Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1940 — Page 28

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SERIAL STORY— , OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY a By Williams."

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r= 7 BETTER OFF THAN A GUY | MOVE--WHAT'S | THESE DAYS == WN YO START AN ACCOUNT ww HMP-KAFF | THAT GANG I THINK THAT'S i r j OVER THERE war Thirgs $ go is A kiae Y Y \ TALKIN’ ABOUT? { MUCH IND Roma nce : ; EEC OR BAVK, BUT IT 16 A SMALL MATTER ww £3 NOT JUST STAGE : 'NO, THAT WON'T 4 -- LET'S GO OVER. | : 3 py nevLes BY THE WAY, T MAY DESIRE A TRIFLING) COPIES wv HA HA HAS 2 BLIZZARD < DO THEY'RE TO THAT BUNCH" | : : \ LOAN LATER 0 ATTEND THE Smif wwe JUST MY LITTLE JA OF 75-CENT) TALKIN’ POLITICS | I HEARD A GUY A ead \ \ R REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC. peo JOKE = HAHA HA? I a AE LAUGH

ee OF CHARACTERS : i hy ole A VERSATION WITH MO? MILES—her mania for fast is ) ; B. La 2 Si X EA driving almost wrecked her romance. 3 ! Eo AS AR SEN J 0 il M LS LARRY COLLINS—newspa r hunting the murderers pag gn ha MIKE BENTLEY — wealthy rancher, knew too much about auto accidents.

YESTERDAY: Larry and Monnie become besar friends. One night he asks her to go to a dance, but she has a | date with Bentley. When Mike is deJaved. Larry stops to chat. He ques- , ions War about the accident on Dead | Man's Curve. She refuses, angrily, to talk about it. “I have a right to know,” Larry tells her. “That man was my brother.”

CHAPTER SEVEN rR ia NE erie 7 ARK TRY 2 MONNTE RELAXED under the oe ' J : NR NY ; grip of Larry's fingers. She looked : y i / :

up at him, unbelieving. Y kf NS hh 3 - Re ¢ R 7 7 RN 4 “Your brother?” \ I~ : 3 7 A / AN x “Yes.” oo Ra 7 4 3 So TARTING

“But the man was never identi-

fied. He was burned so horribly.” AEN I ; : : : 7 2 \ : k R = AN ACCOUNT iti till FREESE “I know it was Hugh.” Larry ee Lat gE WNT Swe WITH $25. ’ Hy JRwWiLLiAMS, tried to make his voice calm. It \ i _ : - Z hy : 2 £23 . 8. PAY. OFF. THE SOUR. HOUR g-29 . 7.

wasn't easy, talking to her like this. His hands dropped from her

shoulders. “When I didn't hear 0 : ES Td . : THEN CHERISH HER WITH CARE = AN’ WHAREVAR WE MAY TURN ) from Hugh, I came down to look he : ¥ y y SMOOTH HER SIVRY AN a A THIS LESSON WE WiLL. LEARN ~ ¥

for him. I've been all over the . ' 3 a used buzzer!” GONE-YO'LL NEV west, searching for him,” Larry “The t ARup. .. she never Yo alitwer ta - v o

lied. “I hear about this accident, . this unidentified man. I took a| HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis } chance it might be Hugh. I was right. A dentist's examination conarmed it.”

Aarry, terribly sorry.” dlled a cigaret, tried to keep ‘es from her. | i

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at Monnie knew more about this accident than she was telling, he was sure. But how could he] find out, without arousing her suspicions. Perhaps she might be involved— No, Monnie would never be mixed up in a crooked deal. But if she loved Bentley. . .’. woman will do almost anything for man she loves | hat was Bentley's role? Hat-| ing Bentlev as he did, it

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Traveled a lot. But he wrote me a ae ina : 3 ; be regularly, and wrote to Betty, his ——rs SS il | : : 4 ak) et wife, every da: | Aya P| SW u" ~~ “When Betty didn't hear from | soil : Pr : Nd him for a week, she wired me. I} NS > 2 N : \ " 1e down and we've been look-| : = || A Ay : 1ce. That was | S \ CNY “RY NAS ” [COPR ou0 BY NEA SERVICE, INC, TM REGU © PAC OTT]

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1, more than five aiths ago.” He hoped Monnie wouldn't ask why, | Yas a new spaperman, he couldn't) ; >. rh cident records | ol S i Sa . , . “YH z I SUPPOSE ALL t, was apparent- | COP. TOO BY NEA SERVICE, INC. TM. NEG U5 PAY OFF. asl Y CAN 1 FooL WI > 0 Ly A 1A THIS HAIR COMBING oTossed In her own YOu RE ALL SLICK i 77 i z SHOU D WORRY SD ‘Please make all deliveries in the rear.” UP FOR THAT NEW YP £/ E gt "-1r GIRL, DAPHNE | \ | 7 1 WE eae

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Larry. I didn't mean did. It was my fault! Sobs shook her body, | v's arm went around her| pull her head down on his minutes, |

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ited to meet me. He'd A AND MAYBE WIN A LETTER/ deg p ig 77 . GETTING me presents, too, and i — - MILEY SAE 7 I'd asked him to get for| 5-23 i \ Oar - hii ldn't leave his guests, | » $ ld I dive right over.!| “Fan said if we didn’t have enough money, jus’ get what's absolutely rp i ie way inside of half necessary. So we can skip the soap an’ codliver oil.” J ; vayvs drive fast and I SOIas about 50 or| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson fly, got a new grip then went on. sn about 200 yards when this car ceme 1 couldn't stop. The v made no effort to p saw my lights. His 1 through the barricade, : ver the cliff and rolled D..= | WE PICKED OP THAT \[WE)L) , WEEP (M he canyon. | pt EXTRA SEAMAN WE QUIET TILL. WE ped as soon as I ‘could, " ’ f the road a little and ran BOT HES ACTIN where the car had disap-| ) SORTA ORNERYV pear Far down in the canyon,| ! 2 could see flames shooting up from he wreckage of the car. Then I

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1 a shot | | . h I stood there, paralyzed, and sud- | LCION TRAINERS jenlv, Mike was beside me. To-! | her we scrambleq ! slid down j P PREFER. HAINCLE -BRED . Aib nal eA Te ™h ANIMALS TO THOSE RAISED the car, tried to pull the dead N CALTALIT man from the burning wreck. Mike | " J 7. >

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BUT THAT'S not the story you told at the inquest,” Larry broke in.| “You testified that the car went! J over the edge before vou reached | ¢ a =, >

the tum - . - - “Mike made me say that, Mike OS 8rRrDsS | ot A RINGED OBUECTS OF- RE and Daddy” Monnie admitted. | ARE KNOWN TO INCLUDE AGREED | ART: HA WA. RS “After that accident at school, and WIRE\WORAMANS YES VERY FAS SUR oe Re the others I had been in, Mike said | ON THEIR MENUS, ‘ R PR : . SACTICE OF TMAT ART the coroner would never believe I} hadn't forced the man off the road.| I didn't want to lie about it, Larry” | —she was begging him to believe her— but Mike was right. With! my reputation for fast driving, and| because I was the only witness to the accident—they might have tried|

me for manslaughter.” J ®2 Looking at her, Larry knew she OULD IT AFFECT OUR was telling the truth. Hugh's LIVES IF ALL NINE OF death had been no fault of hers.| . Hugh probably saw the lights of her! car, speeding toward him, took the curve rather than crash into her kead-on. Hugh was like that. | ANSWER-—Decidedly,. Our ova earth is one of the nine major tarry would have done the same planets. ing, had he been in Hugh's place. | “I believe you, Monnie,” he said.

<\&7 BE ac i) 7 Es ; § “ + Blame vou.” (saw this car go racing down the “Hugh was drunk, Larry. The I don't blame you. |nighway, swinging from side to side, autopsy showed he had been drink-| 9 ss « ® las if the driver were drunk. Mike ing, and a broken whisky bottle was HE PAUSED a minute, puzzling was afraid there would be a wreck found in his car.” : | over an unanswered question [if we met, was terrified to think “But Monnie,” Larry countered, ' >

“How did Bentley get there so what might happen to me if we “My brother never drank liquor in|

fast?” he asked. {met on Dead Man's Curve, so he his life.” . * Monnile had an answer for that. hurried out to stop me.” | Sh Ni F ne M lk : Eve Put Int a : B ttle “Mike said he went outside to wait, “Bentley said Hugh drove like (To Be Coatinued) . 0 1 r ! ry yy. ny 1 0 A #, y 0

for me, right after he called. He he was drunk?” Larry demanded, (AT events. names and CAA tary™ this