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THE COUNTRY AND SHOULD NET ME A - | A iN RRC BERT : EEE ~~ 0 Ee , 8 | EN FIRST THING?! GOSH, 1 | BOT TO BENO By Marguerite Gahagan 3 4 : Nr WORK OUT THE DETAILS ww UM-MM DORAN 5 HOPE TM GITTIN'A Ji IEACCIDENT, ? \ ; wm LET ME SEE dwn oy & Ol % BUSINESS HEAD? J Ti YESTERDAY—Sue Mary returns to i : the office, finds Vera and young Clark. h Vera telephones Nick, tells him the plot has worked, tha they'll get the papers to frame Clark tomorrow. Joe is hurt in a fight at the factory. He is unconscious, Sue Mary is terrified by the sudden sweep of events.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO IT WAS impossible, there in the routine work-a-day office, to forget the terror of the night before. Sue . Mary mechanically typed and filed and took dictation. She listened to Babs Fleming burst forth in confidential, whispered details of her trousseau shopping and tried desperately to force an answering smile and a faint show of interested enthusiasm in Babs’ wedding plans. : ju < X i Her Babs’ blue eyes were dreamy 5 I yr = 6000 and she told of her dreams, while ; Sue Mary felt fear convulse her own

; : OH, YAS S-THIS IS A C7HATD BE HAIN'T IT PEEROOLYAR SM LET ME TRY MAH | WHY /Z= YO! heart. Stie should be able to dream En ¢ a a DIFUL PARTRERSHIR | COMFORTABLE HOW A FELLA LIKE HIM FEMMY-NINE TOUCH fl NEARLY such dreams herself instead:of sit- ; Copr. 1940 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. JOE!”~-AH GIVES TH’ FOR A RATTLE GOT MORE. OF A FEMMY=- | 3 ON IT, JOE ~ © - AS STRCO ting here now with icy terror grip- HOUSEKEEPIN’ THET DELLY-) SNAAZE 70 CURL Z NINE. TOUCH THAN A . ping her. “Don’t bother, Jim . . . this is my. treat!” GUT FEMMY-NINE. TOUCH * 25 WY BUT GAL — LIKE ME 7” She had already called the hos- DOES TH’ HEAVY WORK! pital three times and each call had

brought her no new information. : ~ Joe was still in a coma. There was{ HOLD EVERYTHING still little encouragement to give, - except that he was holding his own and doing as well as could be expected. She closed her eyes and tried to remember how it had felt to be in his arms, with his lips close to hers: ~ how she had put herself to sleep nights planning on what their home would be like. She looked up and saw Kitty typeing with flying fingers and casting sidelong bitter glances at Vera, cool

and tailored today in a white pique —- Bl = NOT KNOW-- MES) BR (A= R=D AnD Lite BEAVER sports dress. Vera was more self- : or . 1: 2p SO FERRER EOL CNN JA NEWLY possessed than usual this morning. : 3 a , No) ; g \ y H

A » i ; 3 DE >: HER” TUG DRAW Rees She worked quietly and efficiently Sk = : i Rs - \ TENOR Es GH THE CROWDED STREET, with no wasted motion. 5 i TE : 7 Vera had her own course clearly outlined and she gave no hint of| Fi - What she planned to do in the eve-|, ning. Sue Mary wandered if she felt any fear, sensed any possible danger. But then she, too, was in love. Natalie had ‘pointed that out. She was in love with Nick and so blinded by that love that to do what he asked was all that mattered. ’

” ” 2 KITTY WALKED over to Vera's

desk. Sue Mary saw her toss some-

_ thing on it and then heard her say, : “( HELPJ-~ MARMADUKE LEFT A NOTE-" IMAGINE !- MY; SON EATING “You must have lost this when you

icht ” 2 HE'S GONE OVER TO SLUGGO'S y— SUCH -FOOD --- AND IN e's here Bast } pig. Sas an a HOUSE FOR A DINNER .OF ; SUCH. AN AWFUL Cov Bn Tan “Mine?” oe LCOPR. 1540 BY NEA SERVICE MC TM FRG U2 PAT OFF - J 2 IGS NICKLE S / / ’ said in a low voice with that husky 5) \ AND CABBAGE ! HO. 0Rs | . note. “What are you talking about?”| «There, I guess that'll cure him of swallowing everything he sees!” = 4

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RR RR “Don’t give me that business,” == Kitty said sharply. “You know what I mean. You should know better than to leave tell tale evidence.” FUNNY BUSINESS Sue Mary swung around in her chair and looked at the girls, Vera : was holding a white lace glove in|}. ..¥.-. QF ~ 8.27." ] E , - : j pm ig her hands. And her face was a|l.-;-f. § f ‘HY. "7g 7 : : hk \ \

A study of absorbtion. La SR . . of | ; BN £5) » ; 3 ¥ od te neta fH UL | Ftd LE {Rl HO <= said, eveniy. .e le d : 1 Sma ii} wz 7 - ol i = “No, you are. I know what I'm||- ° ed : 5 : ile SS Wm AR talking about. I know what you're i = - : a a a up to. You've been trying to hook IT WAS SO GALLANT OF YOU \ IF HE BOTHERS You ANY){ HOW SWEET OF You! now | OH THAT WOULD BE DARLING. TLL = i : fay NB Sua BiOSs Clark from ihe first moment \ TO RESCUE ME FROM THAT | MORE HOW CONSIDERATE! )ABOUT || BE THRU WORK AT FIVE | : : Se | you set eyes on him, And youve : AWFUL PERSON! IM AFRAID br ME KNOW 'y A] TM VICKI SHERIDAN. I |TONIGHT? — WAS __ played this high-and-mighty lady YOU'VE WON THE UNDYING : ? DO HOPE YOU'LL COME

act, too. Last night you were here GRATITUDE OF A VERY TO SEE ME / ¢ _ 9

with him. In his father’s office. You think you're pretty clever. But you aren't. You're not half clever ~ enough.” Vera laughed. “Well, I made the ‘ grade and you didn’t. ‘Why not confess that’s really what bothers you? * You tried, but Ross Clark couldn’t even see you. And certainly I don’t . have to make excuses to you for my presence here last night with him. This is his office as well as his father’s.” “Only I have my doubts if he knew where he was or Whom Re was with,” Kitty answered furiously. , ; : $ "Yush WHat are You ying To don ! Es ( 1¢ €1S GETS ELECTED, 7 : AND IF 3 DONT aor. LP Ta 2IE Si 1 Ger FOUR Bis —-- SO | HiLDA WiLL GET ~ ELECTED, LARD is understand,” Vera told her quietly. = y- 1 GOTTA WORK - BOY J iF WE CAN JUST ITD: SAD ss | “ h ’t the time or the in- 1 bee KEEP AGAIN 1 + “And I haven : LA 7 : Tq WINNING !

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Ross dropped in here for some papers on our way to dinner.” Sue Mary wondered later just what might have happened at that

point is Miss Grant hadn’t come into THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson"

“x got this fur coat for a kiss—the one my husband gave to the maid!”

the office. “It’s a good thing you went out to take that stuff from Mr. Clark last night,” she told Sue Mary. “He’s “collapsed again. Under doctor’s care. “I wonder how long this terrible : i al hE i 2 Sy (2 business is going on; wan IVstersa, ky \ By! B #4 ¥ i - ’ £ aE NEY, 23 § h ig REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.} "| rush production, nerves cracking. [TR } : J She looked tired and, for the first

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» 88 IN THE back of her mind, S ae now, was the final hope (0) ol that she could go to old Ross Clark 0

: : / ! j if ; E Jo - gll him what she knew. He SORA, 1945 He SUE CANAL THAT'S WHy I'VE TS AWOW # || KEERECT!! CAL AP'S THE FELLA WHO'S HA HA# CHARACT : ta : business executive, competent, ONLY Se MILES © FOLLOWING BECKY AND! J COME OVER TO || BEEN LEAVIN’ ALL THOSE DRAWING PENCILS ERS LIKE THAT DON'T © capable to face any emergency, but LONG, SHORTENS THE POP, SLATS. WE BEEN | BECKYS AFTER [| AROUND. HE'S DRAWNG A COMIC STRIP ABOUT | | LICKED! HE SPLASHES | © ST IN REALL * for all that, human ed a WATER ROUTE FEROAA SKETCHING ‘EM AS MODELS Siseen oe a a Dene 3 As A OBR x Es {oF Concer -Somehow she had felt he cot % OR MY COMIC STRIP-=+ . J) SHOW TOE YIN / handle the situation—a situation LONDON: 19 ZoMasay (BATHLESS AN BECKY Z PAY SHE LOCKS HIM IN THE BATHROOM— || IF HE WAS IN IT / |

; more than ever before NS + oes ; Which B “battled and helpless. NV TO Ge332 MILES. oa Lone ne PuSL) i r= < - But now he was ill, inaccessible, \ ¥ / Le FL | : incapable of advising her or of 4 . preventing what would surely hap- : pen. It wasn’t his son that mattered, she told herself over and over, staring unseeingly at - the

/ Z a ers before her on the desk. It ~~) - pep the fact that he would be the w > — . weapon that Nick and the YP 2 227

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i bout his defeat for re-elec- A ig od the success of a man SHED IER [NEEDED 105 . whose policies would be so opposed ; T + to all that was American. » She knew the whole burden now ANSWER—Yes and no. Each autumn, older needles toward the

* vested on herself. She felt so in-| trunk of the tree turn brown and drop off.

etent, so young, so unsure. To 4 LER - ; Co fo anyone in the office itself “a ne OL | 9 a= A Pitcher Full gould mean the truth would in-|anyhow? Who would believe her? the possibility of’ being discovered. pron | ir 0 f Gol den Cream evitably leak out, and she couldn’t| The story sounded like a movie|In that case, Sue Mary, after warn- | \ )

hink of hurting old Ross|plot. ing of the plot, would be left look- : : ; : . 4 ; De ios his rs up before P What if she were wrong? Or what|ing like an hysterical, jealous, stupid Aner : IN TH E \ : ‘In the Bulging the whole city. if Nick and Vera were smart enough | fool. ;

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