Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1939 — Page 25

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; e : ke THE BOYS, YOU \%2\ HAPPEN TO HAVE A By ELINORE COWAN STONE | | AE W A KNOW BUNCH OF SLIGHT HEADACHE wa 4 Rr. a RekER- 0, (| [J Fre rsuowsar | [RESULT OF A NASTY | F cl : : fi A: gS THIS HOTEL~WN | [WOUND RECEIVED CAST OF CHARACTERS ; : a. 1 WIN CHRISTINE THORENSON — Came to | | a 7 A 4 3% ; ) © OR LOSE A FEW © AT MODDER RNER : | _ visit her cousin, found a mystery. 3 “v p BY 5 a Wr HUNDRED IN AN : ) } DURING “THE BOER. BILL, YARDLEY—Had a reason for | [ow [ GE ee i, | on EVENING wa YOU WAR ws WHAT ABOUT EE une. a — ") Tou. KNOW, THAT CLASS || TOMORROW NIGHT GEORGE WILMET—Employed Chris- 3 : ’ ¥ 1 ; hs ’ : hh fine as a Boardwalk artist. iF : Rn 2 oR y | § 12 wLIKE TOSIT IN FOR ‘CHANDRA—Looked into the future— omc . RE 8 A » : A FEW HOURS end into the past. of 4 ] : p> TONIGHT 2

; Po i § 3 — as TT IHN “Yesterday: Newspapers brand Christine tin, BF EF 3 pS I oo rr “Mystery Girl” of the Talbert murder. A 3 La EN , . : : (1 [] L}) / At her room she finds a sheaf of $1000 5 ~ i NY he A * \ a ~ — bonds hidden in her suitcase. She tries i Sy A Z 0 s | i 2 nl FF 2 Sern] to- tell Bill. He cuts her off with, “Bill : by a i / : : : \ 2 > | Yardley’s shoes fit the prints found by Z : : x “Eo ’ ; \ 2 g 72-1: J | A the police.” - : a i a WR : ji Z ae - \ a

CHAPTER ELEVEN

“g\H, Bill — no!” Christine cried ® miserably. ¢ “And then some.” His voice was a little grim. “But at any rate, I'm A Ens ol rE : . ill = { = = 2 «~\t ; still in circulation. How about meet- | | dlls hi of O74 : rll | 22 : : £3 Sa ET. J Tawwoams ” ing me for lunch about 12:30 at the EES i (SE0PR. 1939 BY. NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REC. U. S. PAT. OFF, {7227 ’, : pn 4 same place where we ate last : : "a : - ee el a kta th 3 sii 4 A OTE HB x NEL zy LI'L ABNER i : ’ - eh be : § fy Al Cepp ristine said, “I ere, Bill, Jeb Sct. | 2 ; ommnmng ; meson _. t and hung up, trembling a good deal. That's always the way—whenever you want a policeman, there's 2 ¢ OH! LINHARPY DAY 7 = 7 : 7 4 Vo im M-MuST BE LOVE! Hii I{ SAY?-AHM GITTIN' fea | SE ‘CALL ON YO'= ¢ / IT'S PAST MID-NIGHT ~ » INDA WEARY. WHEN AN’ STILL MAN WAK

But Inspector Parsons did not arrest people for murder until he was sure they would stay arrested. . . .

And she had business with Inspector SS —————— WIE A BOOTIFUL BO-KAY EK v L ; . KIN SE : TH’. FIREPLACE J £7 ” : E UP? Parsons Berges as soon as she could | | JURY Room) ; O° FLOWERS) . T= / § 0 THER, Y'KNOW” : Pre : i iP pr e find him, : x 4 ) 7 5

She jas, admitted to Inspector Parsons)’ office at once. “I've come to tell you,” she began, “that I've been a good deal of a fool.” “Last evening,” Christine hurried on, “I went to a public reading by a clairvoyant called Chandra—" & “So you have called to tell me that it was Chandra’s dagger you found so opportunely last night. ... A little late, isn’t it?” “Practically every one in Surf City has seen that dagger. You drew his picture yesterday. Artists don't miss picturesque. details like 4 ' that. . . . I wonder if you would - RED RYDER

be interested if I told you that two ou : He : o : pw USING THE OUTLAW LEADER AGU! JOE, ASA I 11 | WE WEAD FOR HIGH RIDGE "RE SAFE Enoen TMT — Jiouss elie nai merger Dewwsen \ELD, RED RYDER, LITTLE SEAVER RA eer vee ner | CRB DoLeLe 5 LELCGINRS Sad DN ? : : : H THE

Amalgamated and National went --— p ’ through yesterday, this Chandra FD RAduey ESCAPE ANT ht = oN PARE ronuaw MG RES : . . sold a piece of land he’s been pay- : samt 6 : Sn = = ing ruinous taxes on for years to . the reorganized company, for a new plant they're planning.” “Then you've arrested him?” “Not yet. ... That dagger was a little too obviously a planted clue.” “It didn’t occur to you, I suppose,” she said, “that as shrewd a man as he might have planted it himself—guessing that the police would reason that way?” “It did,” the inspector told her| 2 er mL8 fe on edical SL “Guilty or not guilty—I’m holding owt till my wife’s relatives go home!” not stabbed in that booth at all, but : was brought there after the mur- FLAPPER FANNY der.” : “Oh!” Christine said blankly. Sea <Then. she rushefl on in ‘her eagerness to get on with her own ergand, "Buf what 3. seally (Same to \' | Sate ul 23 Skin we you .is that, when exam- J . ] : Hz : rd |B 1 Ane my things, I found these hidden : ba ND : wo? Ne : oN : a ® ACT {IS Ry rd AT THE ALL GAME away among them.” : \ WE EL IC Fe oy - id ; : : wed s ; SE pushed: the -enyelope across J his desk. : - He opened it, riffled through the contents; then looked up, a frown

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#1 haven't any idea who put them there or whose they are, if that’s what you're going to ask.” “You mean,” the inspgctor demanded, “that you don’t know that these bonds were the property of your cousin?”

Christine shook her head word- |F HOLY SMOKE! ¥ A / (WELL, IT’S NONE

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does it guggest anything to you that ate > you had not thought of before?” Ser 12% HIS WIFE ONLY MAKES “But,” Christine hazarded, “if = h : Bn 5 TRIN ' THINGS WORSE someone killed her for those, why \ "eet Hrsens, 0000s : aes EB 7 BUTTIN' INTO wouldn't he keep them?” ae ’ a 7 DOMESTIC “There are other reasons for QUARRELS murder besides robbery, Miss Tho-1}.« renson. Suppose Mrs. Talbert was not killed for the bonds after all, but from any one of a number of other motives. . . . In such a case, mightn’t the guilty person reason : that the smart thing to do was to Jai ie a make it seem as if she had been “Who says yom can’t make a living beachcombing? This is , Fo : : : ? robbed by someone else—especially worth a quarter.” > ; —— : ; : : 3 re Phd ; / someone who might be thought to x a £ : . i iL - x 7H i VY WW : have a motive for the murder. . . .|THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson 2 a - ——— pee Se /

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derer thought that, after the first po 5, ~~ Zim ; ¥ 1 ( gate, IT WAS FROM thouting was over, Te. fould ges & a : Rm CHeaso / | df. Lots OF TIME, BSE | | NUTTY, AND IT them from you as easily as he left LE, : / en ST : 7 AND s=sse bP SAID — * AURRY them with you. . ... Perhaps,” he : Sh ECE 5 | 7 2.2 pHi £ . » 2 OME SOMETHING added softly, “it was even someone| | : = Sm ; = ( » ‘ : : S AN | ie 4 yp Aili : «| TERRIBLE 1S “ who counted on your keeping them NES A ol | Te ; 7 A . | CONG TO HAPPEN! safely for him.” A . S o ho oR © Nh i / A Hi - : : : “You—you can’t believe that, In- S - * x |]: eth 74 | spector Parsons.” ; ; : \ IL pi fii “Frankly, I den’t know what I ii believe except that finding these ‘ has completely changed the com-

plexion- of this whole business. I WHICH SOLD ON THE MARKET FOR. 13 : : WP =< ! AR ) . fl. = or have been supposing that your ABOUT FIFTY CENJS: Vi | 5 ; = 2. Tow Rec 0. 8. PAT. OFF, J,

cousin’s death was tied up with her| | opposition to the Amalgamated- COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. TM. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. National merger. Now it begins to 5p j : look as if It had only been very AND WHO MIGHT . [THERE , PIERRE THAT [ HIWONESS ,MY_EVE || Taio 16 VERY WTERELT neatly timed So look Uist Way—or THIS OVERGROWN A CO : 1S THE THANKS WE | 00 YA CAL \T WOEED L 50 FAR ONLY ' ~ banned to suggest; anything except COW -HAND: BE T ; AT : -| GEX_SOR ou WINONESS 1100 gl HEARD ONE SOE OF Tw! what’s really back of it. . . . Have IN WINTER., SS gal Nou ; » WINORESS | ME IN TH’ HOTEL ll STORY | NOW WELL BEAR you read the papers, Miss Thoren- ; 1S ONLY THE Bod. / 14 : z N ROOM DAY AFTER NOUR S\OE ,PLG. son?” \ . : STEPPING : 2 7 : : : YS TER \ OAv we AD TO, TAL + GO AWEAD “Yes,” Christine told him, dread- g . STONE v y WOW v7 : : : : x Me WWE N/'O\W0 2 ing she hardly knew what. y ; 2 ) 7s #4 oh “Then perhaps you saw that your cousin’s shoes had been found te fit one pair of those footprints leading from that stranded rowboat toward the booth where she was found?” : “Yes” g . =D ? ” ® ” wn ND Bill's shoes, Christine was / remembering, fitted the other T IS THE MEANING

ho or LINN,” “That story happened to be true, 2 except,” Inspector Parsons was go-| ) FREQUENTLY. FOUND ing on, “that they weren't made by| ( AFTER BOTANICAL N > iu pied oe Lah ar fiminT the shoes she was wearing; but-an-| ) PLANT NAMES g mE ; . op m— y m——— ~% 0 abe i - HiT hh HAT ‘WILL.BE | AND=T“WON'T"BE LONG, BECKY. | JHECK--1 DON'T FEEL LIKE™ Sg} rae | rr < | 2 AS UGH pi s 16, SLATS= THINGS. AIN'T SO HOT FOR ME | | GOIN! RIGHT HOME = 1 FEELS $Y ments with one slightly broken heel. ANSWER—It is an abbreviation of Linnaeus, famous Swedish | k2: i= 2 - THY SOME DAY=)] NOW, MAYBE -BUT THE BREAKS | § LIKE JUST WALKIN’ AN THINKIN! Y We haven't found those shoes yet! | potanist and founder of our present system of plant naming. . ' 4] : SY J WHEN YOU -/ WILL ‘COME +1 GOT EVERYTHING = ABOUT BECKY AN’ HOW : ; but we are reasonably sure that = — ; ; ag A J 1'M YOUNG AN' STRONG~AN't SWEET SHE 1S AN’ L/W 1 | AROUND HERE BEFORE. ¢ I iy En “Doyen know who her optician Pe “= EY Good JOB YGOT YOU TO: WORK FOR- WHAT 4 | WHISTLIN'=s==~ 7 7/M] B THERE'S A FELLER--ILL Wp after it was closed the other eve- was?” : i ) BR : { , LA STEADY J, ELSE DO INEED ECE TAT g Pa / // / ASK HIM THE WAY BACK ’ ning—taken for the express purpose| “I don’t, but Jaspar would, of , \ g 4 : } / J ” of making that false trail.” course. He knows more about her 7 en Christine did not speak, |affairs than anyone else.” he demanded, “Do you happen to| “Jaspar?” he glanced at some}. ‘have a key to Mrs. Talbert’s house, notes on his desk. “Oh, yes, That's Miss Thorenson?”. | |the name of Mrs. Talbert’s butler.| When Christine moistened her dry | We haven't been able to get in lips and said, “No,” hating the] touch with him yet.” _woodenness of her own voice. “Oh, yes you have.” Christine When she began to think he would | drew a deep breath. : ‘fiever go on, he asked, “Do you know| Now she was in for it. anyone ‘else who has one?” | «No; ‘Christine sald