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MUTT AND JEFF

DELIVER THIS SAÇK OF COAL TO MRS. BINKS ON HEADOW STREETI MAKE GURE SHE GETS IT AND

HURRY BAČKI

Boss!

THIS IS NO CINCH CLIMBING THREE FLIGHTS

OF STAIRS WITH A · SACK OF COAL!

I WONDER WHATS KEEPING THAT GUYI HE'S BEENGOME

ALMOST AN HOUR HOW!

MRS. BINKS AIN'T HOME

BOES!

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 20, 1989.

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WORDS UNNECESSARY

The landslide occurred on March 8. hit this it divided, and

stones and

It was the evening before that Lorelei earth were catapulted into space over The the building. Some, however, dropped and Stan Seymour quarreled. real cause of the quarrel was Inez and crashed against the structure, Thayer, Deke Whitman's stopdaughter, piercing its flimsy walls.

superintendent, Deke was the mino

Lorelei had pushed open the door She saw Inez in and Inez had come to spend a couple of when this happened.

The mine was locat- Stan's arms. Then a falling timber weeks with him.

crashed toward them and she screamed. ed at Redhill, Arizona.

Inez was disappointed in the place. Stan pushed Incz away from him, and You could tell that without listening almost got clear himself, but it grazed and to her constant complaining. She had his shoulder, knocked him flat been attending a finishing school in pinned his legs beneath it. New York, This was her first visit to Arizona. She had always thought of Arizona as a land of desert. Warm, Romantic. Nobody had told her that there were mountains in Arizona and that up in those mountains the tem- down perature in March gets well below the freezing point.

She probably wouldn't have remained a week if it hadn't been for Stan Sey- mour. Stan was a young engineer just out of M.I.T. Inez took one look at him and decided to stay her full time.

For a moment Lorelei stood trun- Then she leaped forward and efixed. began prying at the timber wth all "Help me!" she cried. her strength. "Help me!" And she turned desperato eyes toward Inez,

Her At the door Inez turned. face was white. "Don't be a fool!" she shrieked. "Save yourself! Never Then the roar and crash mind him!" became louder, drowning out her words. started a The first avalanche hal

coming down the second and it was mountain like a great devouring mons- ter.

You

A woman in love sees many things that others let pass by unnoticed. Inez flung open the door and rushed Lorelei, who was the daughter of Jim outside. Stan pulled Lorelei down be- Tristram the mine foreman, had been side him and yelled into her ear; "Go in love with Stan since the day he on! You've still got a chance. arrived six months before, and he with can't save me!" But she only stared Then she began her. Their love was unspoken, but at him in horror. it lay between them like a tangible picking up timbers and propping them thing, palpable, warm, enduring:

a sort of leanto against the one -Lorelei was glad now that neither undamaged wall, sheltering them.

When the second avalanche struck had put into words the thing that both

in

By Richard Hill Wilkinson

had felt, for now there need be no ex- plaining no apologizing, no embarrass ments. Some day, she knew, the hurt that grew inside of her as she watched Stan yield to the polished charm of Inez Thayer would fade. and vanish. Time healed all wounde. What fools men were, she thought scornfully. Why couldn't Stan realize that this lovely, sophisticated. creature from New York was only amusing herself at his ex- penso?

So on the evening of March 7 Lorelei And each knew and Stan quarreled. that Inez was the cause of the quarrel, though both pretended it was over the matter of holding the annual spring dance in Redstone this year instead of.. at the mine, which wasn't important at all.

the outcropping of rock its force was so great that most of the debris was dwelling hurled far over, he frail

Only a few of the smaller beneath. stones crashed against the shelter and from these Lorelei and Stan were pro- tected by the leanto she had made.

rescue crews

a

was

over After it was came in and were amazed to find the They pried Stan two people alive. loose, and carried him away on stretcher. One of his lega broken.

When he came out of the ether, She smil- Lorelei was beside his bed.

"She's safe. She got ed and said: clear and escaped without a bruise."

He looked at her and said nothing,. and Lorelei's heart began to pound. Then he took her hand and drew her "It's infinitely It was warm that night of March 7. down close to him. · Unnaturally warm. The heavysnows more important that you're safe-and snows atop the mountain range against here. Would you kiss me, darling? the base of which the mine buildings Lorelei would and did, and was more nestled began to melt, and on the next morning they began to move, slipping down the mountain, loosennig tons of earth and ice and rock,

:

Lorelei was coming up from the rural delivery post office box with the mail She heard the ominous roar. She stopped, and looked and her heart. leaped into her, throat, A moment before she had seen Stan and Inez enter the tiny engineer's field office, and, without thinking she started run- ning toward it, shouting at the top of her lungs.

glad than ever that words were un- necessary between them.

·

She had always thought of Arizona as a land of desert-warm, romantic.

(Copyright, 1989, By The Associated Newspapers.)

BURGOS-PARIS TALKS POSTPONED

Paris, To-day.

Men appeared from other buildings The Franco-Spanish negotiations and took up the cry and before long a regarding the general resumption great crowd was racing down the valley road out of the path of the of the normal railway service be- tween France and Spain have onrushing avalanche,“

But Stan and Inez didn't appear in again been indefinitely postponed. the doorway of the engineer's office and The reason for the new post- vaguely, bitterly, Lorelei guessed why, ponement of the negotiations has but she kept on running, screaming dot yet been revealed by the Above the office was a sharn outcrop French authorities. Trans-Ocoan. ping of rock, When the avalanche