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THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON
"i LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
By Her Side
By HAROLD GRAY!
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USANCE FRIENDSHIP
I.TJT1TB VIII
"
luMIS told hli grandmother
r (nH (mant. So
!5fcdtonel Skefflngton, whom
jjt oaths bank steps next
L they going to do anything
.bouttb Singer boy. Colonel?"
i.,.t eAmohnHv will
wot now, ---
!.,mvt that boy until he does
Eng desperate. ,Twon 1 be
tt?T8i...t T.v'll hlame him.
G he'll be in erlous tauble-r-Don't
you think it would be a
find idea to get ome sort of em
Cjent tor him-ut of the way
fcnewhere?"
tIt W0U1Q, Hioaiii, ... ..-c
... T Jnn'l imnnRA vnu
tojjlOie one. t "v.. . .
pd tike him on your place,
V.Tn f th.ttrlnrt
W I can use, but ir you can i
ited twining eiss, .
tir". i.. jnn't helons in the
ijlimi,aPK,Pleiire saying-
Colonel Skafflngton nareo. aoove
ftli ihining red beard. "There you
fin nowl Did you ever notice,
;M in thin town everv-
iw$ iiwsy readv 40 send
'onebody to the asylum? It's a
ttin a lunatic asylum In this
'town, no chucmcu uu .iww
stum ill th lunatics out and put
, it.. .u ii 4n thprik. T Hniibt if
f US i
L u A. II i fTAranna "
i you couia ku " iic4cwvt
?T0M CARR moved into the over-
i1 iter's cottage the following
!eefc Parris went aown to waicn
men unload the household
litaf Mr. Carr was the most
Btnordinary-looking apparition
Furil had ever teen.
Mr. Carr was so lively and said
H many funny things that Parris
laughed. He realized he hadn't
Uuihed mucti in a long time.
"Oh, you've got a piano!" Parris
Mclataed. "Do you play?"
"No, my wife plays. It was her
piano when she was a girl. I
brought it out from the East with
us. Years ago." He added the lait
two words a bit sadly.
TU see you later, Sonny: jrou
must come down often and play
for Lucy."
Parris grinned. Decidedly Mr.
Carr was a very different sort of
person from Sven Gyllinson. The
thought of Sven made him "so
goose flesh" all over.
TT was nearly dark when Tom
Carr'a horse and cart came in
sight again, creaking and creep
ing along the sandy road. In it
was the fattest woman Parris had
ever seen.
Lucy Carr wore a dress trimmed
with many colors. Innumerable
strings of beads lay about her
neck, and many cheap rings shone
on her tiny hands deformed-
looking, helpless little hands so
tiny that they seemed like doll
hands attached to her enormous
arms.
The cart rolled Into the back
yard. Tom Carr hopped out gaily,
detached a little ladder, and set
it close to the wheel. "Now, then,
sweetheart, here we are. Give me
your hands. Upsadaisy!"
Lucy wheezed noisily. She said
"Ha!" once or twice, and then
"Ho! Ho! Ho!"
"Lucy, my love, this is Mrs. von
Eln's grandson. Name's Sonny."
She leaned so heavily on Tom
Carr that he almost carried her.
At the door she turned her pon
derous weight slowly. She gasped
out soma words. "Glad, Sonny,
glad."
Tom Carr had proved to be a
valuable man. Madame was de
lighted. Parris went to see the
Carrs two or three times a week.
Lucy always made him play for
her. Sometimes she struggled to the
piano and played for him. The
sounds were as mad as Lucy Carr
herself.
Mr. Carr talked once or twice
of Lucy to Madame von Eln. "She
was a pretty girl, Mrs. von Eln,
and a happy girl. A proud girl,
too. When we ran out of money
it seemed she just couldn't stand
the snubs she got here in Kings
How. She just went out of her
head. Then he was happy. I
made up my mind she should stay
happy. Lucy likes your boy, Mrs.
von Eln. I've never seen her take
to anyone so before."
A STRANGE friendship sprang
"up between Lucy Carr and
Parris. It had begun a fewl days
after the Carrs arrived. Old Tom
saw Parris and hailed him.
"Are you busy right now?"
"No. sir."
"Well, Lucy's been asking about
you. Wants to see you."
"Me?"
'Yen. Tnntr fanM, 4m
right off. Tell you what you do.
Go down and aee her. Let her
talk tA Vnil fAT llH irhll. Ck.
gets pretty lonesome."
The mind of T.nv fan-
like something flying in dizzy
circles. It darted in and out of
the darknuca that
her, that pressed always closer as
though waiting to engulf her.
Parris felt sometimes that if he
couia only seize her flickering at
tention and factpn it Hnum n
would suddenly become herself.
I used to take Lucy to the
circus," Tom Carr told Madame
one day in late spring. "If you
don't mind. I'll talr fnmnraw a
ma'm. I thought maybe she'd en
joy it again."
When Parris and his grand
mother returned that afternoon,
they saw Tom's cart before the
cottage. He asked to have Uncle
Henry fetch the doctor.
"Excitement," said Dr. Gordon,
giving Lucy a sleeping powder.
Later Parris went down to the
little house and tintoed into h
front room. Lucy Carr lay on the
Dea ana Tom was rocking her
gently, crooning in his deep bass
voice.
Lucy saw him. "Look, honey.
it's Sonny. Glad, Sonny."
Parris sat down on the edge of
a chair and waited. She closed
her eyes and slept for a while.
Her breathing was louder than he
had ever heard it, though she al
waya struggled to get air. It
sounded like the turn of a rusty
wheel.
Lucy opened her eyes after a
while. They seemed to roll loose
ly in her head. "Sonny, play," she
gasped.
Parris sat down and began to
play. The weird sounds jingled
and crackled under his fingers.
He played on and on. He heard
her breath come more and more
slowly, but he thought the awful
cranking sound was more fre
quent. The afternoon light faded, and
the still spring twilight came on
gradually. Still Parris played on
and on. He thought Lucy must bs
falling asleep. He could scarcely
hear her. The insane witches'
music that came from the piano
was beginning to make his head
ache. The creak of the rockers on
the floor slowed and stopped.
Tom Carr laid a hand on his
shoulder. "That will do now.
Thank you, Sonny."
"Is she asleep, Mr. Carr?"
Tom Carr shook his head. "She's
dead. Will you tell your grand
mother, please? And thank you
again, Sonny."
(To Be Continued)
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LOOKED ISX MS M OF IT, MV CHILD- 1
AS lt--OS A
F I WERE A Sty )
A leper yuy (f
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WO YOU EVR
CONSIDER TtW THE
HIPPOPOTAMUS HAS
THE LARGEST 6MH
AND ONE OF
THE THICKEST SKINS?.
I SEE WHAT
"WO MEAN,
PADRE -BUT
I DONT WANT
TO BE A HIPPO-
Ss A
DOKT WANT
TO Bg HATED I
HATE NO ONE
AND THERE WAS
HATE IN THE EVES
OF THOSE WOMEN-
NoT HATE THEY
REALLY ARE NOT
THAT BAD -THEY
NEITHER HATE NOR
V3VE. STRONGLY.
KAT1E-
THEY ARE NOT THE
SORT WHO POSSESS AMY
STRONG EMOTION -GOSSIP
IS THEIR STAFF OF LIFE
WOULD YOU DEPRIVE
THEM OF THEIR GREATEST
CM C AC tOC 3
HA HA?
THANK YOU,
YOU ARg
A
COMPOST-
POPEYE
Now Showing "STILL BEEFING'.'
Monday
By E. C. SEGAR
UJIMPV, HAVE WOU
WCmcED HOUJ STWAMtiELY
popewe HAS BEEN
ACTIKJOi OF .
LAT6? rH M-weS, )
v 1 1 jKir
M6ST6RDAV I ASKED HIM,
FROM FORCE OF HABIT,
FOR A HAMBURGER
HE SAID we-5 !
MOST UNJUSUAl.,
I t wnni I
Y I DOUT
BEL6V6-
IT!
lHE DID. iMoeeo,
iwd-o iHrrii i-kskc lie
COMES -I -SHAU-
PROVS IT TO SOU
TPOPEH& M-t
V FRIEND.
ILSS
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kaO TO THE caALLEV AND,
PREPARE FOR M-fSELF
SOME LOVELV
.HAMBURGERS?
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I DONT SEE AW4THINCJ
DlSTRESSlNti BOUT THW,
I'O SAW POPEWE IS
BACK To NORMAL
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By Robert Storm
HSKK BCKSNBIH!
WE AR CONVINCED
THAT you AND
V0l COLLEAGUE
AfSB AS OH6
WITH Vl
WB SHALL f MAKING HANDS AN f ..- ( YOU SAID
CELEBRATE OOK I OUTWORN DEMOCRATIC I Htlfc J ( A MOUTHFUL! I W BOTH HANDS, BOSS ! W3RK.BILLI
VICTORY WHEN TRADmON AMGN OP UIT J V M. TS TWM A6 J I'LL TAkB '
WE REACH OUR I WEAKNESS! LET US J U l,-y!P-t J T PATRIOTIC! OVER TUB
EASTERN ALLIES I V ALUT6 OUR DEAR 1 f WLj6l 'J orrpn
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BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES
It's Always Something
By MARTIN
II . , If j W voo I o,6wo9.,vvtj os, I Ko'tJuK ooobowE. ova nwi
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WASH TUBES
A Real Test
By CRANE
JIM! oh,
MV FSOQ
THSV
ARB dOIMd
you;
1 HAVE NOTHIMe TOdHJB VOU,
LISVTA. IF WO RBAUV WANT TO
HELP ME, THEM BRIWcs THE KSy
10 THBSE HANPCUFFS AMP
A SIM
RESriT" Wflc at irixm LnotlnaJ nt iirviirnrc frnm fhn Brazilian shin
tft " ' ' mi fu. 11,. u w una uumiuiiu w& w
lratique, torpedoed and sunk off the Atlantic coast, when this picture was made. on
the boat's occupants has reached out for a rope to pull the lifeboat to the side of the
".lie vessel.
SIDE GLANCES
if VA
"Sanded, I'd
cleaned up this mess last year as you de-
hsva nnll.. ...Jit nnnr I'll VlS iVlflnKGCl
"I (UllCll 11 U "ilCUllUU" "
for a lot of scrap metal 1"
DON'T TAKE THIS
LYING DOWN . .
V OH, PIEASE! YOU NkUST HOT "1 I IWTfN, LUSCIOUS, WO AReW'T R30LIN6 AHV-" fF
C II LET THEM DO THIS TCXVOO! I OWE I TOUHB A JAPSPy.AND VOUtttt VOU MUST Bf
WVCT1, fflfW WHAT 1 1 YOU WUST 6IV6 UP THE MESSAGE I AFTER THAT MESSA&E.'WHAT THE BILIEVE ME, IB
IXuEfil. W-t R. oFrrr so thev will only keep wo i i sutm do you care what becomes m w, it is 1Mb
KTT. rf'ftrv 1SfcllLr'& A fOlfeOMER Or WAR .1 p I T "'""1 1 OMLV BECAUSEIC. A 9UK , -
ALLEY OOP But Does He Want Him? " " By V. T. HAMLIN
ifeJLT fif ALLi7H'- XTH6R6, VSE6 1 TOLD VOU 1 f THA'S RlOHT. SQUAWKI 1 f " f PSST' OVER HERE I f eMvM f VIPPEE.'
CH "IoT.S5 )yOUR PLAN ... AN' NOW AN' WHAT 00 1 I I PTBHODACTYL 10 k "V V 1 AND RIGHT '
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OUR BOARDING HOUSE - with MAJOR HOOPLE I OUT OUR WAY
By WILLIAMS
When men are fighting and
dying, you must do your part
n mre tou enlist TOUT DOL
LARS for DEFENSE. Back our
armed forces and protect your
own life with every single dol
lar and dime you can.
America must have a steady
now of money pouring In every
day to help beat bade our ene
mies.
Put Dimes into Defense
Stamps. And put Dollars Into
Bonds. Buy now. Buy every
pay' day. Buy as often as you
can.
Dont take this lying down.
DEBT
Finland borrowed $8,281,829.17
from the United States for relief
and rehabilitation purposes after
the World war. Although she has
paid back $5,891,291.77, interest
charges mount so rapidly that she
E6A.D, MARTHA, THAT SPOOM VJE
A WfOROfW MIGHT Be OOAN OF-
ARC. TANOINS THERE? oO
RESOLOTELV P0IS'ED-'HAr-KA1
A SYMBOL OP AMERICAN
VtCTORV-. BV THE WAV, AS A
PATRIOTIC SESTUREjDO VOL) MIND
PLAVINS HOSTESS TONIGHT TO A
MR. CLANCY, STAR OP M.V
BOXINS BHONAJ TO AID
i THE MARINES?
' LISTEN .VOL) BIS VJlNOBAGJ
ylHE KITCHEN POLICE &6T
The idea vjithOot
BEING SlMEN THE i
SETTWSBURG ADDRESS'
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FRIEND KNOVJ HE'S a
MfeAiU, NOT
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SuST a
MOT A ,
ggijLr: FgULga ookJt kmcwi mhut you
k3 TOO IN THIS DEFEUSB 1 SHOULD
J rv-ssrr szirs economy y i cum thet I ) woow I
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S- HE'LL LOSE TEN POUNDS TO DO 1
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t5e--vX :v, lose a couple pounds 1 got a,
'H' JbCC AVii;4x J'WV. 0'TEES....AM' IF I. DONT DEIVER'S
'y(J9Xy' j3eK DO ErTHER. WE'LL ALL PCEMSE,
lSi-v5feV,iir ' S. LOSE A HALF HAIN'T
ftP''' JuJO-n TSJ;OAV,9 VJORKfy YOU? i
2-21
Still OWU $9,126,622.80.