Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1942 — Page 19

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942 POE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 19 ABBIE AN SLATS —By Raeburn Van Buren | OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Majer Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams

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By Henry Bellaman

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX WH Bs 3 48 LM RIND SoM LIKE T { MMM.-- BOY }..- DEM iw EZ 7 ks TZ : 2 IN' OUGHTA SPREAD CAKE RE PARRIS talked to Randy the ; pr = ANY == \ SO MUCH IT AROUND A 7 A SE same day. He tried to veil the pro- | ¥gFg © Zs ; i MONEY --- 8IT! 7 +

ement, and to hold out hopes

tation itt y | 1 ion Little by! ee RP /

cons eZ E <7 y Z ; > color and the expression jf ; / =——\ - Bees 777 ; 3 a : SY ' 77 47 : : z : ESR WN ry to shield me, Parris. 70] : a : ROK opi > 5 7] = QR n Z X

1k about Drake. What will to go through with before

Randy I have; hat’ ve to do something. We

Drake endure too much

fought together to save make him the

was meant to be in the

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He must not die feel- RED RYDER —By Fred Harman has lost it. He must 1 WY : .t ei tit GUESS THATS THE SCHOOL TEACHER I COULD YOU TELL ME WHER rr ; W173) ’ > YO E WHERE 1'D URE MR. XN = : TR CU ah SENT FOR WELL MUSTRT STAND HERE FIND A MR, RED RYDER ® | Bor we FUT Revere) [ou MEAN TM NOT BEAUTIFDL? ZK aA i 1 21 ats Va *\ oS v J -— =n rr ————— : , Tees - RY, = NGS ON) ‘a NO SECR ”, NICOPR. 1942 by NEA SERVICE, INE TM. REG uy. §. Par. OFF. \ BETTER GREET HER.’ UH--WHY-~UH --1'M { pontiac lal A RAR ie OTHER HAND 60 CooL SOT CALL RED RYDER EXPECTED - = UGLY, » A a EregIer, Yo COULD You)?

and pose an old { n. There's nothing any of can do There's nothing any] varahle physician could do.” |side. and clenched his teeth over used to think a great deal about «ten Parris. I've got to know his lips. A line of blood ran down the future I always dreaded his cnin. Then the fog of an un- Drake's growing old. It was fright{utterable agonv blurred his eves ful that he had to die as he did, rs—could the am-/again, and a long hoarse howl but .. poor Drake!” Randy's eyes 1ad anvthing to do broke from his throat. dimmed. “111 be able to make sense | gd & 3 out of it all sometime, I hope. We

i | a nt ustn't lose sig nf eact g Fri i , moment His | PARRIS SAT. white and still, a, i! . SIE 5 Te ne Av AR ned 1 GO t Swer : is » | PArTIS ol ave been so 25 Te an answer | It's for vou to sav. Dr. Mitchell. Ji we

inn Rand i lso good al He had made the same decision | 7 i ilk | You two were my only friends,

once before. Anna .. . his grand-| b {vor know

her "tte shit his head & moment. Then] “Parris, I'm just 32 years old Probably?” mm looked up at Dr McNeill. ‘will be 32 on my next birthday, and : —By Crane I can't say. Randy my dear “Do vou think a normal injection I feel as though I had lived half | ‘ A FREE Coney - etty stout-hearted. But]. odes iiarvals a dozen lives 4% MUST 8 ~ pi 7 a ' ; ; Be NV THE RED BALL! AND THERE telling vou the truth when! Et teal thie gl] “1 can understand that, too.” ad Ee A ONE v ord RECT | < AA Wii == / GOES THE SECOND! NOW THE [ dont know. T thought of] Dr. McNeill tuned Who of] “Wheidver wa GONG, Parris, we PP : NE wa DIRECT | STRANGER Zl ; s SIRENS ARE SOUNDING, THAT ; BE 1 , {word and prepared a hypodermic’ d \GEOLIET ai anf (the ahiv \ STREET ME TO AN ob 4 ! HEAVENS ! ih MEANS ENEMY PLANES ARE" Gordon right away-—as 1 al f...;g0 at the lMttle table. The|010 (CEEIOCL YOU RI ced Drake” | ROR CL AIR RAID : 9) THEN DON'T, | DEFINITELY HEADING $ d0 Whenever a tase COMPS \b|nufse camé in 1% peoale Wh re oer Dae iTS oY Xi CAT SHELTER YOU KNOW THERE'S THIS WAY, OH, DEAR, 1 THINK he has had anything to dol" oi yotiar cniateh a little rest She looked up quickly. Do you A) hn Nid : j ? PRR wi AN AIR RAID? 1 WAS TO MEET /IMGONGT Rut I couldn't even in my... "0 0 rtetnoon. Miss Cooper hear anvthing about Louise Gor-| |g iM. — raz ) RXR A DION'T Y0U SEE = DADDY... AND I ( LIKE CHUNG* {i aif our don?" a ~ IRD ih ATES i ? / — SHE ; THE RED BALL oe h DON'T KNOW | KING. COME Can yout af Fe : | “Not a word. I did hear that her} {4 Ira ds 17 XA y AN 2 wr ALONG! The sound of Dr. McNeill's steps) titi : Vieh d that there . 4 7% ; 7,7 # y 9 receded. Parris arose and 1086; Contition Was WhIS - ? i ’ ; ti : itt or trae id tormentit g| he door leading into the hall Then | See, listie hope p hop I ¢ 3 old torme 1 i or . he sat down on the edge of the bed | OT olestinng « mais thie fi u- ' “Parris. z 1at Se s a Fr ; ns about this awril amp and took Drake's hand. He laid | ran All Of dl ; gms n, deep in my mind, but now— his fingers on the thready pulse mighty strange, dark business to| 11S gers on the thready puise. : TREE ay He ai we Ht cursing | Hie. se motionless. He could hear I Then re hes aunty) a ae Uh CUNSING. | 41 0 tiny ticking sound of the nurse's!" ‘han Te SH | [5 23 SEE RS EE £2 5 ; hing there is mj _ ° | I'm afraid so. | CH ET i RE 7 Ta : SOFR everything in the world watch

wi : The sun crept in at the front/ HH & #£ F me inn hea nar 1 yr i tant Ey en pes windows PARRIS thought of what Randy! RECKLES AND

Drake! My God, hasn't he! i enough?

“Hey, vou! Don't vou know that bugle calls are copyrighted?”

Could it have had anything to do

Possiblv.”

nd answer that question ive cancer that atructure We don't

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Parris laid Drake's hand on the had said about her age. His own — — — re quiet sheet, and folded the other age, as well. He didn't, of course, Md = " A ONE MORE ROUNCE & 4 ---AND IT8 GOING wish I Khew one word te say |one over it. [feel old, as Randy did, but he had | Ade 5% 5 3 ! / A AND ITS GONNA Go--- [ . SOP SiGuy Ph I'm here—to do anvthing| He stood for a moment looking a disagreeable letdown feeling, as if] ; : \ for vou and Drake—’ : “ {down at the blue-white face on the many things. many courses Were; he time will come when voull| Pillow. A sudden breeze swung the suddenly finished. He, too, had liven | = to do soniething for him. The curtains inward and blew a lock of through experiences that had been ~ will he here soon enough!” hair across Drake's brow. It gave too violent | him a boyish look | Mrs. Skeffington’s denunciations Pl a | Parris went out and closed the'of Kings Row came back to his McNETLL assured Parris) door softly behind him. mind. And yet, a clear, cool thread there was no immediate] i fF 4 of reason that spun: like a thread hat the cancer was work- Sve i i of ecrvstal through his weaving| slowly and he had left in-| THE DAYS and weeks following thought and faney told him the! ith the nurses to see Drakes death semed to PArms We. ine was wrong Kings Row was | suffered little. Both|descend to a curious level of jo, man unit in a diverse and ime would come when monotony The whole world was fluctuating world He he—Parris| dd fail slippery, incorporeal, and kaleido- Mitchell—was not Parris Mitchell! \3:25 left to keep his ap-|Scopic. of King Row, but Parris Mitchell of | Vienna rod icy) Just before Christmas he saw ij, nelly So stationed. there was| BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES

r he stepped o e Randy at Cary Whitehead's office. ,,nothing in Kings Row that could = fy FE EF I ST Ls ale aint hdd seen her frequently, and |ever reach through to touch him.| Ji GEE. |; ORM ORMNNOTRE [NOL GOT AWW, L EEE JUS" THERE \GN'T Twente sm Dr. McNeill had been !he was surprised each time to see He had only to think of the vast, Wz ee, LET i he. 7 RE ey Mats BOOTS Coty A PL a | | squieting how quickly she had regained her inter-weaving effort of men in all fF FW A oso" 1 CAN OOo DO ETHER | L Py Consciousness was hot allowed | calm. She spoke of business mat- places. and in all times, who strove : i 8, 5 \ Fo UT SWE'S © to come to Drake very often. He ters with less enthusiasm. to connect and link up the scat- Sie} : 7 HE BI V Bl IN THERE. N noaned and called, and while it “Well. Randy, I've been want- tered labors of the world into a : d > XH 1A — : 3 ; PATON was nerve-racking to hear, he ac-|ing to talk to vou about the busi- [beneficial whole, to have sense of / \ Q tH {HE See - MLS TW tually did not know much that was ness. I'd like to get out.” {his own destiny " o bs AL =H = SAME. 4 happening HE right.” | Late in the spring Parris crossed : : 5 | -

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Toward the end of Aueust it| “I just@ant to think about my the Aberdeen campus one afternoon eam eemed that Drake could not pos- | work Now, I don't want to leave | just as the public school across the! ibly last from one dav to another. | you in the lurch in any way.” {way was being dismissed for the Randy came again and again to| “It wouldn't be. Parris, I'd like day. He heard the mixed chatter Parris to quit, too. I believe Dan Gilbert of the released prisoners, as clash “Pleaze. Parris, for God's sake! and Elliott would buy us out.” upon clash of soprano dissonances love Drake. Youre his friend! “Do vou think so? But what chopped the air How cen vou let this go on anv) would vou do? I think you ought Parris watched the crowd of chil1 p to have something.” dren thin and go away. Just a

yrhine it seemed to Par- I'm tired. Parris.” few vears ago he had been one of Drake's mind emerged a| “Yes. I can understand that. All{them, he and Drake, Cassie. Randy. A Increased doses of morphia of these years—" Vera, Peyton and all the others. | HE'LL NOT GET ening intervals were no “Parris, it seems like a dream | Parris followed the road, past the PAR J TLL... .hle to hold back the legions now. I remember the afternoon | Macintoshes, across the bridge, torture | you left for Europe, and I ran into | along the sandy avenue just rake looked with a kind of|{you and Drake at the depot. I|threaded with the scant shadows ed wonder at Parris, and then|was awfully happy, I realize now of the birches. Now, at last, he MeNeill. Then he turned | that I was, until real troubles came. [lifted his eves toward the house? ead toward Parris. The cloudy It's strange, but I don't seem to Elise was standing on the terrace. hic eves cleared for a few! be able to recall right now all those She raised her arm straight above in those few seconds vears as weil as I can the begin- her head and waved, a gay, happy, 4p nassed between the two ning.’ childish gesture. Then she ran down 3 x ANeill ww >a Te at Me ' i > yp . > yr 5, McNeill was aware of the It’s rathei natural, Randy. the terrace steps on her way to a ww

tion. He stood looking You'll have to slowly forget the ter- meet him. SO us . Ret 8 t Parris. rible things—" Copyright. 1840, bh: Henry Bellaman ; \ ; 4 / La ) ll

“It's a matter of hours, Dr. “I don't want to forget y life 3] (THE END) | RAR

Mitchell,” he said evenly. (Parris. Every hour of my life is Drake fisted his head to one precious. Its all right, Parris. I (AlN events nami and characters in this!