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Daily Short Story

TIT was something feline in

thie attitude of old Silas Wad- | dington as he sat before the fire, his long, bony legs spread out to its warmth. His head was faintly in-

clined, so that jess dark-glassed eves were staring into the flames. “You have heard mv word he said im a reientless “1 You marry this giri it is against mj wishes.” Burke Pierson stared hard at his uncle. Once; in his early orphaned childhood, he had been prepared and eager to love this only surviving reiative, but he had soon learned how bitterly the old man cespised him—as he had despised nis father before him. It wasn't long before he realized that he was being raised and educated simply

final voice

because jt had been his dying | mother's plea. A dour, bitter man ‘always, Silas Waddington had had |

one softening influence in his love | had |

for his sister, who, in his eyes, completely annihilated herself the day she married a happy-go-lucky | spendthrift. “I'm sorry, sir.”

ago learned the futility of

“BiX.I shall marry Nora just the same—with or without your con- : sent.”

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HE old man's face twisted with

. contempt “A true son of vour mother,” he answered. “Ready to marry the first money-snatcher.” * Burke clenched his fists. With an

effort, he managed to keep his voice cool.

“You are quite wrong. Nora is not

that kind.” The old man shrugged indifferently. “Do as vou please—it's your own

funeral. Ring for Hawks.” Burke knew himself dismissed. He

Was not sorry. A sense of duty had impelled him to inform his uncle first-hand of his engagement. Now

il was done. He wished the old man a friendly good-by and took his de-

_parture.

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W.. the closing of the door, the expression on Silas Waddiffigton’s face changed. Fury distorted his features. | Burke would marry the girl anyway, would he? He would go contrary to his uncle's ‘wish, would he? Well, he would see “what if meant to oppose Silas Waddington’s will! “Have the car readv for me in half an hour,” he commanded his chauffeur when Hawks made his appearance. The chauffeur withdrew, and the old man made his way to the room | that served as his office. His secre- | tary, he knew, was out, having been! sent downtown on an errand. Silas seated himself before the typewriter, groped for a sheet of paHe set swiftly to work. He was an excellent typist, having learned the touch Sys- | tem before he had lost his sight. n

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HOROUGHLY familiar with legal terms, he typed quickly, The Will he wrote was la masterpiece. | It left a million dollars to his | But it was to be kept in| trust until Burke reached the age | of sixty! Nor was he to have the | income from it. That, along with | several millions in gifts, was to go to a number of institutes for the blind. Furthermore, should he contest the will, the trust was to go | automatically to the institutes mentioned. When Silas had finished, he cov- | ered with a book the last half sheet | he had typed, and rang for his | chauffeur, and housekeeper. They | were requested to witness his signature and affix their own. “To my lawyers, Hawks,” he com-’

‘ manded, as he and the chauffeur

left the house a few minutes later. | “Yes, sir. Mind you watch your It’s slippery today—" 2 HE great car vas driven with extreme care [to the offices of Sturm & Sturm. Old Silas entertained himself with pictures of his

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seemed his sight- : +4

Burke had tong | anger. |

i the day { plicit instructions from him not to { open it until after reading the will. |

He set swiftly to work. oppose his ‘wishes.

espegjally acute because there was a- previous will, made in a moment of weakness the day after Burke's

mother’s funeral. Old Silas allowed’ himself a floating chuckle. The new will, lope, had been safely senior Sturm. Old Silas lay back against the soft cushions of his car with a sense of satisfaction. Now let Burke marry his Nora! With the force of an explosion, a careening skidding truck hit side of old Silas’ car and sent dizzily across the glassy strect. jumped the curb and hit the plate-glass window of a Silas Waddington never knew what happened.

z= URKE PIERSON sat before his dead uncle's attorney, his wife-to-be beside him. His eyes were incredulous. It couldn't be possible that his uncle, who had so obviously despised him, had left him several million dollars! black on white. “And we thought you'd be cut off without a dollar,” Nora cried in quiet joy, squeezing. his ‘hand. “I still can’t believe ity’ he said, with a stunned smile. They saw the attorney pick up an envelope and neatly slit it open. “This packet,”

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me by Mr. Waddington himself on

of his death. I had im-|

I presume! it is He paused and looked with aston ishment at the several sheets of pa-| per—blank except for the signatures on the last sheet. He rang for the dead man’s sec- | | retary ! “What's this?” he. barked. you know anything about it?” - The young man looked bewildered. | Then, suddenly, light dawned. “He must have used the typewriter while I was out the other | day,” he said. “I was just changing | the ribbon when he came in and | sent me on an important errand.| I had taken the old ribbon out, but | | didn’t stop to put the new ribbon in | {until I.got back. If I had known! he was going use the writer. . . .” (THE END)

(The characters in this story are fictitious) |

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Kay Dunn, pretty young nurse, applies for a job as stewardess on Overland Airways. In the Overland office she encounters Ted Graham, veteran pilot of Trans-Pacific Airways, and largely due to Gis intervention, she is accepted for a trial period. Two other girls, Doris Lee and Alice | Miller, are accepted on the same Masis, Graham, who flies the trans-Pacific route, is on his way to San Francisco. He shows Kay about the airport. When his plane arrives and he waves goodby, she wonders if she will ever see him again. \ | The three girls begin their training that night by boarding a plane for New York. . NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

BY DECK MORGAN CHAPTER FIVE OU do your job,” the regular |

stewardess advised Kay on a fom the Central

Airport west to Omaha, “and the men ‘in the service will accept you as a buddy. We all know each other—our trials and - tribulations, | likes and dislikes, prides and jeal- | ousies. even rivalries in love. But {the whole crowd is loyal. It's us— | the flying personnel—against the | world.” The stewardess said this with an] | ir of conscious pride. She added, | ‘It's a, case of every man for him- | self at times. You'll have to learn {to take care of yourself and you, | never know whether you're to bel | stationed in Kalamazoo or Philadel- | | phia or Reno.”

Kay was grateful for such bits of | advice. She did a great deal of lis- | tening and observing during the | | three weeks’ training period pre- | | scribed for would-be stewardesses | {on the Overland Airways. | = = 2 HE learned her way about airports in a dozen different | states. She learned to call hundreds {of men by their first names. She met the great business figures of a to be sure—but [she learned to have tremendous re{spect for them. She met the pilots jand the ground crews and picked up some of the phrases they used iin technical talk among them-! 1 selves.

| _ At frequent intervals she 2nd | Doris and Alice got together in | the boarding house near the Cen- | tral Airport. They were each

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words of some one whom we love and who loves us. As Louis Stevenson said, “To miss this is to miss all” And as Tennyson said—I quote from memory—all life holds of joy is just our chance of learn-

ing love. By the side of this the satisfactions of knowledge and mental activity seem trivial indeed. n ” un 2 P. M. SYMONDS, psychologist, 4 made a study of the interests of several hundred high school boys and girls in 15 major fields of life from health, sex, safety, money, personal attractiveness, etiquette and getting along with others up to interest in civics and philosophy. He found that the girls were interested in recreation and health chiefly because it increased their personal attractiveness and the boys because it developed their bodies in strength; endurance and general physical fitness. = ” ” THIS QUESTION reminds me

of the young lady who, during |

2 lull in the dinner conversation, said to Edward Gihbon, the historian of Rome, “Now, Mr. Gibbon, I wish you would just tell me about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.” A nation is not very different from a family or a factory

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lar air hostesses, and they had adventurous tales to swap. They all hoped to make the grade and win a regular job, for they loved the air. Alice Miller was the quietest of

of the three. About her delicate fea-

tures which had had an air of tenseness, there was now a certain serenity—a. serenity that came from within. Alice was becoming increasingly sure of herself. This puzzled Doris at first. Doris always seemed to have a chip on her shoulder but she had exhibited

4 thorough flying qualities and’ was

bound to make good at the job of stewardess! It was she who got the first appointment —a regular run westbound from the Central Air-

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HE day she returned from her first regular run she found Kay alone at the boarding house. Kay was doing the most obvious thing one did in port—stopping runs in silk stockings. She looked up, smiling, when Doris entered. Kay was eager to hear Doris’s experiences and her amusing chatter. In the three weeks they had spent together Kay had

{ learned to know Doris for what she

really was—a girl who was sentimental at heart an ting on a bold front, to hide the scars a sensitive soul had received. ! Doris had a heart of gold. But she was scowling now. She flung her purse and gloves down and said, “Can you imagine what I saw in Omaha last night?” Kay laughed. “No, I can't. You have so many amazing adventures!”

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SAW our little Alice stepping out with that Chuck Jones— remember him? I'll never forget him as long as I live! Told me I'd

have to get rid of my ‘excess bag-

gage!’ The conceited: vellow-headed heart-breaker! Snapping his little book of telephone numbers in every girl's face from Oakland to Newark Airport.” ; Kay made no commenti. The natty Mr. Chuck Jones only amused her. Since she had repulsed him, on her first flight, he had treated her with cool disdain. Perhaps he thought that some day

* she would rush to him with tears

in her eves. Doris, however, was indignant. “He'll only break Alice's heart!” she Popbesied Hii, Alice deserves a

frying, by put- |,

Alice doesn’t know Just wait until

her mother. what men are like. that Chuck Jones comes in from his run—I'll tell him a thing or two! That poor, trusting child—with a

face like an angel’s.

blond brute of a man comes along—" 2 n # 5 < AY tried to distract Doris’

. thoughts. “It’s strange how our paths cross. We all have different runs but we meet—sometimes in Omaha, or New York. And, of course, here at Central Airport. I would almost hate to go to the western division—"

“Like fun you would! When you get that far-off look in your eyes I know whom you're thinking about —that guy who puts into San Francisco bay every two weeks or so, from the Pacific flight. You'd give your eye-teeth to go to the coast! You haven't heard—"

Kay's eyes fell. “Not a word. It would be terrible if I didn’t—make the grade.” “Don’t. think about that,” said. “Of course you will.” There was a rap on the door and Alice Miller walked in, her brown eyes aglow. She whirled in a. circle, and then sat down beside them.

Doris

H, I'm so excited! wonderful thing—" : Doris eyed her coolly. “So you've got the job! Well, I hope it's out’ on the west coast, somewhere where you'll never See that conceited Chuck Jones again!’ Alice’s face clouded instantly and Kay saw that there were tears in her eyes. Alice merely sat there, saying nothing for a while. Doris and Kay exchanged anxious looks. Suddenly Alice said, don't understand! I haven't a job and I don’t want one. Chuek and I were married today.” Doris chin dropped, “Well, of all things! Married!” AH at once she broke out into loud

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laughter. She stood up and s'apped Kay on the back. “The _ fish! The sap! The poor sim-

pleton. He has a sled names in his little book and he—"

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AX faced her indignantly, “They didn't mean a thing to him. Oh, I love him!” But Doris’ laughter continued

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ly dressed—and Mr. Chuck Jones falls for her, hook, line and sinker. The sap! Men are all saps! They they are lady - killers | and they turn out to be softies— harmless little lambs. Oh, this is slaughter.” Alice was a little indignant. “We've just found the most adorable little apartment only two blocks from here. Of course it’s furnished —that’s the only kind we can afford now. But I know how to keep house and we're going to save otr money so that, befose long, we can have a place of our own—"

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HIS speech sobered Doris scme- & what. Evidentally young Mr. Chuck Jenes had some qualities she had overlooked. He and Alice had looked beyond ‘the honeymoon, where soberly making plans, faxing on responsibilities. Kay got up and crossed the room to kiss Alice on both a “t wish you all the happiness in the world!” she said. Ss gly, Alice burst into tears. “But I'll miss you so! You'll be way out there—" Rood maar startled. Whats

know? It was on the bulletin board, You've been appointed to a position in the western division! You're to go to the coast tomorrow!” Kay could scarcely believe tre words. Nevertheless she had a clear picture of what they meant to her. Ted Graham was out there. Ship Harbor was the home base of the trans- Pacific - flight! - There was a chance —surely a Ehance that she would see Ted (Teo. Be eContinied) (Copyright. 1935. NEA Service. Inc.)

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