Syndicate, ay anything but accept it. Corey who :

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«1 “Lem’s feudin’ agin’ every family in the valley since bein’ made dis- \ : {| always won in the end. . : = ; 3 Why: should’t 7 Why can't Welek census takisr—fsgers everyone he knocks off now | be —————— = -_— tie Jou?” His challenge matched that make It easier in Ind08 MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL N By Th d Coll § _ of the sparkling stone. “Don’t take| THIS CURIOUS WORLD Willi RTH, oki : - : Ne : $ of, Sale, Wear Fi you _ By William Ferguson | [2a% comey ml one or (THE WHOLE PLOT IS OBviouS| | RIGHT, MISS NORTH- BUT WEVE ON TE WAR HIRSE SET 8 THE Sup 1 ma ) : : : COMFIEST CELLS, E\ <& wu! NOW = THE "DOVES : A STILL GOT TO FIND OUT WHO'S GILDER PREPAR SHOOT HIS FIRST § i-.“But I can’t make up my mind,” AHL UL Loven | [306 Ab i= He DECIR S) {WERE ORGANIZED FOR THE | BEEN FINANCING THEM AND HS SCENE. WITH THE AD OF A SHELETON, % Sally said sadly. IN WEST | TO TALK, CALL ME g She SOLE Bl WHO THIS "2%" BIRD 1S! pe - RN ed : ¥ “Then let me do it for you!” ni AFRICA ce Si hha +Corey’s smile was triumphant. He ; : 9 A E ' rcaught both her hands in his, MEN OF THE THE DOVES . terushihg them so that the new ring | OVIMBUNDU ‘| oF PEACE" 2 .:pressed into her soft skin,\hurting 1 Heap | iit, even as Sally’s heart, fluttering TRIBE. QUARTERS, fia Uneoriainy, ached. MUST NEVER L PREPARED = : e might as well let him do that. TALK = J She knew Corey would not give up a= asi | ‘until he had won. She liked Corey, 11 : TO Ee +more than any other friend. She IN-LAW. {DLA jeonla Hos hope fo 5nd any other so EXCEPT. ios 1 faithful, so persistent. Anyone else THROUGH fg ££ Jo would make up her mind | for bluse ie py: : her. : . wi ; : E: / 0 J | ts time, Sally told herself, that | A rors 2 1.4 ELEY ET vy Martin [150 stooped tuning of Tan, Hop- BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES a —By Martin : e back. 1 : eet GAR “GAL OUTTA I He never would. He did not want : X THERE, Mow | Av GEE ,WASMYT WT FON 211 YES INDEED! The BAR OA OU . | «to live in her world. He had not : iE : THE DECORATIONS 1M ALWAYS SORRY | | CHRASTMAS SEASON T Y=. : | ;asked her to go with him to live no ARE PN 1 WEN oR TAY omy, IT | in his. He had told her that she PN Cy Bhai wl | | :was not the sort of girl he wanted. x3 , = Sc 2

» = | JT YURING these long months 3 those words had been in back vof every thought that Sally had had. They had wounded her at first, but | :gradually they had begun to hurt | with a different way. | | { They taunted her, they stung her pride, they stirred her to rebellion :and on toward anger, She knew, | ‘though he had not told her, that +that was what Dan, writing them, shad meant they should do. He had meant to hurt her, deliberately. | He thad meant to arouse her anger, to | /make her come to despise him for them. He had wanted her to put ! him out of her world, forever. + Sally did not take off the ring. jAfter she withdrew her hands from

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in ABBIE AN" SLATS' ee te Tan i FI NEVER HADNOGIRL BEFORE-BUT J POOR |. | THERE! IFINISHED IT? ITS. IF SLATS CAN SWEEPOUT HER 4 KIDHES| | RANIN' TERRIBLE, NOW. CELLAR AN' CHOP HER FIREWCOD- < ) READY || GUESS 1 BETTER WASH OFF Corey’s firm clasp, she left it where 1 CAN! ee THIS SOOT orp

AN TO COL= she had placed it. It was , , LAPSE= | ‘N ; autiful ring. The kind 2 hits ANSWER--Wrong. The average length of life today is much longer BUT : ~ #hat a girl like Sally should wear. than ever before since accurate records have been kept. : : ~ ; She laughed shortly, thinking of a me -

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fhat. she said. “Why not?” And Zhe light in her dark eyes was pangeroneny bright, as long ago it biten had been. Perhaps in that t the old Sally Blair, Queen ;the carnival, party and glamour rl, came back. The Sally that that her girl, who had loved Dan Reyn- , had tried so hard to kill. “You mean youll wear it?” rey asked. He had known he d win her in time. Yet some- . Maybe because of something

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else that lay behind the brightness in Sally’s dark eyes, his high moment of triumph held a tinge of remorse,

Or, maybe, in spite of being what he could not help being, Corey Porter had enough decency and goodness in him to have to experience that one moment, at least, of self contempt and reproach. . Sally nodded. What difference

did it make whether she wore| . Corey's ring or not? / * ‘any-| (All

thing matter in her gay, glamorous world? ‘She had not succeeded in|} a

killing Sally Blair, but she could kill that other one, the: one who had

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