Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1941 — Page 28

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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE MARTHA MARSHALL drove to ‘camp the following Sunday with the same, heavy weight of dread . pressing on her that had been with her all week. Bill's unreasoning . Jealousy must stop. In some way, she must end it. The seeds from which her troubles had sprouted, ‘she realized helplessly, had been sown long ago. They had been planted that day she looked up for the first time into Bill Marshall's blue eyes. She had jilted Paul. But nothing she a could do—not even her marriage to| | COPK. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE INC. T. M REG. U.S. PAT. CFF. L/=3/ ~ Bill—had served to kill Paul's love Sw i for her. “So now,” her mind said, miser- . » able, “I ought to hate him. Because EE : {| N 1 HET It = he kept on loving me. Because on| FUNNY BUSINESS ( 2-7-SALoMEY KEEPS ATAPPIN RU) bl la LES A APL 7 ‘his account, Bill and I are tortur- Eo i ==THEN SHE, STOPS 7 THEN-SHE 57 Gs p Wt 2 Pe : 7 ing each other.” ; aS ASIN 5 IVE "HR IN AE ear HQ/-HO ez Driving into the now familiar 7 : { 1 WHUT A HOOMERLSS DEE?”

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* patient, annoyed. ’ “Bill, , . ” She clasped her hands, tightly. “Bill, youre not trying to

fi my, are you? The whole Army, all by yourself?” “Go on, ba coy about it!” ] “Oh, Bill!”} She bit her lip, and

turned her head swiftly. She must not cry. ; “Don’t you want to tell me about | Eg : . it?” she asked after a while. Vint ; Lh i ow « » “tray, 4=3y “There's nothing to tell,” Bill said eli Lio COPR 1941 BY NEA SERVICE: INC. T. M. REC. U. £. PAT. OFF. | curtly, “All I can say is that it's “A couple of three-minute eggs, please!” a fine mess, all right. The Government sticks me out here in a damn| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Fdrduson

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games, While yOu" eovniie. 2/ ION 0K LT RT Her spine stiffened. “While , — i ; what?” | ; VWORLD WAR . - (\, she shoud not nave sad it Stel [HWY pm AIRPLANE PILOTS Ho OH, Miss RITZ 4 f ALWAYS: REMOVE . knew she shouldnt But there was| |i wu HH. gone CARRIED NO , NEW BEACH Z ASK | YOUR HAT WHEN only so much she could bear. | | EARLACIHIITES, HAT N YA SOMETHIN’ @ ") MANNERS I'VE ADDRESSING The trouble was, she saw clearly, J iE 1 BB BEEN TEACHING. AN ADULT! Bill had never looked at this at all. | A Bi . Since the day. his number was called, he had not stopped to think what it meant to her. Duty. That morning the induction order came, she had seen it as the Government exacting a duty of her as well as of Bill.

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» 2 4 YET BILL himself had never seen it like that. To him, it was something he bore while she went on as ~ before. While she—his voice was | | h : : : i saying it now, taking up her ques- ; \ . = 4 > - : tion, flinging it back at her flatly, Fr i press : 7 ERNE BUS tr ak EAM 31 ( : HEY, LOOKA HERE! ONE OF THE BOYS FOUND ( KNOW HIM, / SURE. HE'S ] , HE'S THE | THANKS TO YOUR (% LICKED ANOTHER CASE O' SABOTAGE, / AND NOW TO

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fle You bn sd Yh \6 GUY IN AN ALLEY. CLAIMS HE WAS IWLLIE? | WINSTON, MR WORST RAT “I told you I havent seen him, ™ NA Y. WILLIE ? MR. R TESTIMONY, YOUNG FELLA, VICK\.., SABOTAGE IN ITS WORST FORM! [ FREE AN INNOCE [FBIll Ive told you unill I'n dizzy SHOT IN A HOLDUP — | DRINKWATER'S || SNEAKED 1 RECKON HIS ALIBIS WON'T ee em oraAy. [ regs mi aoceHs with it. I haven't, I haven't.” ; : EX-BUTLER || OUT THAT GET VERY FAR. THE OF HUMAN BEINGS ‘ ; K\TCHEN DRINKWATER AFFAIR EXIT WITH ATT

“Tt would be nice, if I could be\S ENDED THE CHIEF!

Aleve it.” Something snapped in her mind GIRL, THEN DELIBERATELY

then. ‘Bill Marshall, if you don’t trust TRIED TO BLAME HS

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effect on the things you're think- : , ing about me—then there's no use : in going on. There's no use in : 2 my telling you anything. If we BL ACKEFI SH have no trust, no understanding be- C15 NOT A FISH.” tween us any more, it's time to ITs A | Ads stop.” | ? She could hear herself—the cool, { determined words, ihe petiess con f . / 2: : trol—and a part of herself stoo . PASSENGER : ! R. 1! : .S. “aside and wondered that she could r &’ > = 1 (3 OPENED THIS PLACE" x BUT BEFORE 1 TRY T° WORM / od Pg “ ho IOBONS ONE PURPOSE! 1 LIKE 1© WAY To YOUR conrioanee, How on JH 1 sh Tre Sane EP te Do! z,

. be doing this thing which half an <<] BECAME EXTINCT IN hour ago would have seemed so in-) AANA NINTH SEAR. 1o) BE AROUND YOUNG PEOPLE~ Le YOU LIKE BUCKY WALTERS’ PITCH | ; : YrAam - ESPECIALLY! 1 RAISED IN THE ir A D SERS on HG EANSUAGED S2 |

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credibly fantastic. | 1-31 11854,1874, 1914, 924 signed my job, gave up the money ANSWER--The last survivor died in the Cincinnati Zoological Park id I needed for clothes and for free-| in 1914. | ! : oS ALL MY dom and for my own self-respect, | == EE reel: iH just to please you. You asked me BOYS JUST DIE ON THE VINE!

Eh hy. to do it only so that you could be sure I wasn't seeing Paul. I un- | derstood that, Bill. I didn’t argue | * about it, did I? I gave up my job. lim} E y 1 stayed with Helen and Eugene. | )

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” 8 { ¢ 4 y 9 HER VOICE SHOOK just a little, | on, ore. BO00TSL v |. (UERY SHORTLY | OAT TUL IL LOoW | . or ; and then was low and controlled FOR SCHOOL : FORGOT TO TELL YOUwW OY AN TRE MAP AGAIN | \TS Been oe . 8 IE AAR ' once more. “What have I hadi | AUST BEFORE WE SPEARING OF | | SENERAL NEARS SINCE 1 WAS TON ARRWNALS , PERE VOU NOW L THERE 0015 «| [ES ;

staying there? = Only days to live | = LEFT, GOT A CARE through. One day exactly like the/§ ~~ FOR CUT-OUTS AT HOME GRAM FROM THE WHEN ©0 SEE THAT LITTLE LAKE « THERE, ee a aa | SUSAN, TELLING OF WE OVER TO OLR RIGWX wees Housework and dishes, scarcely i E Tg SEs Po. 3 dt enough money for a movie. On [ i ARR\VAL = 7 = 0 Sundays, every Sunday, I came here. . / > ' It was all I had to look forward to.} od “But was there on oy in joe. NR . : es Se X p ing you? How cou ere be, w | ] | : 7 ts ee 7 EY hoot to quarrel with me? Ho | 5 Y Se vou've hugged this insane jeal~| NM ! ~ J ousy, nursed it,” fed it on Heaven : | ; e i only knows What scraps of flimsy suspicion!- Because Suzanne Decker lost her head and sald a lot of

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de, Bill. It simply isn't worth | roros-uArDINiD | ” ie and tried to convince, you. LAU | sTEsL sLADES with E-Z-BAKE” from front of any 3-lb

For weeks, I've hoped, worksd, cone 2) MAGNETIZED TIPS § or larger bag of E-Z-BAKE Flour, here and listened to you . . . andj \G ] enclose 25¢ and mail for your pair of

now, I'm through. “¢¥ou have a job to do! Youj 8.incH size... these fine shears This flour is Indiana’s SELF-SHARPENING ; | . : leading seller .. preferred for making

should be doing it with all your| heart. It's important, or the nation would never have asked you to doj ( "\ tender rolls and bread. flaky pastry. it. But you prefer to act like aj | .= 4) lighter cakes Made ic ur own air

“child. . You prefer to squabble over| j er Betty details—to quarrel and snarlj § conditioned mills. Gt 1s bag right

SE 15 Pat YoU here tA) | ; away at your grocer’s. - «you've spoiled the /Bacrifice I S This ster ies J 1.191 it for me to continue at Helen's. I ; , need. the money I've always earned,

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going, Bill. I'm going back to the § : office.” : | , ¥ : “sure,” Bill Marshall exploded | § = bitterly. “Sure. Stand there and | § make a speech. You'/e going back ; FL OUR

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