Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1939 — Page 15

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CHRISTINE THORENSON—ecame fo visit ka 4 AWE “ ’ A A Z ; et : . : ie pin GE Sava ee So, s Boo! SCAT!! BILL YARDLEY—had a reason for ; \ MOREL ore : ’ Po . watching’ Christine. : GEORGE WILMET—employed Christine as a Boardwalk artist. CHANDRA—looked into the future—and into the past.

Yesterday: Police, investigating the murder in Christine’s booth, detain her for questioning. The victim had been drugged, killed with a dagger. Bill identifies the murdered woman as Mrs. Emma Talbert, Christine’s cousin.

CHAPTER SEVEN

NOR a moment Christine bardly ° heard what was being said. For that moment she stood, isolated by shock, torn by a pang of affection she had never before known she felt for the formally kind, but pain- A ! & fully repressed woman she remem- Gare a — TR SRE Bons 153 BV NEw SERVICE NG... bered as Cousin Emma, but had —a% righ pid S a : : ET never really known. : “1 still think the neighbors would have taken c

When she came back to her sur- : you took the trouble to ask 'em.” J = : ile, ‘ s iy ; - HOW DOES AH KNOW TSK? » THAR SHE B voundings, the inspector was ask- = . ] : ¥ : ing the doorman, “Have you no-|{HOLD EVERYTHING lo] By Clyde Lewis SHELL IELR FIER Vv, ih / ALLTHIS TE AL. : A go ER ticed anything unusual around here —— BEFO' SLIN-LIP?-=SHE SELF A SKONK FO' W , S=TH' | Well" the doorman. hesitated | | | || [| FESR sc Eepiny AX LEER WF, NE lonER “Well’—the doorman hesitated— | : { J ’ A RATFIELD?Z~ “about half after 11 I did see this / . SO-JEST T"MAKE SHORE ONE EYE OPEN rf A, hs) oo -— young lady”’—regretfully he indi- Th SHE DON'T-AHLL ---") : of : cated Christine—“come along and : : stop right here; then her boy friend comes running up those stairs from the beach, and they hurry off together. . . . But first, she takes him . under the Twentieth Century lights and—kind of looks him over.” Christine flinched as she thought i AE z= : A & 4) of that moment while she and Bill| | £5 [eda ik, ; gi = NF vi hd J) § there, laughing and talking— i w { ay \ _ \ with Cousin Emma perhaps already | > Eo 2 7 ; : : . NUNNN

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\ : Zi BLIN ! Y | BULLETS. THES ‘Why, Christine remembered with = 4 1 \ y 5 CAPTAIN MENDEZ ¢ ) \ 7 2 V7 EESNO BLANKS? unpleasant start, Bill had been wet. : 4 A j / Rea, « » « He had said— “Say—lookit!” The newsboy,- who had been staring at Bill, pointed a grimy forefinger. “I see him before all right. I sold all my tomorrow morning's papers by 10:30, and I was out along the Boardwalk. And I seen him in a parked car. He was leanin’ out, as if he was waitin’

for something.” : oil The inspector turned to Bill. _ Pe iin _ “What's your name?” he de-| | - COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. NO manded. “Why should I call you when yeu’re having a rock fight!! You couldn't “William Yardley.” hit the side of a barn!” “Oh yes—run the riding school, : don’t you? . . . And you say you|FLAPPER FANNY | By Sylvia : ! knew Mrs. Talbert?” ! - ’ : . ’ : —— — rr EEE “I did.” 5 : : HEY, KIDS !-- I nel I'M GONNA I'M THE “N33 The inspector took a small dark : NOW THAT WE : BE THE ¢ BEST ONE ¢i object from his pocket. ; L HAVE LEADER! AT MUSIC! “Recognize this?” he asked. AN i He “I ought to,” Bill said after a brief inspection. “It’s my key holder.”

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HE inspector surveyed Bill for a moment; then he coolly reclaimed the keys and said, “It was J

found on the beach near a rowboat that hadn’t any business to be where it was. That boat may have some connection with Mrs. Talbert'’s death.” ’ “I saw that boat. I had a little runin with a fellow right about there earlier in the evening.”

| “You'd better explain.” “Nothing to explain.” Bill looked

I \ ih Ji 4 | rz +X Y[TWS\S A MATTER OF THE UTMOST LOOK, MY BOY! THE MOST VALUABLE |] {WORTH MILLIONS, MR, TUBBS—LITERALLY MIL for speaking. “I was doing my best _— /\\ COU) ; ; || MPORTANCE, MR. TUBBS. ARE YOU THING ON EARTH=—THE HIPPA-HULA | | BUT BECAUSE My DEAR BROTHER IS ILL AND 10 pin his ears back, but he showed °° lx IN SURE NOBODY'S LISTENING? BEAUTY SECRET!! y—— NEEDS THE MONEY, TLL SELL FOR ONLY pur = more speed than I looked for.” / / ; MOMEN = 2 ; md : $10,000! pr . “Who was this man?” A : ; * 2 a ad “If you don’t mind,” Bill said { pleasantly, “we won’t go into that any further at present. . . . However, here he comes now. Perhaps he’ll want to tell you all about it— but I don’t think so.” Two uniformed men pushed into the booth, holding between them a disreputable object in rubber wading boots. “Here's that beachcomber we found down by the boat, Inspector,” ohne of the men said. 7 . Christine looked at the man with “What's the idea? I've called you three times.” : ; % Dik UN £7 ai : interest. She had seen several men “I'm gettin’ in trainin’ for when school begins.” : —By Blosser

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almost closed. . . . Yet Christine ? ; ” looked at him in unbelieving recog- | mtion, and found him staring at et with a kind of dismayed pleadng. The inspector glanced sharply from one to the other of them and demanded, “Ever seen this man before, Miss?” : » Christine hesitated. . . . Of course HATCHED IN AAA OULD it couldn't be—yet it was. In spite HAVE £7ue AN a sd of his generally disreputable ap- AMALION OESCE, {rd . pearance, the man in hoots was un- . ENBAN =

mistakably Cousin Emma's irre- BY SEPTEMBER. = BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES proachable butler, Jasper. . . . of 5

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3 . cracked. A fragment moved under| l WITHOUT THE A Rew — her fingers. . . . At least, she took SCOURING OF THE it for 8 fragment of the wall until TIDES : 7 * - she realize a wds smooth to VY - =e her touch—as satiny smooth as : o ( MANY NARROW Sivek ia} had js been polished. HARBORS OVER rwards, § e remembered aN | THE WA thinking that—neatly as it was fitted R ) WOULD EDS into the crevice between the blocks x] A (1A) . of concrete, no one could have we > / UP WITH DEBRIS. hoped to hide a dagger there for ; | ; ? long—even such a slender one. She heard herself saying in a small, thin voice, “I—think I've found something, Inspector.” Then at sight of the stain on the| / po : blade, she Sried out gud Sule the = = \e-27" weapon clattering to the: floor. | ! . A man atnered it up in a clean : ABBIE AN SLATS : . handkerchief as tenderly as if it had ers: : . : been a new-born habe. Hl | : pole. ; # MARGIE BLTEL . | WELL SHE AIN'T MY “Ill look this over, Chief,” he EONS ON,CHE Y= : GIRL-FRIEND EXACTLY-» said. “Although I doubt if there are Yr 3 ; ; SHE IS SIMPLY A TOany finger-prints left.” HAS THIS ROSE. § MATD | ESCORTED HERE. : SThered) be mine,” Christine said| Km J wi AN oe RAVEN'T GOT A a . TOMATG -GtkL” The inspector treated her to a ANSWER—Two, each of which is composed of five leaflets. ,

To ba willl" he agreed,|Inéisive voice. He had the appear-|at once, Christine thought. Per-|

He swung from his subordinates|ance of one who might be imper- haps I can talk to him alone, . to the others. sonally fair so long as he knew that Sut Jalsing to Inspeior Parsons “I think,” he shot at them, “that|you were honest with him, but im-|%/°0€ not prove to be easy, we'll run over to my office to finish |placable to any whom he suspected (To Be Continued) this session—you and you and you|of lying. Nee od (All names. characters and events in and you,’ I mean.” He indicated| And already Christine had #e-| this story are wholly fictitious.) Christine, Bill, Mr. Wilmet, and the|ceived him by her taeit acquiescence iT Ee disreputable Jaspar. “The rest of [to the name by which vy Wilmet| COMMON ERRORS you leave your addresses.” had introduced her. It was going} Do not say, “The murderer was The inspector was an erect man of to be difficult to explain that un-|exeputed” It is the sentence that

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