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SERIAL STORY—| at By Abner Dean | OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams : 7 LISTEN, HOOPLE, THIS YOUNG COMANCHE CLAIMS J EGAD, CLANCY, WHAT'S THAT TH’ BRIDLE R$ To PRETTY YEAH, BUT, HE'S ) HE'S AN INMATE OF YOUR WIGWAM AND I'M $8 You HAVE IN YOUR HAND? 5 UPSIDE ° DIFFICULT TO HH IMPROVIN' EAST eese Y| TURNED IN/ww MEANIN' NO DISRESPECT TO YOU, ¥ ww LEANDER, YOU MAY LLO! eo 1 ] + > 7 ARE AROUND You FELLOWS MILES WII Ju ngle E'S BEEN SCARIN' THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF, STEP INGIDE AT ONCE / J HIS LAIGS =2\ GO To WORK. eo ee A ell x = Tg i aL A. : Li SN Si AT 6OT By Wray Wade Severn : POAT EES ye TY 2 : “Z| ce E 3 4 i 1 & or 7 : Pm | = SSO N =r ’ . ) » - , ” . nn ; his anger, Langdon had locked himself in the Jungle. Togi watched him take watches him climb a tree. The man somes sliding down, drops te the ground. 3 _ Breathlessly, Braitwood watched the « man drop from the lower branches Barkes, Adam Langdon’s chauffeur! When Barkes' footsteps had faded his pocket knife and a leaf from his notebook, and followed the “| he sighted Barkes again. The man moved like a tired shadow, head edge of the orchard, he slackened “his pace still more, peered into the bench. “I'll see you later, dear! I'm going back and ride with some of the L S | CE rr’. R Preferring that Barkes should be- boys!” SEE HAPPY D1 All DOES LIMBA BV GROAN! : ov 4 FINE § AM GRE SNEAKS UP TO THE HOUSE oF f inutes behind a lilac bush NS WORLD 7” TH oAL KEEP % to or a few minutes| behind a lilac bush. ; 7 He wanted to keep Barkes in sight AN’ GROANS KICKIN’ HER PARTNER SA ND Br

PAGE 24 _ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES — _ THURSDAY, OCT. 31, 1940 ol k = ! N WwW 1 3 in, ‘ A z L e Yor : - gi ZF = BRINGING HIM HOME BEFORE \ ALL'S & er I= DOWN AN’ SADDLE UP: IN | YIGTIDAY MAWNIN' Np > j yr 4 THE RIOTONLS BL), TB-spuTT-T1IE YORE CINCHES THE DARK-- [I] HE RODE SEVEN % EVERY LITTLE KID IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ) Send , PEA ON TH’ OFF = sO EARLY / Hoses AN' HIS BRIDLE WITH THIS FALSEFACE/ ae hk z= SIDE! f= : ON ANOTHER , BEFORE “4% — YLIGHT /* YESTERDAY: ‘Sidney learns more of Adam’s unusual actions from Togi. In a gun from the rack, aim it. Later, Sid- | ney trails a man through the woods, | | CHAPTER XXI THE MOONLIGHT was bright. of the oak. There was no mistak, ing that dapper figure — Heny =+ into silence, Sidney left his own + hiding place, tagged the oak with chauffeur. Reaching the edge of the thicket, sunk in collar, dejected arms lost : J % 3 in the pockets of his coat. At the || ANN p i 7 garden, lighted a cigaret and ‘ or SRS n THET \ strolled nonchalantly toward a Cope, 1040 47 United HiuTist 1 wicats, Ire. JEN, S }-THASS TH' WAY on V-FECKON or A » LATER: NA NIOHY SABES RACE TO-MORROW = E BOY. lieve himself safe, Sidney moved |= T HEAR DANCING AWAY WIF= ’ OVED - EACH RYING cautiously forward and waited for| HOLD EVERYTHING SCREAMS) OUT A CARE IN TH-/ Tho mis ay Cae PE y PEAT GENEROUS AMOUNT OF PARFUM MOA ME / vo! DE POLECATTOO N ” and at the same time get in touch » AZ SA IN TH’ SHINS” _ HOME - ALONE © j DiLap "0 DIE. HAWKINS : » with Plowman’s man so he could IDATED STATE U = DAN 2 : . “ | <E “Lcd : ¥ LE AH : PR :

send him for the bundle, YS. WUGWUG Coltree As he stood there, trying to figure i how to manage both, the trooper emerged from the thicket with Barkes’ bundle under his arm. b He had been shadowing them oth. = With the quietness of a cat the : ; 7 « officer approached Sidney, indi- \ of [2 ’ 1 7 \ f : Wy cated he was to keep guard on the / ; v 57:54 tus ois ~. chauffeur, then moved noiselessly < tf 7 toward the back door. / : : aking Le Hint, Pidney Sirolled : 5 . i war e bench where Barkes Af hl! ; 1 ((FOWDY, B 7X -_ == sat. AIHW A > HOW'S 0 PREIGHTI pr ln ie “Good evening, Barkes,” he said, BUSINESS ? sinking down beside the man. / “Good evening, Mr. Braitwood.” Barkes stirred uneasily. “I'm sorry I told you. that Togi | had shot Mr. Langdon,” he said | after a moment of depressed silence. “I've changed .my mind. You'll think me a nut when I tell you why.” .? “Pérhaps not,” Sidney smiled. ” ” ”

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the murder gun in-his hand. Why hadn't the poor | evil come out ERNMENT AGENT, MAN BE THAT INCENDIARY BOMBS, | EACH LUMP TO FIND into the open about his mysterious CONCEALED IN (MITATION LUMPS bunidle? What had |it contained? The distant purr of an automobile aroused both men from inful thought. The headlights of | a police’ car ¢ pointed into the driveway and Plowman stepped ouf. The trooper “. on guard met him and after a few - words of whispered] conversation ,- they crossed to Sidney and the - chauffeur. Barkes rdse. “You want to talk with Mr. Braitwood, |Captain?” he said courteously. | “Not so fast, Barkes.” Plowman

{ries detained him. “We |want you to /10- — R= - . go with us to headquarters to- HILDA, I YOU'LL ONLY LISTEN ( secono, 1 WROTE ( ( Im Gonna Hele

night.” “Tell me, dear, how did you come out at directors’ A MINUTE, TLL CONVINCE YOU HERE'S WHAT I'VE A GOOEY | CAM : “I've told you everything I know,” : 1 CAN Ger You ELECTED / DONE —FIRST., L SPEECH os oN COUNT 2 BALIOTS» + Barkes argued desperately, as the| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson ie FIGURED OUT GAGS AND ~s-s~ *“' troopers’ fingers clamped his arm.| . -— cia TO MAKE KIDS

“I have to he here. | I'll lose m DISLIKE YOUR en th ae Tio On wr ff THe MOON, WHEN HIGH OPPONENT / Braitwood?” He appealed to Sid- IN THE SKY, WILL APPEAR ney. 3 LARGER IF YOU LIE FLAT “I'm afraid they can, Barkes,” the | [| OV YOUR BACK TO LOOK AT iT

lawyer advised. “Better not talk too’ much.” “Youll talk plenty,” Plowman broke in. “Now about that package you hid in the tree .\. .”

“That was my dog] just a little : di al Pom. I've had hi for years,” x \ Barkes stammered. |“I nad him : ™ & TZ

with me until Mr. Langdon came ? home. Even Tqgi didn’t know/it. \ : I took him ta the-inn, to the vil- OR GOOD L . lage. Yesterday he came back. I SHOOK NU locked him in my ropms over the ‘garage and took him [to town with me. I thought a lot of that dog.” He paused, swallowed, then hurried on. “I'd driven as far as the first turn when I remembered Mr. Langdon had told me to take the electric percolator in to be repaired. “= It was in the storergom. No one {i- heard me in the storm. Not until © I went down<to the storeroom. Then, Miss Nella must have heard. : : J { by “I had taken off my rubbers, but : 3 0 A Ev 1 Ae Vi the dog's feet were wet. I had to ag i \ Sw Poa, / 3 i WHAT ARE it put him down while Ijunlocked the | - RARE ELEAENT . 0 ed! BE - YOU O0OWNG ? . iy \ f o

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i! man demanded. . 4. “T took him in to town, but the TWO MNMALLION !. inkeeper wouldn't let me leave him. LOLL ARS Said he disturbed the |guests, bark- AN OUNCE.

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# “HE CAME BACK, though, jumped in the drawing room win- © dow and cuddled up beside me on me NS . the divan. I knew you had found es 10-31 { DOES WATER GET L/G//72R ' his paw prints and I was afraid I'd “5 OR AEAV/ERL AS IT +. ‘be accused of the—of the shoot- Bh GETS COLOS

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i‘ again, then take him to some farm- degrees F., but from that point its gets lighter with increased cold.

er to keep for a while. } : “There was a trooper at the front |Langdon’s dressing gown and a| “Sounds like he’s telling the truth I DpH Jn ine Riichen, pair of socks, and climbed down toto me,” Sidney said. at I get ou ” “Possibly,” Capt. - gr ih unobserved, through |one of the |the Junsle, Plowman Promted, ceded. “But ~ a Jungle windows. But|there was a| The chauffeur nodded. “When I| Mr, Langdon had you cash a check w chance of the dog barking, espe-|reached the Jungle I found the dog|for $500 for him yesterday. You , cially at the troopers.| Then I re-|had stopped breathing. I'd given|wouldn't know what happened to membered seeing ih chloroform him too much. I reached out|that money now, would you?

i in the third floor bathroom. through a window, stuffed the body “And you wouldn't know that the P 2 a : Milk So Rich i I slipped upstairs, gave the Pom [behind some vines, hid the dressing| man in the green sedan was Bra- | % a whiff of chloroform; Mr. Brait-|gown and socks, and . .. and ...”|bant, the man you said would sup- | Its Cream Fills

wood i me in Se bl nat ay en Marta and I|port your alibi? You wouldn't on m, bu manage get almost caught up with you?” Sid-|know anythi i 0 in SOUR he fire eseape and into Mr.|ney asked. Pp 4 you, Barkes?” 25000 that, Weuld IN THE Ee y & The Bu lging i" ngdon’s room. You see, I knew| “Yes. And Murphy would have (To Be Continued : y i a about that passage next the flue.” [seen me coming out of the base- ) ; CREAM-TOP BOTTLE Upper Chamber “Go on. So you picked up Adam |men§ if he had been awake.” (All avents, niaiues, and siiviciers In this : z : :

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