Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1940 — Page 17

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By HARRY H. KROLL

CAST OF CHARACTERS .ROSSY M’AFEE—went to college to play baseball, get an education, and settle a feud. JUDY. TOLLIVAR—daughter of Lincoln College’s president. HANNAH SHRIDER—hillbilly girl who followed Rossy to college:

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YESTERDAY: Steve Hogg tells Rossy that the Tollivers drew lots to decide who was to kill Jay McAfee, and Sock: Tolliver was chosen. He insists he has proof, but Rossy is unconvinced. Rossy is puzzled, 100, as to how Hogg got control of land that should have been Rossy’s. Walking in the darkness, Rossy meets Hannah.

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CHAPTER S SEVEN . THOUGH ROSSY M’AFEE sdid the words under his breath, Han- 7 | : 5 ER d + : nah, hurrying along the path 9 : ; / bh 7 Ld = 1 EN 2 y XN OVER, MAJOR Shroum Whe rast, pad ns } : R: : { ; . NEA SERVICE INC. T. I. REG J ? 2 A SHE KNOWS ALL : BORN THIRTY YEARS 100 Sa 87 NEA SERVICE, WE. YM. peG 0.8. 021.0 eard or seen him. e must have | ! | I ; ' known Rossy was coming home for Te toe os estar ® AGRE —By Al Carp

a visit, ‘and had arranged to fol- ——————— : 'ON CIT HAINT PROPER AM THERE I, YO' LOVES A low almost immediately. Lot ¥: : J "ii HER SINGIN’ IS J ARE 77-A ERC ARE. IROWFUL __ Then she caught sight of his dark “Botts was appointed head floorwalker this morning! YO’ ONLY SINGIN’ N LTH i £ Jig) T Sus Be Lean y SREY 2 2% BONE i Sap. sha by the fence, mi 3 ok ’ is 4 “ TOP A-SMOKIN’] | THEIR R TO ~ INU yr Seduny ue es a, si HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis 5 oh WHY. NAST HEAR » SORROWFUL SEE “YOU'RE | [LEFT GIT UTA HET 2 = cried,” knowing him almost in- ; : ? io KIF Hh | oy 7” C'MON” E EreeT . stantly. : or J) yy oy “How come you're here?” he demanded, and in spite of himself he was rough with her. ~~ She came up and faced him. “None: of your business! But if you think I followed you, you're off your kazip!” “That don’t leave much of anybody but Cousin Se She was defiant. ell, s’pose it| . was Steve? What would you try to do about that?” “Nothing,” he replied. SAREE. ee Ca) : a 2 : : A “You wouldn't think of maw and 3 J FERNTEINE \ : \ : wh : a > Mot 8, Pe OE SN sober paw and my folks, would you?? A CA : : ’ FEE UP ; trace of bitterness came into her NE J FEE ES EY voice: ] 14% RED RYDER i a “I came home because I knew % I'D JISTAS SOON EW HAVE pI LReC LITTLE | (11'S NONE OF MY

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FER ? CABLERD D GUNH Tollivar and how your pappy was / : JEONG L PRs ECTS Br 5 BOOM! 4 LACE / 5 ORE killed - that time. And I knew "Wee ry Hi ARD O’ NUGGET } : A 5 "on PROS = SECTORS! you'd, not believe it, because in no| | iy 1] onli HY. REDS oe time at all they had you wrapped UW : : | HE around their little fingers down na OUTLAW there at the school. — THRE EFINGER, “Ah, I know—I haven't been B= XY: watching you, but I've seen, just the same. So you would tell Steve he was a liar, and you'd go back and lap up what they feed you, and that would be the end of a secondhand job of doing the right thing. Well, all I got to say to you, Rossy, is now, you know. I hope you re satisfied.” i For a moment’ Rossy sresthes COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. 8/0 RE — — - ——

. ~ eo —By Lr il othin li Baas fly. saying. hos ne a lar, alll °° “Keep him in bed but don’t let him sleep, and he’ll be out in

n . g ] Pr, - a day or two!” ER BOATS IN AND IN THE SINK THIS BOAT BUSINESS BM DON'T GET SO EXCITED, I'LL TAKE A nen you wouldn't believe ary . (ine | THE BATHTUB | | TOO -- EVERY DAY HAS GOT To STOP--- gf DEAR--- YOU'LL HAVE A HOT FOOT BATH, ‘a word I said.” | | FLAPPER FANNY "oy Sylvia B| AGAIN---THAT | I IT'S THE 4 [IT'S GETTING ON | BREAKDOWN ONE OF MAYBE IT'LL “You mout say it and let me see] pr mT . KID IS \ SAME {- MY NERVES-- : HE } CALM MY if it's a word that my, judgment 71 En I eT a “1 DRIVING iA, THING / A 3 NE told me could be believed.” i £7 a fA : 0 ME BATTY! ‘e/ : : “All right!” she cried. “Then od Hd > N =) here's the word. What Steve was \ | o i ’ . telling you about the Tollivers having a meeting one night just before that Fourth of July game was so. They had such a meeting, and Sock Tolliver—Dr. Tollivar te ygu— was there, and they drawed: iots, and Sock got the call to kill your pappy. You see, it was Steve him- 7 4 Aili . ” self that seen it and overheard the 3 Ne : Re whole thing!” : N ! I =D : : lh bse sai “But: how de you know it hes ~~ Ql 10a SNR Hh Steve?” as ;

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#2 8 8 i : 3 : Wb Steve was oe di PEN Sn § CR : : / ike NA oh BEFO' 1 COULD MAE. man. His first man. But stead / DID vou KNOW COFFEE of ambushing him, he just follered, and came to the house where they ‘ were all meeting, and he got in| the chimney corner and listened through a hole in the chinking. He seen it all, every bit; and heard the whole plan. “Sock looked like ‘a ghost, Steve said. He hadn't been in the mountains since a boy. He didn’t know| much about our ways. He didn’t seem to know what to do. Knowing Sock was to pitch that game, they told him to bean your pappy jand 0-10 4. REC. U.S. : make it seem like an accident. And ’ : : . : that was what he done, and that : A —By Blosser was the way of it.” “That’s enough of the oomph poses. Now, pull up your: socks an’ we'll F RECKLES AND- HIS F RIENDS ‘ y "4

Rossy sank down on a stip ”» : ———— : = = ZZ close by, and "Hannah leaned lake the: glamor ones . ™ a | DON'T FALL uta ) i oauyy LARD = 5 ; ., Bgainst a tree. laughing harshly. . ae I" : il PHooeY ! SHE'S ; THIN | You .

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with a sense of embarrassment. RN UL] | i Rossy wanted to escape and did Il he T not know how to manage it. He & | i. li i realized that she. too. wanted to get away and was waiting some

kind of consent from him. It * dawned upon him all et once that Ze NERTH | STAR he was not: really on her way to ov Tisit him—their meeting here had IS BECOMING A “£775: been as much a surprise to her as NORTH yy STAAL... AS IT 1S . to him; the one she was really GRADUALLY MOVING hunting was Cousin Steve Hogg. TOWARD THE POINT OF Rossy rose. “I had started along TRAE NORTH. this way to see a feller—" he ; mumbled. “y thought you was going to my house.” . : “No, Sam Hinkle’s.” “Well #1—" ' «111. be seeing you,” he said,.and moved quickly away in the darkness. When: he came out at the sume mit of the ridge, he was in a region where someone had been timpering. The cutter was héwing second-growth hickory for bolts and handle lengths. The bolts were stacked in a symmetrical pile, and the handle stuff was gone. Sold, oy y struck a match 2nd found \ \ \ ! | k ot En cross-cub Saw, sn BX, and Hying 2A AMAL : f |: 7 rs SOR WHEN “J on He TRAIN: ON THE OBSERVATION PLAT . | [1 DON'T wanT Te foe Seed is wl os BN | A | ey | RE oF iy {SLATS "8 Sr Miss | RR BECKY ‘S000 NLY IS STARTLED By A! | J JUST WANT YOU=TO LET ME ALONE, | a ® 3 — ma i : | ABBE LOVED, HIM TOO. SHE WILL NEED ~/ : STRANGE MAN CLIMBING ON--JUST \ SEE ? I'VE GOT TO GET BACK TO.

ture of a hog cut into handles BECK Yor 113 i) REE CORNERS. PROMISE ME picture of a ho SS dees | =——W ME NOW, *AN‘S0-BECKY-- SHE Sor gl 2 SHE © ABUT TO SCREAM Sa WOT SCREAM -~AND ILL > to Steve. Y P = Ba aves : fe Je new belonged getting out #m- HAIL Is RAIN FROZEN ) _ T™ | RPE, s I] [on RAN

ber fast, from the looks of three tops WHILE FALLING.

and shavings and Shunps, : ANSWER—Wrong. Hail is formed by dioplety. : of water being

ROSSY Le AED erect With carried upward to freezing heights by fising. drafts of warm air.

nt; Be oes es ve Fo to| “Come!” called & cracked voice. What I want to know is, how did

y fter daddy was killed find out something! ‘I've got to get| Rossy went in. Beran and ar 7a, le i from ere rtainly, and be “Wy. howdy," bub! [That You, up in the possession of my cousin? : He turned unce ’ “Rossy McAffee?” | A )san to run toward the dim path y How did my father lose it? al

down the side of the “Set. What yotu want to know?” did he sell it, if he sold .it at all? ae ui B | “Well, I want to know something Just what is pack of all fst Still running, Rossy came into the about how come Steve Hogg, who's| “There's. Te gs ng = village and went straight for Jesse/my cousin, has all the old land up the creek i. I come you to Leverage ’s ‘cabin, Rossy beat on the/on Wild Oat Ridge, when there was out what » time it. belonged to my. father.