Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1941 — Page 14

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Dollars to Doughnuts

By EDITH ELLINGTON

SATURDAY. The dance hall is a new thrill for Bee, She is so much in love | with Anthony, and she knows he loves her. Sam and Toby seem to have settled their difficulties, too En route home, on the subway, Bee sees a headline: HEIRESS BELIEVED KIDNAPED!

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR KIDNAPED! The paper said that Beatrice Davenport had been kidnaped. It was incredible, fantastic,

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scream ; : She wasn't kidnaped. How in the | ZZ2A™ —-— a $e 2 Com, IML by United Prats vations toc

world had that story gotten started? pm ~ ef ————— ea Ae" —— Her head hummed Ret ou& | MONEY, "3 Ws EAR ha \ ~~ AR She was supposed to be in South | BAL -E OE AVER ed 0 SEE N' ME AG x msl America. Of course, she'd never > “HEAT BACK ne ; - oA \ KEES You so much as booked passage on a \ - ; oo PAWS CLOSE 10 liner. But even if someone, some- THAT PIED how, had run across that damag- | . ing fact—did that make her Kid- | naped? | “But I was told never to salute an officer with a pipe in my mouth!” Then, like a blow, she remembered. Clarence was the one who! THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson thought of kidnapings! EE : Oh, the fool, the W»lundering| I wiot! his storv must have come from him. She'd disappeared—he

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The thoughts fiitted i yugh her ll NERVOUS PART HERE ARE PHOTOGRAPHS TTEN INFORMAT head so swiftly that only now was J WEE ISIN THE Hf fi OF PLAVG WITH AND NAMES OF PEOPLE | | CONCERNING FRIENDS the train stopping at the station . WE GLASSES J x ° YOU MAY COME N CON- RELATIVES, NATIVE The doors opened. She looked at / TACT WITH, WHILE DOUBLING CUSTOMS, AND THE Toby, her head bent to take in FOR CASTRO. LEARN LIKE. [T MAY PRE" more of that tabloid story. ‘‘Come VER THOROUGHLY RAT C\EVER on, Toby!” Sam pulled at her y Mt “Oh, quick, buy me a paper! The TRAPPING Duchess has been kidnaped You Hallelujah!” Stifly, Beatrice walked out of the train beside Anthony. Toby had seen that picture. Didn't she |

recognize it? Now they were on the platform | » : Res NG BUT ShTATE ALOIS Anthony was looking straight | LL : oT WOK DI Pier § gE st 1t | x AA y MANS VOICE AND MANNERISMS

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ahead. his jaw a hard line. a little | bunch of muscles twitching at the corner of his mouth. Beatrice felt

her insides growing cold—dissolving |} AsTROLOGY 1S A BRANCH . IE SHE CAN'T = iii = - -.. with a little horrid sensation that OF ASTRONOAAY. MH, MEATBALL, | Come SEND uP A a. ® Ou, 1 JUST INVITED LARD N Tunsee A A was like nausea. “Anthony—?’ T.M. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. © AN ON_OVER-+-IM GONNA | | IN HALF AN HOUR. { OKAYem I To ‘Come OVER AND DAN WHAT YOU SAID ~~ » He GIAnt ZHEwe Swi : GET JUNE ---YOu YOU BRING THE CANNED . P ASKE i ti : 5 yr # I Hii SKED HIM TO BRING QR. WORDS TO, THA Oh, he had seen! He knew! But BRING HILDA « WELL HEAT AND PLENTY OF hi , HIS PHONOGRAPH ANG Ese EFFECT / he still had said notning, while the | 00 A uTTLE EBONY / pi SOME MOT RECORDS 8 : d others chattered. Her mouth was . , PANCAKES! Hil “> : ee in FOR. DANCING J dry. She wanted to ask him and | 4 ; couldn't t On the stairs to the street she XS stumbled. Anthony caught her. His \ WITH ITS GEYSERS AND smile was tender. > STEAMING POOLS, IS A No! He didn't know. He couldn't! = HANG-OVER FROM THE Not and smile like that. £ : TIME AILLIONS OF YEARS Dimly, as from a long way off, Z|! = — AGO WHEN ALL THE Toby's voice came to her, “They | EARTHS AREA BROILED must be holding her for ransom OVER. SUBTERRANEAN

Boy! Wait until this news hits the a) 4-7 FIRES. store! The girls will be dancing in ’ apliihagbentbbit iil «the aisles! They'll run up a flag | a - I on that roof where they were too | ANSWER-—Wrong. Astrology is in no way connected with the Es = Boe acter 1 SIMPLY E mel : d ' | wed b ———— =r ; OWE , AF A . tight to fix a sun deck for us worn- |_Science of astronomy. Pe THEIR ARRAY p 2 ERAS, BOOTE TE ™MRo Boren Re out, overworked slaves.” | Lo oR NAR EO an § RY AND JEFF BECOME MEMBER OF | woo How

“I HOPE SHE gets a good, hard| It struck Beatrice then that An- —n — COLONEL. MAD [| re away ) FRENDS! aa A 1S ALL

7 yy | Jolt. T hope every one of the gang- [thony hadn't said much up to now. = 4 ONLY RECENTLY ma a’ PN GOING TO ‘IMAGINE IT, VERA mur-|sters holding her looks like al! {What did he look — startled == =n nn O\E0 , ANDO . Na i ; Nem ala END wan .mured. “You'd think, with all her| guerrilla, I hope—" labout ®” = CARNE. MANOR AN a N oi ON RF NRE

tbe: ¥ wREALTIEOL IN NWS - Rf A millions, she'd have sense enough| peatrice found her voice. “Toby,| She fought for self-control. She Be AO cARVEL Nb AY NRT SANTARION 7 . C IY

to Ja a BYR» we ive) | why do you hate her so?” To her must act perfectly natural. With- = MARNOR.WWAS INN a BOOTS WN © =, 7a] OF Tug € paper aint say POSUVEL| own ears, she sounded shrill and out a paper, tonight, was a reprieve. — —g TANS ; 8 [Fl O15 COVERED) y i NEW

she's been kidnaped,” Sam pointed |prittle. But she couldn't Sto LN DISCOVER WER . : p. In the morning, when they looked = \ 4 N 3 ey SE Whisvey idnsperl'W er don AS BON OOPED_BY A AREY! 7) Li AT Pi pate that damer” That was| plat has she ever done to you at that picture in the tabloid more RS aoa fl A NONE Yoo : q\ I I “on EEF, WAO 16 PENLILESS BL) | ARNEL Broby's voice. “Ever since that|ocoiocs, faving been born the closely—and the other pictures later MUSH REEORO wacktion fi ARTUR Np &N AND EYNICAL , 1& AS AY J Manor | oly S De I've Bott ao granddaughter of Michael Hunt- editions would surely contain— AND, INCIOENTALLY FAM b pi A VRARLE AS HE So $50,000 debu ve hate er. € ington?” At the door, the men said good REONION WITH Wig AL NAMED WING (Jf cretons oF BE slave in the store, while she runs| : 2 CRON, COLONY. PRLOPP wat : orev | SEaRENR ST Ne pd spending Willink. Bully, oat NES She ever done lor aight. Inuiony drew her a iiktde CARVEL LHOWENER, SE = = = oH pen oe tie ro me?” retorted Toby. “A girl who away from the others and pulled WAS DLE FOR A 4 ny CY 53€ S rH . I HO . I hone Ts has the power of iife or death over her into his arms. With his arms UNPLEASANT SORSRISE | Et . 3 Ni n by i ype. C oF “A Ie £0 many thousand employees might (around her, Beatrice faced the 5 ih oe Nhe | take an interest once in a while! bleak knowledge that tomorrow it (ONC EAGAN. TROUBLE. A FREGUENT . d out Ww ce to| Just because she is a girl, she would be over. Tomorrow he might Ae dU [ Acc 3 WE'RE FAIRLY CERTAIN OF | /- SOMETHING MUST HAY can find out what it feels like tO ought to make things easier for hate her. VISITOR TO DR. WONMUG'S TIME= oamnen INDICATOR, THEY 'RE THE TIME, BUT THEIR [o SAY, DOC... 1 “N GONE WRONG =» g all the girls who work for her.| She wanted to push at } t A RE SN. Sug I A NOT SORRY \ STUCK. SOMEWHERE GEOGRAPHICAL Gl THOUGHT YOU _ \ THIS CERTAINLY [WE SEEM TO “Toby! Stop gloating! It's|mne millions of 1 yu 1 D um, to], | APPEARANCE WITH THE RETURN OF | 1 EVER WVENTED) “Ag out FOUR. LOCATION 1S VES... TNSAID WE WERE [ISNT WOonMUGS | BE STANDING Sy ‘ — mt $ ittle petty cheap- |say, “Listen, Anthnoy. Beatriea 0. OSCAR BOOM FROM FHE RY- THIS TROURLE- ECR ALS ’ ON S Pa ghastly!” That was Vera, tolerant ’ Evert Iaeey Y CENTURIES BACK : ANOTHER WHERE ON \ © BACK. TO \ LABORATORY, ON SAND... : J Toth . nesses that Huntington's get away Davenport hasn't been kidnaped. | |GONE CENTURIES OF CLEOPATRAS 2a BREEDING TIME" . EARTH CAN | TH TWENTIETH N98 FR es were. ors tho. SRewalE.. With! Lie WoL. giving Getz a I'm Beatrice Davenport.” EGYPT... ONLY TO VANISH Gs ooo MACHINE THEY CENTURY, : SANDY A ; 03 a

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The drug store wes, closed. “Nolrv make it a model store. If I got It will hurt him so terribly . . MISTS OF boys With extras. » 5 3 'viggewce! | Bain out of it, the way she does, | “Darling,” said Anthony. “You're, Y THE PAST... I want a paper right ON I'd be generous enough vo share shaking.” DETERMINED Beatrice walked beside Anthony, some of jt with the poor, unlucky | “What's a girl supposed to do in, 0 the blood hammering at her tem- | dopes who have to work there. your arms, Anthony?” she forced

ples, her knees Yaak oan “Do you know, some firms divide herself to say, lightly. She freed | VILLAINOUS CAREER, N / ; s NC Aa > & -— AN “they see on her face What thisipart of the profits at Christmas. | (herself, smiled at him. e DR.BRONSON AND OOOLA, | 3 / ‘ 7 \ : hy x BY

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ieant er AR OLY ney! d look Every body gets a bonus, according | “Good night.” She. added, with THROLGH THE MEDIUM OF THE a er, get 1 . { to how long they've been there. a catch in her throat. “Good night TIME - MACHINE, GO BACK TO EGYPT “I think it's barbarous,” Sam|What do we get at Huntington's? | darling.” ght, TO FeTert ALLEY. Eo McArdle said. “Kidnaping a girl! | A Jot of extra work!” | (AN events, names and characters in this . ob Lo. COPR. 1041 Men who would do that should be They had reached their apart- story are fictitious.) -; : - - IN executed. Why, it'S—it's—- ment house. Sam McArdle said, To Be Conti “All nght, kidnaping is terri-| soothingly, “No place to get a paper, ued)

ble.” Toby admited, “But, Sam, | Toby. Forget it. They'li probably STORK ALMOST REAL CHARCOAL GRILL

this is the Duchess. You work for| find her visiting a friend some-| TULSA. Okla. (U. P.).—Manager her as well as we do. Doesn't she where. I suppose her guardian got Bryce Twitty of Hillcrest nnd 38th and Arlington deserve it?” i orbit tall 3b ENties when he learned she wasn't hospital twice looked to be sure his “She’s the kind who'll fall in love home. . . eyes weren't playi tricks. Yes with one of the Ee a) Anthony looked startled. “That's there it was, o Ying roof, a 6-foot OPEN NOW said. “Wouldn't that be a laugh? right. Her guardian. You handle stork with a baby hanging from its nt sl .Anything for a thrill, with those | lot of stuff about her in the bill. Investigation disclosed it was Dining Room and Curb Service gris!” Comptroller's office, don’t you?” made of cardboard. Jeon ; ww

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