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| WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17, 1911

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| WAS ONCE A PAL

OF THE BLOOD ROYAL. CAN YOU DO IT 2

BLOOD ROYAL IN THE SOUTH SEAS. SHE +, WAS A SWEET KID WITH JUST ONE MINOR WEAKNESS

iin sa, «By Raeburn Van Buren

LIFE WILL BE IN DANGER EVERY MOMENT, MY FRIEND =e YOU WILL BE EXPOSED TO THE BULLETS OF THE SECRET POLICE FROM THE INSTANT THEY LEARN THAT YOU ARE ALIVE, AND STAYING IN THAT SMALL TOWN WITH THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF My BROTHER

THE NAME OF THAT AMERICAN |

WILBERFORCE

THE SMALL TOWN IS CRABTREE CORNERS § AND THE FRIEND 15 A MR.

MY HOME TOWN! M-MY HIGH-HAT RELATIVES !! GROBSING Loar’

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| By RUTH AYERS

| YESTERDAY: Kent is home for three days. He was injured in the explosion of a dud bomb, but his sight is not permanently impaired. Doctors believe an operation will restore it. He talks on, still believing Ann is beside him. He asks [about April, calling her | the #Glitterbug.” April is furious.

HAPTER THREE

APRIL MANAGED to leave Kent at his gate with a murmured answer. It was |an answer that said nothing, but promised much’in the manner of all sweethearts.

What was tearing down the hill, escaping from what had been the strangest situation! she'd ever known. The wintry air smalled good, free! She wasn’t doing this for Kent. Not at ali. She was doing it for Ann, | Glitterbug, indeed! Kent Carter would eat those words some day. Knowing she must get Octavia out of the house at all costs and at once. April went on. “You better join the jamboree downtown Octavia. There won't be a hambone left .in another hour.” . “Sure ‘'nuf?” Octavid’s eyes rolled

and her voice rolled, too, until she |-

remembered that she had to be on duty while her “folks” were off camping. She said as much to Miss April. “Just as long as you're home in time for breakfast,” April said, “you can go your merry way with my blessing.

When the house was quiet at]

fast, all the flippancy vanished from April. It was 9 o'clock. Within [the next half hour the three handsome swains who were taking her to Casa Blanca would be ringing the bell. She must hurry to reach Ann by long distance, to make the home-coming arrangements, and then to figure some way out of tonight's date with Kent Carter to which she had committed herself. In the dimly lighted hall where the telephone table stood, April looked up at the small oil portrait of Ann, An artist who had owed Dad money for settling a damage suit had painted it when the sister was 16. But Ann hadn't changed. There were her eyes, Brown, ' wistful and appealing; there was the mole-brown hair and the quiet brow. |“She doesn’t need to be beautiful,” April said half aloud. “She can sing—and how she can sing!” | “Here goes,” April thought, and whirled | the dial for long distance. “I want to place a call to New York.” | Then almost before she could take breath, someone was answering at the other end. “Hello,” April said to the unfamiliar voice, “I would like to speak to Miss Ann Burnett.” “Ann Burnett? I'm sorry, but I think she’s just gone out.” “Oh, no,” and April, who had forgotten |about placing the .call in ‘ person | to Ann, fairly wailed. “Please, I've got to get her at once.” | “Wait a minute. Maybe I can catch her.” The strange voice drifted off and even 500 miles away, April could catch the sounds of hurrying steps and a door opening. And then, unbelievable but true, a voice came through the wire—the voice that might have been her own, so identical was it. ‘‘Oh, hello,” Ann was saying. ‘ ~~ “Ann, dear, this is April!” And then, because she was trembling, April cradled the telephone in her hand and curled up on the lounge. “Oh, | April dear, What's wrong?” The quick pulse of fear traveled the miles in a split second. : “We're perfectly all right,” April made herself say steadily. “Mother and Dad went up to the cdbin to build log fires and spend a rugged week-end, Octavia has taken herself downtown and at any minube Nip is going to howl hello.” ~~ «“And| you?” There was gay relief ‘in Ann’s question. . , “Oh, me. I'm my same gorgeous self, Annie. Reason I'm calling up has to do with you, Ann. You've got " to come home at once—this very night, on the midnight train.” “But | why? There is something wrong, then!” ‘ “No, Ann, everything’$ as right as right can be. Better yet, Kent Car- . ter came home today.” “*Kent! You mean for good, from Ft. Dodd?” .

o ” o “NO, HONEY, not for good.” On leave until Monday night. Now listen quick, Ann, because every word I'm saying costs money. 'It

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“Don’t worry, the new doctor is pretiy sure you're going to be his first Fon successful opération:”

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By William Ferguson

ABRAHAAA LINCOLN

WON THE PRESIDENTIAL. ELECTION OF 1860 WITH A TOTAL. POPULAR VOTE OF 1,806,452. 7 IN THE 1940 ELECTION, WENDELL WILLKIE POLLED A VOTE LARGER THAN THIS IN 7Hroes SELLA LATE S7A7ES, AND i LOS EACH oF 77.

WHAT counTRY LONG WAS KNOWN AS STE SICK MAN

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ANSWER~—Turkey. Once a powerful empire, Turkey's disintegration set in about 1540, and from 1663 t¢ 1922, the sick man title was

quite appropriate. coming home. Naturally, he’s crazy to see you.” All the things she'd meant to say vanished in Ann’s quick answer. “But, April, I can’t come home even to see Kent.” She paused briefly, went on, “As a matter of fact, if Kent only knew it, he was the one who spurred me on to take this New York venture. And now I'm having my chance at last. Tomorrow night I have'an audition with Vivano—the great Vivano.” April clutched the telephone stubbornly. “It doesn’t matfer,” she wailed. “You’ll have to postpone it, cancel it, anything.” Ann might not have heard her. She was saying, “I've lived for this time, worked for it. It may be the making of my future. Yes, a chance

of a lifetime, this audition for Vi-|

vano.” / Ann's voice. Yes, while April and Ann talked alike and laughed alike, Ann's singing voice went away ahead and beyond April's. It was a lovely contralto and everything must be done to keep it that way. Mother was always particular to have nothing disturb Ann before a recital. April knew ¥ she told Ann now abo.it Kent’s blindness, her sister might go all to pieces. It might even spoil the audition. So instead, she almost bawled into the phone, “Kent loves you, Ann. He's crazy about you.” “Of course he is.” Ann gave 8 small sigh and then with the quick little gasp ‘characteristic of her, asked, “Did he tell you so?”

EE eam April floundered anc.

WHEN THE BARKING was over, #0 was the bad minute. Ann, aps pare:atly being hurried away by someone who stood at her elbow in that hallway 500 miles away, spoke in her same, lovely, gentle lilt. ‘You send word to Kent, April, that I'm heartbroken I can’t make it. But don’t dare tell him about the audition. That must be kept a secret until I know it’s a success,’ Sco that was that! She, April, ‘was to eend word to Kent Carter that Ann was heartbroken but couliln’t get to Pattonsville. These were Kent's three days agaist the darkness! Out of her confusion and deispal, a flash of sheer inspiration struck April. (To Be Continued)

(All oyvents, names and charaeters in this ‘ story are fictitious.)

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Di. Long said this new discovery appirently has every curative

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