Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1939 — Page 24

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: i 1 {ff & 7 § TERI RIBLE IT 1S TO TURN A 6UY _ By Elinore Cowan Stone ; JP 97 = y EARLY. AGE YOU HAD A HABIT STILL RECOLLECT WHAT A Ou NT Econ AND cab OF GHARSCTERS | & Ney 7 IA OF HANGING AROUND FIRE TIME MOTHER HAD » : AR i a : \ HOUSES AND LEANING AGAINST { '\ CHECKING OVER THE . B ' JANET DWIGHT, heroine. She was % ) 9% 45 ; h : , 3 vA : _ engaged to handsome young architect. : Vay ; 4 pi 8 CORNERS OF BUILDINGS ! ey LVER wa HAR-RUME : w@NN .. LANCE BARSTOW, hero. Lance had d - g : & iS \ great dreams for the futyre. So did ~~ CYNTHIA CANTRELL, orphaned : granddaughter of great-aunt Mary * Cantrell. Still another dreamer was . BARNEY McKENIGHT, newspaperman. _ . But Barney was more than a dreamer. Yesterday: Janet finds that Tim Benton’s generosity has saved her pride. | | After long absence Barney returns; he ; and Janet are caught in a fog, forced * to sleep in his car.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Ei NCE Barney roused long enough "J to pat her arm and murmur a drowsy apology. Janet did not wake him until a brisk wind scattered the fog and ‘ made driving possible. It was almost : : { = N daylight when they rode into town. \ 3B — N\ vs ; . re » " “If anyone sees us,” Janet told % : : oi — pt \ : ; wh 5 : “him as they stopped before the ig 3 = = 7, / A THE . WB 7 ly ue ‘ Breckenridge, “you may have tO] [J€SSE"" "Ny : : z ON oN 4s ge ; ~~ 2 : make an honest woman of me.” ; Ly : “ly ann 1 3 OUT OF THE J {e : *You can't seare me, Aunt Mary 7 Xf -27 FE0PR: 5s IP vice NET 10 6 AL Gh A CLOSET = Das ris DEE HEROES ARE MADE -NOT BORN = '-27 | doesn’t own a shotgun,” Barney wa : : p—— . . , ‘grinned. “Of course this wouldn't | COE. 1999) United Yeature SDMiciW, Ine; make any difference to you, but I “Have you had any experience playing for 9,000,000 people?” can think of a lot of things I'd hate ——————— ~~ - . . _ \ worse. . . . Well, I guess you know HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis| IP YOU CANT COLLECT ; 3 TIMES Up’

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~nots forget the way his eyes had “searched hers. gn Aunt Mary’s door was closed when ~ © Janet stepped into the hall outside, so she opened it and peeped in. ; Of course the bed lamp was burning; but Aunt Mary often slept with alight. ; Later, Janet remembered a boo i : Glo on the floor. It was sprawled open,| FE Hf | / P “0TZ face downwards, with the leaves| § ; “yuri ACKING Com

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_ the office of his newspaper, she was “told by a crisp secretarial voice that . SL LL ANN, mY BLL J Nan McKnight was out of town. For the ! RY, WY first time Janet realized how much i) ITS MINE! IVE OUTSMARTED EM J} she had come to depend on Barney. : ALL. IVE GOT US OFF THE 1 | SAND BAR ~~ Tp = ® : ANCE called her up—first at; the apartment and finally at thc hospital., By that time Aunt Mary's! . chill had developed into pneumonia. ! Janet [as at the hospital when| Lance’s gall came. “Janet,” Lance said, “Isn’t there! something I can do?” | “I'm afraid not, Lance. Only the : _ doctor is much use,” Janet said : x : . il ’ LD) wearily—quite as if he were any of 3 Ho a? a hundred others who had called ; ; _to ask the same gnestion. FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS “It won't hurt like this forever, i : TD uy) 7 3 ; , Ee] Jan,” Cynthia had said. “I know.”| |~— I Ai : Bear Ir! Were Co Ir's GOTTA HAVE ; Y! te A 9 [Vi / bia ’ And unbelievably, Cynthia had been / 7 (A : & DINNER'S . WRITING A SONG | DINNER, {| WORDS IN IT LIKE : RAY: Ay 7 li Ae] CARRY Bo Ho On erick right. IAT Mt I R\ Reaoy/ w°=WE DON'T NEVER “LOVE” AND "MOONLIGHT*/ BI | REMEMBER. SONSS”/ JI |! ON FROM THere ! AND RIGHT AWAY | . *.* * Fal LI WANNA ae Sones S| THAT'S IT, A | wu se £ASY/ You WANNA PUT UP _ 4\N the bench from which you ||I[FUIHH I |! Ag. Rm: DISTURBED, me) ml || ARR: gr | : -A BUILDING J could see the white house,! [|i[fi\}| (ii Hi . 2 \ 7 || THATS Our J iz : coul 1 PHP 0] a im REMEMBER [1 | TITLE! nestling, cameo-like, against the] ||} VT { 0 : - FE, _bare winter hillside, Janet found | ( | the old [gentleman she had talked with there before, a bag of peanuts on the bench beside him, an opened newspaper on his knee. The old

gentleman had aged noticeably. ! oo : ; ov i Q (F= SS / : “You must have been misisng your : // Lo A NN pS i v C : \ daily dozen, young lady,” he said, ; . . ! | | a WE 4 = YA making room for her. “You don’t “I know a man who plays chess blindfolded.” 3 2 BE iS | / ‘look quite up to snuff.” “Huh! I've seen, granpa play it lotsa times while he’s takin’ a nap.” Em Zz = A | “Tr : ; 2 : \ ' Janet explained simply, “I'm not. —_ — NR ¥ ; Sp Vy htt Be My aunt—the only mother I re- THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson 4 — D hE : GOPR. 1939 BY NEASERY “M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. 2.22 Ee 5.7% oun very HL fom over MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE vo Th —By Thompson_and Coll . “Mrs. Mary Cantrell,” He looked EE —— my =n . : - ns 5 startled. “Then—are you Miss Janet| fee IN HUMBOLDT {i : WOUL ~ |-5SHE CLAMS TO BE DOLLY S LONG \ Bh IM GOING HOME T00, | | “Miss Dwight, I find myself in the] Fae =| IN 1906-08, | nu age A A EN NE a \ EIT CORY EERE TH

‘unpleasant predicament of most| Fail By yt {1 Vé& 77 people who talk too much. . .. You X J} seb A | OY , : see, I-do read the society gossip.| EBS ; OF Mn VE Bee" / ;

Used to read it aloud to my wife before she—went on; and got the {habit. . . . I remember seeing something about your breaking your engagement. , . . I hope—of course if I'd known who you were, I'd have { kept my fool mouth shut that day.” ' © “Oh, please,” Janet cried quickly: “that was something I had a right to know. . . . Things like that happen to be really important to me, When I broke my engagement, 7 : that was one of the reasons—but : NN oe only one. . . . Anyhow, all that = - = BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES : ory oem to master Tow; She : BOOTS, WHO WAS THE. IN ~ N BUT THAT RED HAIR SHE WAS [SRE MUST HALE GOBS OF OUGHOAYL | 1 ONT HEAR ANNONE MENTION HER “That's fine!” he said ‘GORGEOUS CREATURE ASEAN 1 WEARING WAS HER OWN \DEA, THE NAME TAG ON HER WRAP WAS FROM| | NAME, BUT HER WITIALS ARE S.C. 1 y 3 . i WN THAT REAUENLY \ NOT MOTHER NATURE'S wwe AND THE MOET EXCLOSWE SHOP IN TOWN 4 SAW TREM ON BER TLUENMNG © ; As if glad to change the subject, . HER FIGURE WAS PRON! ! ORE ONT MARRIED AVE! AWD

: YY, TOO he went on, tapping the newspaper i Ss Whe 30 on hs knee. “There's a good deal \ in the news besides the doings of| ° society these days. This now. Here's IN SOLITH AMERICA, a young man who's done something LAKE TITICACA, no one else in this town’s ever had LIES 12,500 FEET -the nerve to try.” As Janet glanced down, phrases leaped out at her from the page: “Beginning Monday” . . . “Series of articles” . . . “dramatic exposure” ... “graft ring” . . . “exclusive story,

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