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THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, October-28, 1937
THIRD INSTALMENT
Monty Wallace has just arrived
California, haying broken the East*
West cross country airplane record.
Natalie Wade, mistaken by him for a
newspaper reporter, writes the ex-
-clusive account of Monty’s arrival and
succeeds in securing a trial job with
a paper in exchange for the story,
Natalie becomes attached to Monty,
* * *
“Listen, kid — you ring the bell.
I’m with you, see? You ask for the
old man and flash that smile at the
butler. Tell this Marion guy you hear
he’s going to build a special plane
for Wallace to beat his own record.
He likes publicity, and, even if he
hasn’t thought
go for it,”
Instinct told
her own name
peared and she gasped. when the
manufacturer presently appeared and
ushered them into his library, for
there sat Mont Wallace surrounded
by a dozen beautiful women.
Monty came at once to Natalie’s
side.
“This,” he told the manufacturer,
“is the young lady who wrote my
■Story for me. You’d better tell her
all, for she’ll get it out of you any
way.”
The sleek, gray-haired elderly man
promised he would do that, and Jim
my set about at once posing the flier
Jnd the plane maker at the library'
$
in
of it, he’ll probably
the girl to give only
when the butler ap-
desk.
“Wait,” the photographer suddenly
spoke. “Where’s the woman interest?”
He turned to a goregous blond girl
of remarkable beauty and demanded
that she become a part of the pictrue.
In the introductions that followed,
Natalie learned that this was the
stunning daughter of the house, Sun
ny Marion.
“Her name is Sonia,” Marion ex
plained, “but she turned out .not to
be the Sonia type and so we call her
Sunny."
Natalie saw at once that the girl
had eyes only for. Mont Wallace, al
though she said little and treated the
others with quiet courtesy. She was
so splendid a creature that Natalie
felt quick jealousy of her, as though
an instinct had warned her the flier
could not resist her charms.
The story was much as Jimmy had
guessed. Marion’s company had seen
the possibility of capitalizing Mont’s
gift. Marion had taken the matter in
hand for himself and had rushed an
agreement through.
By good luck and Jimmy’s uncanny
hunch, the two had another exclusive
story but it was not a big smash. The
business office would see publicity in
it and hold back the editorial depart
ment. But it meant big stuff later
and they were in on the ground floor,
he pointed out.
The two were hurrying back to the
office in Jummy’s car.
exquisite torture.
Turning quickly to Jimmy Hale,
Natalie covered her emotions with, a
scornful laugh at her own vulner
ability.
“N ow,
"Don’t get catty. It won’t do
good to cut the girl’s throat.”
For once the photographer
misunderstood, but his guess
close enough, She laughed again but
this time in better spirit'and Jimmy
seemed satisfied.
But the girl realized she had a bat
tle to fight with herself even yet. She
hadn’t counted on the' lash of
,ousy, hadn’t believed the hateful
tion possible to her.
She went about her work
now!” Jimmy chuckled,
any
had
was
jeal*
emo-
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few weeks. It’s really
him, Nothing spoils a
of'go for him a little
“Boy, did you see that little blonde
go for Wallace?” Jimmy rambled on-
“She’ll let him walk over her any
minute now. What is there about
these avvy-ators?”
Natalie laughed in spite of herself,
The boy was uncanny. He had miss
ed nothing in that brief interview,
"I saw,” she said. “She’s only one
of a couple of million women that
will be dreaming about Mont Wallace
for the next
too bad for
man so.”
“You kind
yourself, don’t you, kid?”
Natalie, colored helplessly. There
seemed nothing this amazing youth
could not guess. She felt a surge of
anger at him, but realized that anger
was foolish.
“One of the two million,”’ she par
ried. “Let is go at that.”
That afternoon on^another assign
ment they passed Mont Wallace in
the Marion girl’s handsome car.
Natalie was surprised at the quick
slash of pain her jealousy struck
through her, It was not possible that
this one man in all the world held
so terrifying a power to hurt her by
casual action.
And yet the very sight of him,
whom she had never seen until the
day before, was enough to stir her,
and to see him in the innocent com
pany of the little blonde beauty was
with
Jimmy and hurried back to the office.
Mack Hanlon was again on duty,
Fie paid little or .no attention to her
when she came in to write her late
story, but when she had turned it in
and was wondering if she might then
leave the office for her own devices,
.he called her to the desk.
“That was a good jo'b you did last
night, Miss Wade,” he said, “and you
turned out another one for the after
noon paper, But this thing is a mess
of tripe. Don’t worry about it, but do
it overagai’n and remember that a.
newspaper story is one thing and a
signed article is another* When you
are signing your stuff there are no
rules, But when it comes to writing
straight news there are plenty of
them. Throw the yarn at them in the
first paragraph and then clean up
around the edges.”
It was good advice and she was
quick to see it. Though her cheek's
flamed a little, she went back to her
typewriter, patterned the story she
was to write on those that appeared
in other copies of the paper scatter-
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He slashed the copy a couple of
times with quick pencil, thrust it in
to a basket and. turned to her as she
was about to leave for the night.
“Here’s another little tip,” he said,
putting the flame of a match to the
small Straight pipe he smoked. “You
got this guy Wallace eating out of
your hand. Keep him that way.’He’s
the kind of an egg that is likely to
make news any time. You’ll go a
long way if you can string him along
enough to keep the edge on his stuff.”
The girl sat for a moment on the'
corner of a desk and listened to what
he had to say. He was friendly and
unsentimental, at least as far as she
was concerned. She sensed somehow
that he wanted her to do well, per
haps because it was he who had giv
en her a trial.
“Dad used to tell me a lot of stuff
about .this business," she said, “but I
wasn’t interested then. Now I’m be
ginning to find out how fascinating
it is. I’ll be glad if you’ll give me
all the help you can.”
“I’ll do that. But watch out for
this game,” hecautioned. “It’s a fool
business. You get so after a while
you can’t quit and you. can’t afford
to go on. But maybe it won’t get
you the way it does a man.”
He turned back then to his desk,
his soiled suspenders, conspicuous
across his lean shoulders. Vaguely
She was sorry for the little man,
Now she went out into the dingy
hall. She glanced at Jimmy’s office
but it was empty. He <was probably
in the dark room unless he had left
his prints to dry and gone home.
She walked down the single flight
Of stairs and out into the street.
It was well on to dinner time; The
glow of sunset on the harbor and dis
tant ocean had turned the town for
a few minutes into an enchanted land.
Natalie turned with a curious ex-'/
hilaration to walk toward her hotel,
Surprisingly, though she had worked
hard, she was not tired. She had been
much too deeply interested in her
work to suffer weariness. .
Now she walked briskly and it was
hot till the musical chime of an auto
mobile sounded ttvice' that she look
ed ttp to find the blond Spnny Mar
ion beckoning to her front the big
machine she drove.
They sat across from each other in
the town’s one exotic restaurant.
Sunny1 Marion and Natalie Wade.
And they made a picture of contrasts.
The daughter of the airplane mak
er had hair like white ash. She wore
no hat, yet the vivid, color of her fair
complexion was unmarked by the sum
A light-weight white motor coat
seemed to emphasize the rounded
slimness of her figure.
Natalie had slipped her own small
hat from to lustrous dark hair. For
that first day at her work she had
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brown. It set off the velvety ivory
of her skin and seemed to deepen the
color of her large, dark''eyes.
She was vastly curious'at this sud
den attention . from Sunny, Marion.
For the girl had not only offered a
lift in her car but had pressed upon
her an invitation to dinner.
“Im mad about writing,” she was
saying now, “I’d give anything to
do newspaper -work. Won’t you tell
me about it?” ’ Q
Natalie laughed. She glanced at
her small wrist watch, which the loan
finally,. “If I might go with you on
assignments sometimes. I would love
it and we could use my car.”
"Why, of. course. Any time. That,
would be very grand for a reporter.”'
As she spoke, Natalie saw a min
gled look of delight and annoyance
cross the other girl’s face. Some
thing had happened which was both
pleasing and displeasing
Marion and she had not
to keep from revealing it.
A*1 moment more and
what that something was, for Mont
'Wallace stood beside the table. He
to Sunny-
been abler
she knew
/
That was a good job you did last night, Miss Wade,”
had refused to take from her
she said
that, even
the news*
twenty-six
idea what
agent
even for a fifty-cent piece,
“You are flattering,”
quickly; “Do you realize
nominally, I have be^n in
paper business ' about
hours? I haven’t the first
it’s all about.”
She told this girl the story of what
had happened.
T read your story this afternoon,”
'the girl told her. "ft was splendid. I
Can’t Understand how you could do
So well when you have just begun,”
“You mean about dancing with Mr.
Wallace?” Natalie responded. “I
think I was just thrilled by every
thing, and I didn’t try to do it in
newspaper style. I wrote it just as
if I were writing to a friend whom
I didn’t know very intimately.”
“And can anyone do that?”
“Of course. But then there is an*
other kind of newspaper writing. I
made a mess of a piece like that this
afternoon and got a quick lecture on
it and had to do it over.”
They talked on. Natalie liked the
lovely Sunny but she ‘was shortly
aware that the girl was merely male*
Ing conversation. She had no inter
est whatever in newswriting. She was
mildly interested in Natalie herself.
But there was something more than
this behind the dinner invitation and
the talk,
“I wonder/’ she heard the girl ask
was smiling down at them. He was
speaking to them both; asking if he
might-join them.
Natalie smiled in .response but
ther.e • was a secret meaning in her
smile for she knew now why she had
been given an invitation 4o dinner.
This gleaming child was jealous of
her. She had feared that Monty in*
tended spending the evening with
Natalie. She had planned to cjrcum*
vent the invitation and she had made
sure of success as far as She could. ■
Now Sunny was delighted to' see
the flier once more but chagrined^to
find that she must share him with
this dark girl.
Natalie left most of the conversa*
tion at first to Mont and Sunny. The
girl was
Natalie’s
effort at
Came to
ner that
his words. But they Were mostly on
this blooming blond girl with the ash
hair, and she knew that Sunny would
find fuel there for the fire of her ad*
oration.
As calmly‘as she could in the tur*
moil of her hearty Natalie tried to
study the two. In fatt, she included
herself in the lesson and made a val*
iant effort to east up the values that
Caeli of the three represented,
(Continued Next Week)
quietly eager for talk and
heart was too full for the
light badinage, Mont’s eyes
hets at intervals irj a man*
seemed more eloquent than