Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1940 — Page 22

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PAGE 22 —— THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES SERIAL STORY— FUNNY SIDE UP By Abner Dean | OUR BOARDING HOUSE | With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY

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YESTERDAY-—Carried begs Mark not 8 4 - Re — - < N N/, ES HE f/ to fight Oaks. But back im town, the 3 BER AANA Bad 2 3 / | p agent looks up Mark, tries to start a S 5 3 ho NN) fight. Deuel ignores him. There is a shot. | RX N h Sa _"X D >

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CARRIE WAS standing there, | -White-faced, tense, clinging to Mrs. Taylor's arm, when Mark elbowed | his way through the excited crowd and into the darkening street. Mark | stopped, lifted his hat to her and ! to Mrs. Taylor, greeted Ed Taylor. 5 2 . : { ‘Anything serious?” Taylor asked. \t, : | “We just got in town when we heard || > . a) > nie - - ; 7 ; a on ny A= FROM OVERWORK = wie oun = — VS EsSE—=_ € MADE NOT BORN IR x “Nothing much,” Mark answered. |}. » 6 XR Ee . E \T M REGU. 8. PAT. OFF, HEROES AR A COPR, 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INO,

and knew instantly that his expla- | - a e nation didn’t satisfy Carrie Lane. | ta \ YO' MAMMY SAYS MURRY. NO!-YQ' 1S DAM |

N T'THEM “Mr. Deuel,” she broke in, “it was Cope. 1940 by United Feature Syndicate, Ine | LI'L ABNER” — A «JEST IN TIME. Ee YE Re trouble with Mr. Oaks, wasn’t it?” a Ny \) For a moment Mark thought he “I'm NOT nervous, I tell you I'm just practicing walking DESDE read accusation in her eyes. | Se SN 5 “Miss Lane, I'm sorry.” he at] HOLD EVERYTHING . I REE ~ AA “but it was.” : Ed Taylor suggested they walk | back to the hotel and Mark readily | agreed. On the way Mark told them | what had happened | It was Newt Gagle who had seen | trouble coming-—or thought he had. | Mark explained. Newt was with Mark when Ashton Oaks started his | quarrel. He had heard Mark tell the agent he was drunk and walk away. And Newt had seen Oaks

reach for his inside coat pocket as : STIR SEN 5 MAE - 5 - > Mark neared the door : : : 4 Lid YPEE! THREE HITS OUT OF \ \ 1 CAN STL HIT QUIT TRYIN’ “IO LEARN TDO WITH = IM PRACTICIN' JUST IN : ER | Fm OUT YORE EYES, RED! YOU'LL CASE ACE HANLON SHOWS “That ‘was too much for Newt. I Na ~ : THREE SHOTS, RED RYDER! AE NN OAR SL 170) VER ! SEE AGAIN SOON AS THAT UP BEFORE THAT SPECIALST guess,” Mark laughed. “He just \ ARATE Ee ) s ~ 4 CHICAGO SPECIALIST GIS HERE GETS HERE, DUCHESS” i | ghed just : x NL j - —E AND OPERATES ON YOU 7 couldn't wait He grabbed Oaks’

arm, and, sure enough, the agent did have a gun. It went off. The bullet shattered the glass over the bar and first thing Newt knew, everybody was piled up on the floor.” Carrie was breathless. “Didn't he! mean to shoot you?” “No, don’t think he did.” Mark was still trying to pass off the matter lightly “He ‘was just drunk.” : SU ENR But Mark, looking suddenly at| 2 . S-29 SS Carrie, noticed her fingers clenched | S a A : SR .

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left Mark and Carrie alone. They COPR. 1530 BY NEA SERVICE, INC _Y. M. REG. U. 8 PAY. OFF. p { BUILT FOR were getting up early. Taylor ex- ME, GUS. plained, to get a good start with : supplies to the claim on Rock Creek. Mark was glad Carrie did not go upstairs with them. FUNNY BUSINESS A dim kerosene lamp shed feeble rays through the window of Sioux Springs House. Carrie and Mark stood outside in the shadows, It] was oppressively hot. The street | was practically deserted. Mark" Carrie began, but caught herself quickly and went on, ’ “ < . Wi te “Mr. Deuel, is it always like this | & an PE \ Game I300 My Ont Fetal Sree oe out here?” | RE p a yh TY : SY, J THE ONLY F.8.I. MAN LEFT 1S | U WiLL BE FOUND )[ / WELL, MY BOY, TM SORRY YOUR FIRST JOB HAS TO | answer, then added: “That is, you : reREe EN LAs, AON OF SABOTAGE CONG ON. || THE PROPRIETOR OF THE SUN- THE Too Pan Ad BE Bt $0 CONFOUNDED TOUGH AND DANGEROUS, BUT IT A SiN Tg sl / ' TRY TO GET A SOB. KEEP YOUR EVES OPEN AND YOUR || FISH BAR. TRUST HIM. SEND | | DeeTROVED IMMEDIATELY CANT BE HELPED. T WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK! ah I J i oy : MOUTH SHUT, REMEMBER THAT TWO F.B.L. MEN BEFORE || ALL MESSAGES THRU HIM IN thing always so0—so rough and—| 2, I —— TN ce | UIE MANNER oo ASK FOR well—ruthless? Tonight, I mean— | . . DIXIE DEW’ TOBACCO, AND HAND vou might have been killed!” V L ‘ ig HIM A DOLLAR BILL WITH YOUR © Mark grinned, a quiet, disarm- | i | A), tn p : 2A MESSAGE WRITTEN ON IT IN ing grin, dut it was lost on Carrie. | 2 ” : a “ it na INVISIBLE INK “Oh, I don’t think it was as serious | : : SS : x / as all that, Miss Lane.” Carrie went on: “I know, Ij know. Everything is so big and s0| —so0 lonesome out here and there | are sO many new people. You're so far away from anyone you know, | and you can't be sure of the peo- | ple you meet.” “Now just how am I to take that?” Mark feigned offense, tried to make | — a joke of Carrie's words. But his | C= CANT WE EVEN GO HAVEN'T You Even BOT SORRY, BUT ( Trave THE BEST effort failed utterly | ; DOWN © THE DOCK SURE, BUT Iw 60 TWO ACCOMMODATIONS LEFT? || OUR PASSENGER NEWS LVE MAD IN “Mark,” Carrie said, and suddenly | AND SEE THE SHIP ALONG TO SEE THAT , LIST 16 THE WEEKS --- WE HAVENT her lip quivered, “Mark I'm afraid \ YOU OONT GET ON IT! BIGGEST IN GOT MONEY FOR TICKETS t he | | [TURPIN A YEARS ww. NO ANYWAY, 80 IT8 NICE © TA 2) [EET A CAN 00 / KNOW IT WOULDN'T DO fit boll Us ANY GOOD IF WE A AD IT)

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cut here, terribly afraid.” It was her first admisison of 3 1+ new he J i : the thing Mark knew the moment “If it's a mermaid, ask her if she's got a friend!” | |

he had seen her that day at Ma D Parmley’s. And she had called him ah Mark! Suddenly, he wanted to take THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson her in his arms, to Kiss the tears out of her wide, blue eves, to press his lips on hers. But he couldn't,

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him ® 8 = OVER ALL THE ANIMAL. a 2 LAN \ ‘ oN Na ai rather LIFE ON EARTH... \ = Nos 3-2 INSTEAD, he made & rather BUT THEY 1+.OST OUT TE clumsy job of comforting this girl] fee 1 INSUFFICIENT TH GENT WHILE © LEARN THe who suddenly seemed to have "oy | A SRNR ‘changed the whole outlook of his| | INS ' en life. “Carrie,” he started to reply, put choked on the name and began all over again. “Miss Lane— this thing's going to work out all right now. There's a lot of women come out here and stick it out and make good and like it. Now take Ma Parmley, for instance. Wasn't even a town here when she

came!” i «Oh. she told me all about that, Carried smiled and seemed almost to have unburdened herself. “Said she ‘et’ on the grass, slept in the wagon—when the wagon wasn't be- A Pages TT Se ing used.” eR ~~ — They laughed ana Mark noted |b ur ANN TWIST? YOU MUST \"suE WAS A YI] ASKED TO JOIN OUR « . icy oh il CA Sh REMEMBER HER, SAL CLASSMATE | {| SORORITY BAGRA CH 2 ON Carrie's chin tilted at a bit more iif, N A SINGLE DAY, , V. L Jetermined ole again TRIS OUNG THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGQ*r/ OF OURS Ay]: | OF THE GIRLS BL BALL: determined angle agai Lf) FED THEIR WA oN > | A \ AT OUR ALMA MATER: | ED HER. WE NEVER . Ye iW 300 TIMES. 3 SEMNARY- [Es ry «I guess—I guess that affair at . | ROSE WOO \ the saloon frightened me, that's all,” Carrie went on. “That, and the trip to the claim. I almost wanted to give it up when I first saw it.” “Well, you aren't going to give it ‘up now,” Mark declared. “Not if the “Taviors and Ma Parmley and the

rest of us have anything to say 2 & about it.” HAT ENTITLES A He wanted to say he couldn't give PERSON TO MEMBER - up Carrie now, not if Mark Deuel SHIP IN THE FAMOUS had anything to say about it, but CATERPILLAR CLUBS TRUS TT somehow the words stuck in his throat. A moment ago he had cinta wanted to take her in his arms. But ANSWER~An emergency parachute jump from an airplane, some fear held him back, Never had

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this. swung off down the street. I'd play safe, Mark. Just don't get ; “I guess it's getting pretty late,| Newt Gale hailed him as helcareless with him, that's all. “I can’t Q n isn't it? Carrie looked through the [passed the saloon where he'd found | be around every time he reaches RS Sy - Jot ot OE or rs window into the dingy hotel lobby, [Carrie, white-faced, waiting outside, |for that coat pocket, Mark.” NT TN he Fat tk oR iba ay hy Tn OW ulus; Gmpty HF TH g0Ing two hOUIS sarin Newt laughed at his own joke and SSE tomers than any of the more than 100 Polk out with the Taylors in the morn-| “Mark,” Newt said, “I don’t know said good night, but Mark Deuel ¥ HRN :

X. : . re ing I'd better get some sleep, 100.”|as this amounts to anything. But knew Newt Gale wasn't joking. ROUGHER» He thanks his Irvington area patrons Mark, grinning, agreed, and they|this agent, Oaks, is inside again ang} Al ‘ ™n ; . sald good night. He watched her'pretty mean. He's bragging he's go-/ (All even etony are Detitionay In this f