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MONDAY, AUG. 19, 1940 L THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 13 SERIAL STORY— Gi FUNNY SIDE UP By Abner Dean OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams | : | a WELL GENTS, WHAT'LL IT BE © wr WHY, T'e 3 ti .- |

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CAST OF CHARACTERS MARTIN SAYLER—A lawyer with too many enemies. DALE APPLEBY-—Savyler's stepson. RHODA WATERS—Appleby's flancee. HAZEL LEIGHTON — Savler's sweetheart. WINSLOW MARDELL—A gambler. I GEORGE BARBOUR — Sayler's law | partner,

LIEUTENANT O'LEARY—Police inves- | tigator. H

YESTERDAY — O'Leary explains the [ff] second shot. He questions Mardell, Dale | and Rhoda. All suspects are to remain | in the house overnight. Later, as O'Leary | and Carroll wait in a darkened study, | a man come in, rifles the safe. O'Leary's | shout brings a shot.

CHAPTER SEVEN A SPLIT SECOND after the shot was fired there was a thud that seemed for a moment like the echo of the gun's explosion. O'Leary 2 \ ; leaped up from the floor where he | l } = SRR V2 ol Ze Bn, BE ; ; ed r= a had sprawled when the man’s light | \ N ¢ NEVER GETS Sone Sn p 25 : \f J7 _— 4 = : : ? RWViLLIaMme, went out. He fumbled with the ) A N | \OFF STRIOCE=___ AA OK i \ £0. U.S. PAT OFF 37r ; switch on a nearby lamp, and when f : LI'L ABNER —By Al Capp ¥

he snapped it, he found Sergt. Car- | Copr. 1940 by United Peature Syn Yi. roll standing over the man they had | . : wn AH GOT SO CONFOOZED CHAUFFEUR?’ ) J seen at the safe. The intruder was Come back later, men... I'm gonna he in conference! IN TH’ GLIV'NOR'S OFFICE- )] THAT-ER- Ri J-NOT Y HE aE Mund A slowly lifting himself from the floor, AHN UP AN’ RUN. { CREATURE. ) ONLY IS AH A DOGPATCHER MESSAGE’ | HOLD EVERYTHING || WHENEVAH AH GITS AS THE - BUT AH 1S TH 5 S A MESSAGE

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blow. ny =A 2 REA It was Riggs, the chauffeur. AR ® NN x : Go P S A bre BE AN Carroll bent down and picked up 2 : ui 0 ‘ T HEAR’ the gun, that had been knocked | ; ha 3 T == ary | £ . from Riggs’ hand ‘Are you hurt Chief?” he asked solicitiously. “No, I'm all right. I ducked when | the flashlight went out. You cer- | tainly came out of hiding fast. | Lucky you didn't walk into that hot slug.” Quickly Carroll searched Riggs and satisfied himself there were no more weapons handy. “You better talk, mister,” he advised the bruised chauffeur. “Talk fast and plenty.” Barbour suddenly burst into the room. “What's happening—’ He | } y y wey | saw O'Leary and Carroll. His hands : A a RED RYDER

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nervously twitched along the sides | a ET ” | ! . 3 _ of his dressing gown. “I thought (3 Tl ; fF ] [OCT RED RYDER ) THAT SHOTY 1 WAS AFRAID oy | LEAD ME TO MY HOSS, LITLE ry aT “WHAT A you had left for the night.” : ; ey - . FALLUM DOWN MUSTA OF SOMETHING RECKON ITS CONCUSSION WE MIGHT AS WELL START BACK “i PRICE Soren “Yes,” O'Leary explained “So LO i STAIRS---SAYUM {|BLINDED (YLIKE THAT. PRESSIN' ON YOUR EYE NS TO TW NCH? ind | : f i : . : Is bai HE CAN'T SEE’ )| ME, DOC’ NERVES, RED’ I'M NOT

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did Riggs, here. Nobody's hurt. and SEQ . everything's under control. Please “ TH : FIGHT , — Tw 1 CAT DB rin OR a ¢ ME BE YOUR EYES 20 back to your room. We'll take : : Py WITH va YOU --- MAYBE IT . ; LM care of everything. I hear the oth- SR . | |ACE HANLON, & : / Wii. PASS? { Lut AR DER ers coming down the stairs. Please | | A. CROOKED 7 I tell them nothing's the matter. I'll s GAIBLER explain everything later.” FADD 3 . he ; ENEMY, Barbour glanced antagonistically \ ; y . N RED RYDER at Riggs. His eves darted to the Ny a5 | | WAS SHOT spot In the bookcase where the two > large volumes had been removed. Then he saw the gun in Carroll's hand. “Al right . but I wish this shooting would stop. Gets me

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idea?” he .asked finally p—————— ees , N' rr Ie SHE SAYS IT'S POURING 22 gE Sullenly, the man glanced at him. | J / 77/74 2 g7/ 7 . | Ef RAIN, DOWN TOWN ! RAIN MACHINE “That's my business,” he snarled a zz / 7. | | — [FOR SALE |” And ours,” O'Leary snapped S77 | 3 j PRICE fl . | “Sergeant, get one of the bovs to IA { i : . a / Po i : I take him down to the station. Book / A | Sa | . : FA = | | $1000000000 [ [0000000800 him on a charge of murder—the 00 = 3 : [Ye % | en | ; | Z | Y« 0 OVE a

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minutes later. “Officer Rafferty is | N I S—— . Can ( ~ue 5 OUT THE - hs thew ro Ma use : h HA. NOW LET US SLIP AWAY QUIETLY OR) (7 STRANGE ' THE DOOR 1S + THERE THEN IT 1S NO USE. THEN OD getting the wagon up here. No ust : CANS OF \ WE SHALL SUFFER THE FATE OF THOSE kK BUT LOCKED! 1S NO TIME Ff A ALTOGETHER! WINDOW, HERMAN ! HURRY! ) » 7 7% Z -

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tried to bump you off.” wai / \ nS 4 | 3% on WE SPRINKLED 7. : - He FOOLS! O'Leary was sitting at Sayler's SS - £ = | ON THE FLOOR, ’ = y oz Sw desk again. Before him were sev-| fo 4 : ww, | HERMAN. THEN 1." o | Ly EC eral bundles of papers. “Fine, Ser-| 5 ; A A ac | |seTorr A A : NA \ — geant, I was just looking over some > Z Z 7. =r er | =p 4 3 x [ » 3 of this stuff. Mighty interesting.” ! ee Z ~ ~~ ) : s~ Carroll looked crestfallen “You | ain't going to hang around here anv longer, are you? It's 2 o'clock. | and we got the murderer. We can | clean up this job after we get a little sleep.” | O'Leary vawned Youre right. It's pretty late. Maybe you'd be m- | “Is there a doctor in the crowd?” terested in some of these yourself Sees ede ———— though.” ; | THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson ad HEY Wearily, Carroll took the paper RR Rs RR oon Hello and read the words on the cover. | a FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS He saw the words “Parole” and {€ vou HAD A I= 3

“Carlos Gomez.” He squinted for = : | i — a moment, then he said, “Why, BILLION = } |[ EVERYWHERE WE TURN IN ALASKA,

ain't that the guy—Riggs—the mug | | DOLLARS |= ( | SOMETHING HAPPENS - FIRST A WHALE LOOKS THEN WE FIGHT we just put on ice?” AND YOu SE LIKE A SUBMARINE orf ahd THE SUN WITH OUR PROSPEC= ‘Leary nodded. “That's right. = STAYS UP AT NIGHT | fli! [TIVE BOSS AND HE O'Leary nodd 3 COUNTED 7 LA SENDS US TO MIND A

i | | eae [Soot melons | J n the s RATE OF ARE : il AND NOw 1 GET e Sayler entered the picture. He got | E =. ! ou Way EE ANE TH Gomez this vnarole. That was six | & 100 PER : Uggu AN AF vears ago. The parole ran out two | MINUTE, / e J JuRNS € vears ago. Gomez was paroled to | 48 HOURS $ & jill a Savler who evidently gave him this PER WEEK, |E 3 ANN ih Ih : Se chauffeur’s job. IT WOULD 2 / Carroll scratched his head. “I| guess that just about clinches things, Chief. An ex-con. He's the guy who pulled this job tonight. Any guy who's as handy with a rod as he is wouldn't mind a small | murder or two. I told you he was | - = the guy, Chief. Remember?” BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES = Vita The lieutenant smiled. “We can't \ i Con ‘and dis up a tle more. evi eS 2 ; eo 3 C g X HEN Tol PROVES T WAS TRA\GWT THAT \S WHAT | S00 | i ’ ) Jed SA - = ) - = 4 L LL # 5 ee cun and dig up a little more evi- W NS me EL " = YSer EROS aC GHRG WN DANGER WILLE 7 THAT Yass WEBS Sug Eh hat. ne Re

dence.” : p, BOOTS SLANE 2 | ame 3 Bt Tye ok = OR. TWNTT UP THERE. WITH HER \& Carroll gestured win a broad, (lic aa SOURS Yam EH ATE ARIRNET ST | | ARSE TS SRN Wo —— wet ning moti 5 d. © \ wy I ' = 3 Dy 5 Pagal EO T LL ? - sweeping motion of his hand. “Hell, | Jig Z SHE'S ABN {ARNE DIPPED OUR OTHER. MGWT / BEX A

he's our man. He was the only J 22 COME TROL % 7 ~ TATE WINGS. THATS STEM PLANE QUICK .. Ww\.E one who could have gone it. Hes . Ki i CULF STREAAM le mg? % A Re Pg T GET WAND we the Shy one In the ouse without | 1S THE BLES T / oh TARTS WARY Sue's . - an alibi : BRODY OF WATER re DOW NON. ?7 37

” » ” | ’ io . Sel + A a O'LEARY CONTINUED to thumb ON EARTH. through the piles of papers. | X . a Sergeant, did you notice any-| 4 & / L ~ thing tonight—after Riggs tried to 7 dust me off?” Carroll screwed his face up in / ~ | ~ = “ deep reflection. “Why, yeah. Lots | ) I / : \ 3 S Har of things. What are you thinking | 1-" ; of in particular?” (NAME ONE OF THE m=

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“About Barbour—didn't it seem| } TWO STARS NEAREST Er =a You WERE RIGHT NOT m-GIVES ME~ | [YOU'RE NEVER GONG TO X CHEE” THERE | | THANKS FOR DRIVING ME | THERE NOW, to you he got here pretty fast?” | THE EARTH. ero WAITING FOR BECKY, SHE | A SORTA-- SPEAK TO HER AGAIN, ARE | MUST HAVE HOME, MR. CARTER, |-1 MISS GROGGINS: Licht dawned on the sergeant. tr : y WAS IN THERE KISSING | EMPTY FEEL- YOU ? A GIRL LIKE THAT BEEN SOME CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY I'M SURE IT WAS «Come to think of it, he did.| _ ANSWER—The sun, and Alpha Centaurus, whose distances are || MR, CARTER ”~| SAW / WN NSPE | | Dosen DESERVE ANy- \ MSTARE ~ im | | SLATS DON'T WAIT FORME. | ALL SOME LITTLE Johnny on the spot.” |_93 million miles and 25 trillion miles, respectively, =~ oA THEM 1 LIKE THE ONE AS FINE AS YOU, SLATS. | GONG TO ASK | | HE'S NEVER LET ME DOWN | MISTAKE «Too fast, I think, Sergeant. He | : . i : HEART WAS THERE ARE OTHER GIRLS~ / BECKY-TO EX- BEFORE AND OM ,(SOB~) was here only a few seconds after|the safe—and maybe Riggs wouldn't per, Sergeant, is a petition which f : TORE QUTA WHO'D REALLY APPRECI- / PLAN IT TO M~ | DID SO WANT TO the shot was fired.” have missed when he fired.” was to have been presented to the ; ME | GOT FAITH SEE HiM---«That’s right. I never thought of “Whew!” said Carroll. Istate bar association by Sayler de- IN BECKY g that.” ati ; “This is what Barbour wanted manding the dishar ree | S: «And we didn't hear him coming|_.n4 I can't say that I blame Cr e disbarment of Geo a down the stairs. We heard the pi,» O'Leary picked up a thick| “Cripes!” said Carroll. “Looks as others easily enough. ‘ sheaf of papers. “This is an audi- if our pal Riggs saved Barbour an! Carroll looked interested. “HOW {5's report. It shows that Bar- awful lot of trouble—if it was Riges do you figure it?” hour has been doing a little em- who did away with Sayler.” : “George Barbour was already hezzlement with the money in the O'Leary thrust the bulging port- | a when the shot was fired. partnership of Savler & Barbour. folio into his coat pocket, “May- ||

’s why he was here so prompt- | This nther pile of papers is a com- be,” he said. “And then again, > Ta He was after something. 1|plete set of evidence, with a for- maybe not.” think this is It. If we had waited mal complaint, signed by Sayler— | (To Be Continued) another couple of minutes, Bar- all ready for a court. i —— pour might have surprised Riggs at! “And this harmless-looking pa-' ‘A! ®ve, names and characters in this