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aj « ‘11 : | ] PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 HAS TO PLAY &7 WAK/ = MY WQRO, BAXTER, DON'T fe os Er re—— -y 5 ib . | :: es ST ESN BRAT OF YOURS, HOOPLE! ww LOOK A JUIENILE Jest! Cscum= 1 Ie a TIME TVE EVER NEVER FER A WORLDS - | | | if | —— | TE . 1 AT THAT SIGN wee I'LL BET THE HEH HEH! ) =r T CAN'T IMAGINE JEAN NOTED THAT SEEN EM, TRaELER vig Jl i’ - By JERRY BRONDFI 1 de B El IE ONLY REASON THE JUDGES DON'T 4 WHATEVER PUT SUCH ANOTION | | ¥ WN) N vou, wes-- {| ) y ONDFIELD | 1 > ; a : ‘SEND THAT SCAMP TO THE REFORM-) INTO THAT URGHIN'G PATE! — | foes HIND END ing fi SO Lose *. +... .CHAPTER ONE | TERA 2 ATORY 1S THEY'RE AFRAID OF EGAD, THE LAD LACKS IDEALS, D A HORS ig CAPT. STEVE HANSEN leaned ||@ | ——E. Ly ; : += HF] : GIVING THE PLACE ABAD NAME! ZA BAXTER, AND WE MUST ACT AS Bel —1 | TE AS: 7 | BIG MODELS FOR HIM To COPY! Co i 3 : : Ta 4 swe HU! THE IDEA OF CALLING | . kers reflectively. Quite a voyage th Fs le -— Iie 5 8 : SW : YOU OLD ww HAR-RUMPH Ig would be. Quite. ei 3 i ; |. at y N Sr Capt. Steve spat down into the||§ It. Sn % L 48 T= waters of San Francisco Bay, whe 4 the “Belle” lay moored to her pier. He straightened up as Barney Mag¢Gregor approached. = “You sent for me, Steve?” Capt. Hansen grunted. “How long you been first mal on this tub, Mac?” : d “Long time, Steve . .. somethin’| like eight years I guess. Why—| what's in" th’ wind?” ! “Well, you ain't first mate no longer, Mac. At least not for awhile.” ] Barney MacGregor placed two big hands on his hips and struck y a belligerent Scotch ‘chin four de- = 3 if : : grees forward. “And would you 3 ke = a v 1;

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{ male company,” he added, signifi : : : : vu _ cantly. “We don't ask Mrs. Snodgrass to our movies any more, since she ap: Barney MacGregor’s expression bo] pointed herself neighborhood censor!” i M< GOON /*= A Manson sighed ~ pustily| HOLD EVERYTHING By Ciyde Lowi | 1 [FRAN SREBISHT J ALQUE TAL | AS avers”) | Pr Sore On Capt. Hansen sighed lustily. : | K yy SsTER Essie | © STEr Los ER “Might as well tell you th’ whole| = : “ree rib — | : L § story.” He pulled a battered pipe aa from his pocket, tamped some Ytobacco into it deliberately and lit up. “Old Hank Vaughan called me long distance today to tell me his ene and only niece is shipping with us this trip. Says he put her aboard one of those airplanes himself and she'll be here this afternoon.” ; bg “An’ who is Hank’s niece an’ how come we're signin’ on females?" Capt. Steve Squinted i i 5 Mo | : / / ; : | | | °_ ; “Mac, don’t stand there ang SE : . : - a : i | : - ne me you don’t remember little) Va- ; | i J EE * i : g Apo He G o / GENTE xz A J ih Tale \, pp S— : — BACHELOR MILLIONAIRE 1 11 over this shi ears ago.” | NT . - on R MILL = a p 12)y 3 Teoh Soe T ; OW, TE, i WHILE BACK OF Je Ky | (— BUT BEFORE R50 CAR RecA © 3 3 An HAIRY

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“You don’t mean that Jlongr % : % Fr \ ) REDS FOOT SE o legged kid with th’ pig-tails, Steve!” : ; Hira WELL ] REDS F : : “The’ same, Mac, cept I doubt : 9. ; KILL DER 7, 8 TJOYUHLL BE : LLE'S SR uNG~ 3 : : re very much if she still has those : : o/h pig-tails. Must-be quite a lady by now. A cute one she was then, t00.”. f Steve Hansen smiled softly. Took her fishing out in| the bay| once _ and she threw all my worms overboard because she | was sOIT, for 3 them. Before her mother her East I promised she could | come back some day and be my, first mate for a trip or two.” : y “And this is it, eh? An’ youre going’ through with it?” f “Orders.from Hank. Th’ gal is| .'— det : 5 | BE a a samy Wis meliifine Wout iyoll fy good of We kBOWeniniy backs. bee \DIS 1S DA LIFE Y [7M LookA IG Bs als a big newspap >] | ) killin’ me, too! S \ m-- ow y a : Ne . a says she’s “Ratio around With a - y at 125 BUCKS A WEEK-- N | DAT POOR MAN--- 4 DOL Tol, MY 7 TANS : FLAPPER FANNY, 2 HERE'S A 7 ft

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MACGREGOR snorted and Capt. Steve continued. “But don’t take 0 'seriously, Mac. O! course _ youre still first . mate. Th' gals = 4> going to jhave a sorta honorary title. But the/ boys can amuse her by stringing along with any little thing she wants done. See?” i “Yeah|” Mac said mournfully. “I - see, but| I don’t like. Neither will ith’ boys, I'm thinkin.” | Capt. |Steve hitched up his belt. 4 rs go ns be your job to foe that F ’ SOME : i Ye , — 5 ; hey do|like—or therell be a lot of | ™ ~ | INE. WHY, A AEA (AW, WELL! WHEN o 'E, } cracked skills around here.” A) = ; 7 IAT MUS' BE 2E © 7 7 Bl | CLUTCHES AT STRAWS. T WiLL NE Se It wads 4 o'clock that | afternoon YOUNG MAN WHO JUMPED i J | MY. LETTER OF CONFESSION TO ZE | when the taxi drew up at the dock [7 OFF ZE TRAIN WHEN FZ DISTRICT ATTORNEY : and instinctively Steve Hansen knew = | Valerie | Douglas had arrived. i sUT WHO ISHE? “Capt. Steve!” she hailed him i Do I KNOW HE IS 70 “Stevie| you old landlubber, is this |. BE TRUSTED? the best welcome you have for me? | | {C'mon down and haul up my duffle.” | Steve Hansen's leathery [face leracked. That little tyke . . . grown |up like this. ' He could hardly be-

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Little Val Douglas—all grown up and purtiern a West Indies sun-{{'T HAS BEEN set.” ESTIMATED “And just-as bright," she twitted | {EY HISTORIANS ecquettishly. “Where do I bunk, THAT Capt. Steve? I'd like to get into .some different clothes.” | +. “Good idea. Youll be in th’ port|§

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> WHEN SHE joined him on deck Shona i | a half hour later she was garbed > F §¢ | <in blue denim trousers, gray flannel | shirt and heavy tan moccasins. Perched saucily on top her blond { eurls was a battered officer's hat. E' He grinned, saluted her smartly| i. and then led her over and sat her ! | down on a hatch cover. “Now {fhen, matey, you've got 12 years | Yof your past to tell me about so

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| Captain Steve, I hardly know : . kad wh where to start. I'm a sports writer | | || (2 JRE V2) ele 2 |W. AA) for World Syndicate you know,| : ; So W. 2 Loy a | bi wz _and—v i ] DG Se S : ) Fi J aly Steven Hansen slapped his thigh * ; I AM A COMMON EVE : oN BB A : as he interrupted. “Say, that re- : IMPORTER IN esi © eo LTT] go | HA minds me. What's this about you . FIGHT WORMS IN : RS (= GR feudin' ‘with this box-fighter . . BROOKLYN, AND MY \ —— : ET Se—" Mn what's his name? You know who ~~) A | scENTIFIC NAME 1S — I mean. Tt was in all th’ papers a “BASSE - short spell Bgek.}’ J ONE. eS .A shadow ofa smile eressed her e frx3 — face. “Oh . . . I guess you mean rq “Eddie Cavalier.” a BE lh - RH She clasped hoth hands areund | | a knee. “He's a pugilistic snob. I TOA TT ‘told him $0 in a column I wrote. ON ADS 20. S Told, him his pants were 100] gal LyY MEAN THAT preity tog, and I guess he didnt) youe soi 1S wed like it. Then one night at Madi: IN MINERALS 4, ie fi son Square Garden . . the night Es Gentine: 3:28 - MON NAME he knocked out Tuffy Brostak . . . carn. 1000 av wea sence me. 3:2 ATS My Somme 1 he | leaned over the ropes and ANSWER~—English Sparrows . . . a name which is a misnomer, laughed in my face. He didn’t say for the bird is not a true sparrow. “

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