Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1941 — Page 19

PAGE : THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1941 ABBIE AN' SLATS —By Raeburn Van Buren | OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Majer Hoople By Williams

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By EDITH ELLINGTON

TCMON NANCY THAT'S SWELL || Ff OAT WAS GREAT TN VERY SIMPLE, TN fiea up n the merchandise manager po - SA | WE RE READY . { ) NANCY- KEEP ACTIN’ NANCY === J MY BARBY IS Bee waits anxiously, knowing that if he | ” 3 - | FOR » NEXT Y % : : i HOW OID YA AN ONION " . X { a 7 .

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Huntington Davenport's chauffeur!

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CHAPTER TWENTY

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to try it on.’ atrice gained control of her- | = - - . Coun ren |

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around the department. She turned | ! GREECE her head just before the moment | RD when that roving eve would surely | KREER\Y 9 COMPARES CLOSELY have lighted on her face, She dived \ A ¢ BOTH IN SIZE for the fitting room curtain, her | | AND POPULATION heart racing WITH THE “I've got to get out of here” } STATE OF ln ; jm » | HH J A) » -—- ; Beatrice thought swiftly. “T simply | . k VL /INVO/S, — = \ aN ( $7 FON A} Wb =r" \4

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all exposed now!” It was an hour until lunchtime, and she had a OSL) |

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whining little boy. “I'll be through s : | 1 a minute, Junior. In just a ; | | (RECOND | / BLAZES! ; PRETTY SOFT FOR YOU, EASY. ALL HONESTLY, "HTH [71 once STOP BEEFING, minute. ) BY 5 /DAVE | / 1MAGINE. BENG YOU HAVE TO DO (5 GROW A BEARD. VAL LOOK oN. DAY: [ ruaudHT vou \ yOu RE JUST gi is Getz appeared, providential p A/% SENT TO FLORIDA ’ I HAVE TO LOOK AT IT! LIKE A WELL! WERE HANDSOME | JEALOUS BE + atric WITH INSTRUCTIONS / ~~ en en” BANDIT Ts EASY BUT YOU'RE | CAUSE you

: nd Beatrice cried, “Oh, Getzie nN Z : \ : take my CUStOMEr. in there \ NOT TO SMAVE 'A A ) : a” WORK POSITIVELY CAN'T &R0W Rs a wells ; n i. “AR br Es | So yr REPULSIVE / [ do eel wel Ra —" 7 - Wi EN od

co up to the soda founinger over a forbidden coke,

en she'd loiter on the main How long would Mr. and 0) oS d Jenkins wait down there? 4 G \

he'd only talk her out of the T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF > idea, and drag her away!” — hats iy Hy / : ; ; LW i ‘ . kn A Raving finished her drink, she CAN YOU THINK OF A | i 2 % Ap 7, : Try i 7 . wl > . 2 EN | TLE ndered into the stocking de- : GAME OR SPORT WHOSE/] | BE # Tr ¥ 2 » 2241 Yartment “I certainly need some, gay NAME CONTAINS A £00 But $135 . . . thats too 3 VEGETABLE ; A B/RL % much.” She fingered 79-cent hose EY AN AM ESS 1BAN 3 : until the speculative eye of a f A MAMMAL 5 AN INSET | a - main floor seclicn manager sent 8 =, ae... 7 . { FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

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assed one of the side street ‘en- . v Doar a sudden thought struck 7AALL STORY TELLER, # IM GLAD You cave! LEFS LET BYGONES BE ) 1 THOuGHT Hi, THERE, PLAYMATES [ SHE HASN'T CHANGED her. “Jenkins lives in ‘Queens. I WAS ANO7™ A \ BYGONES ! I JUST HAD A TELEGRAM FROM SUE SWELL] | HILDA AND LARD GOSH, SEEMS LIKE WHAT ARE You FEATURING © SAME OLD PICTURE bet he’s riding around in my car!” NY THIC AL. ASKING IF WE COULD MEET HER TRAIN « HER WHAT MIGHT LIKE TO GO || SUE'S BEEN GONE SEEING YOU ALL IN A BUNCH J WITH A DIFFERENT bet he's riaing arou y car. CHARACTER / FOLKS ARE AWAY ===~AND SHE'S COMING IN ARE WE TOO! THEY'LL A LONG TIME! AGAIN 1S JUST TOO, TOO SOUND ~TRACK / " % » : FROM ATLANTA f ANY WAITING MEET US AT THE WONDER IF SHES SHATTERING !

: : HE WAS BORN IN THE : ; 7 ye > on? 3 SHE WALKED boldly out the 1iNGDOM OF HANNOVER, \. | TN 0 te % y) | J FOR ¢ STATION | i CHANGED ¢ 7 es — A ( L016 1] X +“ | RY

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4 way down the street, her shining _ 2 oh EN = . oe biack town car was parked. She re-| COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. SSSA To « ’ = 2 oo 1B P= ~ 4) an aN garded it with strangly mingled | 4-7 & i on | { aS) / = \ 3 : : DN emotions. SI ride the subway, and | ANSWER~—Vegetable, Squash; Gird, Duck on the Rock: | RN %: ( . ORE Tl Jenkins and and his wife skviark| phihjan, Leap Frog; Mammal, Run Sheep Run; Insect, Cricket, | iy \ > 7 ; <u ) | h > # Af around in that eee et er ee 4 : ab fg \ & / : tan ed Mi 2 : AN \ a She wondered maliciously, how | J \ rd : = ; Jenkins would like it if she simply got in the back seat and sat there, waiting for him. “The shoe would

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| stopped her. She simply couldn't Dane, vou won't fire me, will you?” ruin everything now! He was on| She had learned, the day she aphis own, up there with the mer- plied for this job in the personnel | \ . : be on the other foot then, my ood chandising manager. He was office, that if you stood up to people | N A Z a : % - nan” she thought Yet she was working out a scheme he had they respected vou more. But she _r me thought up himseli—he would soon had ‘earned, too. that power was By Martin

rare that she was not half so aware A be getting a promotion he had sweet to women like Miss Dane. =r » RAS TURNED RATWER -

outraged by Jenkins' flagrant abuse earned. “The farther he gets away Wo wl had litt] | | f of his privileges as she would have .° "“ Eahdd ] ) men who had so little else to NO { NE95,1 LOVE WN LB0Y,0F | [Tee Tow WHEN ONE - been Nid she came to work in irom this low-paying scction man- glory in. The power of life and hy Jo RE L CONE) \$ or DR (Bese FROM HOME: | £0 EASY To AWEM | To COONS , WASBN Huntington's ager job, the less it will hurt him te death, or hiring and firing, made | ENSONING EXPECT NX Yo @ Q [VE RE A WHAT jl oe 1UNTINRL > > Yon Weil " i » o wm tiill The doorman, who had been busi- | KNOW I've been ying. . .. autocratic tin gods of them. If you | XOCKRDELY fp el RY TRSOME To Bt w NO HRY Iv handing an old woman into her; If Anthony could convince him- begged, they liked to see you grovel NT RTT "| coMuoNe ONES car, shook his head at Beatrice. Self that he was standing on his - - - and they grudgingly dispensed '(NSPRCITRENER |" fA i LATENT 1 Ml | NOT, THE CINOERELLAI WHERE ONE You want to catch pneumonia?” OWn two feet in this store, if he 2 ittle morey, after you'd humbleg TALES Hi ol LAAN 1g : ACY NOU WNOW Ww SEES ONE His eyes twinkled. “Any time you knew beyond any shadow of a yourself enough. : HAA 1 : i ( | id I feel like sneaking out for a breath doubt that he was valuable and| But Miss Dane surprised her. i nh \ 1 ; ¢ 3 of air. be sure it's me on the door, APpreciated--perhaps later, when For, instead of the mounting fury, and not that other man. He'd tel inevitably he discovered that Bea-|instead of more threats and final SHS mmm ( GN Bl J : vou quick as look at you.” trice. owned the store, he wouldn't humiliation, Miss Dane suddenly fi (fj, | : | ~ 3 : A ER ys aw SN Yiu 11 She took the escalator to the feel that he held his job only be-icrumpled. ign » Wi : 4 \\ RR 2 ily | basement. From Children’s Clothes, cause she loved him. Because Stop that) she grated. “Don't § fl | ) y 7 : i = Dos RL che peered into Budget. The Jen- Beatrice had long ago decided that CY, you fool! Do you think I like m yl i . 1 " £8 ¥ Fi LH 2 14 fl 3 A | Wh 4 4 1] s Fo, & <) . “0 I 7 ph nil |

kinses had definitely left, Beatrice Bruce Sheldrake, who was too high !rampling all over you? But I ih ciched with relief, and marched and mighty to explore trivial de. haven't got it so easy myself. . A » IA, ; { i back tails, was going out on his ear, some They took my stock girl, they keep nt a i 7% hil \ 4 El x i “0, | Miss Dane was drumming danger- fine day. raising my sales figures higher and | I! j \ X ) . Se SEI BOPR, 1941 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. Y. M, REG. U, 8, PAT, OFF, 3 ouslv on the wrapping desk, her ¥ & » [pe 14h poy Re that's ns _ ; anil : wh am! as a salesgirl my- . blood-red fingernails managing to| SO BEE DAVIS. salesclerk in once. In rose Sal my-| LLEY OOP By V. T. Hamlin call forth an unpleasantly loud Budget Fashions, let Miss Dane, the pad some heart. Mu Hanan ; sound from the scarred wood. Budget buyer, fume at her. Bee Wasn't hard-boiled he didn't ag n} IN "THE CONFUSION ATTENDING BOOM'S ACTIVATING (FOR JUST AN INSTANT) THE , by - MY STARS! WHAT “Where have you been?” |dropped her eyes and tried hard to : ’ ve FAILURE TO DESTROY THE TIME * MACHINE'S FORCE-FIELO IN./ my GOSH ; . ill G-MAN HAPPENED AND ‘people 7 Tum! / TO BOOMT [eres dd RP

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“Upstairs for a coke,” Beatrice look contrite. MACHINE, DOCTOR WONMUE ANCIENT EG ALLEY,

onfessed meekly “ ; " | To the never - to - be - forgotten | THREW THE MAIN SWITCH, YOY. — i IT'S TW’ TIME y IR HE'S ps ol t pled. “H | Yes, Miss Dane,” she murmured stupefaction of the entire Budget | - * 0 MACHINE, , ok | BOYS gone! NN oor Mics Dane's thros Du 0: “oon | meekly. “Oh, Miss Dane, I'm 30 Department, Miss Dane herself : { hd 3 ( # - . w va — 2}, So

dare you leave the floor? You were sorry. I'm so very sorry.” lourst into’ tears She ‘wailed. “Go! taking advantage of the section| and finally, when she saw that away You youl idiot. Let me manager's absence, that's what you Miss Dane was working herself up | alone! "On. I wish I never had to were doing! I have a good mind into a veritable tantrum. and when | gee this lace again!” to fire you right now!” (she realized that the eves of every | She BR her face with her Beatrice bit her lip. All at once, girl in the department were focused | hans and turned to Miss Getz the wanted Beyoely 0 Seam: "GO on them, Beatrice took a deep whe had somehow crept closer. on, fire me! ire me, an watch | hreath and burst out, tearfully. ! « Seiad 43 . ed me mess your job up and your| “Please, Miss Dane, don't fire os RC ae. aad

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me mop vou up in 10 minutes!” promise I'll never do it again. | But sweet though it would be Really, I won't, Miss Dane.” Her | to put a bomb under Miss Dane, | wide eves lifted tragically to the the thought of Anthony Bradley contorted face of the buyer. “Miss 0 events

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