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wants to marry Dan. . BATISTE LA PORTE—Marie’s father, owner of a fleet of barges.

YESTERDAY~—Marie walks home, miserable at what she has done. When she opened the valve in the Molly, it broke and Bat was forced to turn back, failed . to deliver his cargo. At home she finds ny JF Bat with a new idea. He will give his 3 Marie a coming-out party.

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: CHAPTER NINETEEN % MIKE DONOVAN and Tommy| Ryan collided in their rush to board the La Porte barge. § It was 5 o'clock Friday afternoon. ! i.e Mike had left Dan, completely iy broken, at home. He left because 1 he could not stand it to see his boy i suffer. Bang oh Jet hh PELL ET. 23 Ss n [ ang it, ve her. in sp 1940 py Uanlted Feature = of wha} per Jour sad. He must | Ses 0s Pak 08 ea eerred - hace : an old fool anyway. There were] «gpjy $1.98? I declare, these Monday bargain basement sales are more ways than one of hanging a y getting more worth while all the time!” .. 'e; Soose. “Mike Donovan hadn't ; ¢ engineered business deals for noth-| HOLD EVERYTHING Bv Clyde Lewis

ing. Besides, since last night he had| | po not been so sure of his choice for - ac Dan. x 2 . J Lynda had revealed her tactics Lo several times during last night's dinner and Mike resented it. Long before he'd decided to take James { Martin home and give the two . young people a chance, Lynda had attempted to achieve the same| |r a

thing. * It had taken a good deal of : stifling of his pride for Mike to return to Pier Six, but once his mind was made up he didn’t waste time . With regrets. : hk Tommy was also prepared to eat . crow. So grim was his defermina- ; tion he almost knocked Mike in the : water when the two jumped to the s deck of the Molly. ol Mrs. La Porte had been through ¢ so much this week that nothing suri prised her. 3 “I suppose you want to see Mr. La ¥ Porte,” she said apathetically, looking out the hatchway. : « Bat turned a choleric red when he saw his visitors. Dropping the soeo ciety page, which he had been studying in detail, he jumped to his { feet. “And now what do the two of you want?” : » “I don’t know about this young fellow,” said Mike, “but if I could Fr © git T might explain my case better.”

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HE HAD LEARNED, too, that it. * was better to let the other fellows > get their ideas out first. : :%, Wary as a cat on strange ground, * Bat stared suspiciously at the pair. “Did you come together or sepa- . rately?” he inquired curiously. "8 “Separately,” answered Mike promptly, resting his hat on a shelf while he loosened his coat. At sound of the voices, Marie had | ’ stepped in from her alcove. Instinc- \ tively, she smiled at Mike. She itd liked his face. ? Bihan “T take it, you're Marie La Porte.” { He rose from the chair. “I'm Dan’s father. My boy has spoken of you.” Doubtfully, Bat stepped aside to « let Marie pass. He wasn’t going to let any-man outdo him in manners. 0 “Marie’s got sense as well as rearin’” he said. “The first she got from her mother and me. The sec- © * ond from Our Lady of the Rosary a School down on the Battery. We're proud of our girl,” he declared, al-| most defiantly. . $ Mike didn’t argue the point. Nod- . ding affably, he gave his chair to} v Marie and reached for another. : Mrs. La Porte stirred uneasily. Tommy Ryan hadn't said a word. t She felt, with these three men in did : 1 one small cabin, that she and Marie wo! : Bas

were sitting on a volcano. She did “If I didn’t sign my name, do you think Carote Lombard would be

not like it. . ; : Nervously, she glanced about, awful mad if I sent one to Clark Gable?”

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