Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1939 — Page 29

SERIAL SYORV— Border

Adventure By OREN ARNOLD

CAST OF CHARACTERS BETTY MARY JORDAN—Pretty young

EGAD, GERALD, A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY HAS PRESENTED ITSELE BUT LT WiLL. NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE TO TAKE

DOLLARS WiLL BE OURS IN THE SHORT SPACE OF TWO MINUTES J HAR-RUME WE WILL GO BO-S50«~ON ALL

EARNINGS, OF course! Ir IT's A BARSAIN WE WILL HIE!

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By Williams

/ OM, BALONEY! YOU'RE LIVIN IN THE OLD HORSE AN’ BUGGY DAYS! A MOSSBACK OF THE OLD MUSTY MAUVE CAD

YEAH ? WELL, IT'S

THE OL BOYS OF TH MUSTY MAUVE THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE FER YOU TO HAVE WHUT LITTLE BRAINS YOU GOT! WHO INVENTED ALL TH MODERN CONVENIENCES --SOME

GENERATION 1S GETTIN Too COMFORTABLE,

1 IF THEY KEEP ON} THEY'LL HAVE TO DO AWAY WITH BEDS-- YOU'LL HAVE TO STAY UP AN’ EXERCISE ALL NIGHT SO YOU CAN ENJOY YOUR REST NEXT DAY

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OURSELVES TO THE SCENE OF OUR BIRST “TRIUMPH AT SEVEN SHARP wa WHAT

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Border Patrol service secretary. SHERIDAN STARR—Handsome Border

Patrol officer. HOPE KILDARE — Starr's fellow offi-

cer, siso a bachelor. LUIS BARRO-—Mexican smuggler. Yesterday—Betty sends a letter to the officers. telling them of her discoveries, that a woman and child are involved in smuggling. Then she signals that she is safe.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN ETTY MARY deduced accurately that El Casino Tecolote and The Place of the Sleeping Monk, two establishments with excellent music and excellent cuisine, really were Luis Barros favorite hangouts when he was in Juarez: But, he appeared to have business out of | town a great deal of the time. | Betty liked The Place of the] Sleeping Monk better. It was quieter than the first spot. It did not have a big gambling room adjoining. A detail too was the fact that! Luis Barro had ordered the proprietor and employees there to “show Senorita Jordan every possible courtesy whenever she comes in.” She discovered that his order meant she could never pay her check, nor indeed pay for anything, despite the meticulous servjce they gave her. In a way she didn’t like this, but in her capacity of detective she knew it was a valuable lead. By sketching there often, and eating there at least once a day, she] struck up a nominal {friendship with the manager who sat in the cashier's booth. The fifth day of her stay in Mexico, she picked a moment in midmorning when the place was almost empty and when Luis Barro had ,not been around for more than a day, then opened her purse in the cashier-manager’s presence. “Oh, dear, I must have left my compact in the hotel,” she lamented. As a woman would, she dished out all manner of purse trinkets. Lipstick. Handkerchief. Pencils. Coin purse. Note pad. Tiny scis-] sors. Nail file. A snapshot of her| father. Mirror. And—a 22-caliber rifle cartridge. She called his at- § ES tention to the cartridge silently with p> A 4 her eyes. 3 Instantly the man turned to his cash register and pressed a button. “Cling-clang!” the machine sounded, and a “No Sale” sign popped up. From a drawer he calmly took a 22-cartridge of his own, fingered it a moment for her to see, dropped it back and closed | the drawer. Betty Mary felt her | pulse quicken. This was the third person today to whom she had exhibited her cartridge, and this time it had worked. The other two, a waiter and the traffic policeman outside El Casino, had shown no response.

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HE WOULD BE IN A GOOD MOOD AT A TIME 2 LIKE THIS?

I'M TH HAPPIEST _ MAN IN TH WORLD-— MY GIRL TOLD

: I WISH IT WASN'T OH--1 DON'T ON THIS REDUCIN' THINK ONE LIL y DIET === 1 JUST CONE LD FEEL LIKE HAVIN' MATTER!

® 2 = ve OU—you are one of us,” she murmured, tentatively. “No one is near, but is best not to talk too much in a public place,” | | he suggested. “Luis gets careless, { I think. He is too sure of himself.” ol | “He is quite capable,” Betty Mary “A said. |

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—By Crane

SEE WERE, MY FRIEND—I'LL PAY vou ONE THAT'S | TROUSAND DOLLARS. AND NOT ONE CENT MORE! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE THIS INSTANT !

WELL, SPORT, EITHER YOU'LL PAY US TEN THOUSAND, OR WELL 60 TO OLD McKEE AND QUEER E WORK:

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“It’s perfec’ly simple. All you hafta remember when you're pullin’ is, the radishes are in reg’lar rows and the weeds aren’t.”

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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Q THEY WERE BITTER ENEMIES ONCE, AND FRECKLES SAVED OU

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in his—his organization, as you “I am interested in narcotics,” she IN “A hundred thousand pesos? 0 WELL, MR. SPLENDIX, YOU'RE TRYING TO BUST THE FACTS ARE PLAIN AS Luis send it safely across? Do you i api A 5 0 | at i wo) EX A HN: RY wo ALAR Vy SAND BUCKS, WHILE YOUR AQ ¢ ih his plans and affairs. He might not | TRE - “Ha! Senorita is indeed new with it on the underside of freight cars in the Rio Grande! He is the smart him.” Betty Mary was not looking profitable to us all.” “Si senorita. To the Peraltas. The Peraltas? she had enough to know that Luis ELL, it was not yet noon. She AN AWFLL STRAN | ARE YOL W\SW 00 \S NOTRING Tih \X Toes During these last few days, Sheri-

“Oh, of a certain, senorita! caution is always good.” | “Surely, senor. I am, uh, new, doubtless know?” { “Don Luis never speaks to me of | his helpers,” the cashier said. {ln said quite frankly. “I know where |} i as perhaps a cargo worth a hundred thousand can be had. Cheap.” WASHINGTON TUBBS II fossa’ 0) ; ” THAS WHAT YOU WY ! how much? | HE WELT \UP THE WASH TUBBS- CAROL McKEE ROMANCE Sars an To ig dollars. American dollars. | To oLD | SO YER OWN K\D CAN MARRY THE DAY. YOU HIRED ME AN' FIF) r a tenth of that. Can—can Don | SPLENDIY, McKEE MILLIONS, EW? TO RUIN THiS Juess K\D. think I should tell him where he : | AE as iu might contact this cargo? I do not! KID'LL GET MILLIONS! r= wish to-—uh, interfere too much in| - / even be interested in narcotics now. N y 4 Heretofore I have helped only with B= \ POSTEROUS! aliens.” R\D\CULOLS! the grand one! He has sent in more contraband chemicals than men. He ships it in sacks of beans. He ties that cross on the railroad. He even has little boys transfer it to the American side when they go wading one, this Don Luis!” “Then when I am sure I can get the new cargo for him, I will tell at the man, lest her eyes reveal something of the excitement she felt. “A deal of this size should be He would send it by submarine, no doubt. It is the safest way.” “Oh. You mean—?” They have—hark, here are people coming! We talk too much!” W By submarine? 9 Betty Mary left, wishing she had | ~~ \Y learned more! She couldnt quite put two and two together here, but nw Barro had several avenues for ry AM smuggling dope, and that his “sub- BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES marine” was considered best. on , 3 v3 2 = = 4 = GOSH , BOOTS « YOU | SHES ff VES « T HALE BEEN UNDER | OKAY ff WAS OEY could cross cross to El Paso ® R TN and contact Sheridan and Hope 2 about it. ALL RGRAY NOW 7 ll WE COL\D GEV dan Starr and Hope Kildare had A 3 N Sad asked for duty at the international Bor eR re Ly HK, y 2 2s bridge where, they could be near if ) : = : Rew i V4 3 ; 4 : J oy 7 A

Betty Mary needed them, and also be on the lookout for the woman smuggling dope. The woman who, Betty Mary's letter had hinted, worked with a ¢hild. It was their task to inspect every vehicle that crossed during their shift on duty.

They saw the Tafoya woman every *TUSKS OF AN

day and studied her covertly each time. She had a little girl perhaps A

5 years of age, named Angelina. OR LOWER JAW P ®

Angelina invariably carried her ANSWER—Upper. They are elongated and specialized upper

—By Raeburn Van Buren

THAT MEANS-NONE BB ("THE BEAST! HE OF THE BOYS WE PULLED A CLEVER. INVITED CAN COME TRICK ON ME == BUT TO THE DANCE //!

Y'SEE A FRIEND O'MINE NAMED YOUNG EVERGREEN WHICH COME TO VISIT ME LAST NIGHT--ER- (“VE GOT MY FINGERS CROSSED”) TOOK SICK WITH MEASLES, THE DOCTOR IN ROSEBORO TOLD ME TO PUT UP A QUARANTINE SIGN. NOBODY ALLOWED CUT- NOBODY ALLOWED IN!

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sometimes a big teddy bear. “She's been arrested and searched twice,” Hope kept musing about her. “And yet they didn’t find anything on either mother or girl. We must be on the wrong track somehow.” “That Kid's cute,” Sherry ventured, the fourth morning of their vigil. “Always cuddles a doll; has a new one every time she comes over and — SA-A-A-A-Y! My Lord, Hopey!” “Hunh? What's hit you?”

dol'v, sometimes a big baby doll, incisor teeth,

But my little nieces back home, they clung mostly to just one doll, had a favorite they liked to wag around! That Tafoya woman—and little Angelina’s new dolls—!” “Whe-eew!” breathed Hope, sudden understanding. They confiscated more than a gallon of the little cocaine capsules used for doll stuffing, when they ar-

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“Sa-a-ay! Didn't you tell me you held that little kid's doll one day while the matron was searching her and her mother? Didn’t you?” “Yeah. But what—?" “Well, listen, Hopey, that kid has bad & new doll almost every day!

rested Mrs. Tafoya and daughter next morning for the third time. The size capsule that retails sub rosa for about $2 each.

(To Be Continued)

(All events and characters in this stor x are wholly fictitious.) y