Show I ITHE THE MYSTERY OF THE LAUGHING BUG SYNOPSIS I I Returning to his old home town D Cherrington called Arnie Arnle by his friends and us finds the village afire and antI his sweetheart struggling in the arms of his enemy He starts to the rescue when a peculiar weird haunting chuckle comes from under under- his I feet and he sees a frightful bug whose terribleness ness beggars description As comes toward Arnie the awful bug with a maniacal screech flies upon him and bites him on the I nose drops his precious burden and with a scream of horror plunges forward upon his face CHAPTER 4 nose Horse now being hors de combat combat com corn bat there remained between and ArnIe Arnle only the bug bug and and what's a abug abug abug bug or two between sweethearts Fearfully our hero made a tentative step toward his loved one and was re relieved relieved re- re when he saw a kindly an almost benevolent expression on the face tace of ot the insect which scuttled rapidly out of his path chuckling all the while in iii ina ina a most amiable fashion eyelids fluttered the trembling of ot her lips caused her mouth to shift like that of ot the Mississippi and A Audacious Arnie Arnle inadvertently kissed a tooth He lie raised her lier gently to her feet Ceet arid and her seaweed hair unbound In the struggle with hung upon his hiR Her face as she lifted lined her e eyes es shyly to Andes Aniie's lit up 11 lip no no no gentle reader she was not lantern Jawed then jawed then suddenly suddenly sud it it froze for denly looking looking- over our heros hero's shoulder she saw crawling toward them To ro be continued tomorrow |