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A SLIGHT SERVICE By GEORGE V. COLOROVE By llerriman The Dingbat First a Fruit—Then an [Yets gxo/vel -i U PLAAUW&O —■— | WA . MT I THE. ICjA/OfeAAjT I une Yesterday Though i The IDEA df «& I I/'Thi^k’imo Tatj—' &S6‘ WAS < jOn A • fruit X (kT* Huh Cook nr mb l< WAT Just AS (GajoravT Did vr I Think Tru/AV, A VEGETABLE. TV Yes, a aid if Prof Hoozu-^ HAD Ajr 'TSi.D Us )T WAs A . FLA/M/NlfcrU S £G& U)EC>__, A aiever. /aj The C \ World KYoilmj whatY— VX1ND op A Bird "? IT WAS -y A (WELL, WE VS 6or 1 } AwYW*K A Fine. 1Y0UW6- FIaWIM&U \ That is owe- / \ cowOLKTlQlO j Today's Complete Short Story. * KKMIN1) you once more that, I the Czar i.s due to arrive at 2 o'clock sharp. You will wait for me at the Care des Inva- lides.” “Yes.* your excellency.” “I believe that is all for to-day. Au revoir.” “Au revoir, your excellency.” When he left the Prime Minister, whose private secretary he was, No- lilet found Cormontreuil waiting for ; him in the antechamber, with a smile i on his lips. Now it was very much against the habits of Cormontreuil to smile as I well as to visit the antechambers of ministers. Noblet inderstood that something extraordinary must have happened. What? He had a sus picion. i“I Have Succeeded!” “Have you succeeded?” he asked. Cormontreuil burst out: “Yes, I have succeeded. I have over come all obstacles: et>lor photography reproduced from an ordinary single negative is now a fafct, thanks to the Cormontreuil process” “That means fame! and wealth to you,” Noblet replied “I congratu late you most heartiir.” “Thanks. I ran up h*re right away, because I wanted to t<ll the news of my success to somebqjy who loved me. Noblet felt embarrassed. He did not love Cormontreuil. a\d while they walked together throteh Avenue Marigny he listened to\ his words without interest. What dj he under- ' stand about all these chemical pro- ! cesses of which his friend ias always gibbering. Noblet had bef^ violently in love with the late Mm* Cormon treuil and to get near he had al ways pretended to be immhsely in terested in photography an. chemis try. Now that Suzanne was fiead lie could not very well declare^hat he did not care a bit more forjhemis- trv than for Cormontreuil. <Srtainly this was not the time to thror over board the friendship, when Crmon- treuil was about to become amous and might help him in his Witical career. So Noblet cried enthusiast^ally: “This is indeed one of the haziest days of my life.” “Thank you. my friend, thank p u .»* said Cormontreuil, with tears iihis eyes. » \ “I wish I could do somethin* to help your discovery along.” wentrm Noblet. ‘‘I Counted on You.” “You are the only man who cal* said Cormontreuil, “and to tell the truth, I was counting • on yoi assistance.” ‘But how am I to help you?” “Listen, Noblet. My new inventTdi\ must create a sensation. Now, since ; the Czar comes to Paris to-morrow, I thought thaf a fine portrait of him in natural colors and sent to a num ber of influential people—” “But I do not see what I can do.” “Wait. The police arrangements to morrow forbid the public to get near the platform when the Czar arrives, but you, as the Minister’s secretary, can get very close to the Czar.” "You want me to take a snapshot?” “YeS. I will give you a small cam era, which nobody will notice; it is easy enough.” “But I can not use my position to do such a thing.” “Well, let us say no more about it.” said Cormontreuil, evidently annoyed. “It is the first thing I have ever asked from you, and I really did not imag ine you would refuse to do me this slight service.” Noblet felt that he had made a mis take; he must remain the friend of this new Daguerre. “You don’t let me finish,” he said. “I said that it was not quite in or der to use my position to do such a thing, but I will do It for your sake.” * * H> Tho next evening- Paris heard that an attempt had been made to murder the Czar as he left his car. The account In one of the evening papers read: “At the moment when the Czar ap proached the Prime Minister, the lat ter's secretary, M. Noblet, fired a shot at him from a revolver concealed in a camera, but fortunately the bullet went wild and was found imbedded in the side of the car. The murderer was seized on the spot and fainted. When hi; recovered consciousness he swore that he did not know that the camera had concealed a revolver, and said that it had been given to him by | a certain Cormontreuil, who clnimed to have invented a new photographic Ah, HAH ruoeBirdT FINE Bird y6ot -hHBRE., At, f EVER I SEEAjJ We- es sir. Should lay mmy a GfiLDf&W AlG, V&5 v A1A/UV OF EFMJ w our own / LILB%TC] Q'FLAM/N&o 71 Wouldajt /many w/o«it>s \ COAJTAADlCY You IGAMYZ BUT i very sleds To^-'' /Know That The O- ^ L old Apples Tttep^j a fI MPPftD I Do KRazy'I / A SHADE’ 15 A &HOST And l Defy A ^ y 0NTL - \ To COAfTRADlCT igNatt' wist mice oUHffr you Are. Do v ybu still insist That a /—" SHADE ’ IS A <S-HOf>T » .Y ’ SHAPk By Cliff Sterrett Challenge Is Accepted Copyright. J913. International New* Service. rfe Two TbH& he. 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