Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1940 — Page 18

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~ K.O.Cavalier | By JERRY BRONDFIELD

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VAL DOUGLAS — Girl sports iter, Ship d' on a freighter to Pind bibs . | - - EDDIE CAVALIER — A prize fight nesged for the title, has ” ey ri ier reve HANSEN ki the Northern Belle. P= Skipper of DUFFY KELSO — Cavalier’s manager.

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YES, TAKE THEM OFF . . || OCCASIONALLY WHEN You | WASH ,S0 | PEOPLE WON'T THINK YOU'RE | . WEARING DARK GLASSES!

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YEST : MN Wd YESTERDAY—Playing checkers, Eddie \ \ HT — tells’ Val why he took up fighting, talks | \ Ii of his plans for the future. The tension \ li between - them eases slightly and Val : ; % 3 AN : 2 2 1 = . A \ SUR finds herself strangely disturbed as she x 3: 3 ET 4 p17 SF hm i : ? i | gets to know Eddie better. £2 bY x g : YH PEE EE WN | ; He 7 CHAPTER TWELVE THE WEATHER became rougher as they passed north past Cape Haggerty. It was a dull, leaden dawn that, broke over the Pacific, and Val noticed through the porthole that it was impossible to penetrate the ‘mist for more than 75 feet. ; ‘| When she stepped outside her cabin the wind almost knocked her flat. Gratefully, she grabbed one of ee the lines that had been strung along

the deck for support, : re \ | : y ; 3 - OU'VE GOT US irtually had to fight her way | . hl : ca : : She virtually ha y ; | a wy Te 2 . GUESSING, MAJOR! |

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up to the bridge. “Hi, Stevie,” she WHY MOTHERS GET GRAY greeted Hansen. “Nice day to fly a \ kite, what?” 8 “You ought to go below and stay there,” he answered. “This is unusually dirty weather for this time o’ year and I don’t like it, nohow. No sir, I don’t.” | tf Val looked up into the sky. “Looks like we're going to have a lot of water above and below us pretty soon.” : “More’n might be good for us,” he muttered. “The barometer has been droppin’ like a ton o’ lead. “Tell you what you do, honey. Have ‘Wong Lee send me up a pot o’ coffee and a couple sandwiches and have Barney MacGregor see that everything’s ship-shape in the hold. Might anchor that mining gear a| § little more, too. Can't afford to have any of that stuff break loose.” She bumped into Pop Grimes coming up the companionway. “How's Kelso getting on?” she asked. Pop grinned.

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YOUR COMPLEXION IS \ NOTHIN! ‘CEPT SOAP ERM AN’ WATER, MA'MY.

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for something he called his rights!” HOLD EVERYTHING = |

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swears we’ve been half way around the world by now. I tell him it’s only been four days, and he calls me a liar.” “We'll be in Prince Rupert tomorrow night. Maybe that’ll cheer - him up,” she said.’ “And you can| also tell him I received a wire from our San Francisco office. ey've persuaded the Boxing Commission ~~ to rescind their order on that $3000 & bond. That ought to bring him out ¢ of his bunk.” : ” ” ” WHEN BARNEY MACGREGOR took Mike Kelly, Eddie Cavalier and

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“Ah, spring, gentle spring! And to think, Homer, that I frittered away six good years of my life practicing law!” | another man down in the hold she

went along with them. She 1 FLAPPER FANNY |

watched silently as they threw more ropes around the mining gear and i secured everything tightly. | “Where do you go from here?” she ‘asked Eddie after a few minutes. “Back to the galley, of course.! Wong says he can't release me until | you give him the word.” “I can’t ¢> that,” she replied | somewhat impishly. “Be bad for | discipline and general morale. But I will give you a hand, though.! C'mon.” She was opening a can of asparagus when the ship lurched heavily. It threw her off balance slightly, but just enouugh to strike her finger | across a jagged edge of tin. | ; ; i Eddie helped her bandage the] 5 \ , = E Z ; wound. She winced as he bathed! aN . o” o . : jhe cub in Jing ne | ¥5 PLUNGED INTO TOTAL oAnywey: ht mumared, [Tai RR a \ ARKNESS, MRS. PIPPINGTON gual: 40, 2S Pt | : a heres _ ~~ on | SCREAMS. SOMEBODY GIGGLES $ f : {io i i - ; ME ‘ Z 2 She held, up the finger. “Blood,” she said succinctly. “Not ink. Re-| member?” |: | | i He nodded. “You sure do gain |, your points the hard way, though. | And before I 'forget—thanks for | getting your office to square that forfeit bond for us. You didn’t have | to, you know.” | “Forget it,” she said. "MH But Eddie Cavalier found he couldn’t forget it—completely. Twice he caught himself looking up |at her when she wasn’t aware of it. | She was the kind of girl,| Eddie thought, who probably had a dozen or more guys cluttering up her doorstep. Guys with a lot of dough and a lot of spare time to spend it. Guys who played polo, maybe, and belonged to two or three country clubs. Guss who had a little blue in their

After all, he told himself, her work took ‘her among people like that, and with her looks it would be only natural for them to go for her, hook, line and sinker. 2 He stared at the huge bowl of | j= apple sauce he was mixing. what? So why should he be wasting a lot of thought on it? e lifted the big wooden spoon and whacked \ the apple sauce/ flatly. , "NN [ Thats’ what it was . . .-the whole

thing was apple sauce. 1 But he wished he could be a little}

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more certain of| his convictions. Tne | |before dark, (Steve Hansen reained at ress just long enough to bolt something warm and bark a few orders. - “Get everything battened down and check the pumps. I don’t want o ship! any more water |in that number ithree hold. : “Barney, double the watch and string a stouter life-line up ford. We're getting a five-ton sea over our bows every time we bite into a deep one.” | {| 2 8 = EVEN AS HE spoke a jagged streak |of lightning stabbed the murky blackness. An i nt later a terrific clap of thunder rolled above them. | : “Got some’ oilskins a a sou’- || wester for me?” Val asked Barney || casually. | | “You don’t have any ideas about going above decks, have you?” Barney growled.. “Because if you have, you better forget ’em.” ° “Whose orders are those?” Douglas, Gregor pleaded. “I don't want to order you to do anything. But it’s murder up there. We've got a 50mile wind blowing and (we can’t take chances.” | : Eddie Cavalier watched | her closely. He knew she wasn’t phased by MacGregor’s warning.) So when she borrowed some oilskins from the ship’s. carpenter he stopped her. “Where you going?” he asked quietly. She was surprised. bridge. Why?” “Don’t you think Capt. Hansen can keep us going without your aid?” | : | “Thanks for your interest,” she said coldly. “but I don’t need a nursemaid” . (To Be Continued)

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