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MUTT AND JEFF
YOU SAY YOUR NEW MOTORCYCLE CAN
DO SIXTY?
SHE SURE CAN! HER GRANDMOTHER ACOULD DO SEVENTY!" WANHA GO FOR
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BOY, IT SURE IS DARK OUT.
THIS WAY!
YEH, AND THIS IS A PRETTY NARROW ROAD,
TOO!
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By BUD FISHER
RASY
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
RUD, THE CHAMP
Could Rud Neff help it because his Even so, the final payoff might never name was the same as that of the na- have happened had it not been that tional diving champion? Naturally Walt had a friend in England who had not. Why, Rud didn't even know there written him that the real Rud Neff, was such a person with a name similar diving champ, was over there. Walt to his own until he was mistaken for dispatched a cable and got a reply and the champion the day he and Lorn' felt very smug. That afternoon, with Stoll arrived at the Idle Lake resort two dozen or more persons as an audi- for a combination business and plea ence, among them Charity, he chal- sure visit..
lenged Rud to a diving contest.
As soon as he announced who he was, Mr. McKinley, proprietor of the Idle Lake hotel, opened his eyes in amazement and delight.
"Mr. Neff, this ta a pleasure! We're honored to have you here. Nothing could please us more than to enter tain the national diving champion!"
Rud looked bewildered and started to explain that a mistake had been made, but Lorn Stoll, who had a mind like a steel trap, cụt in on him.
Rud looked. at Mr. Fuller with scorn and disdain. Then he looked into the faces of those who had overheard, and looked at Charity and knew at a glance that these folks had a good deal of res- pect for Walt Fuller's ability and wouldn't think much of Rud for declin- ing. Walt sneered and grew.sarcastic and Charity looked hurt and surprised and a little doubtful. Rud could have stood everything else, but the look in her eyes prompted recklessness in his "We didn't intend to let our presen- soul. Impulsively he accepted Walt ce here become known,' he told Mr. Fuller's challenge, and the crowd McKinley, looking important and cheered and Charity looked worshipful. speaking rapidly. "However, since you do know, I trust you'll show us every consideration."
Mr. McKinley nodded eagerly. “Our entire personnel is at your command.
was horrified.
When Lorn Stoll heard about it he
"It's up to you," said Rüd, "to get me out of it and make it seem logical." "You dope!" declared Lorn, "there's
By Karl Grayson
Rest assure you will be treated with only one way you can get out of this the respect due so famous a hero." jam. Pack your bags and sneak
Later, in their room, Lorn explained away.". away Rud'a annoyance, irritation, amazement and bewilderment.
Mr.
"I can't do that,” said Rud would Charity think?"
"What
"Look," declared the efficient
So Rud remained, hoping against Stoll, "I just happened to remember hope for a miracle, and plans for the that Neff the diving champ is in contest went ahead. Everybody was Europe, secretly negotiating for an in- thrilled with the prospect. Charity ternational meet. All right, this dope could talk of nothing else.
Her eyes down-stairs has mistaken you for him sparkled every time the meet was because your name is the same and mentioned. because you look like him. So what? They say that when a man is in love. So we're in the bathing suiti business, he isn't rational, and this must be true. aren't we? Business is terrible, isn't for Rud stayed on and when the day it? Right. So you, Rud Neff, casually, of the meet arrived, despite Lorn's but publicly endorse our line of goods pleading, he donned a bathing suit and and we save the tottering industry went out to meet Walt Fuller. from the brink of disaster."
No one actually knew, except Lorn
"Swelll" said Rud with heavy sar- and Rud, the real facts of what hap. casm. Suppose they ask me to put pened. On his first dive Rud slipped on an act? Me a diving champ! That's and fell twenty feet into the water a laugh. I can barely keep afloat in and almost killed himself. That ended the water, not to mention somersaulting the meet, with Walt as a winner. Walt from a twenty-foot-hoard."
thought also he had won back Charity,
- "Don't be, a sucker. Who is there but he was mistaken. For when Rud around here who would dare risk returned to consciousness he found his making a fool of himself by challeng, head pillowed in Charity's lop, and Ing Champion Rud Neff ?. Nobody. Be« without further ado he told her the sides, you wouldn't be bothering with whole bitte" tale.
small fry. Unless you got some real. Then Charity cried. She said she competition you wouldn't consider en- was crying because she thought it was tering a contest. Boy, this is the first wonderful that Rud, knowing he was real break we've had!" "
risking his life, had entered the con Everything might have come off as test unafraid, merely - because he Lorn Stoll had planned, expcept that it knew she wanted him to. At the same was later proyed that there were time she conveyed the idea that wheels within wheels, so to speak. «e champ or no champ she still thought The first of those wheels appeared Rud was O.K- Which, of course, fixed in the form of gorgeous Charity Gal- everything fine. loway, who was staying at Idle Resort - (Released By The Associated New- hotel with her parents, and who, it spapers.);
proved, had always been wild about and thrilled at the sight of swimming champions, especially divers. Rud took one look at Charity and would have
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