Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1940 — Page 23

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SERIAL STORY— FUNNY SIDE UP By Abner Dean | OUR BOARDING HOUSE : With Major Hoople ~~ OUT OUR WAY By Williams

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.. By Marguerite Gahagan

~- YESTERDAY —Explaining Vera's job, Sue Mary tells Nick about the government orders and plans the firm is handling. Only Miss Grant is allowed to wer them all. Sut Mary worries about | the danger of someone stealing the | papers, hut Nick laughs away her fears. | In the office, Vera makes rapid progress. “I'm going to like it,’ she tells Sut Mary, “if Kitty doesn’t make it too tough.”

CHAPTER TEN

THE POSSIBILITY of Kitty Kelly causing trouble didn’t come a3. a surprise to Sue Mary.

“Kitty doesn't mean any harm, I} know why you said that, though. She was a little upset when young Ross Clark came in today. He stopped to talk to you and passed her by without a single look “You see, Vera, she’s made a movie hero out of him. We tease her -about it, but she doesn’t mind. | You know, I really think Se pe | -— = &3 je — — ; = = iev y 1 ask her : A pr RL ng TI a =) [ ALLAN for» amie | CC SRN ST come. 1 or SS \ BORN THIRTY VEARS T30 SOON, wl el | “Such childishness,” Vera said. E - - And ten she Tamed aan Slley. | mn Copr. 1940 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. "> ’ By Al Capp “What would she do i e asked i | bd " . ; CL Sn a pramiy] te You lhc Wyse seus is, Woke nwt, Wt ors 23 1D BRANES | [BTR aris Ls Coven) EEE yin Vers], Sie roman | losers in our family! AROUND’ -I'D WOO EVERY BRING HAPPINESS TO THOUSANDS \ AS ANY NOW, HUN, die of envy.” wis BEAUTIFUL GIRL | MET — OF GORGEOUS GIRLS .THAT, SIR, AK HOPES? hay Hie buy It was) HOLD EVERYTHING HOW 4 DOGPATCH STYLE , OF COURSE J- IS WHAT I'D DO-IF YOU TAUGHT PLAINLY : | ULD You Ul X IT MIGHT GROW TERRIBLY Ay M OF SEE. r/

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talk about a little vine-covered cotfage and how two can live as] Cheaply as one. Buf not me. * “We have the world before us.| /, 1 : : I-won't be stopped. The world A “| | BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES is.-.changing and I'm in the thick . of. the fight. With you beside me ln " NT " tA AEE SURO our life can be beautiful. ! [ ow ae iit NE a Te 3 A OUHRE SRG Cast We “You don’t want to he tied to > : [| DOLBE LP ON MN { MOST. GE PLO & man with no imagination: a fac- ™ ; a ll \KGSONS TO MAKE er STARTED WN tary worker. It's our fate to he CORIOUS 2 [1]l] UP FOR THE TME IL SCY NOON. together and to work for the good | f HORRY, x of these people who can't help| . N fhemselves. In the new svstem. | we young people will have a voice] and we won't be on the bottom, , either. Sue Mary—’ YOU CAN'T RUB THEM With his lips agains hers she | THE WRONG \A/AY. colildn’t .answer, couldn't Joe, Springville, the safe, sane life at the office—all were blotted out afid only this heady feeling of] something to come, a future—dan- | gerous but exciting, and Nick's] arms about her. + She worked in a daze the next] day. Her Sous yee back again HAT 1S THE ONLY ABBIE AN' SLATS nd again to Nick; his voice mur- BODY _-. . ] . ) iE MEANWHILE, BACK AT BTREE CORNERS... Beri against her arguments; his | f > 4 : Z er ES Pn iD VES, BETTY ANN=1 BLACK- no You HAD NO. 1 WOULD -W THE Sy }4 You= = k CRA 25 lips against her cheek. That was| . a A VRE) THE EARTH BALLED YOU 25 YEARS AGG THAT DAY TO ALL. MY HEART CMI SR! n E > 5p! THAVEN'T WANTED 10 . 11YOUL HAD MORE MONEY, WOULD YOU ONE OF Us.! Z LET'S JOIN THE OTHERS } MUST! T'VE LAD AN ODD ME TOO!!! !

-the office to become aware that | | Prati: was wrong. ANSWER—The Moon. A simple question now, but a tough one a ||PRETTIER CLOTHES THAN L | BLACKBALL ) AT HE HOUSE AND FEELING LATELY -A FEELING Suddenly she looked up from her il typing, aware of a stillness, aware | of a tenseness in the atmosphere. Sue Mary pressed her lips to- |then, We can't stay in here all day. Her gaze met Kitty's and suddenly gether and her eves flashed. Not the way things are out taere.” she realized Kitty was nodding to-| “Now don’t get mad” Kitty She nodded toward the office. ward the rest room. warned briskly. “vy . |"“Sometihng's been lost. And do They met there and were alone. Wa ou know it's yoy know what that means? At Sue Mary asked, “What's the mat-| true, and anyway, I called you in/least 1 take it for granted you tér? All of a sudden I felt things here to ask what you think about! haven't been in such a state that weren't right.” today’s business.” {you don't realize there's a war go- ' “You certainly have heen in a| “Today's business? What do you ig on in the world, and this office feg,” Kitty said dryly, “But then mean? I just know that all of a has been neck-deep in legal work you havent been yourself for weeks.| sudden I felt things were differ-|on these plane orders.” v Goinz around with these new|ent. And then vou looked at me (To Be Continued) friends ‘of yours certainly changed and here we are.” " “Well, get caught up quickly (Al vents rare Petia in this

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