Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1939 — Page 13

PAGE 14 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1939 SERIAL STORY— | GRIN AND BEAR IT By Uickly OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams ff sreETNGS, MARTHA! : MARTHA 15 A BIT CUTE WITH GO ON-- JUST PUT | | ] m I

DATE WIT Qa N —= ON MY WAY IN FROM THAT CURLY MAPLE CON GAG] THAT SIXTH PIECE OF oy ai \ Ta | CHIcAs0, T PICKED UP THANK SHE TOLD ME JAKE WAS CHOCOLATE PIE ON | | Sy SN > A A FEW FLOWERS FOR A YOU, JAKE! | ENGAGED ONCE, AND GAVE HIS YOUR TRAY! GO Ii! 1H

iy of FRORE h ? Nou--AHEM! PAPER, YOU'RE GIRL A SECOND-HAND KEY RING ON , T DARE YOU! DA NGER | i i; > | OF COURSE «THEY LAST § A ; > it HSN Jin, N REAL J ' | ; — rr oil |B usin HE'S CLOSER THAN A | £3? o A EE p QUARTET IN A PHONE s § Ss , . i LS 3 Y 1 , By HELEN WORDEN | ~ i SL SE OFF AND THEVIRE FRESH £3 BOOTH! ANID, BY TH’ WAY, — [= PETER A [ * 4H BE et EE AS EVER! WELL, ITS "TH 1S YOUR SAFETY DEPOSIT Ea SPEC/NLE =F CAST OF CHARACTERS oi mo AEE, 2 Bb SAME OLD PLACE EXCEPT 80X FULL? TI WANT TO PUT, 3 Ls 4. Bel rr MARY FRANKLIN—Society editor. |] ® = 77 Be : oe) by THAT BROTHER AMOS AWAY A FEW x DUKE MARTIN — Suave night club | | & . A E cM a ey SUT PLANTED IN TH RX NECKTIEES! Fengster. 1] = NE DN A iE | DEEPEST CHARwHAS | aS

JANICE FRENCH—Society deb. | | y L B Lx A ONE TO BED JIM SHIRLEY—Playboy. » i" 7 1B at | HE GONE 2

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Yesterday — Walking home, Ladd de- : , . 3 Hh RS cides to launch an offensive on the LE 4 3 Rn | et Uli Janice French case, orders Mary to “3 : a 7 51 Pr | write a follow-up for the next day. | 3 » 3 Vr pow : mee

CHAPTER TEN

HE telephone in Mary Franklin’s bedroom buzzed unpleasantly. She reached lazily across the bed. “Hello.”

“Mary, this is Tom Ladd.” The managing editor's tones carried impatience. “I've been trying to get you for 15 minutes.” “I must have been asleep,” she said drowsily. hs ? a : " / TR “Don’t you keep anyone there to GE i ey = © / ARIA answer the phone?” SE x3 Salo : 1 So | 1, “Sometimes. What 40 vou want?” | coor. 1539 by United Peature Syndicate, Tne. . £-30 | {COPR. 1 “See Janice's mother and father " . . , - before you go to the Dove. I want “Where's Buskin? His office looks like it ain't been slept in for | THIS IS AT UNIQUE ¥ IT's AO BOVIF-MERE |S TEES HEE" OW I'D ROVE TO MARRY YOU, an interview with them for tomor- some time!” WHERE THE WN (CAHLL a= 4 BLE. W £47 7£S7 SQuAwW / AMUSING 7 - SOME HEAP BIG CHIEF ~STEEP HEED) row. We've got to spring this thing —2 ] NTI COSTUME BALL LURK NEAR BE EVER SEE-/ LOVE HER") DISTINGUISHED PERSON- | BUT I'M ALREADY MARRIED. quickly after all. Step on it.” The HOLD EVERYTHING IN HONOR OF d A WINDER AN" FAT SQUAW” ACE NO DOUBT DRESSED | WHAT WOLILD YOU DO recsiver Ueliged ap. L | UL ABNER YOKUM | SLAUGHTER § | DISGUISED AS TROUBLE ) | GOT PROPOSITION \ AS AN NDMN AND { WITH MY HUSBAND She wanted to stay quietly at . i 1S BEING GIVEN, EM WHILE A PREHISTORIC | FINDIN' LIL FOR YOU. YOU MARRY | USAC WOMAN DYALECT | THERE -SCALP HIM ? home, protected from a world in - pb GENTLEMEN. HEY MONSTER. ABNER IN ME AN’ | FIND YOU ILL JOLLY RIGHT

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eteers, suicides and managing editors. She must get up. She must get np. The words beat on her brain Idly she studied her room, the white walls, the pink taffeta curtains, the delicate ivory furniture. The apartment consisted of the fwo lower floors of a brownstone front in the East 40s This evening a fire flickered cheerfully in the old-fashioned black iron grate, casting pleasant shadows on the shelves of books which formed a wainscotting SRE Ho Sa - : around the room. A door at the HER > i || a I'LL SPLIT TH’ BOUNTY (5 FEEL SETTER You LISTEN ==- TW?

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~ ~ - N y T" Se usiiites later she was fol- \ § ’ as DN A a Re § oP: 2 ee xs we. aki Jowite hith WD ‘the marth cabs RATHER BE OUTRAGE, SCALAW A X ) HE MUSTA BOY, T DON'T SEE g stail ARRESTED. | |CONSTABLE. GIRL ON A FREIGHT Ron ” pr RECOGNIZED HOW THE HECK HE As she entered the immense draw- : ! > = ME DONE IT. ing room a man slowly rose from 3 a sofa near the fire “I am Janice's father,” he said He was thin, of more than middle height with a parchment-like skin and gentle brown eves ‘My wife is too prostrated to see anyone,” he explained ‘But naturally when 1 read your note 1 was anxious to learn all I could about poor Janice.’ His voice broke slightlv as he : po - ef § | uttered his daughter's name and! | ! A FE oo; A IY then shot up hysterically. “How | : V “I rod rh ef , ’ did you come to be the one to | : A "8: Va" / COPR, 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. 4 identify her?” Mary was silent. If she told $-20

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“Miss Franklin, this is my wife, : . - = ) fm Mrs. French.” | ROWS \T'S A ax a 7 : NOBODY \=

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those Roman matrons you some- Be ~N } 27) yi [| Hl NOUNGSTER - times see in Victorian steel en- : i gs NR C 7 —— =~ (OY Ee gravings SEE LIAN PN a 2 7 JY h : 7 d(H] h “Miss Franklin will understand. I < RECURS Sap ae ® NY 5 2 , am sure, that neither Mr. French i j ; |

nor I can talk at a time like this. The servant will show her out.” OF

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An expression of contempt came 14 HAVE BEEN over Mrs. French's face. “No mem- 8 3 PRODUCED BY MAN ber of my family has ever spoken to Yar IN THE a reporter.” > The footman appeared in the door. LABORATORY. ‘Jenkins, will you kindly show this \ voung woman out?” \ a Mary smiled. “That isn’t quite bb NM h/ correct, Mrs. French. As I told NZ" your husband, Janice talked to me —— every time she came to the Dove.

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had the apartment on E. 70th St AT NIGHT Mrs. French gasped. “This is UNMNEALTHFEFUL unbelievable! Edward, are you . going to stand there and let this ANSWER—According to the U. S. Department of ailture. Wiatits | girl tell us that our daughter didn’t actually are beneficial in sleeping rooms, p Ring ys live here? poisonous varieties. Mary turned to go. “Her other

address was 45 E. 70th St.” a J “Its 8 lie” cried Mrs. French, cmploved at that address, told de

Mary's story was carried in a tectives of the §7th St. ‘police two-column spread on the front station, early this morning, that her page next morning. With grow- mistress had been there as late as’ ing curiosity New York read the 9 o'clock of the night her body was

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