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Show 1 Plioirirv fliortvc h Fun for All the Children VIiCCliU Ildpieife Edited by DOROTHY EDMONDS j-A DAILY BREAD PUZZLE L S F I O zTF THE BOY WHO WAITED .(Continued From Last Week,) Synopsis: Jimmy Norton and four friends had returned from a picnic just In time to see a little girl struck by a car. The man did not stop. Jimmy Insisted upon waiting with her until help came. The other boys disappeared, afraid they would be suspected. This was apparently just what was to happen. Jimmy is found beside the little girL "When did this happen, kid? How did you do it? Steer into her?" "I didn't do it. mister, a car came around the corner like this and gee. just like lightning, struck her down. I saw It and came over." "No one will believe that, my boy. Here officer!" A policeman passed Just then and the man hailed him. "Trouble over Jiere," he said. The policeman looked very grave as he looked at the little girl and the boy. The little girl was just beginning to regain her consciousness, ard stirred, but then she lapsed again. "We'll take her to the doctor's., and then I'll take this boy along with me to hold him jntil we hear more about this." Jimmy could scarcely believe his ears. It was lust exactly as the other boys had said. Jimmy was In a daze Hp couldn't believe that they would not listen to his story Well, sure ly the little girl's falher would. Yes. when he came everything would be nil right. But late that night, Jimm. learned that the little girl appar ently didn't have any father. His own father came Instead and hear ing the tale as told by the police man and the man who had come to Jimmy's aid first, he too seemed - - paying damages," he said to the chief of police there. "So the kid's story was right then. It was a car that struck her. We have him all but locked up, thinking he did it with his bicycle. Well, I'll be . You'll have to be locked up now yourself." "It was not 1 who was driving the car. I was not in it. Had I been I would most certainly have stopped. It was my driver. He was afraid to stop, I guess, anyway the thing has been on his mind for days, and I finally squeezed the truth out of h.im. I want to pay for everything. And how did that boy get into the story?" The chief of police related the tale then as the boy had first told it, how the other boys had gone off and he hadn't wanted to and all the rest. When the man had heard it, he brushed a tear away from his eyes as he thought of how the boy had suffered innocently all this long past week. Just then word came in that the little girl was getting along nicely, would not die, would in fact be out and around again in a few days. And the man who came Into town to pay damages paid considerably more than that. He insisted upon meeting Jimmy, and he Insisted just as hard upon giving Jimmy a present to reward his unselfishness. I F.ven Jimmy didn't know what that reward was until after the man had gone and looking in his hatid be saw there a little roll of one hundred dollar bills, ten of them. Jiinmie's anxiety had certainly been well converted from pain Into happiness, hap-piness, and he was the much en-. I vied hoy for many months after that. j '(F) 1932 Western Newspaper Union. ' The twenty-one letters around the border spell the words that make up a saying about bread. To get at this you must begin with one of the letters, which you will have to discover and then read to the right, going around the border twice and skipping every other letter. let-ter. to believe It was the truth. "1 don't know what will become of you, my boy," he said. "The little lit-tle girl may die and then goodness knows what will happen." Jimmy's mother didn't believe the story. She believed her boy, for she had never known Jimmy to tell an untruth. They kept Jimmy locked up, not in jail, but in custody at his father's fa-ther's house and there was an air of great mystery and sadness hanging hang-ing over everythirg for days. The little girl did not seem to recover. If only she would. Then about a week later, a turn in the situation came that was entirely unexpected A man came into town and asked to he hown to the police station When he was directed, he went there at once, lie was In a large car, and seemed to have an Immense Im-mense amount of wealth. "It was my car that etruck a little girl here in this town about a week ago. I want to see about |