MUTT AND JEFF
WHAT'RE WE
HAVING FOR
DINNER, TOOTS?
TODAY'S FRIDAY! WE'RE HAVING FRIED FISH!
KITCHE
3-10
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1939
By BUD FISHER
SAY, DID
YOU CLEAN AND WASH THAT FISH?
CLEAN AND WASH IT? AIN'T IT BAD ENOUGH I HAVE TO COOK AROUND HERE WITHOUT PLAYIN" NURSE MAIDĪTO A FISH!
YOU FOOL! EVERYBODY CLEANS AND WASHES FISH BEFORE THEY FRY IT! DON'T YOU?,
WHAT FOR?
IT'S WHOLE
LIFE WAS SPENT IN WATER!
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ITH MILK
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
TRUE LOVE
She loved She owed
TERESA said: "I'll marry you, Jack, everything and anything. But there's something I must tell Jack. She was his wife.
him more than she could ever hope to you, first."
"It won't matter," Jack.said, "Noth- repay. ing you could say would matter, ex- cept that you'll marry me."
And for a month Teresa knew a joy greater than she had ever believed pos
Jack's friends were kind and That's sincere in their warmth and friend-
This will. It's about another man. sible.
I loved him so much it hurt.
why I came down here, to forget." She liness. She adapted herself to her new "It life with an ease that indicated her made a little hopeless gesture.
perfect suitability to it, hasn't done much good."
down through And then one day the inevitable hap- Moonlight streamed
She had driven into a filling An- the palm fronds. The warm, breath- pened. less night was heavy with the fra- station on the outskirts of town. grance of hibiscus. Little noises were other car drove in beside her. A voice Close at hand, the called a cheary hello. Her heart leap- Jerry Morton. plainly audible. rustle of some insect in the shrubbery.. ed. It was Jerry, Crickets. The sleepy warbling of some More handsome than ever. More care- less of manner and charming of speech. strange bird.
More completely the man she had once "You still love him?" Jack asked,
She looked at him loved than before she went away... "I don't know."
"Honey, miserably. "Oh, Jack, that's why it "It was three days later that Jack
She came home looking grave,"
One of those wouldn't be fair to marry you." conjured a mirthless smile. "He turn- I've some bad news.
ed me down for a blonde. At first I things has happened. Unless a mir- the scene, I'm sunk. thought I never would recover. It took acle appears on courage to come down to this little far I've gambled the family fortune and
At first I was sure I'd lost." away island. take the first boat back. But I didn't. She stared at him, "Oh, Jack, I'm I met so sorry. Is there anything I can do?" It went on for weeks. Then
"Nothing but continue to look you. Things changed. Darling, I do love you.
But it's different. I'm afraid. adorable as you do right this minute." I'm afraid of what might happen when He kissed her. "Don't worry. We'll and if I see him." She looked at him keep our heads above water somehow." But he didn't. For a week Jack said squarely, "You're so good and fine, Jack.. And I'm not! It wouldn't be nothing more, but the lines in his face ,deepened. Teresa knew that business fair."
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
18
A
Jack Addison placed his hands on was worrying him, but it came as her shoulders. His eyes were sober shock when he told her the worst.
We're broke "It's come, darling. and intense. "I'll take a chance, dar-
I'm really frightfully sorry for you. ling, I love you.”
"No, Jack, it isn't right. I-I-it Look, I don't expect you to stick. I-". "Don't expect me to stick! Jack Ad- would make a difference if you weren't
dison, that's an insult! What do you rich."
He laughed · at that. "Well, of expect me to doRun off like a cow- do. course! It would to me too. I couldn't ard and leave you to face the music. be happy unless I could give you There must be something I can
I'll sell my Jewell I'll get a job-" things.
married - beneath the Suddenly, aho began to cry, because she for They were palms on a bright, clear day, with the loved him. She had loved him
and weeks and it had taken this knowledge blue Atlantic for a background the hills towering above them and the that Jack needed her to make her for music. realize It: "Oh, darling, you mustn't sound of breaking waves: When the final words were pronounced think that I-that I what I said about and Jack took her into his arms she not marrying if you weren't rich. You wondered why she had ever been must, believe me!"
Jack dropped down beside her. His afraid. She knew it was impossible
eyes were strangely bright. "Darling, for anyone to be any happier.
Look, you'll hate It was not until a week later when I do believe you. they took a boat going north that she me for this, but I can't help it. Jim learned where they were going to live. Bridges at the filling station told me Ash about your meeting Morton. I had to "The family homestead's in mont. We might as well occupy it, know how you felt." He paused. "It's all since there's no one else. You'll love a huge lie I made up to to test your the old place; it's only two hops and love. The family fortune is still in- It's so fine, a jump from Philadelphia, where I tact. Everything's fine. make a pretence of conducting a brok- well I'd like to ory myself."
So they did. Both of them. erage business."
A sharp little lance of fear pricked had a fine-time of it, too. Teresa. This was ironic. Ashmont was Copyright, 1838, By The Associated to Fairlawn, Newspapers) the neighbouring town and it was in Fairlawn that Jerry liv ed. Was it an omen? Was she to be put to the test sooner than she ex- pected? It would be impossible for them to live in adjoining towns with- out meeting eventually. Thank heav en Jack didn't know his name or iden- tity
The old homestead" was, as Teresa” suspected it would be, a fine old man. sion with rolling acres and gardons and shade trees. Steeped in the fin- est traditions of a famous old family, its very environment provoked a sense of security, of peace and joy and quiet living.
She Teresa could be happy here.
In spite of would be happy here..
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