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IH/UfilHUU KIIM-MIAMAKfc!
NOT A CHANCE!
8y Cliff Sterrett
By Herriman
The Dingbat Family
A Little Bit of Very Futurist A.rt
Copyright, 1913, National N«w» Association.
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MEMBER OP THIS FAiKILV
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I ' -MOULD UCRR//UD
set coral., a ad walk
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WHEN IT IS A
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By Cliff Sterrett
You Can’t Blame Pa, at That
Cownfht. 1918. Natuma.1 Nows Association,
on, W'CAtJJ 60 To
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HELLO SAM,
1 S^e Your. House
IS ALL Lit up r -
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By Tom McNamara
You Never Can Tell When Luck Will Hit You
Registered United States Patent Office
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BITE M'| NAILS 1 .
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^.TICKETS!)
ILL BRING THE BALL
back and get in,
FREE FERNQfFIN •
( STUFF
ANSWER ID-MARROW
mCLEEK OF THE FORTY FACES *
Better Than Sherlcck
Holmes at His Bev^t
A Detective Story of Thrilling
Interest, Love and Mystery
t; ry man. ir, trying to wear English
clothes like he was used to ’em. Ono
or 'tother of those two turned up ev
erywhere v. 0 went. Kxfieot the Apache
Johnnie is prowiiiv’ round on the Em
bankment now. sir—was, a.t an> race,
an hour or so ago. At any rale, it’s
safe erlds that him or the foreign
party—maybe both- will pick us up
somewhere on the road.”
’’Good.’ said Narkom, with a sort of
subdued chuckle. ‘ Give them a nice
little run far their money, llammond.
Take ’em out Wandsworth way—it’s
exactly opposite from the direction I
shall be taking—and don’t forget to
stop off somewhere, so they won’t get
to realizing that it's a blind trail.
That's all. Cut along.”
Hammond Obeyed.
Hammond obeyed. Mimicking, as
best he could, the slight swagger and
L:e peacock step of the superin
tendent, he passed out of the building,
entered the waiting limousine—the
mock Lennard deferentially saluting
him as he appeared—and a moment
Liter, car and men whisked down the
narrow passage which led to the em-
By T. W HANSHAW.
Copyright by Poubleday, Page A* »
TO-T)AY’S INSTALL!!ENT
looked at his watch and pressed thrice
on an electric button beside the Ink-
stand.
H' 1 had barely more than slipped
the papers he was assorting into his
pocketbook and snapped an elastic
band round it when something red
went with a whiz anil a sw irl past the
window and round the angle of the
building; and at almost the same mo-
•uent a door opened and closed, a
tan’s figure advanced toward the desk
and cme might have forgiven one's self
for Imagining that the superintendent
1 ad mastered Sir Boyle Roche’s bird
trick of being in two place at once,
lor theie was one Mr. Maverick Nar-
kom sitting in the desk chair and the
v » ry fetch and double of him stond-
ng at attention utid waiting for or
ders BOTne two feet distant.
I 1 “Glad to see you bai k. sir.” said
tha Standing figute. bring! g ) > righ
forefinger to his temple and letting it
[drop to his fci'ie again. 'Hope > oil
I 1 hd a plea»rnl tim**,
1 'Tolerabl* Han tmond. tc*L Fable.'
■ e riled th* supia inU’'lident, putting
Lhn banded book into an inne*- packet
arid rising to his feet. l.t 'a n«v*
h look at you. Round this way. so
I can get the light full on your face.
Yes, that's better, i meant to tell you
the other day that you had the droop
of the mustache a leetle too low’ at
the corners, but 1 see that you have
rectified it. And by the way, tell
Hove . will you. that he makes up
for Hennard exceedingly well, but he
mustn’t forget that peculiar trick of
the orlgina always loaning over after
the manner of a cyclist, to one side
every time he rounds a corner. Re
member that, please”
Complained of Both Things.
“YesMr. Mi\ Cleek complained of
both till! jrs—the droop of toy mus
tache and Fojae's forgettli'g [he lean-
over hr.La;, -Ir—in a note he wrote to
F-etrle the day you left.”
Did h* V' replied Uv'arUom "Quite
so: It was he that drew my attention
to th,* -lisi rei an, - s. \n.bod> been
Ifodov lns the old ini ear when you've
I been out In he', do yon think'.’ - '
11 ssh — earn :ime w, vi tttki n her
I out: yesterday in particular, t'hap
In, i Krt ?c h Ap-wl'e; likewise a (tent
M4 • usu—looked like a forclgri mlti-
bankment and whirled off in the di
rection of Victoria.
Giving them time to get clear of the
neighborhood and—if they ne’e lo!
lowed—to draw those who were on
the watch for him away with them.
Mr. Narkom issued orders to the door
porter to whistle up a taxi, dived into
his dressing room for his hat and
coat, and at precisely two minutes to
4 o'clock was ^et down tn the thick of
the crowd at Oxford Circus, where he
Immediately passed Into the door of a
well-known and fashionable shop by
the Oxford Street entrance and
passed out again by the Regent Street
one.
There at the curb—lined up with
other conveyances and looking as es
sentially ' private'' as the best of them
—the new limousine waited: and Len-
nard, resplendent in a gray livery and
a big blond mustache that rested in
a table drawer when he went to bed
nights, sat like an image in the chauf
feur's seat.
Vtr. Narkom walked serenely up to
the waiting vehicle, entered it, closed
the door promptly, issued lhe neces
sary directions through the pipe of the
speaking tube, and in the winking of
an eye there was a gap in the line of
vehicles and the dark blue limousine
was gone—worming its way through
the thick of the traffic until it could
cut into an intersecting thoroughfare
and And a less crowded path, and then
scudding ofT like a hunted hare in the
direction of Notting Hill.
It whisked through that district at
a lively clip: it whizzed down the
High Street, leaving Bayswater and
Notting Hill Gate to drop away into
the rear like the far ends of a moving
panorama; It cut past Starch Green
and down Uxbridge Road to Shep
herds Bush and through that to Chis
wick and never stopped until It pulled
up at a curious little flower shop at
thS entrance to a big nursery, a-gli--
ter with glass houses and ablaze with
bloom, in the green and fragrant
stretches which lie between Chiswick
Park and Trunham Green.
An odd and a picturesque place' it
w as. this nursery—ow ned and culti
vated by a genial, slow-mavuyi. good-
tempered old Hollander who could not
speak two words of English, his wife
who could not speak one and thur
daughter, who conducted the little
flower shop and Could jabber yards of
it with a fine Cockney accent acquii >d
at a boarding school and beautifully
blended with the burr of her native
Dutch.
Slid From His Seat.
As the limousine halted before the
shop over which this accomplished
young woman presided a young man,
who was seated on the edge of the
counter, engaged In the double duty
of assisting and ‘'blarneying" her at
one and the same time, slid down
from his perch, opened the door to ad
mit the superintendent and stood re
vealed—Dollops,
"Out in the gardens, sir,” he con
trived to say, so low that no ears but
Narkom's heard him. "Old 'uns can't
speak a bally word of English nor yet
understand cne, and I'm talcin' care
of this party as can do both. Any
body else cornin’, sir?"
il T HOPE 1 am—I pray to God that
I I am. It seems so horrible
after what I thought of her,
jvhat I once hoped she would be to
me. But in the face of those others.
Sir Gorrell James, the man Hadlow—
and now my sop"—
Her voice snapped, she squeezed
her hands together hard and moved
swayingly, as if her emotions were
undermining her strength; then faced
about abruptly, and with an apologetic
Forgive me. 1 must not delay,"
opened the door before the superin
tendent could perform that office for
her and hurriedly left the office
Something Red Went Past,
Mr. Narkom went straightway to
hlF desk and forthwith began to as
sort and assemble the memoranda
gathered during a recent two dais'
absence—spent In fluking about from
town to town with Leonard and the
' e'.d red limousine—and It was perhaps
ten or a dosen minutes later when he
6oSw c.kiG- Ver
PESW HIDES'}/
In the Limelight.
Jack —Tessie, our seats are right lo
the middle of the field. .
Tea*—Oh, John, don’t you thin*
we’ll be too conspicuous?”
morrow,
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