Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1940 — Page 23

FRIDAY, AUG. 23, 1940 a THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 28 SERIAL STORY— | FUNNY SIDE UP OUR BOARDING MOUSE “With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Willems

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Incognito \ Nia CPR N\A BOT A BIG SHOCK YESTERDAY wa THOUGHT WE F{ CONFRONTING THEM ’ ! : : SAW YOU IN A GIET SHOP, BUT IT TURNED OUT 22 IN THE FLESH 2 wa : SHOP 7 Heh ring WORDE: YOUTH. By NORMAN KAHL TO BE A TOTEM POLE nHAVE YOU COMBED [77 7) 7 ABBISTANT | | AND TH’ OLD KEEPS : ! 2 SIR CECIL OUT OF YOPR WIG NET ? A / : Z To VOLITH ROWN A COAST OF CHARACTERS : i 2 (S/6NED) THE THREE MUSKETEERS won / Ro” MARTIN SAYLER—a lawyes with too k i 726. DONT PAY ANY ATTENTION TO "™E £O6T- So : a J N : I Er MARK ww THIS 1S BEING

many eaemies, ® DALE APPLEBY--Sayler's stepson, MAILED BY A PAL WMO

RHODA WATERS-—Appleby's fiancee, hl ) : . 4 ; 3 1% LEAVING =

HAZEL LEIGHTON-Sayler's sweet 5 / i 3 heart x ; g WINSLOW MARDELL—a gambler, » le | } ‘GEORGE BARBOUR — Sayler's law | ’ , i : RN

parther. LIEUTENANT O'LEARY--police investigator,

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YESTERDAY: The officers catch Rhoda ax she boards =u plane. Later, O'Leary inspects the study again, finds two books misplaced. He calls Dale, orders the five guests to be at the house that | pighs.. “I Ddelteve § know whe murdered Martina Sayler!”

CHAPTER ELEVEN

SERGEANT CARROLL sensed, when he stepped into the “Saylor A cI % ld x 4), N RN oH ZZ = \ orl i study that night, that the involun- || 3 tod VR ; x 7 SN DRA 5% ; 3 - ~y v1» tary guests were not in the most] TOR | Pp 4 8-23 CR OR 5 TRWALAMS joyful of moods. O'Leary had not ' 5 h\ N/ R WI PR. 14S | iN AZ 5 THE PERFECY COMBINATION . o ’ " y Wi - ’ g oe, ' ’ —— vet arrived. Dale Appleby was be : Boner IAA i : ul L ABNER By Al Capp \

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a large overstuffed chair. Winslow Mardell still wore the| HOLD EVERYTHING emblazoned sports costume he had on when the officers accosted him | in his hotel earlier in the day. George Barbour leaned quietly back on one end of the divan. At the opposite end of the divan| sat Hazel Leighton, grimly reticent, | smoking irritably. Carroll was relieved when O'Leary | finally appeared. Following the | lieutenant were two uniformed offi cers, and between them walked the sullen Riggs, chauffeur for the late |

Martin Saylor. 2 1 | 8 . O'Leary directed the officers to | ( y | By Fred Harman

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side of the room : g Tl O'Leary leaned back in his chair “ ; | RuR . NEERHY gt Ry La yo ie re Lr NG and took a pencil from his pocket | foi id a ——— = fa X. LH 5% Ss > EE ; and twirled it between his fingers. | ; : Jak ] 5 . - a wr *‘T'll get this over with as quickly | as 1 can. Since last night, a number | of things have occurred, and I think | I've found a few answers to some | things T dint know yesterday “I wanted you all to be here tonight partly because there are . , a few more gaps I want to fill in| Rn, HR » hy | -9 : « \ a : ; and there are a few more ques-| ey : Wr g ) K ; ’ / ~< tions.” He looked at Rhoda. “Miss | | y i 17 / fv «7, 3 \

Waters, you were about to leave town this afternoon because, as| Lom. vos wy MEA SERVICE, INE. Y. 30. N88. 0.3, PAT. OF ; «By Bushmiller you said, you wanted to meet Mr “Oh, that one’s on his vacation!” 1 — w— y - — : LISTEN GET THE TRUE STORY }i $ Paur (R ON J Wu BOY. : === AND NOW GENTLEMEN ++ . i

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ito" Rhoda jumped to her feet. “What | er oe © © do you mean—?” Vz o 4 $Z “I mean you were getting out | Va 62/5 ’ SN : because you were afraid—afraid ‘of YK 4% oy BBA So what might happen if you stayed: || 8 SB 4 A570KA &% & o Isn't that right?” CN BIE RE en DB a Oh SNA» All the color drained from | zz aid) (a menssinnsed {mgm - Rhoda's cheeks and her fists were | TS tightly drawn, Dale had clasped | 2 J her by the shoulders and Was FN —~ <: { pe ZA | frowning. “That isn’t true,” she . | | g 5 7A | 0 ml [ A y= 3 Tom Mow U8 Pas OF — All Hgts Fasrved

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trup. T have nothing to fear. Not =r from you or anybody.” 3 (2 = O1juty turned Ws A. Sk = WASHINGTON D.C.: : OF ALL THE (THEY ARENT ON THE MENU, VERY WELL, CAPTAIN EASY, YOUR CAR Rainbow Club, Mr. [&F= : . DiZZY WAYS TO SR. ARE YOU SURE YOU'D WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU AS SOON AS as NR He 5 > a J CONTALT A HIGH LIKE BAKED FROG LEGS] p —— 2 Mardell?” | \ XS RR x ; GOVERNMENT OF - Mardell jerked to attention and a i v 3 3 => FICAL... TM 10 60 glared fiercely. “What if I do?" “Why did you tell certain people around the club that vou wouldn't | need to worry about the I. O. U.S

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night?” id Mardell shifted uneasily. “How Eo 3 do you know that?” ax “There are ways. How about it?” COPR._1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC “I didn’t mean what you think.” Mardell said evasively. “Now go in there an’ outwit em!” ? 7

O'Leary nodded. “All right. Mr - how Ww you know this ul: FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS Barbour, low Well ‘do You Know this| HIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson 53 — house? y 9 _—, yr ™N al m - “Why I—I'm not sure I know/ g CEE 3 TI ABOUT FOUR Ir You murmpLy OEDUCT THIRTY i AN' DONT TRY TO WIDE what you mean,” Barbour stam-| § p : A How HOURS - == IF THE DIMENSIONS OF SAUARE INCHES FOR | ! if Z Za Vv ANY OF YOUR BROKEN CTATESTCS | a AO by] THIS 16 AN- | | EACH DISH BY EVERY suppasE | ih : IN THe ASM Can / 0.

mered. | | | LONG “Did you ever spend any of your 2 Sh CEAF SURFACE HAVE we OTHER SAG , DISH WEE DONE) MET ) nights here?” / ; TAKES ABOUT || BEEN AT | WE Sure YOO HAVE A DISH | In ; , 7 IT, LARD? | ARE HELPING | | TWO BLOCKS LONG | ne LH “Yes, of course. Martin and 1 £ - TWO GA ONS ¢ > POT ND or Re were partners, and he asked me | [he§X 7 : oF CARBON an i OVER ! yi ey § often to stay overnight.” di —— ois oe \ V i 7 . “Lately?” ; , >< > Barbour’s cheeks quivered slightly FROM THE AIR. i IN A SINGLE DAY.

“Yes, a few times. We had some business to go over as you Know . kp ———— Sometimes it was rather late and I ‘ stayed over.” “Thank vou. Miss Leighton, I have reason to believe you knew this place pretty well. I'm told on several occasions you called when Mr RE Z : Sayler was out and that you spent oh several hours in here by yourself . BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES because you insisted on waiting.” SITE a | — The blond woman glared defiant- - reo SEEN | [ wean TOR tant Iv at O'Leary. “What of it? I was | TLING SOR Qr LTT welcome here.” | NT RRR we } < THE “Perhaps vou were. There wasn’t / ] > ~~. me A ; anything you were particularly in- = | . E i Wk ON a in inside the house, was OP. WAT BY NER SERVICE. Wa. | - bX TONG A NEWLY - HATCHED y . Pr THE VELAND, § TRG GEIZEO

“Of course not.” : “There are two things you ought RS S OSTRICH i a : BOOT: o to know,” O'Leary said. “They will WEIGHS ABOUT e y 12 ROLE EED change your opinions of this case. » EN AOUINES. y VER. TO MN First. Riggs is not guilty of the mur- 4 2 o20% 7 : TIANREE . TIE : en — rr /) TRER www der of Martin Sayvler, and secopd— bo © 3 Op Ss oF 3 > . f Z someone else in this room is.” 7 { J oo A small shriek escaped the lips oP of Hazel Leighton. A maid fainted. | JA b 20.8 Ee Dale stood erect how, behind | 3 =

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“It'll’ be over soon enough” O'Leary said. “Tet me tell you about $23 o ; rm it. The murderer was very clever. HAT 1S THE GREEN : 3 vig ae But the trouble with smart mur- | / SCUM COMMONLY . : "Jo ita 1 TH , I. oo | 4 UNDER ARREST J derers is that they usually forget E PONDS : SE ] ; ; x rw aves 0 j | t Mm A some little thing. SEEN ON Pe T.M. REG. U. §. PAT. OF® e Es J y > Y J - LT > rE “In this case, the killer forgot e that Martin Sayler was a very ” fastidious man. He was almost ANSWER-—Simple plant life, known as freshwater algae.

eccentric in that way. He liked everything in order. Everything [Martin Sayler at the same time that ling toward the desk. “I wonder if—"

neat, always exactly the same. His the same murderer was in the other| From somewhere near the window books. for instance. He wouldn't [room with the rest of you. That{a muffled report, ‘like the clapping tolerate having any book out of (would eliminate suspicion. It wasn’t of someone's hands, caused everyone place or moved &n inch out of line easy, but the killer figured it out. to turn. And in that instant, George from the others. Every volume had {Would you like to know how?” (Barbour, a twisted, tortured smile its exact spot Barbour stood up and stepped on his white, pasty face, slumped to “That Was where our murderer (into the ¢enter of the room. He the floor and lay sprawled on his slipped up.” : opened his coat, and thrust his back. On the starched white front O'Leary had the rapt attention of [pudgy hands into his trousers'|of his shirt, a large red blotch was evervone in the room now pockets. growing bigger and bigger. “You see, this murderer had a] “Lieutenant, before you go any (To Be Continued) unique problem on his hands. He, or [further, there's something I want to she, had to be in this room to shootlask you,” he said. He started walk- (AN events Thines anil chatasiers Tn ‘this