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WEDNESDAY, AUG. $0, 1989 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ PAGE'19 : \ SERIAL STORY — GRIN AND BEAR IT : By Lichty| OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams

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visit her cousin, found a mystery. BILL YARDLEY—Had a reason for HORSES ONE EMPTY

watching Christine, : ’ AON Ya ! $C CAN OF GEORGE WILMET—Employed Chris. SEE ABER / EN NN oR ’ ¥ BUNION / tine as a Boardwalk artist. e RL 1 8 SB \, SA f 4 ; ; A x WE CHANDRA —Looked inte the fature— WNL => g and into the past,

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Yesterday—Jaspar, hiding at Chandra’s home, tries to explain how Mrs. Talbert | had ordered him to deliver the bonds te Christine. Inspector Parsons, Wilmet and Bill arrive, trailing Christine through Lucille. Suspicion turns on Chandra. Mrs. Talbert was last seen coming out of his studio,

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seen,’ Inspector,” Chandra || © = | Ts N | Ji 4 fy r V S \ : : 3 «/\ A Ce Vv

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said coolly. “However, it is entirely || 4 i ; true that Mrs. Talbert was with me y § ol a \ Ni | (il \ Nav & n : that night for an hour or more.” | EL rae SS Nd Sg { No or TER Shkvice Neo Reg. u : Li “And afterwards,” Inspector Par- 0% \ a 745 Bt WI | LI'L ABNER

sons continued, “so far as I can | ae CS. Fat ORR rights rerved : 830] learn, she was not seen until her| “Boys, the president of the club is pretty sick—the least we could do | | BEIN' AS HOW YO' GUT OUT THAT YASSUH ==? ?= YESSIREE ’-AND i. dead body was found.” to show our sympathy, is to play only nine holes!” | DONE ep J LS se <q WHR 3 WE BRINGING YOU IN, THAT ONE WAS ON “But early this morning,” the HOLD EVERYTHING By IN . QIN" = WiLL BE QUITE A CE WIF ME! - I'LL TEACH en ; ; y Clyde Lewis AM Yo KE 7 YOU KNOW WHERE FEATHER IN FEATHERS IN ‘EM. YOU TO PULL THOSE clairvoyant pointed out, “her - " A ITED TE ET IN YOU'RE GOING ! MY MAT’ ‘SPECIALLY RED SMART ALECK was also found—parked just across | Bs ae \ WR SS 3} | FEATHERS ’-(auLp?) NAME. O° 4 SARCASTIC wise the boardwalk from the 27th St. 3 a Y RN TR ORIN LT AR HAD A | YEW-NITED CRACKS r= dock. . . . Are you suggesting that | k 2 —— X | MARRS h 3 Tr RANIER,N MAH SIRES SOVERafter I had warned Miss Thoren-

son where to look for the bonds I,

myself, had stolen, I stabbed her| cousin—with a dagger that anyone | in Surf City could identify as mine —and was also imbecile enough to leave her car parked just around the corner from my own studio?” | “What I'm suggesting is that you know a lot more about this busi- | ness than you found it convenient to tell me this morning.” | “Now weTe getting somewhere, | | SSSA aE 0 ” u Inspector.” ES —_— | Chandra turned to Jaspar. | fi | | RED RYDER —By Fred Harman “This, my friend,” he said, “is us . , - pp . 2 vuriiny ng : ative IN ANSWER TO RED RYDERS CALL, | [can Yo NO, VEL ! ’ 7 V now a police affair in spite of any-| (ASSN MENDEZ GALLOPS INTO DEVILS ANY BAND DOS, 7 SP a TELRECORE lent ERT Z Come Sark

thing you can do. You must dis- | L FECT B WHE TELESCOPIC SIGHT ; DER? ¥ y \ RIDES THROUGH ON RED RYDER / THEN KEEL THEM BOTH

regard Mrs. Talbert's wishes.” | m——— ; RY \ ous XC “Wishes—what wishes?” Inspec- | : 3 4 2) / ES mm 2 tor Parsons snapped. | ; 5 . * : ISS —A 7, 4 7 x. “When Mrs. Talbert began to a J 3 - IAT { 7 De Vie ON THE 1% suspect that she was in danger, | 3 / ; : DIA] 7 ; “ \ . OPPOSE she instructed Mr. Jaspar that no ; \ \ \ S\DE matter what happened he must not ) 3 _) yy NN ho : J h oF call the police.” - i I é NX ? Py HE “He told you that?” eR ET INO wn ON Be VALLEY... “Mrs. Talbert told me that—the Li Ra , last time she came to consult me.” “So she came to you for advice —the night before her death—and the best you could do was to let her get herself murdered without toe” any warning.” | 0 Chandra’s hands moved in a gesture of defeat which, even to

Christine's unsympathetic eyes, ELAPPER FANNY

seemed starkly sincere. a ’ “Mrs. Talbert,” he said, “was a — m— WHAT A SHRIMP! EVERYONE MAKES FUN DON'T CRY, \ NAN ee Noman of Several fixed ideas. One, SHE'S RORBBIN' E% OF US WHEN WE GO PEE - WEE -- NN Z NN HERR Ag Rag ial THE CRADLE! i{ FOR A WALK BECAUSE Jill I'LL FIX 1A 1 . s jef N | RW 3 hat, single-handed, she could out- BOY \ IM SO LITTLE AND wit the world and the devil. An- j x YOU'RE BIG. other of her peculiarities was that \ she thought police are all a set of clumsy bungiers. . . . I am setting forth Mrs. Talbert's viewpoint, of course, not my own. Otherwise I shouldn't be advising Mr. Jaspar to tell you what he's told me.”

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h & & ; y RK > W : » 0 SN Leave - ELL.” the inspector's tone : , ra was uncompromising. “I'm | listening. He'd better make it good.” { He glanced around at the others. Sr . Cope 1939 by United Feature Syndicate toe “ ERAN E BUS AA ILL ERR os SP

“You might as well sit down, since LOR Tal) yeserved youre all in this from the ankles a

met, obviously seething with curi- Fle osity and afraid that the inspector §¥ =. might change his mind, stumbling over a stool In his effort to find a BE em

RS! WE'RE RICH! I GOT THE PROPRIETOR. [CALLS FOR OIL. v8 i GREENS, AND MUD, FORMULA AND A QUART OF STUFF ! OF ORCHID, &. 2 42% / HA! T KNEW HE ’ Z $10,000 [ RARE CLAYS, AND| PEE) Pl [i 4 Tia ; ; WAS A PHONEY! IL TROPICAL HERBS, 4 43 on OKAY, TELL HIM TO MIX US $1,000 WORTH MORE

chair without making himself con- P - spicious. And Jaspar began his story all over again. | f= When he came to the part about §£ leaving the bonds in Christine's | == room, the inspector turned toward Christine and then toward Jaspar with frowning attention, and Christine recalled uncomfortably his { | words of that morning: “Perhaps it "a was even someone who counted on your keeping them safely for him.” es I, 8-20 A little later he interrupted, “If x) — Mrs. Talbert had let the police go| “Imagine!—he doesn’t want to go to school! And after his family

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thing. for ner money besides a| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson

thing for her money ) —- heartache and a crop of misleading | [a= WeLL SHE'S GOING COME ON, FUZZY «=== IF IT B, JUNE S ! Fuzzy DAVIS OUT WITH I(T | YOUR IMAGINATION AND SPEED ARE

icti lews. First the boy | |i : “oxo Rea = _ HE JUST ; Bo pig pave been carried | | ER = CAN'T MARRY HEARD THEM MAKING WHAT OID HE = RUNNING AWAY RUNNING AWAY off and drugged in his own car; | —Z : . THAT GUY / THEIR PLANS | SAY AND WHAT 5 WITH You 2 WITH IT/ later it looked as if he had been de-| | g coved into the swamp and drowned | | UNTIL in a quicksand. I can’t recall all PARSON UNITES

1 od | 7 . 7% i the stories; but there's one thing | |B 4 a o 3%. | 7 7 : = \ Let”

certain; someone who knew the] family well was back of that.” . “But there's one rumor you may | ’ o 3 ZZ not have heard, Inspector,” Chan- | * TWO RECENTLY dra said quietly, “that Earl Talbert - DISCOVERED

was not really kidnaped at all; but | ; MOONS oF IJUPITER

that he engineered the whole affair | himself, and collected the ransom. ARE SO FAR FROA

I happen to know that there have THE PLANET ITSELF been a number of checks Jorge on | THAT AN ORSERVER. Mrs. Talbert’s account that have | Nt been run to their source. I | . 3 THERE WOULD NEED | BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES have information that Earl Talbert, = A 6-INCH TELESCOPE | ; " - ES z o = under another name, spent several § ___ | bi J i Sh MESSAGE FOR .) E i ! Sn Nero TE, years in a California prison. | : ; rT Pa Neve St : | TA After a musing silence, the in- |} ARBOR SniPs, OQOON spector asked, “Just how old was . TRAY. PAGS this bov when he disappeared?” Say | WN THE “He was in his first year at col- 3 [] N\GRT ne lege.” Jaspar hesitated and then WRENN SHE went on, “I have been told wy he | DOQUEENRS was about to be expelled. . . . A—a matter of a forged iy sir.” A RELATIVE OF . ar 3 TOTTS AND “A young man of that age could] SNAILS, HAS | MEX A have changed—perhaps beyond rec- MESSENGER ognition—in 12 years,” the inspec- 2 | CSG tor said reflectively. . .. Christine Ne, wondered if she only imagined that ! { “. he glanced toward Bill... . “Well, go on, Jaspar.” ; “Well, sir, Mrs. Talbert had gone SS 3 Cond 5 > 2 : \ Ni out in her car. I yas Blways Yor AL TR | = AAD . Shur. orf j ried when she went out alone a | ; night, because it was generally LE ABBIE AN' SLATS Shics on her person. She's done YOu i ue s THEN WHY ARE youl | COME IN, LI KEEP AWAY FROM ME-- \ | | THERE'S NOTHING TO ~ =] :] BE CALM, MY that. ever ee ey : banks MISTAKEN, NY BOv-THE |} OPENING THAT | | Gus + 27 OR ONE OF US'LL 8 BE EXCITED ABOUT, MY, De aurIoRLY closed some years ago. And only the CALLED “MILLERS Jug igh Rie DOOR oN To BOY:: NOTHING § = L day before, she had taken those WILD GORILLA i : TS D7

sith Miss Thorenson - ponds 1 left Ww ANSWER—Because they have a dusty appearance, due to the tiny, Ws

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it general information?” “It was well enough known that| The inspector did not glance up; | “So you are prepared to identify

the house was entered once, and he made no comment. Yet when Mrs. Talbert’s handwriting?” there had been attempts to hold her he spoke, Christine knew that he| “Oh, yes indeed, sir.” up.” felt as sure as she did that some-| Inspector Parsons took an enve“Did Mrs. Talbert have anything (where in that group sat Cousin lope from his pocket and passed it ; hi. [ of value with her when she disap- | Emma's murderer. to Jaspar. =e Br AF y peared?” he asked. “Go on, Jaspar,” he prompted. “This is addressed to Miss Thoren-| = fa YY Z “Mrs. Talbert,” Jaspar answered | “Well, sir, about 9 o'clock the son, you notice, apparently by her i Sa, : \ 'y \'l bp /é

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briefcase exact facsimiles of those |it was a special delivery messenger. bert’s purse.” 4 ponds.” iI carried the letter to the light and

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