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MUTT AND, JEFF

BOY, THAT WAS SOME

RAIN LAST NIGHT! · I'VE

HEVER SEEN THIS TOWN

FLOODED LIKE

THIS BEFORE!

YEH!

IT'S AT LEAST FIVE FEET

THERE'S JEFF! LOOK AT HIM SWIMMING!

HEY,JEFF! WHERE YOU GOIN'?

DEEP!

MLAY

WELL, COME ON,

HOP IN!

YOU'LL

I'M

GOIN'

NEVER MAKE IT SWIMMING!

OUT OF

TOWN!

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 27, 1939.

By BUD FISHER

SWIMMING? 'WHO'S SWIMMING? I'M RIDING A BICYCLE!!'

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HAIDEE GETS LOST

Haidee refused to ride a burro, Her eyes blazed furiously as she looked into Spence Beaton's placid face.

"Ride one of those miserable little beasts? Me?", She laughed scorn- fully. "Why, I-I'd look ridiculous!"

Spence Beaton, as always, was very. patient, very indulgent, "Miss Tucker, a body only looks ridiculous by com- parison. When there's nothing to com- pare with, everything looks the same. On this trip, everybody will be riding burros. Burros are a good deal more dependable than horses, especially-

"For goodness's sake," Haidee cried, "stop philosophizing! Must you always be so practical? Why can't you let yourself go once in awhile?"

"It doesn't pay," Spence said solemn- ly, "to let yourself go in this country." He paused. His eyes were inscrutable. "Perhaps you'd rather not take this trip, ma'm,"

camp she whipped the urro into a run. It would be fully a half hour before timo she she was missed. By that would be well away, and she know even a genius like Spence Beaton couldn't follow the donkey's trail on the hard rock of this desert country.

Two hours Inter Haidee reined in her burro. A feeling of misgiving had be set her. She should have reached the She had prospector's cabin long ago, brought along no water and her throat was parched. The sun was already low in the west.

Haideo was by no means a coward, but she was a woman and she wasn't used to being along with no one to call on for help if she needed help.

turnod

After awhile she entered a canyon where the shadows lay deep and fore- boding. In sudden panic she the burro and headed back in the di- rection from which she believed she had come. The sun had dropped be- neath the nearest peaks when she stop- ped again.

The wretch! Haidoe could have cried from sheer furry. How she hated this tall, quiet handsome son of the West! How she loathed him! He was too Stark terror was in her eyes. She was. smart, too cunnings. He didn't want lost, and horribly thirsty, Her mind her to take the trip to the abandoned raced frantically, groping for some ray borax mines. She was a nuisance. He of hope. But there was none. She had was using this as a means of getting missed the chbin. Her trail was in-

By Richard Hill Wilkinson

rid of her, pretending to be concerned distinguishable on the rocks. Wildly, about her welfare.

hysterically, she began to shout. The She considered reporting his inso- naked mountain flung-back her cries in lence to Walt Briggs, who owned the mocking tones. Maverick Dude ranch where she and

that wouldn't do any good. Spence furiously, and the little beast moved

-was a valuable man.

gave

her family and a party of friends were All sense of bravado filed. She be spending the winter. But she knew gan to weep Then she beat the burro

ahead. Pride and stubbornness Walt Briggs would rather lose a half dozen guests way to bitter hopelessness. She would # drink of than lose Spence Beaton. Besides, what have given her soul for grounds did she have, really, for com- water. plaint? And what if he were fired? What if he went away and she never saw him again?

Darkness had fully come when the burro finally stopped. A voice said: "Here, drink this. Take it easy now."

Haidoo lifted her head. For hours, it seemed, she had been in a stupor. She knew she had been taken from the burro and that water Was seeping through her lips.

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Oh Lord, why had she ever agreed to come out to this miserable country?

When the small cavalcade set off from the runch, heading toward the distant, mysterious-looking Funeral Mountains, with Spence Beaton at its head, Haldes was among the half-dozen guests who made up the procession. She closed her eyes. Spence Beaton She rode a flea-bitten, lop-eared miser said: "That was pretty selfish of you able little donkey and she felt ludi- Your folks would have worried them- crous. But she laughed and was gay selves sick. Lucky you were on a bur- with the others. Indeed, she had good ro Give, a barro his head and he can reason to feel gay and light-hearted, find water. That's why we use 'em for hadn't she thought of the most just in case." He stopped. brilliant plan imaginable? Hadn't she the way. I figure it you musta loved me thought of a plan that would outsmart danged near as much as I love you," the craft, cunning Mr. Spence Beaton?.. Haldee opened her eyes. Spence Suppose she got lost? Suppose Beaton bent to kiss her, while her arms Spence Beaton' came looking for her: and couldn't find her?- Then what? crept around his neck,-

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"Ma'm,

How would he feel? How would he (Copyright; 1989, By The Associated explain to Walt Briggs and her father: Newspapers.)

and mother? Hat She guessed that.. would take the starch out of him all

right

ย

Haideo, in her rides about the ranch, had come upon the cabin of a lone prospector located, at the base of small mountain where there was creek. She had become acquainted. with the old fellow. She know that. once a month: he trekked out to the town of Goldig for supplies and was gone a week or more.. She had often:} thought what fun it would be to spend a night in his abandoned shack, alone. on the desert To-day she intended to indulge that whim.

When the cavalcade stopped for lunch?

·Haldee unobtrusively wandered away. The inoment she was out of sight of

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