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MUTT AND JEFF
DIVORCE!
DIVORCE!
DIVORCE!
THAT'S ALL YOU READ ABOUT.
NOW DAYS!
SAY, MUTT, I MADE UP MY MIND I'M NOT EVER GONNA GET: MARRIED!
WHY
NOT?
WHEN YOU GET MARRIED) YOU HAVE NOTHIN' BUT. TROUBLE, TROUBLE, TROUBLE! LOOK
AT THE HEADLINES EVERY DAY!
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BE
(SILLY!
WELL, TAKE YOUR MARRIAGE FOR" EXAMPLE! -.
THAT WAS A COMPLETE FLOP WASN'T IT? I'M NOT GETTIN' MARRIED I'M
SMART, I AM!
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 16, 1938
By BUD FISHER
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NOTHING TO LOSE
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"Anyone,' said
Harding, riding and mountain climbing. "will tell you that absence makes the when she looked at him with her deep heart grow fonder. I think that's the brown eyes, he felt a peculiar sensa- remedy for your present problem. Go tion stir inside of him." away for a while and forget the girl. It will make you more desirable:"
"Forget her!" moaned Mart Loring. "Forget her! Forget that gorgeous creature! Thad, you're insane! can't live without seeing her at least once a day!"
I
The guilty feeling persisted as the found that more and more he sought days stretched into weeks and he out Kay Atkinson's
company. The guilt was more poignant, because shortly after his arrival hé perhaps, had received a letter from Judith. It "That isn't the point. You're mak- was a gay letter, curious in a subtle ing an ass of yourself, tagging around way regarding his abrupt departure, after Judith. She thinks you're her and also slightly affectionate. slave. She knows your weakness and Mart didn't answer the letter. takes advantage of it. Girls
Не never decided to teach Judith a lesson. Be- love men like that. They want men sides, life had become almost worth to assert themselves, appear hard to living again since he had met Kay.. get-it all makes them more desir- A month after his arrival at Long able."
Lake, Mart decided he'd "And how," asked Mart, "is
better the home.
go fact that I go away to make me more kinson had reached a point of
His friendship with Kay At- desirable in the eyes of Judith Tem- timacy which demanded some sort of in- ple?"
explanation. He'd either have to pro- "Because it'll make. Judith wonder pose or quit the field. whether she was right in setting you down as her slave. It'll make
The evening before his think about you. She will recall all spite of everything he
her Mart spent alone in his
departure room. In was acutely
By Barbara Ann Benedict
The guilty
your good qualities and wonder if, aware of a little thrill at thoughts of after all, she shouldn't have snapped once more seeing Judith. you up when the opportunity offered. feeling was more poignant than ever. The scheme never fails."
He hadn't been loyal to Judith, could Mart pondered. It would, he knew, hardly blame her if he found be the hardest battle he'd ever fought she had been finding enjoyment in the that -not being able to even see Judith company of others. but of late it did seem as though she were taking advantage of his utter and complete devotion.
On the other hand, thoughts of leaving Kay, of never seeing her She had come
They had been introduced at a char- again, mere torment. ity ball two weeks ago. Mart had to mean a lot to him, was everything looked into Judith's lovely eyes and any man could ask in a girl. She was knew that here was the girl for whom different from most girls; quiet, unas- he had waited a lifetime. From that suming. moment he was her slave.
At last Mart made à decision Mart wired Thad Harding of his heart leaped when he swung from the expected arrival in New York. train and saw not only Thad
His
but Judith, too. He waited by the steps sense of remorse possessed him. He 'while they rushed to meet him.
felt miserable and uneasy,
A
It was different with Judith, Mart was just another man, who had suc- cumbed to her charm. The more, as far as Judith was concerned, the bet- ter.
Yes, Mart decided, it was better to go away. Thad's scheme might work. At least he had nothing to lose.
Mart departed the next Thad was at the station to see him morning.
off.
"I'd go to the mountains if I were you, Mart. The fresh air will do you good. There's a beautiful lake up beyond Ogsburg. Plenty of life. You'll like it there."
Mart would have spoken, would have explained things, then and there, had way, looking curiously at Thad and not Kay appeared in the car door- and faced his friends bravely. Judith Mart took Kay's hand in his
y wife, Kay." "Judith-Thad, allow me to present
Judith and Thad exchanged glances. Then suddenly they laughed in sheer relief.
Mart found the lake and with Thad that it
agreed was beautiful. There was plenty of life and interest boy, congratulations. I-we-sure are That seized Mart's arm. “Mart, old ing things to do. But from the mo- glad." He turned proudly to Judith. ment his train pulled out of the Grand "And, Mart, old friend, allow me to Central Mart was miserable. He could present my wife, Judith." think of nothing but. Judith. The possibility that at this moment she ed Newspapers).
(Copyright 1988, By The Associat- might be with another was madden-
ing.
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It was not until he had spent the better part of a week at Long Lake that the empty feeling in the pit of his stomach began to fill, and he saw for the first time that there things to see and do in the world.
were
READ
He found himself one day sitting on The China Mail
the hotel veranda talking to a girl.. She was dark, pretty, and vivacious. She was not at all like Judith.
Conscious of a faint feeling of guilt, Mart was forced to admit that his now acquaintance--ber name" was Kay. Atkinson-interested him in a dif ferent sort of way. She talked of tennis and swimming and horseback
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