Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1939 — Page 21

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MIND PICKING. LIP ABT cE ZZ THE OLD BOY 1S By ELINORE COWAN STONE GOREONZOLA, PER . LETTING US CFF : oy EL 0 | TOOTHSOME DAB OF Sane yo) EASY" HE FORGOT ; NAY; Y vp fl Ere A SNACK OF SMOKE YO MENTION AN CAST ATEN et ol 4 NAY: ¥ Is, # : HERRING ; A POUND OR SO ELECTRIC FAN, A visit her cousin, found a mystery. | E Ix. nN : 2, OF PRETZELS AND A CASE HAMMOCK ; AN ICE = BILL YARDLEY — Had a reason for | OF SOME SORT OF LIQUID BOX AND AN AIR |

‘watching Christine. 1 E GEORGE T — Employed Chels- REFRESHMENT 2 CONDITIONING tine as a Boardwalk artist. CHANDRA—Looked into the future— and into the past. |

Yesterday—As questioning proceeds, it | is revealed that Mrs. Talbert was Yard- | ley’s silent partner. Christine’s identity | also is made known. Then the inspector hands her a letter written by her cousin. | She has been cut out of Cousin Emma's | will, i

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sight of that pitiful ‘body on th : : id BR concrete bench, she had known || : : : ; AS Fo IN ; = BY horror and remorse. Now she kn ; : ib WN mn, IN = ND HOW ABOUT : -R WILLIAMS terror. {i . : 8-23 IS ZI. 2 NC, T. ; : A DILL Flow. 2 i _ANHY MOTHERS GET GRAY Soe. nto A we

“I see for you a very real dan- Bi ; 5 aula ny : : | ger; voice) echoed. n ber ig: dl “No—I rt: get that hor Toman in but she was wearing a AL Ana . = A Cort ory. 1 hings, lo MAE AH RECKONED Am JEST ° AH SCORNS EM? 222 Y BUT-YO' JEST TAKES "Byt,” she faltered, “Cousin Bm, |..,,.SAl0r Straw, had dred hair, and of alt things Black net gloves” SPREAD TH" I NEWGAL. SO JODEE {wouLoT HYAR COME LIL { SAID Y WOLLDN'T BAKE How ma knew that I am not extravagant | HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis| § \/FRE A NEw gr” THESE OTHER | ALL THEM i$ THEY WAS Y BB $ HA MAN HAIR L7H FINEST KNOW HE —she never suggested that she Z m— ) AH WRIGHT = HOW YOUNG Cap WERE E. COMIN' thought so. . . . And she has never j : : AM DONE ) GENNUL MEN DOES MAH DRESS IN AL mentioned her will to me. . . . I sv ) 10K 2 77 Wor y p ME

can’t imagine that she wrote this AT, A 2, i Yl -—1. 0 letter. But—who did?” Re " : ra We | : = Do -—-C| “Miss Thorenson,” the inspector = ; g : ® — asked softly, “could you identify your cousin’s writing?” “I—I don’t know. This certainly Jooks like hers.” { “Isn’t there anything you can ie I tell me,” the inspector went on als Hg i 7 : | J) = NG : : Nl most gently, “that might throw some ; : b : | \ Sefer ee ; light on this business?” i | Ld \ AY : : Christine thought, I ought to tell yi wi : % : : SUDDENLY DAWNS LIPON DAISY MAE. him everything—about Jaspar, for ’ : —By Fred Harmen. instance — about that telephone . : 2 ¢ ig = b girl, and about the swami’s Wearing 1 oo 4 Z . A NGO AND PAPCOSE OR. ‘that dagger. vr : ; ” : : I KEEL You -~ PRONTO! But all that—with his inevitable questions—would take time. “Nothing,” she said, “that I can think of.” * The inspector’s face Hardened) and he swung upon the disreputable figure in wading boots who, with “Bill, had just returned from th next room and had resumed his seat ‘in the corner by the door. Vl Ts Toh Fl a hy BUT SUDDENLY A WHINING BL. arked, “suppose you tell me jus > [ 2, INS when and wher ° vou nave Known | [1555 3.33 co bio ven env. me si &2 BY A ET ROUGH TE FIRING Pater this young lady. “Hey, Joe! Who the heck sold you your last batch of eggs?” 2 = = NANCY

OMEONE—Christine thought 1t|FEAPPER FANNY By Sylvia fe NOBODY - WILL L. YEP ~ WE was Bill—cried out, “Watch TE mm : : EVER HIRE US Ut

him!” GOTTA Then all the lights went out, 2% : : UNLESS WE MAKE ). Sump N, A8ouT

tAsNAME FOR and a chair fell with a crash. . . . After that there was in the room OURSELVES! / nothing but the sound of scuffling feet and heavy breathing until the : : . Ey door opened—and slammed shut. £3 ni : GSR . 2 ak Fh, « . « Later, sounds of shouts and|l 5 eta i * : & - . Ba RN Ne TURING ne from the darkened \ : L J : —- carridor outside, SE ER — E When the lights flashed on : i : { BR) AE CONCERT again, there were left in the room 4 2 RN oa TODAY only the ~ inspector, who stood ! ; : FY ; EMPIRE with ‘his“hand on the light switch, : 4 rn ; pL A SYMPHONY Mr. Wilmet, cowering behind a y : : : . 4 chair, and Christine. ... Almost|f\ ) : ] : : ike ; fennliltey ORCHESTRA 3b ones Til Yardley opened te >, | 2 [Erorenn Sy = | J ~The telephone rang. Inspector a ; : ah : . - : . ; : Parsons pictied sp the instru- ol J eee. WASHINGTO N TUBBS II : i : : ‘, —By Crane ment ang listen en, as if the || [RN > STOP BEATING GIVE ME TIME, RUBY. YoU DONT UNDERSTAND THESE J) y [NEVER MIND YOUR BUM EXCUSES, call had been ‘a signal he was] / 7 7 ! il | | AROUND THE PLEASE! PLEASE! HIPPA-HULA WOMEN. THEY'RE ; : ; OLD MAN. GET ME THAT BEAU waiting for, he suggested almost : \ 2 : BUSH. WHEN ARE PECULIAR. ASU “SWORN ? / RUBY 3 SECRET! pleasantly, “You might as well all “u’'y :: % [| j YOU GOING TO yk NEVER TO TELL THE ; : . NO : =) qa . go and get some sleep.” NW ; GET THAT BEAUTY SECRET. \ SNC ALL : \ Hardly daring to believe that SECRET? : ; they were free, Christine fou t herself, with Bill and Mr. Wilmet, going downstairs and into the street. As she and Bill were turning away toward Christine's lodging, Mr. Wilmet coughed pep>

getically. “Miss Thorenson,” he said, ‘of course you wouldn't care to go on sketching in that booth now—but suppose I find a quieter place? Could you meet me tomorrow 5 morning Say a that Srugsiore in “Will you give Miss Betty n my y compliments an’ say that 1 I'd like 0 give RTE the Crestview—and talk - things wl over? . . . Working with you hj her a good sock In the nose? FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS :

been sich as pleasure. : THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson”

: x) Do NUBBIN BVER HE 3 SAD we MN THERE'S AN APPLE : & You Lv A LLE money somehow, Mr. Wilmet.” ; vy > LIVED 2 AND WHAT HIS VALLEY e=- AP HiNoRED ABLRN i sid! 10:30 iomorrow hens” ; > LUTHER. LAST NAME WAS 2 . SMALL Town / HERE ----A SMALL. e man beamed. “Good night. 4 ; : ’ : Ae --- I've BEEN oe | BURBANK ) / ISTEN, Christine,” Bill said as| §’ i 8 73 = " Dicer Mr. Wilmet pattered off wi - the darkness, “I wish you wouldn't. . Didn’t you see those fiashlights going off all around you down on the Boardwalk? . After tonight you're . a. marked woman. “Anyhow, I don’t trust your funny little boss.” “Not trust him? . .. That helpless old babe-in-the-wood?” : “Old? He's probably not got much on me. Lots of men are bald at 30. And he may be helpless,

but he doesn’t handle the truth any FR) ios : top carefully. o : NC. T.M.REG.u 8 par OFF. Ez 3 |[ ~ OP! / EF AUS OREN BUT eat ST What do you mean : : : > ; ? : DONT \ » <M |

“He didn’t go to any moving ple- = A ; : ture tonight—or if he did it was : ~ 1 rq . ! PLEASE PNT nearer 10 than nine as he said.” IS BROKEN IN TWO : SC , \ r ’

“How do you know?” . “I saw him down on the beach AND THE PARTS

after 9:30. PLACED IN 4/0 ' “He seemed to be examining the| CM S72aL., THE foundations of his booth. Just be-| BROKEN SUREACES fore I came along, he went off UD| wy | BE REPAIRED

to the Boardwalk. I don’t think he even saw me. ”» AND EACH PART WILL

They were strolling along the SROW INTO promenade toward Christine's street: |” & NEW CRYSTAL. “ “Bill,” Christine hurried on, “I've| ~~ got to know—why’ were you beating up Jas—that man down on the i beach tonight?” «Bill' was silent for a long moment before he’ replied, “I am going to tell you because—well, you have got to know—for your own safely, Christine, he was following

Sze was—what?” Brn J “He was skulking in a shadow,” ANSWER—Columbus made four Atlantic voyages for a total of 3 :! : A JUST AS MUCH AS EvERBill said, “when you came out of| eight crossings. EY : : EVEN THO'SHE'D GIVEN that clairvoyant’s joint; and he . YOU THE GATE---

slunk along the Boardwalk behind| «gj» Christine said, hardly[niac. . . . And only God knows you, SYidenily wailing for a chance believing it yet herself, “he’s Jas-|where he’s skulking now. . . . else ne ty when there was no one|n,r cousin Emma’s butler. . . . At| Christine, you ' recognized. him at near, Sew. least he was her butler the last I|once, didn’t you? I was sure that knew. . . . It’s—incredible, but sup-|{you had.” ; HRISTINE'S spine crawled at| pose he “did kill her?” Christine’s blood chilled. : the gicture his words con-| “I am supposing it” Bill said] If even Bill had been so sure, Jured. shortly. “But what's a lot more|Inspector Parsons had not, as she . “Of. course,” Bill ‘went on, “the|vital to me is that he wasn't fol-|{hoped, been just guessing. . . . He reason I know is that I was trail-|lowing you for any good.” knew. 5 ing you, too. . . . And now I've got| “But Bill, even if he stabbed 3 : something to ask you, Sheistie | Cots Emma—why should he want (To Be e Continued) : Just-now you started to call to, harm me?” ll aA oa . ,iu-Boots by mame, didn't you?” '- “God nows—unless he's s ma- Ooty are Loy BE