Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1939 — Page 18

£ a Ey —_— jad ae THE CARDS SAY THAT NEW BOARDERS TRYIN N | : : i x YOU ARE TRYING TO PUT [77 TAKE A SQUINT AT THE MA ; | iL oad : : OVER A FINANCIAL DEAL, FUTURE wa THAT FINANCIAL DEAL SHE | : hk / MASOR HOOPLE, BUT IT MENTIONED SOUNDS LIKE “THE ONE : WILL NOT BE MUCH OF A HE'S BEEN TRYING TO SELL ME ON,

O : M ARRY - iy , A SUCCESS =~ A GREAT BUT 1 TOLD HIM I WAS POSITIVELY | 1 4 : GPT? 2 Le : : SURPRISE |S IN STORE = ——~—1 NOT INTERESTED/| 1 8 rs a TRON EER FOR YOU ~-A STRANGER | 7 ee oa By Elinore Cowan Stone : ME 1] 15 COMING INTO YOUR A YEH TH! LAST |) 2 | LIFE w+ HE SEEMS . MME 1 ADVANCED 77 efi : % 2. Y

CAST OF CHARACTERS tne | Eg - CLOSE TO YOUw A ZZ \ HIM A COUPLE OF DE A a eT 2 I Hh Ris FORGOTTEN RELATIVE, | 7) BUCKS 1 HAD TO A) é iH: Rid AN 7 14 \ PERHAPS wus 1 SEE KIDNAP HIS STORE

LANCE BARSTOW, hero. Lance had R ae ; > teat dreams for the. future. So did i G BE NX i [ Suh | : GREAT RICHES, BUT TEETH BEFORE T

CYNTHIA CANTRELL, orphaned |}[” TIAL INTE ITN ; £5 : ; SOMETHING SEEMS : COULD MAKE HIM anddaughter of great-aunt - Mary i & Fo 4 iE i + ; v pf : antrell. Still another dreamer was : 33 Pre oo : TO STAND IN n PAY uP ! BARNEY McKNIGHT, newspaperman. 3 § UNE t x THE WAY I! ut Barney was more than a dreamer. 7

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vised that Wall Street has been jitry. Suddenly she wonders about her vestments! CHAPTER TEN : a p oC om ANET left Mr. Bryant's office, “Chef... 5s : ji 5 : Ea EA == ii: NS) mf.c AF <8 ¥ hardly able to grasp the dimen- ” 2 : 3 GG aa L ] sions of the disaster that had over- ZA Yer, a STRANGER IS

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Paks, ¢ c /” 1939 BY N 1-18 pe Copr. 1939 by United Feature Syndicate, Ine. : Ri : ; ; . Cac fraction of it. “Slug’s time was up six months ago but he just can’t tear himself away ; . by A i ~ “Of course, it’s bound to come from his creation!™ Y/ UT VURRY PEEKOOLYAR ZA ae or a mi | HOLD EVERYTHING © By Clyde Lewis| | YOLSSETS / 2) dae pint | | BER Fun Be Base Y | | . Janet, “when the general business . » : ) ES Ric BF HED : SHO’ HATED

iceure Claars Wh, Eo thal Tay | wr” 7) WE DONT __ | |? 50 WHUT HAPPENED SO T HAFTA LAY fl WE THEY DONE ALL THREE | £7” EM ALL OUT-IT WARNT THE BOYS IN TURNED

take time; and it is even possible that the next dividend may be a | PB 2N A FAIR FIGHT -ONLY “ : x A 0) 0 SN 2 SENSE. . TREE O' THEM AGIN ONE

passed entirely.” In the meantime, it appeared, ; BUILDING WI : ; there was enough money in an / , = . emergency fund to pay Janet’s im-|. HAT WA . mediate bills; and there were - enough government bonds and other safe securities to furnish her with what Mr. Bryant playfully called “pin money” until matters adjusted . themselves.

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” ” » HE luncheon at Sylvia Grant's was an utter nightmare. There was a vacant chair where Cynthia was to have sat. Sylvia explained that Cyn had telephoned - that I morning to say that she and Mr. 1 ; ~~ Benton were taking the noon i : gb | — plane to New York, and of -course on I'M BRINGIN' ‘EM 7 HERE, ME DEAR--- F ~ERNIE BUTHA IE Ry | WHO ARE THOSE ¢ | TO MISS BROWN, / 1 JisT FER OL’ : Sr

she couldn’t come. When Janet went in, Leslie & : FLOWERS . IN MY OFFICE !- ; PA" TIMES’ SAKE!

~ Pugh was saying, “Well, Cynthia A Wh ATs y A y FOR ? © doesn’t let any grass grow under 7./ her feet. She’s hardly known Tim- ~ othy Benton a month. I suppose ~~. she just couldn’t bear to see cousin ~ Janet—oh, hello, Janet! How sweet you're looking!” Sylvia, seeing that Janet had heard, put in lightly, “For that . matter, Janet isn’t so slow, herself. Look at the way she grabbed Lance off right under Cynthia's nose.”

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came home and walked off with him?” Leslie demanded. : ( voU'D BETTER RUN UP TO THE AIRPORT | , CAP’ WHOSE Y 'T WAS CHARTERED BY OLD b SURE. WHAT THE AND GET WASH AND EASY, HON iS BOAT |S ) BALDY McKEE. IVE JUST PLACED GOLD! WHy, |TRUN 90 You

Janet said, “Don’t be funny!” DER ‘EM IVE CHARTERED A > r 2 : THIS? Zommmer HIN UNNER ARREST. £21 | \1's LOADED WEETH [THINK I ARRESTED

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wanted, do you?” Someone asked, “And what about Barney McKnight?” “Oh, Barney just happened to be in the way and caught Cyn on the ~ bounce. You can’t tell me that either of them took that very seriously,” Sylvia said. Then they were talking about someone—Janet didn’t hear who— who had “lost his shirt” in the stock . market that week; and she remembered again that she would have to \ 4 tell Lance about the payments on : _ the house at supper that evening. When she had told him everything — even about Aunt Mary's trust fund, he said, his face very white, “But, Janet, I don’t understand. I always thought your money was— | - that is, do you mean, darling, that you have—nothing left?” “Practically, Lance—in comparison with what we counted on.” | “That man Bryant ought to be

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been happening to people all around ; / / | us lately.” | 1-19 ! / ’ 5 A fH “ ’ itn — : y 7 5 B22 HHH Don't 1 know it? We lost two “Has anybody turned in a fox scarf?—red an’ with a very sad . . a : n

Father bought that stock. Everyone has always supposed it was fool- : ; f proof. , . . And this sort of thing has! Jv sj ret |

prosecuted.” | : rh] = rr Hil “It isn’t Mr. Bryant’s fault, Lance. SF g : / in, |

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big contracts today for that very : reason—customers playing the mar- : expression?” : ed

¢ ket. But there should have been illi § some way to avoid this.” By William Ferguson : : ; i VAL HEAD OF THE DOVES"! ‘| BUT TELL ME, MISS }{ YOU CAN'T CONVICT WELL, HANDSOME - THIS IS HAHA THOUGHT LOOK. Sur! HE'S] 2

In some indefinable way he was 55 ND % . making her feel as if it that were ENN IT'S INCREDIBLE .. YET HE WAS NORTH -WHY DID YoU (I ON SUSPICIONS,CAP| [GOING TO BE A BLOW TO YA COULD RAT G all ner fault. N ) ONE OF THE FEW WHO KNEW ACCUSE "BINGO" IN= || TAIN, SO1 GAMBLED THE GIRLS OF THE NATION ouT ON US, DID KNIFE / v & a . = THE OF MY CLAUSTRO - gia OF VAL, IF YOU }J| ON THE CHANCE THAT LET'S GET GOING/ Ran HEN he did not speak, but X EARTH : 4 ALL PRETED fm SS oo : continued to sit,” brooding Ph / Lom ; @ —_ THE FINGER" ON VAL] over his untouched dinner, Janet Sein CEASED . w= S ne DIRECTLY. went on, hesitating a little, “Lance, . Bede SPINNING g : = on the way down I thought of| (IR Tl Ts ON ITS z “ i

i Esomstiing that might solve the dif-| [JEN , AXIS, ~~ ficulty for awhile. Aunt Mary isn’t \ 5 1 Lo 4 So hard hit as I am. All she needs, ; i I on \ «+. really, is a little help to be able to \ | 3 Vl

_stay at the Breckenridge. What I RRR 0 have left will be practically enough ; : for that. We had planned to go 4 RE : to the hotel till the house was finished, anyhow. Why can’t we just take my room and Cynthia’s and

split expenses with Aunt Mary? = BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES

We'd save a lot that way. Then Eo Jou would Zo on paying for ihe MT TAKES GOSH , BOOTS «THISS [| OW, MERWE-THE | [~BOY,0H BOY! 1 CAN JUST SEE MYSELF | ' house just as you planed before you SORTA AS \F,WELL || FRONT DOOR BELLI | As TH MAN OF TH’ HOUSE ,SNO0BLOERNY : OW, OEAR . got Jour ent ihe oi be ; THREE FEET OF —— SAY, 1 COLLD \S RINGING pL, ALL TH’ RESPONSIBILITIES AN’ wp MORROW a e was looking at her as if he REALLY GO FOR You 60, 2 PROBLEMS OF X oi hardly heard her—as if, deep with.| DIAR CANE Je SoMEsnc YH eS \MPORTANCE AEANST WL ¥ 3 B ) recy z \ \ A ) 3 ] 2 i : 4 ¢

_ in himself, he was busy with his own TO MAKE A SINGLE

~ rapid thoughts. : «© In a moment, however, he roused LUMP OF : . ; | himself, : IN J “And where would that leave us| : Jr : : : \ ) ” - ~ when the house was finished?” he 7 ol ; - £11) : pe é demanded impatiently. “Exactly a ¥ y 2 < | 95 a x 40 | \ J fC & where we are now.” , = 3 YY) 140” > 7 : fe “But I thought—well, I thought slp ny me (1 & eI Fass \ / )

that then Aunt Mary might come with us.” :

Aunt Mary would, she knew, how- . Sh i ever hardily she had protested the : wl 7 > : : ; ; b = day before, if she knew her doing / ial : : : For wpa LY

so would help. : : ; o - “But, Janet darling”—he was ob- : {| | ABBIE AN' SLATS

viously trying to control himself . STAND FOR. IN now, to be patient with her—“you 2 ALL OF ASU YOUR ME--2--NO-| BTREE Y DO--YOU 7 » e me an. =e es =e ! - Ld know we'll have to do a lot of en- 4H clus w A || | pace ie WHITE # No : HEAN-- VES LIVE HERE? FINE. ER UK- 1S THERE A TELEGRAPH

tertaining. I don’t want to work . ; — for Hallowell and Benton forever. ANSWER Head, Heart, Hand and Health, ei CONT YOU FEEL GOOD? / = FINES TR : (ATL) \(

Woen the Hight kind of people see J } ] that house—live in the guest rooms 2 J vr vetance nes song HOW MANY EYES HAS 1 see that they just have to have ? mething like it. . . . You don't ; A HOUSEFLY < understand these things, darling, Cn 2 t an architect has to advertise if Candy Lovers e ever expects to get anywhere on nN Turn All Eyes To

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“Advertise?” Janet echoed faint- Delicious . . ... Was that why Lance had lanned the white house with such ng care—as an advertisement? he had thought it was for her. -

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