The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 10, 1951, Page 6

PAGE Six ~ BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH aw, LET ME GO COME ON, RIDOLES-- SHE SAID YE WUZ 48 AST HER ENNYHOW YORE OWN BOSS 43 SNUREY-- BAD Ive MAKE HER FEEL GOOD SAKES ALIVE! MENT. AN! PLAY CHECKERS ni art == tee INK KILLED THAT. REDSKIN. THEY'LL HAVE SNISHED THEIR REVENGE ON HIM! THIS IS WORKING OUT JUST FINE! ye \7 s OH,NOTHING SPESH / HE COT ONT ) THEY WANTED TO KNOW IF WE BELONGED TOTHE A GOLF CLUB HOW Your GEE,DAD.” How SHOULD I KNOW? -* BUT THEY TREATED ME VE BEEN KINDA INQUIRING AROUND, AND EVERYBODY SAYS THEY'RE WELL FIXED.’ WHAT?! AND LET EVERY BODY THINIC WE CANT AFFORD STO BUY THEM 2 /\T SAYS HERE IN THIS THERE'S ETIQUETTE BOOK THAT THE NOTHING BRIDES PARENTS CAN BUY Se THE DRESSES, OR™ THE ; GIRLS CAN EACH FUSE IF HE HAS To BUY DRESSES vai bo.\ ier THIMBLE THEATRE—Starring Popeye MOR ep Pp CHAR MILK BOTTLES, WIMPY 22 POPEYE SAYS WE * BEGNNING— MYSTERY UP UNTIL NOW ALL MYSTERY STORIES HAVE HAD NAMES, BUT THISN ISSO MYSTERIOUS WE EVEN WERE UNABLE TO LEARN UHAT TO CALL ate Ef &TAP BRINGING UP FATHER AN! IF ME EVES DON'T DECEIVE ME-HERE COMES if. BEN SAY = MR. JIGGS- J MY WIFE HEARD YOU FOLKS ARE MOVING NEXT TO us AT THE LAKE! TWOPEAMAGGE 1S SATISFIED: NOW THAT WE »A-GUMMER HOME oort returns to England from Vir- zinia with a shipload he took for zold but turning out to be worth- less earth. xy Congress signed by President Washington. ' York Tribune first »poch in Ameri ie Chapter 19 E WAS ten minutes after twelve when he stopped outside the door of the office in the same space as his old one had been. He wasn't enjoying his task any more. The insult to his lineage still rankled. Though he tried to blot it out of his thoughts, it re- mained, conjuring up elaborate ways of getting revenge equal to the enormity of the insult. : There was no sound of tittering or anything else from the other side of the door. He tried it. It was locked, He grinned without mirth, realizing that the stage was laid. This was his goa!, and the Vargians and the Custodians knew it. He used the master key and opened the door, The office was sbout the same size as his old one —and no one was there. He closed the door and locked it on the in- side, then went over and sat down in a chair at a desk near where his telephone had been. She wasn’t here, of course. He had known she wouldn't be. It wouldn’t make sense if the Var- gians had her. The only thing that made sense was that they wanted her—for some reason—and were using him as bait, or perhaps as a bloodhound to track her down. She had said in the dream that they could trace her through him while she was in telepathic con- tact with him. They might be just beyond the walls in the next room Waiting with some device so that if she so much as whispered a thought to him they could pounce on her and trace her to her hid- ing place. There were eyes watching his every move—had to be. ey would be intensely curious about his every move and expression. He _ was in the center of a stage, and just beyond view was the un- seen audience. Was Nelva one of that audience, hidden from the rest? Ray hoped so. He hoped she was aware of him—could see him or sense his thoughts, slowly, another idea rose sness, This was a stage. was the actor. Why not give them an act? Why not PRE- TEND he was in brief telepathic contact with Nelva? It would pre- sent them with a confusing prob- lem—-if they were able to detect genuine telepathic communication and follow its energy pattern back to its source. They might, of course, realize at once that it was fake; but they might also argue to themselves that he would have no reason for faking it, and so puzzle over a red herring. He closed his eyes and rotated his fingers on his temples to ap- tay to be trying to contact Nelva. le formed her name soundlessly with his lips, slowly, several times. He waited, building up suspense in his hidden audience that he was convinced must be there, The thought struck him that perhaps. Nelva was aware of the ruse he was going to pull and was laughing in merriment. The thought made him involuntarily smile. His mind seized on the smile as a-starting cue and car- ried it on. He dropped his fingers from his temples and assumed listening attitude with his head, keeping his eyes closed. He made himself excited, entered into the spirit of acting even to the extent of imagining the details of a “‘mes- sage” in his mind. He jerked his head suddenly in assumed bewilderment, then ab- ruptly opened his eyes, blinking them slowly, then shaking his head violently, as though clearing his thoughts. ‘HEN he got up and went di- rectly to the door and let him- self out. hammishly peeking to TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1951. TIME TRAP By ROG PHILLIPS i Site AP Newsfeatures make sure no one was out in the hall. There he hesitated, Should, he rush back to the hotel,-or should he continue his tour.ofingpection? He decided’ to contirfne* his tour. It would keep the Vaggjans and Custodians on tenterhoeks wait- ing to learn what Nelva+had sup- posedly said to him, and it would give him time to think up some- thing really.good. { No ‘doubt even now the Var- gians were wondering why their trap had failed and they hadn't been able to trace Nelva, They. were probably calling Val Nelson or Arthur Granger and telling them Nelva had contacted him, He entered another office and began his inspection of electrical things with a reactionary feeling of supreme contempt for the Var- gian girls; and men there. but gradually his mind settled down to the problem he was now faced with. He had, in effect. committed himself to a whopper of a lie. It would do no good to try to back down by telling the truth; that he hadn’t heard the slightest of telepathic whispers from Nelva. His thoughts reverted to the idea of telling Val and the others that Nelva had contacted him and told him to shake off everybody before she would meet him. It was a plausible message, and fool- alproof, because he could’ always come back’ and say he must have been followed or observed, be- cause she didn’t show up. He glanced at his watch and saw it was after four. He could leave now without creating the suspicion that he. was. foolishly risking suspicion,, He smiled in- wardly at the complexity of things.. Everyone was iying right and left —except Joe. He’d have to prac- tice his story on. Joe in the privacy of their hotel room, With Joe be- lieving it, it would be that much easier to put it across, (To be continued) oer) 1608—Capt. Christopher New- 1790—First Patent Act passed 1841— Horace Gree n journalism. 1866—The Society for the, Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals in- corporated in New York. 1869—Congress fixes the num- ber of U. S. Supreme Justices at! nine—had been 11 in 1863 and 8 in 1866. 1892—Some 500 Wyoming-Ari- zona cowboys set out to extermin- ate cattle thieves. 1934—Dr. Wirt of Gary, Ind., tells U. S. 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