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nN TECH: | h MHA SS lind BE NOTICED! wv termined to teach Sherry that racing is 4 once foun uy } he i ee fo %. . WN TTTPsg THA A VE > ND Th J ca NOt a woman's game. o! h a : . Re. A , . ’ M ii WW H RT Fa MH) 5 . Sl. SHEP GRANT-—Young gentleman rider . : es PARK b - F ;

WILLIE BOND-—Sherry’s uncle, a turf “adviser.”

YESTERDAY The Derby Trial brings Pepper Boy wn real test against two §00d horses. Watching the race with Paul, Sherry sees Shep Grant give his Monitor a great ride. Madden chal. lenges in the stretoch; Castanets comes up, and the three horses dash under the wire, neck and neck.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN “DID I WIN?” Sherry turned an anxious eye to Wharton. He was frowning. “I think ~Jook, It's & photo finish — the Hight is flashing.” He indicated the board. “We'll know in a minute.” , " Le ; 2 A AN dN” SY / > . He became calm, judicial. “You Si 8, 7 P \ £ ‘ er... ss - ny : We ; had the best horse, Sherry, but he CH Pe I 5 Co ly q x Une GARDEN a « eli pea OTR WILLAR, carried too much lead in the pad. ) i I \ 2 > = Em VE THE BRAINS Madden's a great little rider but |} MSY L : : ‘he's too light. You ought to ride} hy - : =A N' & heavier boy in the Derby—one] N : . : 5 A AN SOT ME AS a SEVEN FIETERN Ch cA {BATSY nearer the ‘weight for that race: | LIGERteri ty Unie Featurs Svndieile To id “EVE 3 Pa > KX . os BATE Wik rr

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16 Bounds,” “Jue 8 , Sam—we've already finished the picture!” “WC ( "DES “I'm thinking about this finish |-— TER Th hn Hin mary - ’ L NIP Se -~SET qo She sald, “never mind the| ‘MOLD ‘EVERYTHING By Clyde Lawis Derby.” “Well, it was awfully close. Think

you got it. Oh, thunder!”

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who had bet on the favorite Sherry sat up stiffly: tried to keen her lips from trembling. The numbers were going up: The winner: No. 1, Monitor. i | Second: No, 8, Castanets i

Third: No, 10, Pepper Boy “It took a picture to separate vou from the winner,” Wharton tried to console her, “Wasn't more than a nose win.” "Nose ahead good as a mile ahead,” Sherry said Another shout from the erowd. this time a roar of admiration. A new track record had been set! Wharton whistled, seized her arm. “Know what that means?” he asked. “The old record was beaten a full second. And since a horse travels 50 feet in a second, and since your colt was only about two inches bee hind the winner — why, vour colt reracked the record, too! You've pot a fine property, Sherry.” She turned a gay face up to him, lifted an imaginary glass in her Jhand. “To She v Bond's dauntless 713 . u Pepper Boy an. his victory in the =~ {7 (I or - 8 ; ; > : Rentuoky Derby.” aa \ a AEN. NANCY f---1 JUST HOD A RUMOR She laughed and before Wharton RT ia i \ = DEY ADA : “| AT SCHOOL DAT YOU'RE GONNA BE could stop her she was out of his Wo " - ; . /, NR , All LEFT BACK Dis TOM -=- AN’ BY D'WAY--

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y » » SHERRY HAD GONE straight to FLAPPER FANNY Grant, as though there had been |X no coldness between them a few! minutes earlier Her first ‘words | were, “A great ride, Shep—a beauty, | Congratulations.” | He ‘was embarrassed. “Brer— | thanks, Sherry.” NC X . ; — AB, She smiled and looked ‘at him. | NT \ : . JE Ra / “Sherry!” ‘Taking her ‘arm, he | “ Xo) bs - ~ 4 ~~ WN 2 I EARS ABO, DOWN IN BARATARIA BAY WASH AND 1 q YS started In the direction of the } Wp wd > IF AN "IMPORTER 5 ONRNO 0 YE DOLD : dan : , Jockey room, “Don’t mind telling | 2) vy rr AE ER Tete on LOCAL CUSTOMS OFFICIALS, HE'S | |-50T MIXED UP WITH A BUNCH 0" RUM RUNNERS AND= A BARATARIA you, Pepper Boy is a good horse.” Rr : [ X ROAK, WS SERVE 18 UACANT, BY ETHER LOCATED ELSEWHERE OR ND iF THATS Wed “You mean it, Shep?” A AND NOT BUEN THE CUSTOM / ' Rag a Aly : : Wor Ni A beaten Ho | OFLC HAS FUER WEARD TOME... PROBABIL | onitor an ‘astanets, except he | FHE MOORING 7, broke from the far outside, had to! RUSINESS Jb run farther than anv horse in the = rate. If he'd drawn number one, ‘or three, or four—” “Then he's really good, Shep?” “You bet he is. He was the best ©olt in the race,” he assured her She laughed up at him, then! deftly evaded his grasp. “So long, | Hes Shep,” she said, and called over her | EE shoulder, “I'll see yvou-—-before vou! Ra know it!” Sa

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‘bailiwick she found Sam leading : | gS fll u 1 fil BE You a. the heavily-blanketed Pepper Boy ee — i IE j \ NR WI HAS Bs SR around a tooling ring, while Hlifah, | | = a | T ON | SIRY, FELLAS Oat oR WHO YOU 9; the exercise boy, stood by enviously, | | i] 0 NG THe Car. / “Did he come out of the race un-! | f ’ hurt, Sam? ‘One minute, please, Miss Sherry!” he answered, and calldd on ee the ho You 'Lijah! Take this | i here halter, lead him steadv-like | "nd don't stop till I tells vou.” He surrendered the halter to a Elijah, then went straight up to din : his mistress, “Miss Sherry, he| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson come out of that rate sound as a hew dollar—an’ he didn't draw a hard breath. He's readv to to 1 N P S + INC. TM, FP » -- f mile an’ a quarter, Derby distance, | il Ws : Vk _ Z A ny Miss Snerty. But- but. he hes. f SIA. 5S Rk Re OR YI OAT AND TEN ING OO oR Wt nore WREcacer toe )[ ftated, as if afraid to ‘speak what \ RS \ RA TO a ARRAN RN TR SaRes ABOUT A TiCW) TE A EERE Bi | NIRYIEESS hy A a na What dia vou start | i eas. THEN, WINE: { STIRTION AS Te EVER BEEN WN WAND THE MATES | of TRENNY

: = Lx T= i NF eS ic 3 ORY WORENT THESE § PEOOVE (AL OF » 5 Miss Shertv, ain't none o' my | Hi y ’ * f Sa ns \ : L/ “ i A 5 / X ARA2ON, usiness—but you ain't a'‘goin” tol |i - [ sl fel 7 . oY - BE WNC BR ( y THE a 2 , oh hit, is vou? " op 2 =e | CN a : sc ([FONOWRD? ) bs RR = 1 Ls A “Sell him? Certainly not! What vy ata \! vi i _ SRS Mw. 4 ) ; oF — 0 i ¥ : SMALL NATE gave you such a erazy notion?” phe. WAY _ EE: Fo R | . . a E J oRs i [ ho OVGOUT QWell, ma'am, I ain't ho mbre’n | % . . BN saath rn e er LS 5 » : \ ) | fe x N Es EAN — Nl 7 > MEO POY got back here with him, rieht after| | hy N ot + _ . +r RRA 2 == ON —s un — " ; ; 8 | Lm gy , | OOY 10 Ben ‘the race, when a dressed-up White $ Real d A i = \ 3! \ man come up to me, right here.” Yes, go on.’

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wiz dressed fit to kill’ WHEN IN A a | \ ; % i i / £. o> - “What did he want, Sam?” ON THE WHEN I (a } \- — NB To TN N “WN “He want to know if Papper Boy 5 : : TRAVELING LEISUREDY. IF = 04 ’ : \ < \ 2 : PAN ey TRE

cut higself or he bumped in the race , | : : ’ or got Burt a-tall An' I tell him fu . a mmm —_ —., n - cc i & ss

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we sure hough goin’ to start him in ] RE \$ J ; | ED VET, a0 RECRY | NHEQNHAT=AND ) THINGS A h 3 the Derby, an’ I tell him Wwe sho’ is! fhe VITAL FY NY ; ' 1 1 Denton An nN WEL 41 ‘spec’ he wuz scoutin’ for some Ny SA - ; 4 4 of J : 0 Jehu NF : n ‘who wants his colors in i : | : . Tul j : = . Derby. Them sorts Is alwavs| VWHALOW SEED od BN |B RL “gr” SON TH : trvin’ to Duy a good colt at the las’| WASTS BUT A SINGLE ~ ol : od! | TOR You- : RY ON, E minute. But, Miss Sherry—" Sam DAY, TERERORE A | ; : 3 ae BEAR: THINK shuffled uncomfortably, “vou ain't| MM AUST BEALL. ON To La ! Rr going to sell the little fellow for WET GRAND nothin’, is you?” “Not for anvthing Sam,” she re*mssured him THE THOUGHT STRUCK her; ithe had to have money instantly, ‘or there would be no next time, She had to have $500 in order to start Pepper Boy in the Derby, She had less than a handfal of 4 s to her name, Phen she rememberad Cousin 3 “ad, and the generous offer of the = —

ing. Too bad, But she'd Have | SEs orapw for the ‘entire $700.

hh) : She Yen ANSWER The 20 @eciuons, or milk teeth, are Tost By Wpproxt. | ! E WHEA' ] Por whe Fon y red Th, ng , ! : i 10:30 A. MW. es, ent stopped abruptly, in nately he Bh - 4 Jha ®

ly-closed door of : Available at all a IAA ny was thi “But, ‘my dear” ‘well-known| Sherry gasped with Shock. “Good

s : | ] : RN Weandard Grocery \ “Pw sons—and they were | English accents answered, “We did [Granny Motes!” she ‘exclaimed to , i oth _ On. NuBer Markets He Ny ob but heated tones, give the colt a great ride! Beauti- herself, “Uncle Willle touted Cousin ; A |= try toe Aelictas wy Sirs volte “. _ . you safd|ful! He ‘Was Within two inches of Ted.” ee Fecipes on the WAS

Wredden would give Pepper Boy a|winhing.” WREAT GERM AND VITAWINS = ue om

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