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CHAPTER NINE | ¥ KNOW I suggested it,” Betty I Mary was saying into her tele-| phone, “but I think the celebration will have to be changed, Hope. Because I have a new idea. Now listen—you and Sheridan come to my

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hotel at & o'clock for dinner. 1 A: Ie have already ordered it. . . . No, I, 3 (=) Z, “ig won't go out with you two. I don't] :, Fon i ; / want to be seen with you vet. I 3 : : fee NN = V7 I» want te stay under cover. That's vo j 7p | Jie NF - | ; i me are Wi LEN x HK Lo | ON'T LL OOKRwA Q

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the Paso del Norte Hotel burdened “You've contributed thousands to the college, Rufus—why can’t you with gifts. get Junior a position as vice president of the sophomore

Betty Mary told the boys they | class or something?”

Sere le ry, SUM OLD EVERYTHING 7 oF ONLY. DAISY MAE | LpDAISY. MAE REACHES PINEAPPLE JUNCTION - [ DAISY MAE REACHES EAST PINEAPPLE JNCT. “Even if it’s not so it sounds SAM -AND N BE HAS ANY O'|LAST AM SEEN ©’) HE MADE TWN WE 1S RIGHTO -ONL WHEN DID \ my’- y greet. Betty Maty~ Hope declared. i MARRIED E YO’ SEEN JHIM WAS WHEN J MISTAKE O' PASSIN' VERY & A FEW MILES RUA AP A PEE ROO YAR “ SAM? DIFFICULTY WILL

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just posing, really. He's just aj ) : . fiat-foot cop at heart. Me, I'm] Ser SCE SAFE. PLACE. TO ? ; \ —% 1 LAND. DANGEROUS romantic, and handsome, and : ; JHESE MOUNTAINS

“And garrulous, and lazy, and impressed by a senorita he met in Juarez. Betty Mary,” big Sherry interrupted. “He's not to be trusted.” “I am! I mean I'm not!” Hope was tangled now. “I just said she was a pretty girl, is all. Anyway, | that was a month age and—" : “Sh-h-h-h, stop jabbering!” Betty Mary commanded. “Especially about another girl. I shall be jealous. II there really is a senorita in Juarez. Officer Kildare, I shall call and insult her, so there! I'm going to Juarez myself.” | “What for? Let's go tonight. To a cabaret, or a theater. Hunh?” td » »

ve O. I'm serious. Sit down, bovs, and let's talk business while dinner is coming up. Now, I really am going into Mexico, this very night. I'm going under cover, too. | I am going to be a giddy tourist, asking questions and sketching pictures. I have studied art a little. 1 have a plan.” “Yeah? What sort of plan?” Hope smirked. knowingly. “I'm going to get more information on Mr. Luis Barro.” “Now listen here, Betty Mary, !

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you” Af “You listen yourself. Both of ig} al EA TR RA) you. Those prisoners you took ad- FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia) = y - ; di mitted they were Barros custom- , NANCY : —By Bushmiller ers, didn't they? Barro sent them ; i , . over, you said. Just as I learned, in 0 ; '.. SPO g » F : ’ ses 4 Jee UR — RN advance. Well, we still didn’t cap- 2 J LP ROE SEs Spooks - My oR An I Ens SCARED CASE NUMBER © S NX ture Barro, and trouble with him id W \ AND GOBLINS AREN'T | AMUSEMENT PARK! 1 || FOR A THE AUNT ED HOUSE | may keep on indefinitely unless we . REAL oR a Se MY . WHILE MYSTERY | WORKSHOP - - - THERE!

get more information as to his movements, and do something to put a stop to him. See? He must be lured to our side of the line.” “All right. But you, a girl, can’t be risking—"~ “Oh, 1 can't? Are you my boss, you two?’ She dimpled at the big men. “Listen, your boss sent me out here to fire you! Maybe I will!” “Aw! But listen, Betty Mary.” “No; you listen. I have already reserved a hotel room in Juarez. I shall carry a 22 rifle cartridge in my purse. t has proven to be a badge of membership in Barros band. It sounds fantastic, maybe, but luckily it's true. » 5 =

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HEY spent nearly three hours arguing and discussing the strategy further. When the two men perceived that she was determined, they helped her map out a detailed course to follow. Hope and Sherry knew certain places in Juarez—restaurants, cabarets, hotel lobbies, theaters, gambling halls where Luis Barro was known to Visit, They also knew that he kept a suite of rooms in the Montezuma Hotel, but that he had other resi- H dences. too. | “I hope we get better tenants this vear.

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The last ones fought all the Betty Mary agreed just to move! time an’ left the place in terrible shape.” : cautiously bv hinting. when she AT ——— or Ts A i evi . oie | | Wn 7% M thought the time was ripe. that she 1HIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson EC wanted help in smuggling some # . : “ 9 FR KLES AND HIS FRIENDS

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aliens into the United States. Oi VE - ECE ED hinting that she had certain valu- AVAL 7 able commodities to be slipped in. OR. Or just discreetly displaying he INAABITANT OF ST. AUGUSTINE, 22 cartridge where it might get her FLORIDA, ALLIGATOR FARM. “In” with some of Barros gang —_— Betty Mary discovered the two officers following her taxi, in their | official car, when she actually did | start into Mexico at 10 p. m. She smiled to herself, wondering if thes would trv some wav to shadow het even after she crossed the international bridge !

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g§ & ¢& | HE Montezuma Hotel was no- | where nearly as luxurious as the Paso del Norte, but it was comfortable, and picturesque. At 9 the next morning she asked the clerk for “tourist information.” |

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then dutifully rode a taxi to sce! = — NOTH the sights. | Eh 8 ER xa 1%E Sue By noon she was sitting in the SURVEYS SHOW FLAGH LL OW | : QV WARD SWES RGRAY a, pas, Sine To the RN ay CAN'T AND W \TS PATH IL ON, street on a large drawing pad. She OUT OF FIVE ANS NOW = paid a little tamale peddler 1 peso WAY hy -——about 30 cents American monev VES —to pose for her : SO ALONG WHEN An elderly American man. fel- | THEIR HUSBANDS low tourist, watched her for a few BUY Sirs, minutes, then struck up a conver- = sation, | FZ Ste.

“I am interested in types.” she informed him. “I want to meet interesting people over here. Good people. had people, all kinds. To sketch them.” ‘Then youd better go to El Ca-| sino Tecolote.,” he suggested. “Tt is! a florid place. All the gamblers, |

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thieves, beggars. adventurers ang soldiers foregather there ~~. THE ANSWER 1S i I She thanked him and went on ® “uk aN RE BCRON Nate / SOMBHC HN enee 5 SCI OOL | Mw IN HERE // i il with her sketching. PACKIN' RODS + AND NERVOUS - 3 LIB LN ing fl lh = a #F + & ~ ANSWER—With modern refrigeration, oysters are edible every TH THER TRIGGER-FINGERS: wi Ful, ME um RESENTLY she got up ang Month of the year. Mm MIGHT HAPPEN: Bi (Ikeq the few blocks around! ” oh xed | i J ( == on 16th de Septiembre St. to a spot gentleman, in the car?” she asked, vy , ot ( = he she could see the Casino en- in Spanish. uestions and \ \ 1 i > y= rance “ y - CO — . ‘ He? Why senorita!” the officer w \ j . =) One expensive loking automobile ; he , 7 1 Cy % JS whirled up and a traffic policeman C0: “That was His Excellency, Answers oy ox i ; | < himself hastened over to open the Don Luis Faustino Rodarte vy Barro. @ 1s it correct to say that oR pla Eromed MEIN. oh Spin TTY Ane man! (Canada is a colony of Great Britain? kt Y fashion alighted. spoke cordially to, a“ re 5 Continued) ‘ A—No; it is a self-governing io € - FIAT i Cy cemat, and went into the | AR even LPS harpaters Jn 3 a Lv of the - Bihpre. N : \ A oa oy Betty Mary promptly closed het | {Is there a road across the Govsketching pad and walked across to! COMMON ERRORS ernment-owhed strip of the Panama Ne speak to the policeman. | Desperado is pronounced either Canal? lt “Who = that—that handsome 5% ray or des-per-ah’-do. A—No. Sa } ONE NOL — So 5 : ach 5 ia i hii Ty

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