Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1940 — Page 18

a abl hil _ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ TUESDAY, OCT. 29, 1040

SERIAL STORY— | FUNNY SIDEUP = © '% By Abner Dean | OUR BOARDING HOUSE : With Major Hoople ~~ OUT OUR WAY = : By Williams |

j i EGAD, MY DEAR Xe HAS BEEN A KZZZ DON'T TALK SO FAST, MISTER! wawr | New York GLORIOUS DAY/ T HAVE TOILED UNCEAS- 2 T CAN TELL BY THE BEER SPOTS

| OF FINANCING MY CATTLE-BRANDING Ju n g | e : . DEVICE AND T BELIEVE SUCCESS HAS CLUB! war WHEN YOU PULL )

CROWNED MY EFFORTS AT LAST uw YOURSELF TOGETHER, THERE y ) UM-Mws WHAT ARE WE HAVING FOR ARE THREE GENTLEMEN TO : : ; Ns © & TA DINNER? DO T SMELL THE DELICA GEE YOU IN THE By Wray Wade Severn - : «IN AROMA OF , PARLOR / 1

SPARERIBS : YESTERDAY: Braitwood learns Pat destroyed Adam's supply of drugs, explaining the disordered desk ana the fire in the grate. Adam was furious,’ quarreled with Nella, struck her. Later, Plowman suggests Lesencoff is also wnder suspicion, :

CHAPTER NINETEEN QUIET LAY OVER the old house. Washed a Ji by the storm, the solid

=

walls and wide chimneys proclaimed a stability ‘graven by four genera- » tions of honest living. A golden sun,

lingering in the sky, gilded its deeply embedded windows and covered the tangled garden and [pathways. A long sigh escaped Sidney as he entered the hall, Life was as it a, / HA ) g | il was, and the business in hand was 5 ; 4 |} NT AA — : ZZ =1— murder. If Nella were awake and - pl a : | A Ne il ; AAU rormal again, she might aid him in| : Bp —~— o : ly i solving the crime, | : ; a £ Se on 1 z A : E Zn

A pattern had begun fo form in all \ oS Sy YS his mind. Bit by bit, it had pieced Hil = — — : AGGING

itself together. Ile believed he knew a : : & : Ee ” HIM OUT = —_ JRWHLIMAS what Nella would fell him, if she . ZT Clo-29 : - A SE trier irre ue DORN THIRTY YEARS 700 20ON RT

ever spoke. again. The belief brought < 3 ' dali ; -— Yite Saysiachion, Mis throat hurt » LIL ABNER : . : : a By Al Cape and his mouth felt dry as he X : ETI, : 4 RY y I . i T-THANK WE, W-WHAT'S A FINE THIS IS “hata aamitted him | ine Lost ucke oe #71000 + viene veer || BRUNET or WF 1} S:EREAR SCOTTY 7 Jaan Xie AS Sp EE | 14 pT Tout “Nella is still. sleeping,” she said. Do you have one that works for friends, but won't attract relatives BYNAMITE UNDER 4 a" RIGHT INTO 9 ls 4 YOU RE 4 >/ oan x aL NE Mors “I do wish she would wake. Sid- ; THIS HILL — IT” ITS7- ( | B-BOOTING | DEATH: [ WELL GIT CERTAIN DEATH ME” Ey ON ney, she knows more than the rest HOLD EVERYTHING ' ”- z SF ~ . Tus” fg: a R-RAISIN’ OUR ™ T™ of us about this horrible affair. She . - : : | HOPES! LIKE SADIE. must be made to speak.” 3 5 Sue cases are. difficult to : andle,” the lawyer suggested. “We| must have patience, Marta.” LAST CHANCE " “Nella has always had ‘so much SOpPA family pride,” Marta said. “Far ICE CREAM more than most girls of her generation. She might go so far as to protect anyone bearing the name of Langdon, even though she hated that person. A horror of washing family linen in a police court may be responsible for her dumbness.” “A. combination of reasons, I imagine,” Sidney said. He guessed that Marta suspected Pat and Gundrum lof the murder. | Pat was Adam’s wife and as such ; Nella might feel obligated to pro-| } “3 X _- ; . tect her unless. she had absolute : : i ] A THAT PAN « wm iaes 4 -HE WAS TH RINT proof of guilt, On the other hand, ; i 3 # Vj S NE X N LIGIER Li Soe LEADER. THAT ER ’ ; fear of what might Befall her might iy 8 DRPATE \ ‘ Ro Wu taTINN : TO KILL ME 5 RED! S y account for Nella’s condition. She / : LD MAN C / : A SS 7 had hinted at her dread of Pat. It a or : : 4 : ~N was not Sidney’s theory, but at that . . SEE ’ > 7 \ > Fie

Marta might be right. “I came up to ‘relieve you at the nursing, Marta,” he said. “You had better lie down.” “Thanks, Sidney,” ishe said gratefully. “Dr. Bowman said if Nella awoke and seemed herself, we were to call him immediately.” # un |= HE HAD NO intention of calling Bowman or anyone else if Nella awoke as herself, but he had the wisdom not to argue, He wanted to 3 be the first to hear Nella's story. She | | cor. 190 5Y NEA SERVICE INC. T. M. REG. ©. 5. PAT. OFF. had ‘evaded Plowman. That is, if s _— tela,

they were not deceived by her con- “ ; or» eee see : ; dition, and she really had nothing Darling; What do you want for your last drink? 7 ME GIVE ‘YoU \ HOT DOG. NNN SAY, BUD BALD-HEADED

more to tell conecrning the murder. 7 SIE You INDIAN NAME \ BIG CHIEF WHAT DOES 3 CHIPMUNK,

i < iti } TOC we-- WALAMAPPANKA !-- I! WALAMAPPANKA 3 ive . . { cos meY ney eS. LM FUNNY BUSINESS Z( LITTLE DEER" / | | WALAMAPPANKA! } HEH HEH ! |¢ MEAN? that he, and he alone, weuld know =/> , . best how much of her knowledge ghould be divulged. The girl lay in bed with one thin arm outside the cover, her dark braids pressed into the pillow. Even in sleep, her childish mouth drooped piteously. iv| Sidney drew a chair up to the bedgide and sat down to await her waking. He reasoned that if he could make her ‘understand how much silence condemned her, how it cast x > Z : : suspicion on others in| the party, she = S ; pile 1 0 a might tell what she knew. - : Fy . J For the better part of an hour, Ey Creno while. she lay in troubled slumber, A an . he turned over and over again in — A ; 0 : SALONEY! ) ANYWAY, NOW, LISTEN, BUDDY ! OH SURE, . THERE ! 1) SURE T his mind ways In Which he coud ¥ : . LEMON! HOW'D VOU : THANKS A THERE'S NO TIME TO ARGUE!) SURE} IVE reach her without aggravating her ‘A i K I'D COME BACK MILLION. AND TUERE'S A PLOT 30 BLOW A NL condition. Then he’ imagined that Z ; XNOW > MEANWHILE — UP THE SHIPYARD — she might not come through at all, | j ; RS So a Se) +f that the dumbness might persist for Z ; 9 , Co / HA | . years. He had heard of such cases. : ‘Without her evidence, lis own theory would explode in a cocked ‘hat. Unless the person who had done the shooting confessed, And would that person .confess? What did Nella know? How much had she seen? Would) Plowman accept her story, or would he pass ii up as the product of a distorted mind, numbed by the shock of the

tragedy. | { . : Ruan, the lawyer knew, was |_cors. somoev ne 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, NC:

suing his own theories as to the : - ’ Z : PE The captain seemed. to be| “Yeh, I can have five hats shot off now before it gets dangerous!” FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS : By Blosser concen aling upon the dea, sug- . ] 2 : ; undrum, that sn out- ” =" TT : 7 1 ! you ) a ol shot Adam. But was that| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson IT SEEMSY THAT You DONT : SoZ» Tats, Soacu ! Yo only a front, 10 TAD One Of (he | SRE — . WANT TO BE ELECTED STUDENT ES i ITS ALSO PLAIN THAT IF «You EoD a || "Never. THoueHT oF! J BETTER MOVE OVER group who had been in the Jungle Eg" JP NN hi = | BODY - PRESIDENT, AND “YOU'RE a ! lll | Your CAMPAIGN hg : HABPEN AR | ; IN THE CAGE AND into a damaging admigsion? 7 4 TRYING TO ‘MAKE “YOURSELF fi INTERFERING WIT TOUCHDOW CCA ROOM FOR.

: ’ A : fl EE “4 PEOPLE MIGHT Slowly, Braitwood regimented his| f= AR nN ; UNPOPULAR ! RIGHT A You ! AND WE

facts, the things he knew definitely - A Rive Soo lee to be true. Slowly, he arranged them n= 3 - WSBT 7 in logical sequence, haiancing one ANN : a ; against the other. . 7 \ wou Barkes—the man was not telling / \ WN : BE Pil ED everything he knew, Yet-of all the| §, : “a, Ae re suspects, the chanfied: dad the Jesst nh pl motive for killing Adam. Perhaps 4 Barkes knew more of Langdon’s ad- : NOISE... ie 13d Féveaied. : MAKING IT diction than he had revea Togi right have more to tell, too. POSSIBLE The inscrutable little valet, so de-| Kk 7: FOR. THEM voted to Adam, might add more to od B20 for ? TO SLEEP Braitwood's incomplete, case. > IN THE The analysis pointed to one per- % £ : DAYTIME! son. Nella knew, too. Nella bad seen ; ow Eo | | ar -—too much, His wag a lantastic da ~ az — o 2 3 Hy, TUT TWAS MeN Clo THE. MOST CL\ILRED Sno — SERGI So aay Yu Neuas z NOP | ! | ] ARRAN CALAN, MANS TNE BNER, MEX 7 = a RD ND j Could the girl be Bis a FRIEND / INE — ITE, THE. WMDNESS AND UNDER: Z A QE 6 MOC SETTER WORS / Would the girl be rdtional, would ; : p x TRENS IWS 2 SHR WNENESS BID UN "SORES the Be able 10 sesh, wien oli / gn 1 GOOD FORTUNE HANNE A DACILRE. OF YM T Li £ 2 : awoke? Braitwood . hoped, and had EO0% FOR Ik = SE WW 3

Oa Pat ORAS rete reseed = ERNE BUS IHAIC LEN,

. ONE. QWtE WE WERE. ON waited ¥ x = - . " A WWE WM en VONTING TRA Pawn

FRAGMENTS OF talk came up ” COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC, | ep ee —t : from the garden below. A door T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF. rf slammed and the house grew still = éd ;

again. The sun sank to a golden Ae averace ~, . pall and a long ray ‘of crimson LELT7 » \ slanted over the eszpel Nella, gon OF THE OCEAN IS. . inued to sleep. ney opene . ly ; yirive i ne RS 200 FT., 13,000 FT., Hardly had he turned a page MILES, IS MILES.

i é j he heard her stir, He glanced ne her and noticed that her

40 BY HEA SERVIC Ro eyes were wide.

“How are you feeling; Nella?” a TZ 3 : ABBIE AN' SLATS > : : . —By Raeburn Van Bure he asked gently. > : (* WHY DIDN'T | THINK OF She made no answer, but hel CLIPWVCANTHEMUM ; THANK HEAVEN YOU'RE & NO MORE AKE WIM BEFORE ? F knew by the twitching of her lips PETALS (/ | | saFE/~ (D GIVEN You UP FOR ) RARTIES- OF ICES ) HAD ARCH: ; LOSES HIM HELL that she had heard. | The nerve| oo on fal LOST” WHAT A CONTEMPTIBLE | ANY KIND-FOR NG UP o s ‘ wires were uncrossed. |Reason had —— JOKE THAT WAS OF HARVEY. NO |US, RATCLIFFE / ; 5 ERE oC) fegained its seat. “ FO MORE FAREWELL PARTIES ON du ; : “We are quite alon a child, he - S =X YACHTS ~ FOR & TE said. “Do you want to talk with us

2

«\

TY. 70-22% )

”

m Stor eves filled. She looked at ANSWER~-~About 13,000 feet, or approximately two and one-half : him, dumb with misery, and twmed. miles.

OWE: a he trie again. “If you and she buried her face in the pil-| “I wish it were a dream, child,” are protecting someone, silence is|low. Sidney answered -unsteadily. “I not the way. Capt. Plowman has| Nella was so young, $0 alone, with | loved Adam, too.” decided that you have something to [her terrible knowledge. He took| “Then I actually saw—"- Piteoushide. Hadn't you bette share your [her in his arms, pressed her head |ly, she hesitated. : knowledge with me? [Let me be [against his coat and smoothed her| “What did you see, Nella?” he the judge of what we shall or shall | hair paternally. asked gently. not teil.” | ; “Oh, Sidney, Sidney,” she moaned. (To, Be Continued) Again he got no answer. Then | “Have I had a terrible dream? Is suddenly sobbing racked the girl's Uncle Adam’ really dead or ‘have (All events, names, and characters in this : Her shoulders shook |I lost my reason?” . atory are fictitious)