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TUESDAY, SEPT. 3, SERIAL STORY—

Love On The Line

By PAUL FRIGGENS

CAIT OF CHARACTERS CARRIE LANE—An Eastern girl

who

1940

FUNNY SIDE UP

came into the frontier West to find a |

home MARK DPEYEL—-A keene his husiness to himself ASHTON OAKS-——A land town lots te sell

homeszteader

agent,

YESTERDAY Mark build Carrie's sod home the

the Taviers Standing in the

and

moanlight after house is

who |

with |

finished, |

Mark finds himself telling Carrie that he i

loves her, finds her in his arms.

CHAPTER EIGHT FOR A LONG tme Carrie in the moonlight outside her until the retreating figure of Deuel grew dim she lost of altogether She looked back on the few iays she had known him and I'¢ if she were dreaming, } for ¢

her

Mark So sight it swift wonWoi-

in his arms, kissed

said, “Carrie—Carrie, I love

And then Carrie knew it was true, knew somehow that it ways be true. She loved the here in the darkness, had loved from the that night in Sioux Springs House. With a shudder she wondered suddenly Ashton Oaks was tonight. waiting in azain for What did mean at m that day when he warned she hadn't heard the

last of him?

~ TY

first

where Was he Mark?

the cla

Carrie turned

1 back her feelings a curious was awake, but if s thoughts she was

King,” she said, up wallpaper away, Carrie. The nice smooth can be lined easily Ed could bring out hard next time he goes to town.” They went to sleep talking plans for her house, wind lulling them monotonous Car slept hausted from work of the

we 1 her nen d think the wall

1d papered the

ir n I A b

with a song. late, utterly the excitement day before

rie

Mrs.

Taylor was up when she woke, cook- | sheet-iron

g breakfast on the stove Better get inte vour apron.” guggested Mrs, Taylor, laughing “You ha forgotten Ed's expect-

ng vou cook breakfast

en't have

N MN »

CARRIE LAUGHED. “Mi knox difference than can

never tne

more he I'm the aid can't

ng out here in hunger Yoll find you

Carrie couldn't Big Ed few mim out of bed, bringing a of fresh cream. The dav was hot, insufferably and Ed. pushing back his breakfas remarked he was ‘sure glad he

came a ites after

pl ite. was dig ng up another soddy.

shade and you

know the difference.”

shall,” warned

os we

“We're going to have water,

1 that new well by night. We're to have a good, cold drink all » remembering suddenly how cold drinks she had really had since she came to Sioux Springs s. Taylor warned, too, supper, Ed went

“na Na

“No to

Mh wel no work

He didn’t rest

Bv not it

in the shade, weil, hecanse spring filled but deep enough and rocked - stones from the

4 ovclock there was 1A geen

quickly

the up with large fiat creek bottom Can could homesteading I hire Ed ot land compliance with but Taylor reminded her wouldn't much vear more “Think vou it t?” asked Mrs. Taylor, finished supper. “Or to come home with

Now down

fe was delighted

zeriosly settle ater she zomeone to break law the crop difference rain, alone to-

the

make without can try do want us

again?”

you

= ” x CARRIE BLANCHED for a min-|

realized that

hadn't so fast from her

Somehow she wouia

few

ute events within a rival be her IX alone! But "Of course, gaid bravely, was just

move davs Springs and on the

soddy

herself quickly. can,” she the

caugnt

of course, 1

she

ad tha glaa nat

lip So she staved and Taviors drove off in the darkness Once

che

again Carne

had the night before, not Mark =zplashCreek and loneliness In wasn't the darkness Carrie, the Taylors loneliness, too Ed Tavlor didn't hate by herself she aint kind of And Sally security of side, was hadn't stayed another Carrie Lane was incredibly

as it. was Rock

sudden,

night ACINIS nutter because he along in

nea rt Bumping es iTey sensed

Doggone,”

leaving that told wife “if 1 to that girl there Seems somehow the for this thing, leastwayvs alone.” lo feeling the

husband

type

her her SOITY she gh with It goddy. mooniight believed

dark in of the somehow nt

1; as 11gn

she would ieel

the

She anda

town |

to the soddy, mixture of]

| Job

the crickets and the] curious,

©X- | and !

Tavlor|

open | Mrs. |

eat |

she was| small pail |

SG. |

ging a well today instead of

ool when I get|

she | to! would | some |

after |

ar- | she would | facing | prairie— |

soddy | dark enough to hide per-| haps the faintest trembling of her | the |

stood listening | but !

there |

his | leave | tonight. | quite |

stood | | {

soddy

a second if he had really her |

would ai-; man |

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FUNNY BUSINESS

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THIS CURIOUS WORLD

By William Ferguson

SCIENTISTS AMERICAN | § “PEOPLE ARE ! CETTING N Zazes=, AND THE STANDARD

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Tay- |

night

the Carrie remembered the bright

outside to- | ‘ kerosene lamp | for a long while busied herself |

stretching up cheeseclotn netting |

across the windows and straightening the soddy, emptying her trunk, rearranging her crude dish cupboard, laying rag rugs on the barren dirt floor. It was late when she finally went to bed but she couldn't sleep. The crickets sounded like monsters, the gir hung hazlyv close, suffocating. She got up once for a drink from bucket on the noticad sky was ominously dark Al perhaps an hour later, she tossed off to sleep It was still dark wien Carrie stirred next. She never knew quite what woke her except the air seemed even closer, more suffocat. ing than before. She lay there, half asleep. half awake, and then her eves fell on the lone window at the end of the room.

the shelf

the

{ RIGCHTERONS | { A POTATO PLANT * PRODUCES 1T5 SEED |) ABOVE GROUND. { | ANSWER—Right,

¥ WM OES US PAT OFF

YcuriIOUS

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OUR. TOPSY -TURVY WORLD OUGHT TO LOOK OL. TO A SLOTH.

However, true potato seeds are a rarity, and

cutting of the underground tubers usually are used for reproduction,

The sky {the first faint glow of the sun was [pushing ahove the horizon. But | was a weird, unreal light, fainter [than dawn! | Carrie zat up, her bodv suddanly [cold with fear. In the semi-darkness {she felt for her slippers, slipped {inta them, shuffied to the window, {looked out. To the w»2s1 a fiery blotch smeared the horizon and in that same instant Carrie Lane;

was lighter now, as if

caught the first whiff of smoke in

the breeze “Mrs Taylor,” she screamed, "Mrs. Taylor,” rushing back to the bed, and then she remembered that there was no Mrs. Taylor, that she was alone. Carrie Lane, alone— with a prairie fire sweeping toward

her and toward everything on Rock |

Creek, (To Be Continued)

(All events. names and characters in thie story are fictitious.)

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WHY, IT KNOW Tek /

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—By Al Capp

WHY HANNIBAL

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N AN’ SHEDDUP’(-AH D'SPISES THIS POLECAT | AH SEEN IN THET . J ROMANTICAL MOVIE?) AH WORSHIPS

C'MO

BUT SHE'S 87 LOVE O'ME FO' YARS, CUSS HER -AHLL MAKE \GOLDEN HAIR AN’ SKYA FINE SHOWIN A-COURTIN'

NER ’- HOPE ADAM LAZONGA /S A-WATCHINS)

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AH GO CARROT Y-RED HAIR AN’ WATERY GREEN

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DON'T CONFOOZE MES TH’ MAN SAID GOLDEN HAIR AN’ SKY-BLUE EYES IN TH MOVIE? —- HM ~ 7-7-7 - NOW WHUT COME NEXT ?- OH YES /- HE KISSED HER!-SO AH RECKON

(GULP!) WISHT YO* WAS MER

AH DUNNO! THASS WHAR AM FELL ASLEEPY

OH, (SIGH !)-THET WAS WONDIFULS WAS THAR ANY MO’ STUFF LIKE THET IN TH MOVIE?

GOTTA KISS YO '/-

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ri RED RYDER

—By Fred Ha

PONT WASTE YOUR LEAD, RYDER’ YOU CAN'T SEE ME * YOUVE CAUSED ME A LOT OF TROUBLE AND NOW WE'RE SOLARA ACCOUNTS!

NANCY

JUST KEEP TALKING HANLON /

ONE-EYE'S BULLET BLINDED ME, BUT I'LL GET YOU AND SEND You BACK TO JAIL WHERE YOU

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1 LOCKED TH INJUN KID IN CLOSET! TH DUCHESS AND |—

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WHAT IRONY! NOT ONLY HAVE I TAKEN OVER THE DUTIES OF AN F.R. 1. MAN WHO WAS SHOT TO DE~TH, IVE RENTED THE VERY ROOM

WHERE HE SLEPT

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IF HE WAS SHOT BY SOME SPY WHO LEARNED HIS IDENTITY ~ THEN, WHO LEARNED HIS IDENTITY? HMM! BETTER SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING SUSPICI0VS

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You Sure ARE , MR. LASHLEY J

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