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MUTT AND JEFF

I THOUGHT YOU WAS TRAINING FLEAS FOR THE CIRCUS!

I WAS BUT MY EYESIGHT. GOT BAD

ELEPHANT TRAINER

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WHAT RE YOU TRY!!

"NOW?

I'M TRAINING- BEATRICE TO. JUMP THROUGH THIS HOOPLE!

HEY CUS, PIPE THE LITTLE BOOB TRYIN'TO. MAKE THE ELEPHANT JUMP THROUSA TR -*HOOPLE! m

ELEPHANT TRAINER

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 9, 1989.

By BUD FISHER

YOU'RE HOLDING IT TOO HIGH!

YOU BOOB, SHE'LL NEVER JUMP THROUGH © THAT ES

WHY

HOT?

ELEPHANT STRAINER:

ELEPHANT TRAINER

Oh grandmama!

tight frilled bodice and the flared crinoline skirt have come straight out of the old family album, but the figure

is her own. Great grandmama could never have achieved this slim athletic line without the high-pressure help of a sturdy lady's maid, but she achieves it by watching her diet and her drinks. Her cocktail for example is always a Gimlet because she knows that the girl who insists on Rose's Lime Juice today avoids a headache and a Rubens contour tomorrow.

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES

Vin

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA AND HONOLULU

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT”

8.S. “PRESIDENT. CLEVELAND”" 8.3. "PRESIDENT PIERCE”. 9.S.PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"

8.B. “PRESIDENT TAFT"? 8.8. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND”.

THE DAILY SHORT STORY

CLASSIFIED AD.

ON June 12. à classified advertisement and ran the ring die He

appeared in the "Megler Times" he heard the telephone ring inside. He offering a job to a man well informed heard footsteps, heard the pause in as a horticulturist and knowing some indecision as both bells kept rinking, thing about tropical plants. Edgar then they came toward the door Kempton read the ad and answered it Mrs. Kempton opened the dogr.““Oh, by mail. Two days later he received hello, Lieutenant Jeff. Just one mo- a reply, asking him to come to an ad- ment, the phone is ringing." dress in the neighbouring town of Jeff stepped inside and closed the Ashville,

'door. He could hear. Mrs. Kempton

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Edgar departed without telling, his plainly in the other room. “Oh, Basil! wife. He hadn't worked for two What!”. A pause. A nervous laugh. months and if he secured this job he "Listen Basil, call me back. Lieuten- wanted to surprise her. But he didn't ant Jeff is waiting to see me." return that evening, or the next. Isolde, Mrs. Kempton hung up and turned Edgar's wife, became alarmed and noti- to find Lieutenant Jeff watching her fled police. The police, having little to from the doorway. The blood ran from work on and knowing only that Edgar, her cheeks because of the way he according to Isolde, had been acting de looked.

pressed because of lack of work, at "Excuse me, Mrs. Kempton. I have once thought of suicide and began a call to make.” Jeff picked up the searching the banks of the river. They phone and called "headquarters. He found Edgar's body two days later, told the desk sergeant to send a couple swollen and bloated, á mile south of of men out to Basil Ferris' and pick south him up, charging him with the murder the Pleasant street bridge.

It looked like suicide and would have of Edgar Kempton, been recorded as such, except for the Mrs. Kempton gasped and clutched thoroughness of Police Lieutenant at her throat.

Fabian Jeff... Fabian examined the "You'll have to come with me” Läeu- body as a matter of course, and found tenant Jeff said quietly. "No. There's a bruise on Edgar's head, as though no use denying it. I've the whole he had been struck by a heavy blunt story. Every detail. You're both instrument.

guilty."

+

Lieutenant Jeff decided to make an Mrs. Kempton collapsed, which was investigation. He went first to Edgar's small indication of the strain under home and talked with his wife, but which she had been existing.

By James Freeman

Isolde was too grief-stricken to give The brief facts of the case are these: him much satisfaction. With her. per- Lieutenant Jeff had wondered how mission, he went into the small room Kempton could have received an ́an- that Edgar used for a den and search- swer to his reply to the "Times” ad ed it. He found the newspaper clip when the alleged Elliot Jesson' hadn't ping containing the ad and noticed that called for any of the answers that had the date thereon was less than a week come in. This stumped him. Then he remembered that the ad had demanded So Lieutenant Jeff went to the one informed about horticulture, and Times and asked them who had in- tropical plants, and who else would serted the ad. They checked through know better than his wife' how well their "files- and told him that a man suited Kempton was fór such a posi- named Elliot Jesson, residing in Aph- tion. His wife, then must have told ville, had inserted it. They rémémber- - Jesson that - Edgar had answered the ed distinctly because Mr. Jesson had ad, which made it unnecessary for Jes- telephoned to inquire if there were any, son to "pick up his answers at the replies to his ad. And despite the "Times" office: fact that there had been he hadn't call- led "for the letters.”

SAILS AUG. 12th at 8.00 A Min search of Mr. Jesson, but he didn't

AUG. 26th at 8.00AM -SEPT.. = 9that: 4.00 P.M. SEPT. 23rd at 9.00 AM. [OCT, 7th at 8.00 AÏM. OCT 21st at 8.00A.M.

FAND FORTNIGHTLY, THERHAFTER NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA SUEZ

8.9. "PRESIDENT VAN BUREN" 'S:S. “PRESIDENT HARRISON”

So Lieutenant Jeff went to Ashville find him. In fact, he found that there was no such address as the one men- tioned in the ad. For a while Jeff was stymied.

The hesitation of Perris on the phone. was proof in itself that Ferris Was Jesson, and Lieutenant Jeff wasn't sur- prised when it was later revealed that Ferris had sold Edgar a lot of insur- snce more than a year ago and had conspired to split the amount with back to Edgar's home. It was a warm

Then, acting on a hunch, Jeff went Isolde for disposing of her husband.

(Released by The Associated News- day and Mrs. Kempton was sitting on papers.) the porch talking to a man about her. ownunge. She introduced the man as Mr. Basil Ferris. Mr Terris, she explained, had come to see her about Edgar's insurance. *Lieutenant Jef, being a cautious and discerning individual, didn't ⇓ lika - the He way Mr. Ferris looked at him. didn't know why, but he didn't care.” He excused himself and went to the office

urance company

SAILS AUG. 17th at 12.00 Noona

SEPT. -lat at. 12.00 Noon

AND FORTNIGHTLY THEREAFTER MANILA

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND":

HARRISON”.

BAILS AUG. 19th, at 2,00 A.M., BEPT. tat 12:00 Noon SEPT.

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