Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1939 — Page 22

: With Major Hoople “~AND YOU'RE “THE MATOR HIMSELF «a YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL MEwa~1 KNEW WHO YOU WERE THE MINUTE You OPENED YOUR MOUTH! WELL, NEPHEW, YOU NO DOUBT HAVE || HEARD RUMORS OF MY EXIST= ENCE, ALTHOUGH T/'VE BEEN IN BURMA FOR “THE LAST 45 YEARS ww TM YOUR UNCLE : Nay BRUNO!

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YES, SIR, THIS IS HOOPLE MANOR, RESIDENCE OF MATOR AMOS B. HOOPLE, FORMERLY OF HIS | MASESTY'S ROYAL MOUNTED DRAGOONS wa HAR-RUMPH §

| OAST OF CHARACTERS T DWIGHT, heroine. She was to handsome young architect. BARSTOW; heéro. Lance had

at dreams for the future. So did ] ' CANTRELL,’ orphaned ughter of great-aunt Mary Can-

Still another dreamer was Y' M’ENIGHT, newspaperman. irney was more than a dreamer. srday: Just as Janet is getting to irriey, he dashes off one night on Ige assignment. It is weeks before ps him again. |

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‘The maid who #did” the apart- N ment Faguaty had been ill for sev-|| eral days, and her substitute was efficient. When Anna, the regular, maid, came back to work, she darted about the apartment, ||.Cos . running her fingers over dusty surfaces and ducking disdainfully. . “I'm |awful sorry, Miss Dwight,” she said to Janet, who was alone in the apartment at the time. “When the manager told Mr. Benson I took 1 care of these rooms, he asked to * © talk to me specially, And he told me—" 1 - Ak “ “You mean the owner of the apartment?” Janet frowned. “But 1 thought his name was Sartorious.” § = "“No'm, I mean Miss Cynthia's - husband—the day he came to arrange about your taking this apartment. He said—oh, my goodness! ‘What am I telling? The housekeeper’ll cut my tongue out if she finds ” out. ‘I ain’t even supposed to know.” YS Bi : [) # Zi i) Janet's thoughts scurried for a : : / 2 ~~ moment... so it was Timothy Ben- : MX . ton’s money, and not the social lus- ; A © ter of the Cantrell name that had ] : 2 saved Aunt Mary from the garish- SHALL I PAY ness of the Avalon Apartments. FOR OUR ROOMS “It’s all right, Anna,” Janet said 7 NOW 2 quietly. “But we—the family don't want my aunt worried about—unnecessary details. She’s rather old, you know. Of course, you won't mention this to her or to any one ~ . Who might?” . “No, ma’am!” the girl promised “devoutly.

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FTER that interrupted dinner at the Italian restaurant, Janet did not see Barney McKnight until . early in November. He drifted into the apartment one evening as fl >< : Se, casually as if he had left it only a SERVICE. IN : few hours before, teased Aunt Mary “I know he didn’t leave like that, but I can’t draw horses.” for a few minutes, and asked Janet : if she would like to go for a ride. [FLAPPER FANNY | “Don’t worry if we're a little late,| q ov | Aunt Mary,” he said when Janet agreed. : “Worry!” sniffed Aunt Mary, to whom the word was like a red flag. “Neurotics worry. I shall go to bed with a good book and forget all about you.” "But Janet, who knew that Aunt Mary did worry, was consciencestricken when, miles out along the road, she glanced at the clock in a filling station before which they had stopped, and saw that it was after 1.

- ERNIE BUSA IL LER

THERE'S THE BOAT, BUT WHAT ) THIS IS A \ COME ON. I HAVE "F MR. DAWSON WONT PERMIT / MATTER OF \ SOMETHING TO US ABOARD? LIFE AN' DEATH,| SETTLE WITH DAW-} HONEY. WE SON, ANYWAY.

EH? |THE PRISONER, HE EES GONE! we AND POOF =HE EES) TO ARMS! TO ARMS! WHATS ARE MARCHING THE AMERICANO TO THE GONE! TWO MEN : ™ AY? EXECUTION. WE SUSPECT NOSSING AND A GIRL AID IN / DEAD OR ALWE! (WHEN WHOOIE! BAM! BANG! OH, ‘ WHAT A RACKET. OW, WHAT WILD : HORSES WE RIDE!

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“A slug? ... Barney, it is dangerous then—what you're doing! I wish—" “Well, it isn’t my shoulder the slug’'s in, if you notice.” Barney’s tone was impatient. “For heaven's sake, Jan, don’t you turn into a worry wart. Youre much more amusing as you are.” “All right, you crazy Irishman,” - Janet retorted, “stick your neck out as far as you please.” Barney cut in, “Don’t try to be Bary-bolled, Jan. It isn’t in your e.”

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~ “Can’t do,” he called. “This gives me the jittefs. We'll have to park Hill it lifts.” i Janet climbed back into the car, vering more from the nervous psion of the past few minutes than

“Cold?” Barney asked quickly. e- reached over the seat back, ged out an old rain coat he pt in the rear of the car, and apped it about her shoulders. hall shelter thee,” he

them, they seemed to be off in & remote world of their own, isolated in time and space. They hardly talked at all, yet Janet found herself strangely contented and at rest. Barney was a comfortable person to be with. It occurred to her that she had never enjoyed a companionship just. like

this before. With Lance, there had

ship, after all, was the one ideal relationship. a Janet did not know “how long they sat so, before she realized that

Barney was asleep, utterly relaxed in the corner of the seat, as if he

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SO very companionable after all, she thought. And was surprised to find herself feeling suddenly very

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