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MUTT AND JEFF SUBWAY

I'M GLAD I BOUGHT THIS SECOND-HAND SAXOPHONE - IT'S 'A BARGAIN!

{HEY, GUARD, DA

YOU WANNA HEAR ME PLAY COLD BLACK JOB"

ON MY NEW

6AXOPHONE?

NO, I

DON'T

CHEY, GUARD, I

WANNA GO TO [SIEJ STREET!

WILL: THIS TRÄBI TAKE ME THERE!

YEH!

WELL, COME ON,

GET ON!

NO, I. WON'T!

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 16, 1989.

By BUD FISHER

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More

And Funnier

go over. Jimmy didn't smile, He merely looked at her, and the hurt expression was in his eyes again. And so she stopped talking, and bit her lip, and then suddenly she was in his arms. Oh, every detail of it was so clear-so damnably clear.

Brenda had thought she could drive as much as anything!" But it didn't thoughts of Jimmy Kent from her mind. You don't meet a man once and see him only twice again and have this happen to you in the short space of a week with dozens and dozens of people around and fall in love with him. It doesn't inake sense.

She had told herself these things London was colder than usual and that night in the Venetian room at damper and more foggy. Brenda Derek Bullard's party. She had tried to convince herself that she known Derek since childhood: When: didn't mind, that she was glad to be ho learned her father wag bringing, back. She had had fun here. She her back from England for the holi would have fun again. This emptiness, days he planned a party. The prospect this horribly depressed feeling delighted her, for Derek's parties were merely a matter of adjustment, of such grand affairs. All their old putting certain thoughts' from your friends would be there, and they'd mind and facing issues that couldn't make her feel that her two years of be avoided, virtual exile in London. hadn't been so bad. after all.

forneycldonelosefarbllfib'

was

So Brenda was gay and bright_and cheerful. She gave parties and at- tended parties and flirted with dull, Home! She remembered so vividly unromantic Englishmen. She filled all the silhouette of the Custom's. House the hours of her days and nights with tower against the sky and the new escapes, and no one guessed at her Federal building, and Derek and Helen true feelings. Her father, who had Lyman and Rufe Burdon at the dock. been worried, censed being worried Derek was the same, except that he and concerned himself with the diplo- and Helen Lyman were engaged - matic business that kept him in Eng- and were quite happy about it.

land.

"We're having a party to-morrow 'night at the Venetian room. A sort of home coming affair for you and an engagements partya for us and an introduction party for Jimmy Kent.

"Jimmy Kent? Who's he, darling? Have I met him?"

- Dereks shook his head. "I met him out West. It's his first visit to Bós- ton. You'll like him.

And that was all the warning she had, She didn't think about Jimmy

So when at last the parties began to bore, and the mere thought of flirting with a dull Englishman made her shudder, Brenda at last found her self alone and face to face with the thing she sought to ovade. She knew now that she had hoped for a letter, a cable, some message or word that would change the world to brightness again. But it didn't come and at last the raw and merciless truth came to mock and torment, unimpeded by

By Barbara Ann Benedict

Kent again until thoy met at the Venetian-room-and she hadn't stopp- ed_thinking about him sinde,

Brenda gripped the rail to steady herself against the roll or the deck as the S. S. Sylvania ploughed steadily back toward Liverpool and London and another two years of exile. Her eyes were misty and she knew it wasn't from the salt spray. Nor was it the mere respect of another two years -away tuus, home that made her heart

so heavy

barriors of false laughter parties...

and gay

Came_an afternoon when the damp- ness and fog and bleakness seemed un- bearable and Bronda, with nothing scheduled on her social calander till evening, found it no longer possible to cope with the cruelty of her memories. Hands deep thrust in the pockets of her twoed coat she walked along un- familiar streets and tried to dull her thinking. A figure came up behind her, passed her, blocked her path" Oh, it was all so crazy! She shook "Doughnuts, lady? American made her head trying to clear it of mem- doughnuts?" ories that she had convinced - herself

Brenda's heart stopped couldn't last. But the memories per then began again, thumping

beating, sisted-vivid pictures of Jimmy Kent She mustn't faint.

wildly. How silly that looking at her gravely, saying: "All would be! She must remain calm and right, then, have it your way. There's in complete control, and not one bit ex- no such thing as love at first sight. cited.

But I want to go on record as dis-"Are you sure they're American agreeing and saying I love you, and made? Oh, let me try one. Why it's the real thing."

why they're hard as rocks!". She laughed up at him. “Tell me "Why shouldn't they be, after more and funnier." And then because traveling 3,000 miles in a box? You're of the hurt look that came into his eyes as unreasonable about doughnuts as ahe.regretted having said it. Oh you are about love. Love and dough- Jimmy, let's not talk about it. It nuts! There's a combination a man ^^ London, To-day.

dogon't make sense. In a week I'm doesn't forget,, So I brought them going back to England for two more both-because I had to have some ex- The Secretary for

who will incidents You'll forget all about mẹ "Jimmy" Brenda whispered. "Oh, Government expects a surplus of shortly complete his term of office and

Jimmy! tell me more!" | £1,660,000} the end of the fin-

as finance member of the Govern-Darling let's change the subject.

"I won't l" he said stubbornly. ancial year.

ment of India to be Permanent Let's talk about doughnuts.,, Half the sum would be from: save Under-Secretary at the War Officòlia #Doughnuts?". "ing in expenditures, while the other succeedingcoSir. Herbert 9- half comes from the rise lif gold who retires from public servic

[October, su British Wirele prices. Reuterisiko

ter declared yesterday that the pointed Sir James Criy has ape years, and this will be a forgotten cuse,”

"And funnier?"

"Nol. Just more. Just more, dar-

ling P

So Jimmy did, and the damp for Sho laughed striving to sound gay swirled about them and they were

Hght: ““Wo don't have them in glad because of it, American-made doughnuts. (Copyright, 1030

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