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MUTT AND JEFF

LONESOME. THAT'S

ALL!

{PARDON ME,GIR, BUT

WILL YOU JOIN ME IN A DRINK? MY

NAME'S EIBEN!

BURE, MISTER EIBEN! MY NAME'S JEFF!

WELL KID, HERES

MUD IN YOUR.

EYE, BOTTOMS Up!

THE CHINA MAID, JUNE 80, 1989 -

By BUD FISHER

DRINK. HEARTY!

JEEP WHY DO YOU

MELL, I'M A

ANNIST ON SHAKING }}} LITTLE GUY

"HANDS, WITH ME-

BEFORE EVERY

DRINK?

AND I AIN'T

SURE OF MY CAPACITY MR.EIBEN

(-AND IF I DROPS IN

MY TRACKS 'I WANT

YOU TO KNOW THAT

WE PART FRISH si

10PM.

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

UNBELIEVABLE

"It's no good falling in love with good deal.

her," Charlie said.. "Gerda's turned. But it didn't work. Gerda didn't down a dozen proposals. She's got notice." She seemed to get along fine everything: Money, position, charm, without him. In fact, watching her brains. What can you offer that might from a distance, he decided she en- be of interest?" Charlie grinned. "No joyed herself more without benefit of offense. I'm just giving you the facts, his compariy. Forget her."

So Harry, feeling like a plug nickle, *abandoned the plan, At dinner

ho

Harry smiled, but he didn't feel like. smiling. He knew that what Charlie said was true. It didn't make him tackled another angle. He monopolized the conversation. He told stories, made feel any too good.

"I'd like to forget her," he admitted. "I would if I could. The way I feel can't be helped."

up adventures and experiences, pictur- ing himself as a hero. Gerda listened politely with the others. But when he finished she smiled indulgently and ad- "It can be helped, " Charlie said. "Perhaps not cured, but helped. You dressed herself to Ben Peters who was ought to take a tip from those other sitting next to her, suckers."

After dinner Harry watched Ben "Look," said Harry, "I'm. throwing a Peters and Gerda dance out onto the party up at my place on Lake Haven veranda. They didn't come in right over the week-end: I'm asking the away. Harry got up and went out the Matthews and a few other couples, side door and down to the lake. He sat want you to bring: Gerda, along.” down on a boulder behind some bushes, Charlie sighed. "You're like a kid cupped his chin in his hand and allow- contemplating a life of crime. You ed two large tears to course down his think you've got something that the cheeks.

By Meredith Scholl

other crooks didn't have, but they all wind up in the same place.”

What was the use? Charlie had been right. He was a sucker. It was "Maybe I'm different," said Harry had nothing to offer. She didn't know no good falling, in love with Gerda. He But he didn't feel as confident as he he. existed.

He wished that there were some wealthy sounded.

Gerda was... for foreigner" with one small thing he could offer Gerda title and a family tree, some con- Cameron which she didn't already quering hero, some captain of industry, possess, but wanted."

some adventurous carefree devil such

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Harry went up to Lake Haven on as those pictured on the screen and Friday to get things ready. He spent in story books. She was as aware of most of the day getting himself ready, this he. She wasn't going. adjusting his thoughts, building up his to be bothered with small fry. He egon

When Saturday came he felt didn't blame her. A girl with her more confident, more sure of himself, qualities could and should have the

best...

- He

Just before lunch his guests arrived, two carloads of them.. Gerda was with Harry sighed deeply, bitterly. Charlie Hampton and the Matthewa, was a 'sucker all right. But he could She was breathtaking. Harry took one take his medicine. - Somehow, some look at her and all of his plans went way he would survive this experience, up in smoke, There was no use trying rise above it, become...!” a man again. to beguile this girl. She was too And never, never as long as he lived genuine, too vital. She made him feel would he allow himself to become in- weak and helpless and inadequate. All terested in another woman. the smart things he had, intended to

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Before the day was half gone Harry grace and beauty as she stood there, was a phantom thing of loveliness and AND FORTNIGHTLY THEREAFTER

hated himself. He followed Gerds fooling up at him. - MANILA

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rude to his, guests. He ceased to feel hoarsely: Noon

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like a man. His own actions disgusted him, and suddenly it occurred to him that they must disgust. Gerda. What a ridiculous figure he must appear, to her and to Charlie and the others!

This thought was, in a sense, en- lightening, Gerda - undoubtedly, afe fected, all men in this manner. She made them all feel ridiculous. No wop- der she had turned down proposals No girl would want to marry a man who, obviously, didn't possess 0. bone,

Harry squared his shoulders. thing to do was to be seman indifferent to her charms that she had no effect on him And so, during the latter

noon, M. Harry rem

When

"Gerda! Gerda! You lovely thing! love yout Will you marry me?"

"Yes," said Gerda. Harry fainted♪

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