Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1940 — Page 22

PAGE 22 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES FRIDAY, AUG. 9, 1940 SERIAL STORY— By Abner Dean OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams 89 = ERR ae 7 WELL, SD LONG, § YEAR, THERE'S NOT {WE DIDN'T SAYwe {f THE WEATHERMAN R r WHAT 2 YOU RUN THIS SHE MAY BE WHAT SHE Don'T

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oY TRAVERS—ambitious young acess.

ANDRE MASTERS—the Theater's lead- Pei ) MSA VA Sg : \ % 3 ¢ i= Z & 7 og fi 7) 2 ing man / \ ’ / h| NY 2 : hl ie SEES a “> : Zo SEE . up . . : SL - | . 4 . y \ : ) ~ (A WOM 2 YESTERDAY: Molly has gone driving | [3> (A! N “Je > % NS — L oo ‘| / CRN ie)

with Masters when Johnny gets up, so he spends the day with Jean. Jean suggests | that Molly may be using the cameo to] get Masters’ help. Molly returns with a signed contract. When Johnny demands the cameo, she remembers that she left it in the dressing room.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

JOHNNY REGAN could hardly believe what Molly Travers was saying “You just remembered that you left the cameo in the dressing room!” he repeated after her. “How could you forget it if it meant as much to you as you said it did?” Molly reached over and put her hand on his arm as if trying to|| && Mr TE S\N "I gg ny QR RAL, quiet him. “Don’t be cross, Johnny. AR Rr oe NEE - RQ 8.1240 SY NCA SERV) REC VS, i LL REC.Y. 8 PAT OFF 8 I've been afraid to tell you. That's e a) CS \ Te Ee Ne GE OY LS Ed TER rt mate | | LI'L ABNER guess. . ” "eo Johny ltteer hand avay. He nly C7 ES BE ~~ gperrpraes sper WR Sone err didn't want to be confused by any “The senior class at Yale voted him ‘most likely to succeed’ - *- TE My , “ = oe contact with her. so who was I to stop him when he tried to kiss me?” OSES T7-~-MY F-FRIEND HYAR., 8 GO7 MERELY TH-TNREE FEA IN 7H CAR > “Am I to take this as meanin ee | HE JEST USED ONE HAND RRS) FINGERS ON TH NAND us rg 77 WEAVE THET LOG ~~ HE DDUSS § AN HAIN'T

u. you were just putting on an act? DR. WIE ONE HAND = = a) ” SAND LiKE T MAKE HOLD EVERYTHING DR Le ri ND ? SEEN) FRIENDS Wik THES

You've known for some time that the cameo was lost?” . . - , Oo HAND =IN HIS FFELLAT™) “Oh, Johnny, darling,” she plead-| | =u ; . ed, “don’t be so angry. I didn’t want | to worry you and Jean with it. You! were so busy going in and out the | blaze getting antiques. . . .” “The antiques,” Johnny screamed | at her. “That cameo was worth more than the whole lot of antiques put together.” Molly began to weep softly. “Oh, | Johnny, you make me feel perfectly terrible. I'll buy another one, or

pay her for it.” ; . > } - A x She came to him, put her arms | 8 . ~ 7 4 J ] Na 218 SS hr around im in a gesture he knew| F i : 4 B . ha AS ZA | > x 0. & = so well. BB 5 sid aw] R “And Jean had decided to give it| Ral - TD RED RYDE By Fred Harman $0 Us YOF WeHHING Sift" he wig) 3% TOT MIND LOSI MY FIVE BORTA HEAVY, BLACK ) ETRE WANTED 1S VALE) WITH PLEASURE ’ HUN. WHO YOU CALLUM PAPOOSE? ! A

to himself rather than to her. GT H ~ 1s) y ’ SEE YUH STILL. GOT ME SHOW YOO! ME SHOW Wh JOLY, Wii SHgHY You way RED ABER aur or w ? SS HM TOA CY p: a Goh TH PAPOOSE TRAILIN' ACE HANLON TBO YOO

50?” Molly exclaimed happily. “Then FR Ee Ce ay iE She - M7? ef PA NCA YUH, RED? a ATCHOM 7 it was mine all the time. That fa BYERS OMB A AN GET YOUR. ; makes it all right.” That was Molly's reasoning, all right. She was so damnably logi- | cal when it came to seeing things her way “She need never know it's lost. T'll thank her for it, and she won't see it any more. Why, nobody ever complains when you lose something that's you own . «She hurried on “It wasn’t yours when you lost it, and I'd planned to give it back any- | way. You were supposed to bej marrying me, not the cameo. And] now that the marriage is ‘post-| es poned,’ youll have to tell Jean | NANCY

Reynolds right away that you've lost | COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE INCT M REG U.S. PAT. Ov. OH BOY-- 4 YES ~-- "THIS OUGHT 0d , WOW! «-DO YOu the most valuable piece of jewelry | ° HANKS AUNT 77 “A TO WIN SLUGGO A 2004 . \ - | T . AU Bn. SLs LOOK FUNNY |

vou ever laid your hands on.” “ » | | : Molly drew herself up to her full Te WlteR Yo godute is hor Hel es FRI a Ro ee A A a ho . DM : .

height. Her voice chilled Johnny. “I said our marriage was post | FUNNY BUSINESS poned.” If I explain everything to|, Jean Reynolds it's indefinitely post- | poned. Do you understand?” * - “You'll explain. I'm not going to! - get vou out of this jam.” He spoke ~, {3 evenly as he always did when really > angry. “As for our marriage. Something tells me that was about as empty a promise as all the rest of your pretenses.” Molly called after him, but he didn’t answer. He heard her laugh softly | zn = n | HALFWAY UP Rutherford St. | toward the Meltons’, another idea dy " ’ , struck Johnny. Why not go down : 1 [ BEND CLOSER... PUT YOUR ARMS ABOUT ‘ ND HELGA, to the theater and look around? | RR > > . ‘ ME... PERHAPS IF YOU WILL LIF ME TO M IN A RAGE The cameo might be repaired, if he XY r a S71 TRY TO HELP ME! THIS | [Nr A MORE COMFORTABLE : ” AT BEING * could find it. 7 . PAIN IN MY CHEST... IT ou POSITION ve ’ OUTWITTED

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| Y 7 2 Molly had said she had left the - 9 : '¥S ALMOST MORE THAN THERE ! ? 7 AGAIN, SEIZES cameo on Mrs. Lyons’ dress. The i ) 1 CAN BEAR 7 gl i : THE GUN AND fire had burned the superstructure ~ ; ; p FIRES! of the building. The dressing rooms were in the basement. | Johnny threaded his way care-| fully through the ruins until he | found the charred skeleton of a | staircase. He jumped down into the basement. He recognized Molly Travers’ | dressing room without difficulty. ||E == ; h by 7% oo. Mrs. Lyons’ gray muslin, scorched | > > Ry 8 . ,,, LTS 2 y a. a little, lay under two fallen beams. | SS x SS a9 = $i | He knelt down and examined the RES E> COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. HES US PAT OPE Be 4

dress carefully. Even the black jet . “ buttons were inact. “Don’t worry, Papa. we'll be back again just as soon as the tide FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS ¥ ae —By Blosser : 3}

jo ig ' —— . a D a - S re a ho 4 goes out: 3 ( . y : SUpLose 5 En Wil —— Su 1 GUESS THOSE RED WERE THE NEW BAY UM ~ HUH =e Johnny found the dressing table, busses BATS CAN REALLY ATTENDANTS ! WHERE CAN overturned. He opened one of the| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson LR TEAR You To { | WE FIND MR. THORP? drawers. A make-up kit was there, the sticks unmelted. But there was | WE KNEW no cameo. He found Molly's purse, vy WHAT WE with 60 cents in small change. If ERE GETTING anybody had robbed the dressing 4 EN room, money would have disap- y v / TAKING THIS peared first ! Had Molly lied to him? He must know before he told Jean. He stuffed her pocketbook in his blouse, and for the third time that day found himself at 43 Cottage St. asking for Miss Travers “I thought you'd come back and apologize,” Molly said when she saw ; a . him. “I'm terribly hurt that you'd ar A 4 3 : We b think so badly of me.” “How about your conscience? Was it hurt enough to call Jean?” | FAMOUS STRONG MAN, : a =W £7 < < , ’ N ‘ XCW "Mf FORGES “Oh, darling,” Molly Was exasper- WAS ATTRIBUTED ro — =a [NEYO El 250% 33 ROW a BOX WS RN OUR ee NARA OO THIS CANE WE ated. “I don’t think it’s necessary / JURIES SUSTAINED WHILE Ls JIN § & OEF\CER DE Carn : NX'ChN SEC wg We AEF T SEviND AG Sra TX Wi

lo tell her since She'd given the LIFTING AN AL TOMOBIULE Mo ii : | | nam | BR Cus.

brooch to us. If you think she has | to know, you ought to tell her your- FROIN A LI7THS, SINGLLEAYARANDED.

self.” “That's your story and you're sticking to it,” Johnny said calmly “But I've been down to the theater.” Molly interrupted with laughter. | “Which theater? Ours burned last CoPR, Yo BY NEA SERVICE. NC.

night.” 2 “Ever hear of a fire sale?” John- 8 nv asked. “Salvaged goods?” FRY Z VR “What are you talking about now, 7 A ANY > 1 E ! b= he detected alarm in her tone. “You WW LDS ie, N \ 4. OW 17 7 == f= = . didn't have a monopoly on any sal-| PINEAPPLES MR N \ #7 . LY : a S—— Gobh. joao a, me) vaging, you know, if any was done.| ARE GROWN IN THE — = : : Those Portuguese . . .” HAWAIIAN ABBIE AN' SLATS —B8v Raeburn Van Buren

But Johnny was ready for her. SLANDS ; % . «They'd have taken this first, don’t S88 Y Y-YOU'RE Y YES” AND SOME EEE #| [no CUTTN' Y PULL-LEEZE BY | YEARS WAVE NOTHING TO DO BESIDES, SOWEONE '\ ONLY RED- ¥ GEE / I a «= eS PRON HOLLY: | DAYEWHEN. 1 OLD "cat | | ANDY 7 1 ] YOU ky EACH CARR A NB | Wma Ir, QHILD ¥ YOURE UN- ALREADY 1S MADLY IN | HEADED | SLATS Ad L> AREY WOOD, AREN'T- | ENOUGH TO LIVE MY | CARRY | | SAW HER / BOOK-IF YOU PROMISE NOT SOPHISTICATED INFANTS #1 LOVE WITH ME 7 A CER | MAN | (SCRAPPLES Her =p. * = & CHA 2 OWN LIFE-ILL LEAVE | YOUR | | FIRST / TO QUARREL BLN » AW - n x Tani RN MAN bis IN 11S HE N : SR THIS NASTY LITTLE { BOOKS SUPPOSE | SHOULD START GET | | ~AGELESSY FASCINATING" WHOSE TOWN JOHNNY WAITED for her to a TOWN AND GO BACK/! \ HOME ? TING USED TO MEN QUARRELING a NAME | CANNOT og” 1S SLATS

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them like a screen. “If you haven't TO FLY THE AMERICAN INTO PICTURES, NAT FULL OF " i ’ to Jean THAT, | SUPPOSE” ONLY=~ snyihing I RSF 94 (FLAG UPSIDE DOWN 9 URALLY- AND GIVE My / RW YOU'RE BOTH 53 ha ened. Unless you tell the truth, r » ; . TALENT AND SEAUTY ) WERE SIXTEEN ! pp lieve you gave the cameo to ANSWER—When used as a signal of distress. 32] AND GLAMOUR A Jy ’ A WHOLE YEAR 11 believe 3 r : THRILL OLDERN YOU”

rs in exchange for that con- | : Mato I have the contract, I can pay her said quietly. “If you don’t tell her STARVED U1 0 = 3

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Then she began to sob Johnny looked at her. She wasn't | pens to you is entirely up to her.” “Oh, Johnny, you make me acting now; she was scared. She He ran up the street to the Melsound like a thief. And I didn't|clung to him, sobbing, “What will | tons’. As he rushed into the house, mean to be, really I didn't. I/they do to me, Johnny? What will he collided with Andre Masters knew Jean would give you the cameo [they do? Please don’t leave me! I going toward Cottage St. and that it was iT Nasicrs i5/diint realize ys . was doing, (Te Be Concluded) 4 i ts about old jewelry, an t {can’t you see idn’t?” ] = > : « seemed so simple. . , . And now that! “I'm going back to Jean,” Johnny (AT events. names and characeers in this] (SIS SE : =f] ——— CAS RE vn 1 KVisuken

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