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Thurs,, December 23rd, 1937
Monty Wallace has just arrived in
California, having 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.
N^Mlie becomes attached to Monty,
^Although she discovers Monty’s
loye for her is not sincere, Natalie
admits that she loves him. She is as
signed by her paper to report Monty’s
.activities for publication. Jimmy Hale
the newspaper's photographer, be
comes Natalie’s co-worker.
Natalie interviews Jake Marion, a
wealthy airplane builder, who decides
to build a record-breaking ’round the
world plane for Monty, Marion’s
■daughter, Sunny, exquisitely beauti
ful, is attracted to Monty. She invites
Natalie to dine with her, when they
meet the aviator unexpectedly.
Natdlie discovers that Sunny is
jealous of her friendship with Monty,
and that she is trying to prevent them
from being alone. After driving to a
mountain resort with Sunny and Jim
my, Monty again declares his loves
-for Natalie.
-SttlHiy attempts to drive Natalie
from Monty’s attention by climbing
a high wall. She almost loses her
balance and is pulled back by Monty.
Jimmy later asks Natalie to consider
his love for her if she refuses Monty.
Natalie induces Monty to set out
with her in an airplane search for two
missing .aviators. At dusk Mpnty
lands the plane in the open country,
-where he and Natalie must spend the
sight. Resuming the search in the
morning, they finally locate the fliers.
Natalie wires the story to her paper.
That night, at dinner, Marion an
nounces a non-stop, ’round the world
flight, with Monty piloting the ®new
plane, “Sunny Marton.” Monty’s
plan is to have ten refuelling sta
tions along the route, where pilots are
to go aloft to refuel his plane. Monty
flies with Natalie to New York, where
he will begin the flight ’eastward.
They are
Sunny.
The day
once more
alie .
this flighty Nut
What could he have meant?
At last she had the envelope
shreds, had brought out the folded
note paper within. She read:
DEAREST NAT:
I couldn’t say anything to you. be
fore. Maybe I oughtn’t to be writ
ing this. But I can’t go on this flight
without' knowing that you know.
I love you. I’ve known it all along
but I had to change my whole life to
admit it, I mean I love you with the
kind of love that ’wants only mar
riage, the kind you’ve been telling me
about. I tried—even after I knew it
—to keep from asking you to marry
me. I .haven’t been rotten, but I’ve
done things that make me ashamed
and it seemed to me that I ought not
to bring that sort of record to you.
But I couldn’t hold off any longer.
When I came back the last time I
was determined I’d ask you to mar
ry me and I hoped in spite of every
thing that you’d say yes.
Then Sunny pulled her fast one. At
first I was flabbergasted, didn’t know
what
followed by Jimmy and
before the flight, Monty
declares his love
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more than
Mont, said
her hand and turn-
to Nat-
in
Whatever you decide, my dearest,
will be right. With this flight I’m
trying to*earn the right to come back
to you and ask you to marry me. If
I don’t get through-—if J crack -up,
that is—I want you to know there
has never been anything in my life
more wonderful than the love I have
for you. If I come back but haven’t
made the flight as it was .planned,
then I’ll keep my word and I won’t
be seeing you again, except just cas
ually as it has been lately,
But if I come through on schedule,
then I’m going to hope and believe
that it means I’ve a right to talk to
you and that you wont’ hold against
me the things I've done wlien mar
riage seemed to be out of the ques
tion for me.
Don’t spare my feelings if you de
cide you can’t see things my way.
There’s nothing I want but your hap
piness. I forfeited the right to ask
anything for myself and I can take
what’s coming to me. But if you love
me and can think at all of marrying
me, I’ll know, I think, and' nothing
on earth or sky or sea can stop me
*
a lot
Nat,”
that on
cryptic-
.* “There’s
this flight,
ally. He gripped
e<l to Marion and to Sunny who had
come up.
Natalie stood watching when he
climbed into the ship and wondering
at his words as he revved the motor
to high speed in swift tests of the
throttle.
The motor roared again and this
time the ship moved5 forward. It was
an old thrill now to Natlaie but nev
ertheless it stirred her. No less than
before, this was still the man she lov
ed, risking his life on 'the maddest
Hight that ever the world saw.
Cheers broke from the crowd. The
ship picked up its tail and then ran
screamingly across the field. It lifted
and .slanted for the distant mountain
tops as the sunlight tipped their peaks
with gold.
Then Jimmy Hale stood at Nata
lie’s side. He slipped a note into her
hand. “ Brom Mont,” he said quickly
and was gone.
Natalie’s fingers were numb as she
tried to open the sealed envelope.
What could Mont be writing to her?
What was there that he hadn’t been
able to say to her face to face as they
stood there beside the plane before
the start?
She remembered that strange, cryp
tic utterance of his:
“There’s a lot more than that on
to say or do. And then it oc-
At last she had the envelope in shreds
curred to me that maybe it was for
the best, that it would keep me from
making love to you, from trying to
get you to marry me. And it did that.
I hadn’t the effrontery to say any
thing to you like that after the an
nouncement was out. That much, at
least, it did for us.
But I found I couldn’t go on with
the marriage? I didn’t tell Sunny that.
I thought maybe, after I had gotten
things figured out, that I could go
on. But it didn’t work. At first Sun
ny didn’t suspect. But she kept urg
ing me that we be married right
away. I couldn’t do it and so I just
stalled.
That wasn’t very decent of me but
it was the best I could do. I kept
thinking of you more and more and
I knew that wasn’t right But it
couldn’t be helped. At last Sunny lost
patience with me. She told me some
thing that I can never tell anyone.
Almost I believed it, but not quite,
and she admitted afterward that it
wasn’t true.
I saw then that she had
trick me again and We had
down. She finally agreed
thing. It was the best that
figure. She has agreed that if I com
plete the flight this time the engage
ment is off. And she won’t say any
thing to her father that will get me
in bad with the company. She’s been
holding that over me,
I’m ashamed to have you put in a
position like this but it’s one of the
things I’ve let myself in for. It’s one
of the reasons why you may not want
to marry me at all, even though you
have told me you love rue.
on this flight. Here’s all my love,
however it goes. '
tried to
a show-
to one
I could
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and, NEW YEAR'S ,rtO
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MONT.
Natalie could have screamed with
happiness. She hugged the letter to
her heart and rushed for the office.
There she wrote like one mad and
then she hurried home to be alone
with her happiness for a little while.
She could think of nothing except
that Mont was out there flying for
her. It occurred to her presently that
he would be reported occasionally on
his flight to New York. She went
back to the office and sat over the
news wires there till the next morn
ing. Then she rushed for the field
office and the short-wave radio re
ceiver,
It was only a little after dawn in'
New York when Mont refueled there.
He had broken all records across the
continent.
When she knew that Mont was out
over the Atlantic she tried to go
home again but before she had been
able to make a start she turned back.
She would stand, by at the radio set
until he was safe across. That much,
at least, she could do.
After a while Sunny Marion came
to sit beside her but the girl said no-,
thing and Natalie found no speech
in her Tieart or on her lips that would
not reveal how much she -knew.
It seemed at times as though Sun-
, ny was in terror part of that day and
the following night but she could not
be sure. Together they waited beside
the little radib operator who dozed in
his chair between calls, depending on
the buzzing of the receivers to wake
him when news came.
Occasionally Natalie sent out for
something to eat But Sunhy would
take nothing but a little coffee. ,
Sometimes Natalie thought that the
younger girl was breaking ’under the
strain but she would not leave. Her
father came in from time to time and.
appeared anxious about her. But she
sat silent beside the radio desk and
seemed to hear nothing but the oc
casional hum in the Mack received at
the operator’s ears.,
It was not till Jimmy Hale came
ift, that she looked up and smiled,
And presently Jimmy got her to walk
about with him and fitaly to leave
the field.
And within half an hour after 4hey
had left, the station office was roar*
ing with the hews that Mont Wallace
had broken another record* the cross*
Atlantic; flight record* and had refuel
ed at the first control station in
France,
After that* wild horses could not
have torn Natalie away from her poet
'beside the radio operator. .
She would rK sleep* Sha freely’'
ate. She hardly moved from the of
fice chair where she sat with a type
writer at her hand.
Jimv and Sunny came back, joining
her in the vigil as that leg of the trip
began. Reports were that" Mont was
pale and looked weary as he crossed
the control station, Then the operat
or’s yell told them all that Mont was
safe across the Siberian wastes, pie
was heading for Bering Strait and at
last for Nome. “
Sunny Marion cracked then. Nata
lie saw her face when. that word of
further and further success came. She
knew what the girl must be going
through and moved swiftly to do what
she could to comfort her,
But Sunny stood upshrieking,
“Jimmy! Jimmy! Take me out of
here,”
Jimmy Hale stepped quickly to the
girl’s side and led her out of the of
fice. At the door he’ looked back
once. Then he grinned and went out
as though he, too, knew the dreadful
significance of that flight.
Natalie sat back in her chair. It
was top bad about Sunny, but there
was nothing that Natlaie could, do.
The other girl’s face had been ter
rifying when she stood up and
screamed, but Natalie’s-mind was al
ready back with Mont Wallace know
ing that now he headed once more
across dark waters on his flight to
Nome.
-Others were coming into the sta
tion now. The word had £one out,
of course. Jabe Marion came and sat
beside the operator.
Natalie wrote her story — or be
gan to write it, but she had to change
the lead before it was finished for the
operator suddenly sat bolt upright
.and talked rapidly as he translated
his message.
“Wallace down at sea,” he said.
“Steamer in Behring Strait reports
seeing wreckage of plane in fog.
Hunting for it now. Probably Wal
lace.”
Natalie’s fingers beat at. the type
writer keys. She felt it was the only
thing that saved her from collapse,-
that necessity of getting out the story
of the tragedy.
But when more' news came, when
it told of the steamers mobilizing for
the hunt out there in the fog, when
it told of bits of wreckage that had
been picked up, she almost believed.
Then there was a sudden stir at the
radio desk.
Natalie leaped from her place and
stood beside the operator as he read
the message aloud.
“Wrecked airplane identified,” he
said. “It’s not Wallace, not the Sun
ny Marion. Russian ship trying
flight to Nome, Pilot safe.”
There were cheers then but they
died quickly. Where was Mont Wal
lace? Where was the-gallant plane
now many hours overdue at Nome?
Uncertainty made 4. the suspense
more terrifying now than before. Na
talie telephoned "the office quickly
and sent corrections fpr her story.
Wallace might be down but this was
another plane wreck.
And e^en while she spoke there
was a shriek from the little group on
the other side of the room,
“He’s Safe. He’s safe. Vancouver
reports him. He dodged the fog. Cut
straight for Vancouver instead Of
Nome. He’s safe. Hes’ in? He’s in.
Nothing can stop him now.”
Natalie sobbed for joy and scream-,
ed into*- the telephone to Mack Hatt-
Ion. , • . '
(Continued Next Week)
PHIL OSIFER .
OF LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J. Boyle
I
will .make a day
it’s to hear some
go jogging down
village. Usually*
“JINGLE BELLS”
would like to know who invented
sleigh and cutter bells, and if I did
know I would like to send him a writ
ten-word of congratulations. If there
is Otte thing that
seem cvett better,
of the neighbours
the road to the
there will be just a bit of snow drift
ing down and you can Sec the smoke
from the chimney at Neighbour Hig
gins’ place sort of drifting upwards
, , . by golly* I tell you that’s the
kind of weather that suits me.
1 remember "the time my Aunt
Susie was courting. Now, I tell you
that fellow of hers was a “toney”
gettt. Ho had one of those box cut
ters before we even thought of them.
Then one night Faw* lie sort of hint
ed around that it was* time to play(
a good joke on the youpg couple. Of
course Paw he just winked at me* and
twisted his moustache around a cou
ple of times and brought that mous
tache cup uown on the table with a
thump and said! he thought I should
help him with the chores,
We won’t go into that < but the
result was that I crawled In the box
affair at the. back of the cutter. I
had a bag string tied 4&W under the
■wttw. and anotliw dwn.al'w thw
one ws tied rte hww’s wii
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and another was tied on the new set
of “chimes” which graced, the shafts.
Paw brought the horse and cutter -up
to the house and my aunt and her
boy friend came out. She had her
self all bundled up and was giggling
up at him i . and they just got in and
drove off.
When* they got down .the road
about a mile or so, the horse sort of
eased up. Ah
time to start.
Just as soon
you mind if I
ha . . that was niy
as he said . . . “Do
put my arm around
you?” I began pulling the horse’s tail.
That steed 'just gave one big jump
and down the road he went, and I
gave those chimes every bit I could.
Say, that horse did everything but
fly . . and that dandy was yelling and
my aunt was screaming. Say, I bet
everybody on the concession heard it.
I sneaked back in the box-affajr un
der the seat.' The horse stopped and
it took about a quarter-mtle for that
fellow to get his arm around Aunt
Susie.
. Everything got quiet then . . and I
decided that it was about time to
start jogging, up the horse. 1 did . .
and this time with even more “zip”
than the last time.: I tell you, I even
had to hang on myself and that horse
made a breakx right, up the . Main
Street ' of the village. Everybody
came out of the tavern and they were
yelling and, hollering and then on the
corner the whole skidoodle went over,
I shot out the back of the cutter and
.the “slick” gent who was courting my
aunt went on his head. My aunt was
hugging the town pump.
•That fellow got up and started to
Swear. His voice sounded awful fun
ny and I wondered why it was . . .
then I discovered that he had lost
his teeth. He was pawing around in
the snow and by this time there was
quite a crowd around. My Aunt just
took one look at him, and then she
took me by the hand and started for
home. She never even chastized me,
and I didn’t know what to make of
that. ‘
Then young Peter Hawkins came
down the-road with his horse and cut
ler, My aunt seemed to be sort of
— well, she sat quiet for a while and I
then she mumbled something about a.
“fool”, and Peter just, laughed and
said to forget it. When we got to
the gate, they chased me on into the
house.
My mother had gone to bed, but
Paw was reading a paper. I told him
all about it, and he sort of grinned
and said: “Your Mother said to give
you a licking for staying out after
nine. Make a holler and then go on
up to bed.”
You see my Aunt was going with,
young Peter Hawkins, and then that
slick gent came out with the “toney
clothes and the flashy .horse and cut
ter” and started taking her out. She
just seemed to forget all about Peter
and all she could think of was that
“flashy” fellow. That is until I sneak
ed out with them that night.
You know, it’s funny, but I thought
of. that today when I. heard those
chimes, and then I remember the day
she married Peter. She came up and
patted me on the should that day and
said, something about how much she
thanked me. I didn’t understand then
—but I do now.
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