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YESTERDAY: Returning from a base- 3 ; i ; ball game, Sue Mary overhears Natalie 3 R ; : » : Wk ed, — dou! |e and Vers discussing her. Nick is not : ’ - 3 . # J : . iE | Z- | gerious, Vera says. He's using Sue Mary. : = 7 : / / hl HA L113] [ol fust as Vera is using Ross Clark Jr. to } in gy g A . i 2 B ; : ; : = get information for the party. There's no a % 3 : HAA PRE EB - ee (AR : ’ 7Z&8Y chance of Nick's falling in love with the |[§? il 4 ! : 7 by . 2 = : | a0 little, gullible office worker. ; | z

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN OUT OF THE dark street with the cool night air against her flushed face, Sue Mary walked Ny a slowly, trying to think. It was as! | lL 243 ] ; Ca ; - though she had had a glimpse; 3 is : 0 = backstage, 3 fail ati: : ] Nick's interest, his newly dis-||%¥ e a3 ; yl blayed love; Vera's work at the 0 - RC a ¥ AE Gets office; the mislaid paper; Natalie's, i 3 ; : insistence that she come and live |#:| zm A ann 3 hia {RY REE] | : — a : with her: the YP campaign. Half- RX = RYE: ; = rE 5 S 3 3 AS S forgotten words, acts, suspicions Ri RSS 3 t (IS C ® 3 SN Nc fF AR came rushing upon her. : hE HEER UB MAJOR wane = qe >_< Tr a-24 | i= v4 ZF eri Sse ) Yet she couldn’t understand why BS vl ; d Eine) A MAYBE HE WON'T STAY LONG = Ny & : ! 1 < lh “ac FR \ Ba TB oe a AS COPR. 1340 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REC. 0. 8. PAT. orp, > 3 El chon REC US, PAT. OFF, BORN THIRTY YEARS TOO SOON { q-2¢4 she was important enough for them \ : : Sar pai LI'L ABNER : IR Rp : ~ Te x —By ‘Al Capp | »

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to have bothered with, Back inthe : > Bb Be recesses of her mind she brought 540 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. J i gy : Ny wr ; 2) ; ol ; 8 2 HOURS LATERSS. FROM NOW ON YOU WILL. forth that first conversation With| «ye interrupt this geography lesson with a special war bulletin!” ne oy MY BOY. ; — J caSsoM No. 4 BE KNOWN AS _ABNE Nick: the day she had wandered J EER OnE = : SO THASS Es %) / o-oumPIN caTFISHZZ2. I | YOKUM M.D.S. -MASTER, into the studio, and Nick had asked APPROACH! Ls J-JEST LIKE. fll | DOGPATCH STYLE You

ROACH” 7 ; A : es L her where she worked. She remem-| HOLD EVERYTHING Jc aor n- be” y I > : THET HUH P A bered his questions about the law — re : —— iz 5 ; \ a ’ 3 HOURS PASSES Sour office. : 4 NO RD i zesson No. 5 | | | ROR THE COO Shanove ~~ And when she had explained that ; : G XC % BELIEVED 17” Seva ALL -BE CAREFUL OF « the work was more with large cor- ois : * ling LESSON NUMBER FOMR/” porations “like Centerville Motors and Gull Plane” Nick had become | interested. He had questioned her casually, in that friendly way that made her feel he was interested in "herself alone. And then that time she had told him how, with the war orders, the office was tightened with new regulations; how the hig vault how held many important papers. : “You've been reading G-Man] | ( - oy « - stories,” he had teased and she had i iT | = Re rN REE PrauR EE a pe 3 po Ruch Si ip WE ERS R=R WELL GET THE laughed at her own seriousness. : : DOC WILSON { ! FE RESTORED RED BACK. ACE f AND SETTLE Wit Things began to add up. She | | rrr TRRN > : : : ER AND walked and walked still trying to| | ; + Dd ye py ys {NO En : TOC, TONIGHT” piece together the jigsaw puzzle. 8 h TOMORROW 7 - ! = Vera was in the office, apparently where she had meant to be from the| | beginning. Nick was making love] to Sue Mary because he wanted a hold over her. At least that was Vera's. supposition. Sue Mary felt a little sick. To be used. to be so blinded by her own shortsightedness. Joe was right, had always been right. : She was awake now. She felt as OPK. 1936 though she had been beaten awake. | : Jagr heed mchen and har legs fel) “Guess thatlll tell ‘em my lawn cost me plenty!” y 4 OH--- MY FAMILY I'VE BEEN ALL YJ K--EXCEPT THE ONE OVER BACK OF leaden. She supposed she would have | : WANTS. TO TAKE ME OVER --- EUROPE, PLACE I WANT THAT GAS TANK to’ go| back to the apartment; have ¥ OFF TO HAWAII ON JAPAN, INDIA, TO GO- AND “1 NWHERE Nou KIDS to get along somehow until she| pUyNNY BUSINESS ) ANOTHER VACATION-- SIAM, JAVA -- I'M NOT PLAY BALL! could find an €Rcuse to get away. It EVERYWHERE -- ALLOWED! ) ( WHERE'S was hard to see how she had become : aii poten : . so involved in the whole crazy busi-

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LEISURE TIME, she told herself bitterly. It was being lonely and having nothing to do. This seemed

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was in bed half asleep. She stirred 7 SEE uy A Nie 550 ii Rew. U. : \ i 5 when! Sue Mary game in, —E2 NE » i 7/11 WASHINGTON TUBBS II | | —By Crane |

“Out with Nick?” she asked. | rey / NO Long MSTER, I'M ) \ SHOPLIFTING. BUT IM NOT A TE OW, NATURALLY NOT. HOWEVER, IM AFRAID ) rican custom.” . ; : ‘ . ; v LY NOT. HOWEVER, I es. i : nut XX on NOT 0 TELL YOU MISTER — HONEST IM NOT! THIS ISN'T A 308 SLITED TO YOUR—AH— Halted |was besioning to. sty ; 4 SEEN EMFLOTED TT wa Dig BL RE 8 a is SEmAN. hii 8 pi ne ar : the 0 7, | DURING THE [gl | ADDRESS / FROM THE HOME lo < wo, 7 weariness | and - disgust she ex- SS a i : . - Sa Ran, perienced. She knew she must do NS FF yl 3 —7 >A a something tomorrow. Somehow she ”] : 2 , y A Bn 2 | ' A would have to think this through. Tomorrow came, and another day, end still another, and Sue Mary blindly felt her way along. It was hard trying to pretend that nothing had changed. Going to the hall, listening to the members talk about

‘ 4 == keeping America safe, of retaining : S a American freedom of speech and = = thought, of the witch hunts started / — | Zz ; by |ax-grinding politicians to rr | 77 COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. : Hd frighten respectable people, of the : i : speedlips in plants and the re- | “Oh, I'll bet you're a speed cop!” : FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS sultant burden on the workers. | ; — _—— 3 © “But the . workers aren't com- ( --- AND THATS THE PLAN/ Tr Te = plaining, are they?” she asked. § ie WE'LL JUST WORK LIKE THE Hee The sound of her own voice came WORLD By William Ferguson DICKENS TO KEEP Nou FROM Sure AL gs a surprise. She didn’t mean to |e " BEING ELECTED / oaren. | START makel| herself conspicuous. All she 3 | ; ; ¢ ANE Aug IN poms OT A BUILOER- | | TO KEEP

wanted was to be forgotten, to break . : | away [from this. And yet in the back \ Wo Wg ; Fee of her mind was a fear: a fear that PB \ AN TEARER ~ DOWNER J EecreD! BoE : £ : RR N_ DO; these [people weren't.as simple as she ; | V Alt =} AN \ = | ah WE START ©

" once thought. “Aren't -complaining,” Vera repeated. “Good heavens, the factory ownels are getting twice as much SWIFTS

wo.k [out of them now as before, Cal yy ; just Hecause they say the orders are Z | TRAVEL. : i 1, / ] WELL OVER. 3 0 / De ae! Ft “ 4 \L

for national defense.” / : *W{ll eshn iF ee) BN rwo mues | | 0. : LATE i hard, |it’s for the good of the nation, ; : - Pee re, GC : Us a * 3 fsn’t lit?” persisted Sue Mary. “I | AND THEY ARE ee — 2 J . 24 == RR corn 1000 STE ree. 7. 1. cv. E 3 Fi

mean| I should think a man would : IN THE AIR ) het work in a factory now than ; py ABOUT | BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES : I —By M fight [in a trench later on.” : ’ AYNE TEEN IAMS (WELL, I CAMETOll GEE, WeN©DY Sa ; (3 NOW! I KNOW! [WHAT T \ 3 i | 13 : CANT F\GGER OVX & | Eon Ee ens “To rE | SEES pie SE [COUTTS EER NORE r ¥ os . A | . “we ut H 3 A ’ - ’ Nf ! » Mary| sometimes I don't think you OLR, TANG ? hil E oN ALMBNS WANE TRE ALONE can ead, or hear, either, for that ; ds a i 3 UHL WN TRERE

mattdr. This is a capitalists’ war. RICE ! YT. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

leasé remember that.” P Arguments boiled around her with ase TD Say < . every| one trying at once to make IN THE <4 3. JAS Ye ER : her see the point. Then Nick came WHERE IT WAS » 7) in and made them stop. “Haven't INTRODUCE an ] COPR.1340 BY HEA Bien you anything better to do?” he 2k ‘demanded. Who was supposed to MADAGASC arrange for that dance at the BY A SEA CAPTAIN. po summer school? We were to have | a speaker there for Fritz King. A lot of] these students are old ‘enough to vole. andiwho vas Supposed odin] 2 ; | : w lup that resolution to presen 0” 1 ¥ ZW ~:e : IOAN ®. _ == : oh 0 Pit council? We en 50 . PR FH / ARE : : : : iB that school for a meeting an A 2. : HH . - ey aven't a right to keep us out. : : ABBIE AN' SLATS | LG Cl / BECKY /! MY SHOES-- MY VERY BEST IF SOME BLARST- WELL HAVE TO SIT | | HEARDJA // AND THERE AIN'T a : | MY BEST-IN FACT-MY °/ DRESS-THE $398 ) ED SEA-APE HAD | \/__ IN, HUH2~ER-AHEM” | | | CAN DO ABOUT IT~ MY SHOES IS GON EVERYONE WAS working again ! ; only OE 4 |ONE THAT'S TO ROB A HOUSE IN| | THE DANCE WITH | DIDJA HEAR THAT POP? I'VE GOTTA SIT IN TOO!

and Sue Mary slipped into the in- | = Whar one smarure Jura ANE AP GONE /7/ CRAY SNES" | 2a Wy oKiLy WERE oa. WE'LL ALL SIT IN 2"

spicuous corner she had been ; : ; DOES A FISH POSSESS o, ; ints 1g. But Nick found her there, THAT NO OTHER h hi a? 0 : . : PICK THE NICE DRESS. behind a big stack of out-of-town | 2 ) CREATURES HAVE £K ; ! : ALT 7 7 : POOREST WAS STOLEN papers she was clipping. 4 hc 1l zl I = ¢ ONE «Hiding from me, little sweet- ,

heart : working, Nick. That's what ANSWER--Fins,. Other creatures have scales and gills, but true

you want us to do, isn't it?” She fins are possessed by fish alone. wished he'd go away. Knowing now : what | she did, she was afraid of| Nick covered her hand with cne taking its pound of flesh from you, him, | yet she remembered what of his own, and pressed his shoul-| my darling?” Natalie had said. der against hers. A lock of dark| She shook her head, refusing to “I've seen his face when he’s with |hair had fallen over hi forehead | meet his gaze. “Every day’s the her. He's in love.” And now he was|and he pushed it back with that|same, Nick. Today was no difwith her and his nearness, the feel | familiar gesture. ferent.” of his arm against hers, his breath| “You look tired,” he said softly. (To Be Continued) on her hair as he leaned over made |“Have a hard day at the office? an — ' her tremble. Is all that national defense stuff |(All events names snd characters in this

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