Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1940 — Page 18

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YESTERDAY: Sue Mary goes to a political meeting with Nick. It ends in a small riot and Sue Mary has the feeling that everything was staged to get attention and publicity. Nick suggests that Sue Mary get Vera a job in her office. It is easily arranged and Nick is delighted. .

CHAPTER NINE NICK WAS happy. He sat in the parlor and leaned forward eagerly. | asking Sue Mary more details about | how she had helped Vera get the job { “It's not only that I'm glad she | will have a job for a while,” he | said, holding Sue Mary's hands between his own “But it's that you did this because I asked you to do it. That's what puts this| warm feeling—this little flame here

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: . ~ | L]TO ONE OF YOU = DOGPATCH WN 3 “Civilization is changing; society | ——— THE. POWER TO STYLE-WHICH LIFE OO HIGH - NIGHT COURSES, ara Sh | SALARIED TEACHIN'” CORRESPONDENCE COURSES!’- | OUT” ln RX NX

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one to work along with him, though. | Someone whom he can trust, believe | in, love.” 7 ZZ Nick's love was becoming some- 1 - 4 RD - A. thing to deal with. It frightened 3 : hi 7 Sue Mary Nick frightened and thrilled her | at the same time. His words left

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to workaday matters | : “Nick, please—let’s talk about il i A : £ RED’ I'LL Nou STAY QUT HERE AN SHOW DOC sti inns ME REAL, BUT [MY FATHER 15 A Y LITTLE BEAVER Vera's job. You know Ill helpj]| : : : RIGHT AWAY” HB WILSON'S BOY, DON, ARDUND TH PLACE, | | ARE You A REAL ME 100 WORRIED GREAT DOCTOR’ {| TEACHIM HU TO | : "_ - : LITE BEAVER A Te % hg RED JEL. CURE 1 RIDE LIKE WIND ~ id he DER 1S MY R FRIEND” ) [IF FATHER MAKE

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he reminded her. “You say there : {il yi ) I | i Se, ~ £4 E. - J ‘ a Ad is much legal work. What do you 3 1 fA mean by that?” She tried to explain, glad for the interest that took his thoughts away from herself It was filing

and stenographic work, she explained “Orders keep coming in; plans rly : have to be checked and they keep ——— a - 3.3 e atl. WV \\ NN iy the i a os Bi — Re = EPA ee ERR 7 BN ri aren Eien we vw mec PALOE, in the plants al he time HAW, PRIVATE NANCY === GO HM LET'S | PRIVATE JENKINS *e.. SORRY, { GIR we he le sims Tatvery DOWN TO D' LAKE SEE WHAT I PUT SOME BARBED BUT- NANCY USED is working for the Government on COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T.M REG US. PAT. OFF 7 AN’ GUARD D' WANT DONE WIRE IN FRONT UP ALL OF OUR pursuit and bomber planes | WATERFRONT! | A O.K., NEXT ! OF OUR NEW BARBED WIRE !

“He sits there just in case the machine doesn’t work.” | / GENERAL’

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get sort of sick thinking that all| those papers — those drawings, | FUNNY BUSINESS those figures— would eventually become machines of death. I

could elo: 1y eyes and picture | the sky ead filled with them | and bombs. But of | rse that was silly We need | those planes for defense—and I can't believe we'll ever have to

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America { — = } v w = y, > WHOA, BUDDY! LETS THINK THIS ) io SY JUST AS 1 A [ THAT PROVES IT WAS INTENDED FOR ME. ; i) / THREE F.8.1.MEN a Svea: 1S THIS SECRET MESSAGE £ : FEARED... THE THESE BLINKING SPIES SUSPECT ME OF A 7 BEFORE ME acl INTENDED FOR PUNKY FOWLER, OR | [=< a 5A MOMENT I STEP OUT BEING A FEDERAL AGENT. THE ale 7 6 BEEN MURDERED, oe rt ’ O' THE HOUSE, TWO MESSAGE 1S PHONEY! T'S A TRAP! || hal AM I TO BE VICTIM : ~ XQ MEN START FOL- ro 7 A we HE OI a 10) Q NO OWING ME i a nr m BY BLAZES! I'LL Br se Wn ' : OUTSMART THESE B0Z0OS! I'LL OUTSMART ‘EM AND

HIS ARMS about her had relaxed and he pressed his face against her hair and laughed softly. “Of course | not. nly it’s natural to wonder | about the things with which vou | work. But certainly vou don’t un-! derstand all those plans.” “No, and I don't see them often. The really important ones never get | out of Miss Grant's hands. She’; Mr. Ross’ secretary. ! “But they're valuable. Why, I| guess they're government property. | Anyway, theyre guarded in the vault as though they were diamonds.”’ “Diamonds aren't a good com-| parison, dearest,” he said. ‘“Those|

plans can't be bought. I should] ng > ; a “ing 3 STN ~ think they'd want to keep them | Bi : , Sa nd Sa YH { LMM / THAT KIND OF WELL, SON== WHAT DO YOU [HATS UNFORTUNATE { some place safer.” | 1° CALL IT FATE ww FINANCIAL REPORT ISN'T THINK OF THIS ? A MOVEMENT GosH! I SOMEBODY HAS ALREADY : Sh “I don’t think they do keep them CALL IT MISFOR~ GOING TO BOLSTER “THE SEEMS TIO. BE AFOOT « NUTTY DON'T WANT THROWN YOUR HAT IN L WISH WED there very long.” Ste Mary con-| TUNE , OR JUST FAITH OF YOUR = GAVE THIS TO ME ! : THE JOB | THE RING / | PASSED IT" ARQUND fessed. “Men — Government men, | AIOR MRNAS =~ POUCA -~ ? A —fx gy TY Ab) : we girls think—come in often and FI, POR, BUT RE Poo WIHT IRD 3 AIH 4 5 a 9 have conferences. 1 guess they take | FROM A FINANCIAL 3 YOU MEAN ¢ \ Sl AEN : v4 q ( 0 ' ) the plans away. Anyway I hope so. | obs BE SU Mw \ Ma. CGY WW " NE S =~ ‘Wouldn't it be terrible if some| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson WES A flr \ BG \ lige ;

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J He laughed and kissed her.| COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T.M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. / ph S| | “You've been reading G-Men sto- i Ns AGH ££ ries, seeing too many movies ; pe While she was with Nick she was | FREQUENTLY ARE happy. He had brought something | ACCUSED OF — into her ‘drab, hum-drum life that | \ CARRYING OFF | | : , o it had lacked before. No longer did Hn LARGE / / \ | = oO she face empty days, dragging | CHILDREN. : a 3 fll $7 hours, a sense of nothing ahead. | IN RECENT Zn Jick had ked her " | - 8 rr ——— a? TA Nick had picked her up and TESTS, A £1 ETI WY, OPAL GPS WEL) WRERES | HES GONE TOO! ne [ "TANT NO OSE HONEY. | 87% CC | "

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| things happened. Where there were \ YOONGSTERS | OVER TO Tm: AWE + JF \ — ; " ’ other young people—a kind that COULD Fby ONLY Ee. . | [ ARPORTY ¥ rr | 0 A a ; hl ds Cr AS oo thought and planned for tomorrow, IF ARDS WRAY 7 WHRERES | § I fm] | 4 ” | Pv In a few short weeks Nick had 3 py. WHEN TOSSED BOOTS rep become more than a mere play- || | FROM A HEIGHT | | mate. He kept her supplied with |!|| ; CARRYING AN

reading material; novels, some of 8 LB. WEIGHT. which she couldn’t understand. but | | \ J

which she read because he asked! °o her to, and because he discussed !| of g77/ ZN

them with her later: magazines |! ¥ 7 i Resesa with articles about Government /

problems affecting the man on the street; editorials In out-of-town papers commenting on world situations - - : — - Constantly she was striving to! : - dig i ERC 1 Sta] CEONARDO es : - il : please him, reach a state where she could talk with him as though | DA VINCI o : rv r SHE SAVED MY YES, BETTY ANN =|T she were something more than a| WAS LEFT-HANDED YES=-AND THANK d LIFE. SHE FAINTED AT WAS 1 WHO BLAZKBALLED he ; g ‘more Xo . : HEAVEN = WAS IN ABIGAIL DID FOR 0 child. And yet she couldn't reach | AND WROTE FROAA 7 TIME. THANK NOU NOU, JUSTINE? THE DINNER TABLE TO You 35 EARS AGO. NOW eu hg with him.| RAITT TO LEAT ha : ABIGAIL FOR WHAT PROTECT ME=* YOU KNOW!!! r with Vera or Natalie oe : : At the office Vera was no prob- : yuh RRWE. lem. She was quiet, self-effacing, | efficient Vera had style; there] was a something about her poise, | her carriage, her voice that made people look at her twice

SUE MARY WISHED secretly

| = a u | U 7 | qt that she had some of Vera's assur- | > ance. She would stare at her own | weEER— 70) ~~ N BAMLYS BEADS, round, tanned face in the office] THE SIANTS CALSEN/ AY, mirror; at the sprinkle of golden | freckles scattered over her nose; at| the blue eyes fringed in the thick] ashes; at the dark, brown hair| ANSWER—Baily's Beads, a phenomenon seen during solar eclipses; worn in the traditional loose boh| Giant's Causeway, a basaltic formation in Ireland; Cleopatra's Needles, beloved by American girls. Egyptian obelisks, one now in London and one in New York. “I'm just another girl,” she would! — : re : admit to herself. “Just like thou-|learn, and she has a good grasp on (she already look rested. There was sands in every town and in offices [things here once they've been ex- a touch of pink in her dark cheeks,

throughout the land. There's noth-|plained.” {and she was wearing a new shade ? ing about me to make anyone re-| Sue Mary told that to Vera when |of lipstick that brought out the . member me. I'm pretty as girls go,|they left the office and started to-|strength of her full lips. g

but I'm not the kind that stands|ward the hall where they would talk| “I'm going to like it here,” she ous. Not like Vera.” and gossip with the others for an |said. “That is, if Kitty doesn’t make IN THE But Vera was also a good worker. |hour before going home it tough.” “Miss Oliver is doing very well,”| “I'm glad,” Vera said, smoothing (To Be Continued) CREAM TOP BOTTLE Miss Grant told Sue Mary a week [the dark hair back from her calm, Jater. “She's always so willing to'broad forehead. Sue Mary thought! (All Fvents, names And ancglers in this