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z LX 7 ine sab J a y 5 i \ © SERiAt STORY— | 16F Ey By Lichty| OUR BOARDING HOUSE en a With Maer Hiopls OUT OUR WAY 7 THE BEST WAY TO B= IT TE BE ABO AEA 27. Ee — ~ GHOST VANISH WITHOUT HIM IS TO PUCK AS A ROYAL, ! 72 Zz = on TO SQUEEZE INTO MY 73 MOUNTIE WITH A DSZEN - GOT TH: 1 st A TWELVE - OUNCE JALOPPY AT AM. WHILE | [f BEAR-TRAPSw~IF HE EVER | | THIN LAMB / | HEAD OF LETTUCEY | HE'S STILL IN THE 77] - SNIFFS OUR "TRAIL WE'RE. “2. CHOP ly OH, WELL, IF T's 2 A wa DETOUR MIPOLE OF HIS BASS A, (NO BETTER OFF. THAN ~ZZ77 T= ARE \ ure ows,” J CLEF SMOTHERING EX- sLiZA fp Ls od: a —. ah v ERCSES! Too BAD We J = By OREN ARNOLD CAN'T DRAG THE OLD 7 NOTHING TO Do BUT ) Bay ALONG, BUT A 2 7 - SHAKE HIM LIKE f 2 : : Ain 2 : RESORT IS EXPENSIVE, “, THE PORCH RUG we HIS Ye od BOSELN DALE OASIS TINE PAL- | fi : : ~. AN' 7 HAVEN'T GOT / : . BANKROLL WOULDNIT _ MER — Parcners in a summer tourist |’ : a A ANY MORE MONEY LAST ANY LONGER IN 2\ - venture at Goldcrest. Ss J ZA, j = THAN A MINNOW 4 10-A-DAY HOTEL THAN DICK BANCROFT and | FRANKLIN ep FS \ 5 2 : = z 5 > HAS “MUSCLES ’ \. ‘A GENERAL IN russia fl /ft LARRAWAY—They also found an inter- | \ WP . { ” 0 7 . o i : CY DR EE Liao \ est in Golderest. 45 ? Yesterday — While Christine goes fo Franklin, finds he is wounded, Dick starts after *Roselee, jeatches up, takes her from her horse. At that moment |they see Quait fall when. his horse stumbles. Dick starts after Quait but he remembers Quait carries a gun, CHAPTER EIGHTEEN LMOST the entire party that day at Goldcrest, 60 or 70 persons in all, headed by Roselee, hastened down the cactus-studded slope to discover Richard {Bancroft walking toward them. ; Lea!” Roselee shrieked from| afar She came running fast and with- fe da . : . ; i Z 2 : out another word she was jn his a ail for iaE J amma. ys GENERAL |DEA

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‘“Dick! Are you hurt? dresses! May I see them?” ; UT, MAMMY, NO, SONJ-TH BEST |{ HOWDY BARNEY ; - bE Ty 2A ETT TH Mi fr A roGiY TEE | = ’ WY ~- -

“No. Of course not. My horse f HAS YO’ EMT was. bouncing and twisting around HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis NT ) AN ATTACK” / BARNEY \ SEEN {( MEN AN A-CGuLP) -TH§ DOES YO the joshua trees. I wasn't a good gal” ; ; . i r——— WHO OR BARGREASE!) ANY OLE LADY/-THEY THEY. LOOK ER V Trier Lg TER HOO) Vapget for any pistol.” fei 4 Tr” : War EY STRANGERS WAS ILRI RON: WAL T J oY- —- “That was oi man named Quait, ; IN TH OLE. BLACKHEART { WE'LL AX E LATELY? 5 "8R-R-R- -R%poy LL THEY COMES THARS BIN ANY ; - all Roselee. Franklin got the dope on wri ; GUNN ANGERS him in town. There's $2000 re- 2 ward for him and the money he hid in your bank! I knew he'd come back, but I.didn’t expect him in broad daylight. And you—gosh, Roselee, youre a spunky kid!” - And -then. he dropped his arms, save for one around her shoulders, as he walked with her, because the crowd had arrived in a flurry of questions and excitement. Dick ‘grinned happily at them. | “The- man’s back there on the] ground,” he explained. “I had to : conk him. Somebody please take » ¢ i * him in Charge. He's an escaped ; { RED RYDER ; - Tavict, a murderer.” Eh, ; Fg . : ” . ami : " 3 That excited all the tourists anew, 4 HMM-M--- T COME TO THE RIGHT HOWDY, BR TV] 1WEEL STRANGER, [\ NO! WHO EXCEPT YAQU! JO ry 2 hind diverted their attention to : PLACE TO START TROU pin ME = or : { BANDIT, PEDRO § ¥ Sal They rushed to him in af $i 4 : TOUG hs ‘ A : : “VE VERY JEA 7 TU ween y ;

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Mrs. Hogan had come belatedly to meet them now, and they walked hack into the ghost town with her. Their first demands were about Christine and Franklin.| ° _ “Mister Franklin was hit in the laig,” Mrs. Hogan “said. “But I looked hasty at it and I don’t believe it’s much. He might've been killed. Whoever was it, honey? I| declare, I never see each excitement!” They hurried to the old bank- and| | EI COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE. |

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” ® ® { HRISTINE nodded and held out her left’ hand. “Engagement ring,” she barely, whispered it, so grave had been her emotional stress. “Cost $4,” Franklin. resumed. || “Crenuine petrified wood, set in sil-| ver.” “We'll get you to a Hospifal at once, Franklin!” Roselee cried: “I'm : "i ; \ NS 3 ; : : ; y so happy for you and Christine. Buti| . bn os oe \ ( : JOE || Si ad 5 a2 goodness, your leg! We must—" > 2 a - Mn | Bs ‘ Has . Cr ES Within half an hour they had \ BR Wy RE : alien : Sh wl PC IE. dressed Franklin's wound carefully Go / - a beelem—— —— SE and placed him on mattresses and '| ! / er ; Sap aim : yl quilts in a sedan—an improvised J / : fT Sau ambulance—and were riding away / a ; STP, EEGE! te Kingman with him. Mrs. Hogan di Zi i : d STOP CAN'T Bs, and the elderly cowboys took charge || : d ok ANYBODY BLUFF /TRUN 1 OF 11 BF AS IT A158 or isw] 5 of Golderest temporarily. Most of | i) YOU, SQUEEGE [ SILVER, STUPID |} CON oe WAY 2 ORRIBLE x the college erowd had to leave at 1 ; : / ; : 1 7 77 | | TAks- BUT HE I p. m. on schedule anyway. ey. : : \ Ty 2 ’ « exclaimed that never did they ex- a | / 7 MINDS NE OF RUBY! pect to witness another adventure : ; : He comparable to this one, and Roselee regretted that she barely had an opportunity to ‘wave them a final thanks and-farewell. Dick drove the ambulance-sedan, and while the four ' young people ‘volled carefully along they had oppertunity for the talk they needed. Dick tried to tell them about moving the money into the jail dungeon | and having a fight with a mining| “J¢ keeps ending with Herbert. Don’t you know any other ryhme Sha ; : as man there. ” except ’eenie-meenie’?” ae gt We know it,” Christine put in By pp gh 2

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Dick said he moved the mone; 'be- Fa ? — EE / cause too many people knew oy was| |= \ ; =— 7X = an off a) IN- MY HAIR / in the old mine shaft; ‘Mrs. Hogan aR 2 : — : 7 % had even told the cowboys and In- : = - : - i arr : ae dians, he had learned. re na - “And the ore samples sent in for | assay, Roselee,” Dick was suddenly snihusiastic: “They - -mean plenty of money you! The reports went to the mining corporation by mistake, but they can’t take the property from you. You own it entirely. Reworking.the old ore I had in mind is good for $6 a ton, but remember that new stuff is worth around a : ; ; \ hundred! No telling how much there : : CY aa | |BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES

ig of it!” = » gat’ ew a : : .% = ® 5 wali : es, | YEP , SURE D\D « BUT WL = re : Ca ag ia ( re] WEN, TH TR TH HAT was Mrs. Hogan's discov- | bear a ba : 5 PORIN W\CE VEER Be ; : % if i : ig 2 BOR ps « M : AX THE FAR , ROME LEW, MAW ? “Rc 4 | ery,” Roselee declared. “She : » OFF, : OR ? F NOUR \LUGCAGE , Go saw the new gold streak in the rock 7 : ss : “oe ’ Vr AWD wee = there when she helped us out of ; : : : ! SR xk all cave-in. But Ie money ih 4 GEN mine.. We're all sharing this.” | 4 7 SRS ““No,” Franklin said. “colderest Jie OF A ; Same es ig your town. But I would like to keep my Jp x I can. I need iit , to get ma on.” i} . J i TREE “You'll ‘get the $2000 reward, : HG oa UNTIL THE IS too,” ssid Roselee, smiling. You A ; SO TO 100 and Christine and Dick. You cer-| | \W A BNA YEARS oo’ tainly deserve it—goodness!” "Sa ME i £ xe They didn't say anything more for a long minute or so. Their young hearts were too full. Chrissat, pet Sender leds! ere an : a ER RRR) under her, holding ank- ns : ALE bog . ws hand and stroking his heat TY. DIO. Tr Sa ‘| ABBIE AN" SLATS avingly. They were a little cramped | | RATER gt | — in the rear of the sedan, although ; RE VenERT EAR] NO, Si J : , ’ : * it was not uncomfortable because STARL NS DANCE” AT THE. 8 "i Sosk BETWEEN my hy AND 1 0]

the pavement gave the car smooth . . : IN HIS ! ERVILLE INN? YOU rolling. Roselee was in front with PROMISED TO TAKE 3 SHE'S A DARLING, REALLY

and turned often to talk with| | % 2) a. Digk and h Bios OF AMERICA'S ) 7.28 | | ve-Renpunge? “I-am so—h-happy, about every- SWER~~Because there were no starlings in America at the thing, I think I am--going sme’ e painted his bird series. : i Ohristing said, I did. a vi : ow there is ‘somet magic |at Christine and’ anklin, so she| “Yes” ching aliout. te tears. And about love, too,| turned around. Ey 4 Bere sid, > is visek uehing of co ‘| And as matter-of-factly as that,| | They ont have to be your own|Dick Bancroft put his strong right (The End) al tears, nor your own love necessarily. arm around her and. pulled her/| (All events, names and characters in this , Other people's will affect you before close, and she rested her head on story are wholly Reiitions.) * you know it. Still, if you do have his shoulder. He was not driving { love in your own , and if your | fast. “WAR AND A WOMAN,” own emotions have heen straining, For a long moment Roseles said The Times new daily the. agi ie a Manly to | Infinteely Rothing Then she snuggle ed. 2 sloser _serial, begins tomorrow on £2 4 avian Waa E> is WON J Sus

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