Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1940 — Page 14

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London" sociaift \ RE ; ? OLD FRIEND OF uson socialite, ; 1 H, 1 Ei 5 | 4 ; 03 >, CLERK ¢ A tng with Britian Army eo So lf i THE FAMILY ? YESTERDAY: Released by A. R. P. : Wardens Mary is hurried to Scotland xaro to tell her story of Carla’s plot eo sink an airplane carrier. The tragedy is averted, Carla captured and Vincent will escape the firing squad, .although he may be interned for duration of the war. Mary hurries to Gilbert, tells him she loves him, but must stand by Vincent. ~ CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR "WHEN MARY reached Soho Square she was startled to find a caller. iL A shriveled little old man was | " Waiting. i Mary found something familiar : I~ . @bout him although she could net : place him at first. But when he i } A . 3 ; i ; J : = hy i | 7 spoke. she remembered the tobac- « : e : 4 a Ag) < gonist from the shop near Vincent's » 1 Sn J ; | ; Sls : gings. . pF ; y k ; 7 Wily [| ; ¥ se : pi ; 7 %. we $ d : ? 2 | 4 I : ; J. RWilLAams, . Ye Rae d ali a g a J : ean 77 b ) =a / , ; Ge THE BUSINESS LESSON 1-20 / paper. She recognized Vincent's iF ; : ate - i ny] 4 —By Al Capp whine ir Ne arate it2s | | LVL ABNER

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‘Marchetta kidnaped me yesterday. ;. While I was at her house I heard plans for the sinking of the airplane carrier Regency.” 2 ” ” “YOU? YOU told them?” Vincent straightened. “Why, Mary, couldn't You see what it would mean? What might happen to me?” “I wasn’t thinking of you,” she said with fire. “I was thinking of saving the Regency and the lives of a thousand men!” we He stroked the scar on his tem- z20_COPR. 1340 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF. ple indecision. “« ) needing these cream puffs, will you, Mr. Schultz?” _ Mary softened. “But because of | — Lo0 "on ¢ be needing p y ; HOW MUCH AM I what I did you will get a break.| FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia HEY, NANCY !--- WE'RE Xf OH, MISTER ~--- o.x. Za | OFFERED FOR THIS You won't face a firing squad. But HERE --- D' SHIP DOCKS | |) CAN IT HAVE THAT : Fo GEN=-U-WINE you will be interned for the dura: XT TINTWO THING OUT OF ; GEN

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tion of the war. / : : MINUTES ! YOUR |CE-BOX “I'm going to stick by you. I feel Er | NOW === * it’s the least I can do since I had : Bn : to involve you.” He reached for her hand. - “This may be our last time together. Let’s make the best of it. If I had only an hour with you I ..could make everything clear. I want to tell you about Carla—about what a fool she made of me. Come,” he was commanding. “I’ve a car at the. Let’s ride.” ’ 2 7 His plight was so desperate and = Ny ok SOONG Zz \ i ) . ; 2 ‘he asked such a little thing. Mary = eo | BB 7 a El. = had not the heart to refuse him. |\ = 2 A PRES ; : er _— She allowed herself to be led out - 8 / ‘@_ side door and into a tiny two- \ & i Li L \ ; / \ WASHINGTON TUBBS II : seater Vincent had borrowed. NEE : BN / D IN A BLAZING HOTEL. . i 7% “Yqu asked about Carla and I \ 7 2 T GET THE <A | 3 ln, il ; 3 EVIDENTLY IT ISN'T told you the truth,” he deftly di- Nd pa : % I ’ Si . nd BY \NTENDED FOR AE rected the little car through the . A i ! THIS GRILLE AND JUMP? “= —— TE i To GET OUT .Q' throngs of London's work bound. : A \ a CO mn i % : HERE ALIVE “But not all of it. I was ashamed 4 es 3 Ta & Ne =n Ta Pi a : CR ; to tell it all, I guess. The night of SE / \ ; ; hE i the air raid, I did receive a message from Carla, as you guessed. Inad- | vertently, I told her we were sailing |B on the Moravia at 3 o'clock. I had no idea this piece of information was vital to her. I know we’d bee warned to secrecy but I regarded Carla as a friend. But what a friend she turned out to be!” ; “You've never told me the true| wrpags it—tell me that fish story again but just keep your hands still.” story of how you missed the Mo- po ravia’s sailing. Was Carla in that,| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson | bo of course.” His voice was ; FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS full of disillusion. “It was a stall. Ee ; 7 Something about a sick uncle in (WHAT IF WE DO GET 4 Somesonys Bristol. I flew her there. I was Fy FILM ul HALF EP ns . | / oe MADE ND. 1: tricked into it, believed I'd have — > NO ORTH yA ING T |] x 5 SEAL AND plenty of time to get back and sail OO 2d 3 ouT / STRONG ! HEY, with- you. But something went — ml to : re om ml : WHOEVER'’S wrong with the plane and I pan- ry jw 2 3 X a ; el DOING THAT caked in a field, miles from nowhere. : : I know now she had it all palnned. : * She thought I'd be useful to her - 0 it and she didn’t want me to sail on Thins the Moravia.” “You knew she sent an enamored CEASANTS Continental boy on the boat?” ALONG THE.

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{See page 354, 1940 World Almanac): On sale at newsstands, bookstores, 70c.

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