Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1939 — Page 14

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1 LIL fell WHO'S “TH! RUSTY 1 JUST HEARD HIM { [ WHAT YOU NEED 15 A J GETTIN' TH | \/ NO, WELL GO > NO TIME : 2 OLD WEATHER SAY SOMETHING | r [ MANAGER --YOU CAN'T DO BUSINESS--THATS | ON TH' WAY | T > 5 VANE WHO's ABOUT TH’ Hoom,& HIS MAP FLL TH NENG AND WORK Ro TL NOTH TO \ WE'ARE! 700 : BLOWIN TO ALL FAMILY TREE/P PE LOOKS LIKE : oo EON DO BUT DEVOTE BUSY TO x ; POINTS OF TH’ TH BEAK ON HM! 1] are-TReap| | WHO CAN DEVOTRALLNS. | [He MOLE TIME [Nase TO MAR RY fia : COMPASS? HE IF HE ISNIT A NUT ~~ PROBABLY GETTING THE Business | | BUSINESS, OWNIN' | FROM GETTIN : Ae we 3 LOOKS AS SEEDY THAT FELL OUT OF A SECOND- RQ WHILE ~OU PRODUCE, TH HULL WORKS [TIE BUSINESS! By Elinore Cowan Stone —rr 2 AS A SLICE OF ONE OF THE HAND SPARE | [1] ] + SC WELL Curt VERS, : WATERMELON | “THEN ECHOES OM THE OLD CAST OF CHARACTERS Gr. MERGE ; - DON'T LIVE ; -[ HOOPLE prey JANET DWIGHT, heroine. She was 7 : i IN HILLS! MACHINE! J BE FIFTY-ONE _ engaged to handsome young architect . : Al > ., : . : CQ £ANED. © 4 : : PERCENT IN

LANCE BARSTOW, hero. Lance had » : : great dreams for the future. So did a . fh : | HERP. . >

CYNTHIA CANTRELL, orphaned granddaughter of great-aunt Mary Cantrell Still another dreamer was BARNEY McKNIGHT, newspaperman. But Barney was more than a dreamer.

Yesterday: Janet finds Aunt Mary seriously ill. A few days later she learns that Barney has been sent out of town on a newspaper graft expose.

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“x7 NOW him, do you?” exclaimed the old gentleman, gazing at her with fresh interest. “Well, I have an idea he’s worth knowing. I've seen one or two articles on current topics he's had in the magazines.” “Did you like them?” Janet

asked. ; “He doesn’t miss much, and he’s Sy : HE REVIEWS got a way of putting things so that : 5 : you remember them. Most young : 3 : : 1-28 ARE ALL CRITICAL> men, if they're worth their weight . : ; - ) in pig-iron, start out in life with | [1:18 0% 199907 United Peatire Syndicate, te LI'L ABNER : By Al Copp

an idea that they'd like to take a| «ygo hoo, dear—I just wanted to tell you I won’t bother you about my : w : 5 Noval MIND ; Z & 8, fal righte 41 AN AMBULANCE IS SUMMONED »”

crack at some of .the modern dress allowance any more—I opened a charge account!”

rigors het nse killing but very FolD VERT ING ST LOOK - THREE . Ng : ¢ ew © em actually do. . . . is CA I MON : 5 7 - S.. _. never did. Sometimes I think, even . By yse lows SHEN CALIGHT It = 2 ES nt Ne : £ CAN TAKE SUCH -PTHOUGH HE

now, that it might be fun to have ; a try. There isn’t a heck of a lot HAT 3 PUNISHMENT AND / MIGHT'VE BEEN

OFT .of fun left in life after you're 70.” yr : yg : des & oy “I suppose not,” Janet said ab- ; BUILDING. : i > : : PD ] r A EN sently. “I mean—no one would ever a 4 ; : 10 a \ wd guess you were over 70.” : - 4 KY pT 3 2 Zz ZZ Z He chuckled a little at that. : e 2 i J 7 “Oh, do you have to go?’ he [an as Janet got to her feet,

“I'm afraid so. But it’s been nice to talk to you, Mr.—" “Justin. Abner Justin. Well, maybe we’ll meet again some time.” “I hope so, Mr. Justin.”

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YNTHIA’S message had said that she and Tim would be at . home sometime during the week ; h ; ; ; : ; : ear. ws hi \ 3 : : . after New Year. The news had i : —By Bushmiller

seemed to put new life into Aunt : Mary, who in spite of having shown NF : AN YES, NANCY-=e= 00 ! 7 amazing vitality, was thin and y : WE'LL BUT I HOPE WHAT'S AT Zc pe spent, and suffering miseries from : 8 : 7. f- : WE DON'T RUN : THING TH . No . vv : : 3 Ng oer INTO ANOTHER { LYING ACROSS 3 MASON=-DIXON

her| broken hip. RET TY WIND STOR Christmas morning, her room| \ RE M : THE ROAD? ; LINE THAT LIKE “THAT 1 A 1 WE LEARNED

a virtual garden of flowers, she in- a ‘ NL spected her gifts with the frank in- : : IT? 1. ABOUT IN terest of a 10-year-old. : : g oo SE ; SCHOOL! It! was after midnight—long after i : Janet had gone home—when she said quietly to the. nurse, “Such a nice Christmas! I'm glad I had this| one more. , .-. I thought I'd stick it out till New Year; but something tells me I'm not going to make it after all. . . . Well, I've. had an . interesting time while it lasted. . . . Lb : : ¢ All right, call the doctor if you COPS 10% 5 ; FZ : 2D) must; but it’s no use. . . . No, I “We've completed our consultation, Mr. Sneed. . . . We’re going a A y IRL JAN-28 won’t have my niece disturbed. This to charge you $500.” ; ;

business of dying is something you have to attend to for yourself, any- | FLAPPER FANNY : §} By Sylvia £ MORE EASY TRIES TO te . how. Just tell her in the morning CLIMB ABOARD, AND AGAIN o $9 key ( LWELY, LADS! WEAVE OM, HO! I MUST OF GOT '™M—) )[ YOURE SLIPPING, DAWSON. that I went very quietly—in my OI ; = fr — fa 4 J/ Wop THEM BLOOMIN' SWABS HE ANT COME LP. || ONCE THERE WAS A TIME sleep. People like to believe that.” 1 a a is p RE (A J OVERBOARD! LP WHEN YOU HAD THE And so, having made up her own ce | 0 INV : ! COURAGE TO FIGHT mind .on the subject, Aunt Mary | 2 Blu 7 > SN : : A MAN WAND TO / died, as independently and com- 7 sa : ¢ x ND posedly as she had lived.

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ANET, who had been staying with Sylvia Grant, went alone to the apartment after she heard. Po f 0g ; She wanted to sit quietly for 5 : 5 ; “4 _ : 5 % 2 A Tons 2 ; awhile among the things Aunt oe os 7) Sr v' oui ies { 2d ” DAWNED WHEN IT Mary had lived with and loved. - * 4 Sn a a = : “i SS COULDN'T MOP UP She had hardly taken her wraps Z 2 = ZS Z ) Ih 1 ee TE By A Re )\ THE LKEO YO off before the knocker sounded at dia E b J / ; di % > ; : | NY, « AC Ly BY THUNDER! the front entrance. When she he ie - A e 5 4" uP Tht . opened the door, Barney MecKnight stood, grinning down at her. He was startlingly gaunt, and : % : : his blue eyes were sunk deep in ” » ny 4 5 { ~ mm ; . their sockets; but they were bright 0 hor : ~ Ee. ; with excitement. 1) RRR BE AT : . FRECK , EXCEPT FOR ONE 4 .! WE OUGHTA | GO AWAY ~ ; IN dune To Give 0s He “Well, sister, I'm back in your GE ARSE AE AIR LINE ! I CANT THINK OF A | CROSON’? NOPE : - WORD WE WERE LOOKING midst,” he cried. “Seen the send- SES, : \, WORD © RHYME WITH THATS NOT For ! off the News gave my story? . . . Jessa ER Tune *) SENTIMENTAL. / : : : Where’s Aunt Mary?” Then at i NRA I 3 Pe AR fin iN | Mh ma il

sight of Janet’s face, he broke off | SN

“Good Lord, Janet!” he burst out.| \ | “What is the matter?” mm ml “Aunt Mary’s—gone, Barney,” | 0

¢ Janet said woodenly. “She’s dead. | 5 45 ghia ni ¥ SS : She died last night. Lk a eds We

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“Dead—Aunt Mary!” His face was as blank as his voice. “Oh, Jan! Why, I can’t—people like] Aunt Mary don’t just die—like| that!” 1 1=ay Dom they?” Janet asked dully. en, seeing how utterly stunned| “You can be pretty proud of ihat theme you wrote for \.7-28 — G } he was, she asked, “You don’t mean, The teacher said it would be a credit - a child ih re Fan 1 ) ; Ses bo Barney, that you haven't heard— : MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE

anything—all these weeks?” THIS CURIOUS WORLD re : - ; ) By William Ferguson Zz MORNING ALREADY. WHY, WHAT FUN IT'S GOING TO BE == GREAT HEAVENS! I ALMOST FOR- BUTTERED TOAST |. 3

“How could I,” he demanded. SLR ; IT SEEMS AS THOUGH I RELAX FOR A CHANGE! LET'S SEE- GOT! 1 WAS TO GO TO COURT THIS N' COFFEE = racing. across the continent on the|’ ve) oS I'LL START WITH A LEISURELY MORNING! IT WOULD BE TRAGIC \ 2 7 . : | BREAKFAST IN BED, THEN PERHAPS IF BY SOME QUIRK OF FATE ! DOLLY DARLIN WAS FORCED TO LEAVE HER."DADDY BOB */

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coattails of a guy who was barely A d three jumps ahead of the police. Hii Hi bx SONS SHOPPING, Ti ieNw T] The police Sin; get him—but I i — - ui Ts > Lg, Thats how | found out where i LH a UAE £8% 0 look for the (written evidence I Ih : : ; needed, and—oh, skip that! | It il He FOUNDATION doesn’t matter now.” | Hh OF THE CENTER PIER OF jt “But, Barney, do you mean you've | : THE SAN FRANCISCOust got back?” | ih “Not exactly. But the people I've ! = Oa SP.oeY ERs.

been seeing since I did aren't the kind you would know. . .. Oh, Jan, i SEA-LEVEL. you poor baby!” j i v i Ea wee i CER a a E put his arms around her; A Ls and she leaned aganst him fl EN == LN while she told him what had hap- oe AN yar | REA

pened, crying passionately for the en Saas ER IE i LR ? ™) VES (V Dened, cryin es ; HE MAKES ME TREO. fl AS \F \X MATTEREOL 1 CANY SER \} fl SY _THE WAY, WHERE “They said it was her heart Re ——— ILL BE Reet Down. § : 1 CANT LEANE TH" 7] WARY. TH' DICKENS \S TH OFF ll ARE WE GOW’ 2 ; ; r : ; : BABEL GEE, LOE BEEN fl 816 OMBAY | T° | APARTMENT WTHOUT Barney,” she finished. All of a AANENT @ HS WANTIN TO WNOW sudden—after we thought she was OO \ : WHERE T'M GOWN we ANY better—it began to grow weaker xR LARLY . > d Wx} Piooev! And then it just—stopped. ... Oh, A "OWS: Wm ce? Mi 8 \ : : Barney, 1 wanted you so terribly| © NAMED FOR. | 8 : all that time! And you didn’t] THE PLACE WHERE | 4 & HY come.” IT WAS She felt his arm stiffen under RST her head. After a breath, he said Fl PEND, with .an intensity she had never heard from him before, “For God’s sake, Jan, don’t say things like that unless you mean them!” “But I do mean it. I kept thinking every day you'd call. Even Lance did—and he knew Aunt Mary gidn’t like him.” , He was silent so long that she CSN : : a ; ysted 22 Jad, Then he said, 2 lhe F [nT eee, ; : SHE “I'm - here now, Janet. n ! ? ST | NONE always be here if you'll let hha 1 id TAXIDERM -1 ARE E DUMB OF E-HER A ALE THRE 3 ou: SUT Ab SOUR DHEA YOUNG Do you remember what I told you . STUFFS ANIMALS / AM WITH WALLACE PARTY SHER AOL Li THIS TOW TER : SEED SR! ~ that morning when we were stuck : RIGHT D THE RED: i ; AS Rom od SKY Jas ’ 1 CERTAILY DDOBICT TENG ins ; jn the fog? You said something : OR wrone HEADED ESCORT a HAPPY TOSEND | UPSIDE DOWN # BUT : 5 ES mY ah ae \ corr. 1939 8 nea service me, ® J | : | NcrABTReE | | BRING HER BACK 4/N| woman of you, and I said I could| ANSWER—Wrong. Modern taxidermists construct anatomically cor- 1 - gest : —_@ | think of a lot of things I'd hate rect models of animals and fit the skins over them. : 3 \ worse. | That wes 3 masterpiece of z : : ; | understanding, Jan. . . . I couldn't] “But all along I thought it was|know, I believe that somehow she say much more that morning—not| Cynthia you wanted. . . . We seemed |Understood that all this was going till I had something to show you.” just— . 4 fri ” to happen to her soon. It was onl IRE re, ust—grand good friends. y : a little away from him.|" ; a chort time before I went away that nl never thought of us—in that|bad start, would it? As for Cynthia,|. . . I wonder if you'd care to hear way.” ; that never really meant anything to| What she said?” ’ After a moment he released her! either of us. And I've ki Eon “Please tell me, Barney,” Janet slowly. , ; , of swell girls, Jan, but you're the|Said. : ; _ “Of course,” he said. “Just another only one I ever—~well, wanted to take le ; dream A But 1 thought you|care of fo est of (To Be

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