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MUTT AND JEFF

SAY, YOU LOOK LIKE A RIGHT SMART YOUNG FELLER--SEE IF YOU CAN ANSWER THIS! --MY MOTHER GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD, IT WASN'T MY

west, BROTHER NOR MY

SISTER, WHO

WAS IT?

TICKET!

FIT WAS

[ME!

MUTT, YOU'RE SMART, SEE IF YOU CAN

TICKETS

HA-HA

ANSWER

I GIVE

THATS GOOD!

THIS!

UP, WHO

WAS LTP

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MY MOTHER GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD! IT WASN'T MY BROTHER NOR MY SISTER- WHO WAS IT?

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Fed Up

un-

maiden of Bakersford thought of proud. disputing Karen's conquest of She was delighted with the idea. Cary Conant. Karen, blonde and dark Women at boxing matches were eyed and petite, had for years been heard of up here in the country. She the accepted belle of the community. would be the talk of the county. Being the belle of a small community Cary stared at her. Take you to in those by-gone days was an exalted the matches? Come, Karen, you're position. Isolation and remoteness and joking!”.

Women in New York attend boxing matches. Are they better or more wicked than I?”

"This isn't New York." "Then you refuse to take me?" "I not only refuse, I absolutely for-

the slow progress of modern inventions "I certainly am not lent exchantment to the position.

Therefore when Cary Conant came up from Westhaven and assumed his duties in the bank, he became without question Karen's conquest. The others were willing enough to stand by in bid you to go." their wistfulness, and be thankful they Karen's cheeks burned brightly. So! had shown no interest in handsome That was the way he felt? He owned young Cary. To do so would have her! He thought he could order Karen meant humiliation when it suited Calvin around, did he? Apparently Karen's fancy to enter the race. this young upstart didn't know who

If analysed it would be difficult to Karen Calvin was. It was high time identify Karen's particular charm. he found out.

Her smile, was provocative, her eyes She thought of a thousand means of constantly filled with merry dancing revenge. All seemed inadequate. Then lights. She had a flare for doing the an idea struck her. A great idea. She daring Her ideas were ultra modern, called Brian Darwin on the phone. She But, chiefly, it was her pride,, her, in- asked him to come to her. He agreed difference to what other people thought, eagerly. Her heart warmed toward her unexpectedness, her individuality. Brian Brian could appreciate

No one was surprised at Cary's capi- Brian loved her. Perhaps when Mr

much tulation. This had been foreseen; as Cary Conant discovered how the success of all Karen's conquests Brian loved her, it might make him a was foreseen. Resignation and accep- bit more appreciative.

By Meredith Scholl

hor.

tance was the order of the day among "Brian, dear, I want you to take me the wistful maidens to whom Cary had to the boxing matches." appeared as the errant knight of their Brian's mouth fell ajar. "But, Ka-

·You!" dreams. And, outwardly, resignation ren, the boxing matches! was the role assumed by Brian Darwin. "Oh, so you don't want to take me Brian, owner and proprietor of Dar- out?"

me

win's Plumbing Supplies, Inc., had been "Of course I do, but—” Karen's most recent conquest. He was, "But, you don't want to take she had decided, the best all around where I want to go. You're ashamed!" bet among the blades of Bakersford. Her tone was contemptuous, scornful, She had, forthwith, bewitched him, and designed to score Brian's pride. Brian. Brian had liked being bewitched. In stared at her a moment, then his lips fact, his devotion for Karen, went set firmly. deeper than even she guessed.

"That's right," he said. “I'm-asham-

But during the summer following ed. I'd be ashamed to, take you to the Cary Conant's arrival in town,, Karen matches. Besides, now I see your mo began in part to know the sensations tive. I've been a sucker just about she had caused in the breasts of others, long enough.”-

She fell in love with Cary Conant Karen was stunned, incredulous, fa- Completely, Heretofore this emotion rious. She · drove · him - away. She had been foreign to her character; its wept. Presently control came. What appearance bewildered and frightened to do now? How to win her revenge. her a little. She dared not yield to It, Frustration, for the first time in her and yet she knew that if Cary Conant life, beset her.

did not propose marriage before A week passed. Karen swallowed another month had passed she would her pride. It hurt, but she swallowed perish of agony.

it. She waited for Cary at bank_cloa-

The month did pass and Cary didn't ing time. He saw her and smiled and propose and Karen did almost perish looked down into her eyes. Karen A terror seized her. Suppose Cary started to speak, stopped. It was too never proposed 7: Suppose Cary treat late. She knew it. She could see it ed her as she had-treated others? The in his eyes. Too late. Brian Darwin thought tortured her. It kept her had been driven beyond the limit and awake nights. It robbed her of her had spread the word about the matches appetite.

Cary was fed up Im; one short woek

She began to scheme. No one had Karen had been relegated to the ranks, as yet guessed her secret. She mustn't and no one knew it better than she. let them. She must force Cary into a (Copyright, 1938, By The Associated proposal. Obviously he had been at Newspapers.) tracted to her at the outset because

she was different from other girls. Be-

'cause she was daring, modern, provoca-

tive. She must continue to bo zò. “Shq must not lose her, individuality. Above all, she must give. Cary no: hint of her true feelings..

She cast about in her mind for some means of identifying, herself as being different from other firis.

The opportunity came in September. The nearby town of Bronson was apon- soring a champion.boxing match. She would kik Oary to take her to the

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