Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1940 — Page 14

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CAST OF CHARACTERS

MONNIE LES—Her mania for fast driving almost wrecked her romance.

LARRY COLLINS-—Newspaper reporter, hunting the murderers of his brother.

x MIKE BENTLEY — Wealthy rancher, new tee much about auto accidents.

YESTERDAY — Larry refases to let himself fall in Jove with Monnie until he has learned more about Hugh's death. Riding out to the scene of the acci: dent, he studies the curve. On his way back, he sees a plane land at Bentley's field. He believes he has seen a delivery of narcotics. On the way home, & car passes him. It's Monnie’s.

CHAPTER NINE MONNIE'S car was safely parked In the garage by the time -Larry reached the corrals. He unsaddled|’ the black, turned him loose, then purtied to the back of the garage. € had hoped to find boot tracks but 5 there were too many footprints in . 6000 LUCK

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He dust to tell him anything, and a =z |. 4&7 AF MUST BE a hs ER TR wWRUAMS e wasn't enough of a tracker to 2 & | EE - ahr > - i. eianlid ; pick out the most recent set. KF TF ion tlin ley D730 7 ort, 1900 87 WEA SERVICE, WE. 7.8. REG. U. & PAY. OF. TE Semic som Tous svneh sevice ne 628 He crept around to the open i ; 8 doors, slid in beside the car, silently LI'L ABNER —By Al Cep P lifted the hood. The motor was still ——— f 1 warm. He glanced up at the house.| «gh I feel grand, dear . . . I just finished telling that installment | IT SAY-"AH HAS GONE =" CHEE - C AH KNOWS *sorpowrul ste* ~~ | TSKETSKY A soft light came from the window collector what I thought of him!” IT” TH STUDIO OF TH’ CAH-GO, LOVES ME ON ACCOUNT SHE SANG NEVE ot Moons oom FAPET OTS Sevan al | | EEE ARE SUL or | EE 2 EN Whe NR Re So she had been to Bentley's. HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis ' GAL AH LOVES, rr 3 <7 ’. oe Ro re OE ENG Beraaps Te. i ei on Te : y ly To << COME! MOP ON, FELL AZ 2 A NEVA, EITHER THAT “OH, LI'L ABNER

ROW AGA 7 the plane had delivered narcotics, ) | -LOVE~LIL ABNER!” v vA IT SPEQALLY FOR CYA Larry argued. Monnie could have | Oe THANKS I'M HEADED KNOW” THAT'S MY driven to Bentley's, then taken | (0 = oi | pr) 5 eS, Mike out to the field to meet some : 5 I e ~ friend, flying through. But if that] had been the case, why were the] lights switched off as soon as the | plane came to a’ stop, and why had | Monnie returned home by the rough canyon road rather than by the highway? He wished he might have had a better look at the driver of the car as it passed him. He was still debating the problem #s he rolled into his bunk. Before he could make any report to Harris, before he could be sure he was on the right track, Larry knew he must have proof—evidence that would stand up in court. Get- . ¥ ting it wouldn't be easy. Nor par- MY £/) le / NS ticularly healthy, if the gang got Ta oP n. Now wise to him. There were ways of : x DROS NHQsE ay ALIN getting rid of an overly inquisitive : x © i cowhand. Accidents could happen. : : 7 ss 7 - 3 ’ ’ + un | i Too DowT ILL PLUG BARNES let him sleep late the : d | PLUG HIM? HIM FORE next morning. It was Sunday, and ; . . HE WITS there was no work to be done. ; A 8 % i TH GROLWD! Shortly before noon Larry saw of Toa - ; " 2 Monnie come from the house, go to her car. He hailed her. “Sorry I rushed away last night.” he began, awkardly. “I guess I acted pretty much like a fool —-" Monnie laughed lightly. “I was) the fool, Larry. Forget it. Be see-| VE ; ing you—" She started away. He COPE. 1940 BY NEA SER INC. T. M. REG. U. $. PAT. OFF. ] . § i COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. | OFF.) eT som, Yell, 701) So “Congratulations! The iron content of your blood is 0. K.” {RY] a “I'm not sorry it happened, “ NANCY —By Bushmiller though,” Larry went on. “And| FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia

when— . HEY, NANCY !+- DID YOU KNOW A SHE'S ON D' AIR 3 2 She stopped, faced him. He no- DAT NEW GOIL, DAPHNE IS [IR AT TWO O'CLOCK = BY --- WE WILL & j ticed there were circles under her A RADIO SINGER ?--- AIN'T L} CAN WE LISTEN BY NOW HEAR eyes. She had been awake half the DAT WONDERFUL ? Bl MISS DAPHNE 4 night. | ? =H DOVELY -- “Listen, Larry. You almost kissed | XN me. Su what? I'm glad you didn’t. So are you. Now forget it ever happened. I have. ... Now I'm in a hurry. Mike just called.” “You didn’t see him last night?” Larry fired the question at her. “Of course not! Eat if I did, what business is it of yours?” she answered, temper flaring. “I just wondered,” he explained lamely, watching her go on to her car,

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' # in ¢ | FISHING 16 A BLIND FOR WIS SMUGGLING. £ AIN' IT? BOT DEY AIN' NOTHIN t's THE SAME RUBY! THE MISSING 8 mille jEOM jhe house. dn the sheer ! BUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO WASH? ” 5\65Y ABOUT FRANCIS RUBY ! LINK? HES THE ELUSIVE "MR. SOUTHERN! covery E ARE Sa WRO CAN "MR. SOUTHERN" BE? ; HOO-EE! DAT FALLA, HE PLANTY wm A man had waited here—waited ey \ NOL re BULLS Poh rgeveral hours. Numerous matches gs A : —’ and half-smoked cigarets told Larry ] i a JY A BY : D that. There had been two horses, ’ . v id i 1 A 2 Su, 0S CARS, too. . . . He found marks where two : Be Ka 5 nd { zr saddles had been dumped on the ground, or at least he thought he did. That would explain the theft of Monnie’s car. Two horsemen had come from Bentley's. While one had crept up to the garage, taken the car without disturbing any one, ie 2S 3 the other had remained hidden. -. talk ib CL al . If the theft had been discovered,| “He's gonna marry a teacher; Gosh, didn’t he ever go the watcher would have warned his has he just forgot what it was like? pal. Monnie's car would have be>n

found miles away. THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson - It suddenly occurred to Larry Bis OH, I THINK MR. NO A GENTLEMAN THREE ROWS BACK that he might have been seen com- / GABLE IS SIMPLY SAYS PUNCH THE LADY ON THE SNe ing from the canyon gate. In that i hs. DEVASTATING ! HES F COULD = MAL AND TO HECK WITH THE DIET / case, he would be wise to be more £ Rie ae AND careful in the future. {0 . < SO --- SO And Monnie would have to keep Nai OominaTING! her car locked. If she refused he > J could take the keys, return them | each morning. He d tell Barnes that he had seen some tough-looking WY : % ® ‘ a hombres on the place, suggest that : . . hii li he everything at the ranch be locked f : a i LA | Tm at night. if | | oe i ii ii | li

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lock on the saddle house.” “Not a bad idea’ Barnes fell in with the idea immediately. “But don’t tell the Colonel anything about it. He still likes to believe that everything is safe just because it's ght a Hayhook brand on it. “You ride night herd on those calves. I'l see that you get some sleep. But don’t mention it to the Colonel or he'll start another cattle OLY BEFORE THE war.” RACE BEGINS. ” ” ” THE NIGHT trick gave Larry plenty of time to watch for the re- - 7 2 : | turn of the mysterious plane. He : - : 7 ; ’ a sent to town for a pair of field = . —By Raobarn Van Buren glasses, borrowed a carbine from SR 0) " ; Barnes and spent every night from| <SSSESELEE RY Wy cannot A : 76 ALL SO | AVE, LAD. BUT UNDERNEATH “HIGH A PERISCOPE RGES-AND QUCKLY FOLLOWS gra a A | odo BALLOONIST CHEE, CAD" 77 LOC PEACEFUL. | THIS CALM SEA-ARE SUS- THE "AGATHA GAWKINS?-. Of hill overlooking the canyon road. —— He EMAIN SKY-IT6 FILTHY WITH 6 RARD TO ) MARINES: WATCHIN’ LIKE WHEAT =} CLOSER —~CLOSER ---UNTIL IT ACHIEVES If the plane came in, a few min- ——= |= 4 = : YOUR BELIEVE ~~ SHIPS CARRYIN' i ; | FIRING RANGE utes hard riding up the canyon — SOUL. on A / 2d ; , would bring him close to Bentley's 525 JTURN BENEATH HIM BEFORE PAY-DAY-AND THE

anding field, and he counted on ; ~ BINS carelessness and self- ANSWER-—Because the atmosphere rotates right along with the MOON ~ YELLOW AS A HUNK A confidence to keep him from be-| earth. ing discovered. Monnie had apparently forgotten | decided that probably Bentley was |gling, discovered how Hugh was their quarrel. Barnes gave him an o killed. easy Tob. wrangling horses, kept it ne of Mis Jrequent unig His horse, tethered at the end of him close tc the ranchhouse dur- . ’ a lariat, raised his head, whinnied. ing the day, and Larry found op-| He thought it all out as he sat|gomeone was coming up the hill portunity to spend most of the on the hilltop one dark night. Helpehind him. Larry moved quickly afternoons with her. wag in love with Monnie—hope-(t; his saddle, pulled the carbine Bentley's visits became less fre-|lesSly and completely. He had a/from it& scabbard, pumped a shell quent and Larry wondered if Mon- constant battle with himself to keep into the magazine and waited. = id Brute yo: % be dis- "rh d taut for that after h (To Be Continued) ull lessened. Bentley dn - ere’ e © bed Fentave §naiente Win. missed easily, however, so Larry'had settiéd this narcotics smug-|(AR evgele. names anfehampiers in this —