Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1936 — Page 22

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Kay Dunn, pretty airplane stewardess, falls in love with Ted Graham, veteran pilot whe flies the trans-Pacifie route, Ted has two Interests in life—his job and Dickie, his adopted son, 7 years old. When Ted asks Kay te marry him, she fears it Is merely to make a home for Dickies. but she agrees. She does not agree, though, with Ted's marriage, to be successful, must be planned scientifically, just as a plane flight. She is rebellious becanse he insists her housekeeping must be carried on in the same way, with charts and budgets. Kay goes with a crowd of friends to dance one night and hears Ted's name linked with that of Rosalind Kruger, a

. wealthy beauty who frequently travels

Ted's route. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

BY DECK MORGAN CHAPTER NINETEEN AY’'S faith in Ted was not shaken by the gossip she had

heard the night she danced with

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Monte. After the shock of the words had passed she realized that she would have to make readjustments, and face such things calmly. For Ted lived an International life. On the trans-Pacific route, because of the very nature of his

. job, he met countless people whose

names made news. In ports like Honolulu and Manila he came in closer contact with them, and the world was a whispering gallery. A celebrity in Honolulu might suffer a toothache one night and the next morning, over the coffee cups, it would be discussed on five continents. . On a smaller scale, Kays’ life was “now an international one. Because of her husband's fame, she, too, was known from San Francisco bay to China. She sought sophistication as a refuge. She was seen more and more "in public, but she did nothing that could be regarded

as indiscreet. ” ”

UT struggling against her own B nature made her restless. She wanted to be going places, doing something all the time. Ted met such moods with an air of indulgence that caused ancther quarrel between them, ending in tears and then reconciliation. But the recurrence of the conflict in their natures could have hut one result. Kay began to suspect again that Ted had married her only to provide a home for Dickie and to afford himself a well-ordered life ashore, She didn't go to the landing lo see him come in when his ship arrived next. She had heard that Illah was aboard and she didn’t want to face her. The Mariner alighted on he waters of Ship Harbor toward dusk. At that moment Kay sat patiently at the telephone in her home, dialing one number after another. If

| Ted wanted a gay life in foreign

ports she would give him one when the was ashore! She would play his game, too, and she would.

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HE invited to their home that night all of the hangers-on about the airport—people who had no part in the enterprise, but lived in the.aviation colony to share the excitement and glamour. It was a sort of aviation-country club crowd. Since the party was impromptu and informal, all the guests accepted the invitations in a similar It was like an open house. Some of them even brought other

. friends without consulting Kay.

_ session of it.

° “I've seen her dance.” ~ "And she dances remarkably well.”

your party.

Many in the crowd had read about Ted Graham's exploits, but had never met him. They had read, too, about the notorious dan-

cer, Illah, who had come in on

the plane. They wondered if she'd be at the party that night, hoped 80. and whispered about it eagerly. They all came, and they were on time. Toward 10 o'clock the three rooms which had been thrown open to guests were filled, and people had begun to take possession of the porches and even the kitchen. Some of them invaded Dickie’'s nursery and woke him up. Some played piggy-back with him, long past his hour for sleep. » = " : l= was a little bewildered at the sight. He had late for dinner and found that the guests had already begun io arrive. The members of the army crowd were strangers to him. Nobody bothered to introduce him. but he supposed they were Kay's friends. He was tired and sleepy and, at

- last, retired to his den, but some

of the men had already taken posThey were shooting craps on the floor and didn’t even look up when Ted came in. A woman hurried after him and caught his arm. “Ted Graham!” she exclaimed breathlessly. “Do tell me about that fascinating creature you brought in with you today on the . plane. We read about her in the papers. Is she really a Eurasian?” Ted laughed. He felt certain that

~ if Tllah had been there the woman

would have lifted her lorgnette and stared, as at a monster in the zoo. Ted said.

“Then I'm sorry she didn’t come to I came all the way from just to see her!”

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and she followed as soon as she was able to slip away. Finding the door locked, she knocked. There was no answer from within the room, which was dark, she khew. She tried the doorknob,

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OCKED!” she thought angrily. : “He's asleep. The idea—insulting me by going to sleep during my party. While: there are guests in the house.” Ted's apparent Indifference enraged her. “Asleep!” she stormed inwardly. “But he wasn’t too tired to go out with Illah and that Rosalind Kruger in Honolulu. All right!”

| She shook a small fist at the door,

trembling with rage and disappoint‘ment and defeat. “All ‘right, I'll show you. I'll gowout . with that

crowd downstairs and stay as late as |,

1 please!” - She weit dewnsiairs again, Joined in the fun even more gayly. Kay's adventurous spirit had finally broken its bounds and Monte Blaine shared this mood. When it was proposed that they all go somewhere across the bay to continue the party, Kay was among the first to agree. Then went to one night club and then another. Gradually the crowd grew smaller. Coupies began to depart, murmuring about the lateness of the hour. Ralph Bangs, who had been Doris’ escort, had gone long before, “but Doris was still in the crowd. Ralph had to go to Honolulu on the Mariner at 9 in the morning and Monte had promised to give him a call and wake him in time to reach the airport promptly.

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T last there were only the three of them left— Kay and Doris and Monte. They decided to stop for breakfast at a beach hotel and they stood on the beach, watching the séa lions come to life on the island rocks. One grizzled oid male thrust his nose to the skies and tried to enforce: order on his tribe. His snort made Kay cry out with laughter. But the young sea lions didn’t

pay him any heed. One by one, they waddled down ‘o the edge of the rocks and plunged, bobbing up.

out of the water with weird snorts |

and grunts, When they were tired of waiclhiing these antics, Kay, Doris and Mdnte went inside to order their toaiied rolls, bacon and egg: and hot ¢offee. Where they sat® they could watch the sun rising up out of the blue Pacific. Kay kept thinking about Ted, back there at ‘home, ‘sound asi¢ep as though he didn’t care what hecame of her or whether or not she was having a good time. Suddenly the sun came up out of the Pacific like a great fiery ball. :The gorgeous spectacle made Kay's ‘spirits soar again. She felt exuberantly young. - » =n LL this time,” she said bitterly to Doris, - “I've been sitting primly at home, trying to learn to keep house scientifically, working over budgets and plaiining balanced meals and seeing to it that Dickie ate ‘his spinach ang got to bed promptly—and Ted's. been having a good time! I was irying to build up a home, stone on stone, scientifically. But now I want to throw bricks—!" Monte arrived beside them to hear the last words. “Look out, gal!” he warned. “You'll take wings and fly if you don’t watch out.” “I want to fly!” Kay said, almost tearfully. “I want to fly and fly—and—fly—over the ocean.” She concluded rebelliously, “Away from Ted!” “You don’t mean that,” Doris told her. “Hush.” “But I do mean it!” Kay insisted. “ I'll tell you what—" She stopped and gazed through ‘he gathering mist of her tears toward the Pacific. “I'm going to take the morning plane .to Honolulu. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to fly and fly and fiy—"

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“You're going home to bed,” Doris | said. i “No, no! Im going to fly to Hononlulu—with Monte!” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1936, by NEA Service, Inc.)

NN stepped gingerly down the basement stairway. Two overalled men had just reached the bottom of the steps with their shining, white-enameled burden, and were awaiting directions from a tall, well-dressed young man who was exploring the washing facilities of the cold, cemented depths. “Here are the clothes,” said Ann, indicating the laundry bundle at the bottom of the chute. “And here, 1 suppose, is the most satisfactory spot to connect the washer. It's a beautiful machine, isn’t it? Wright's Wonder Washer! H-m-m! And there,” she pointed out, “are lines to hang the clothes on. Perhaps I'll be back by the time you have finished.” ‘‘Be back!” thundered the young man. “I came to demonstrate an electric washing machine—if you want a laundress, you'd better call one!” Ann stiffened. “Of all the impudence! I'll have you reported—I'll have you reported to Mr. Wright himself! My aunt knows him.”

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HE looked squarely at the young man for the first time. His eyes were gray—steely mow—and he had a handsomely chiseled chin and curling brown hair. His age couldn't exceed her own twenty years hy more than two. Ann knew suddenly that she didn't care at all whether or not she went on the shopping tour for which she had dressed so meticulously. She didn’t care at all whether or not she had new gold slippers for the ball tonight. Not even the ball seemed to matter, “Sure.”. The young man smiled down at her witheringly. “Go ahead and make your report! And I'll make mine! I've heard of goldbrickers like you!” : “22d what, may I ask, is a goldbricker?” Ann demanded icily, “A gold-bricker is the sort of person .who calls all the washing-ma-chine dealers in town—one ‘after

another—gets a demonstration from |

each, and with the money saved on laundry bills, buys herself goo-gahs. And the salesmen whose time she steals’ are able to buy themselves fresh air! Usually,” he added, “a gold-bricker gets away with it when she's as good looking as you are.” = = »

LUE eyes squarely met the steely gray ones. Then, suddenly, there were infinitesimal crinkles at the corners of the blue eyes, as Ann smiled up at the young man. Whi win!” She perked off her at. “You mean?” he parried. His anger had crumpled entirely. . “That I'm staying for the demonstration!” she said. “And I'm just the sort of fool who would demonstrate for you forever, even though I know you're taking me for a ride.” Ann ruefully studied the trim little toe of her oxford. “Well, I guess I :have been pretty rotten—wasting your time and thinking myself pretty smart when I was really robbing

you. Well, I'm sorry—and—and— | | oh, just skip it!" she ended abruptly.

. She turned toward the stairway. He was at her side in one long

“I can’t skip it!” he said. “And my time's not not being wasted—not here. You ‘wait ) ~ = » was two hours later that they

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the white clothes fron the colored ones.” “Well, to be honest, I've just started on this job, and you are my first prospect. A-a-a-h-h-h-k-e-r-choo!” Ann jumped to her feet. “Get out of this damp basement this instant! Up the stairs vou go before | you catch your death of cold! Come on—we’ll have tea.” “A-a-a-h-h-h-ker-choo!” he answered, and obediently followed her. % nn a» HEY had had tea, and were chatting cosily when, suddenly, | Ann remembered the gold slippers | that she hadn't purchased—and the

reason that she was supposed to

have them. “Oh, dear! Aunt Lillian will be home any minute!” she wailed. “Good,” said the young man. “I'd like to meet her.” “But she’s made: a date for me, A blind date. And I''m not ready. I was supposed to go shopping for some slippers.” “That’s easy! Break the date! always break blind dates.” | “But you don’t have an aunt Who makes ‘em for you.” “I've a mother who does that very thing.” he confessed grimly. “But Aunt Lillian sees to it that I keep them. She matches me ofl every season, and is simply heartbroken - when nothing comes of it. And this date is the prize of them all. She's maneuvered for weeks. She'll slay me for not getting those gold slippers for this evening.”

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HO is the villain?” “Oh, just a sap fresh out of college. I'm sure he’s cross-eyed and nuts—but he’s rolling in money. Bertrand Wright—oly maybe you know him. He’s the son of the president of Wright's Wonder Washers.”

“He's cross-eyed and nuts?” queried the young man. Just then, they. heard the front door slam and, an-instant later, Aunt Lillian came bursting into the room. “Ann, my dear, why haven't you started to dress? You must hurry. You know I've asked Bertrand for dinner before the ball" |

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UT I'm not going!” said Ann defiantly. ! Aunt Lillian, however, didn’t hear her. She had suddenly caught sight of the young man behind Ann. She | rushed toward him with out- | stretched hands. “Why, Bertrand! This is delightful! Your mother told me that your father put you to work today—selling washing machines. Of all things —washing machines! And here you are instead! Ann, the naughty girl, didn't tell me that she'd met you.” “No,” said the young man, with a mischievous smile. “You see, I've been killing two birds with one stone—investigating my first wash-ing-machine prospect and . - other prospects as well.” = # Then, to Aunt Lillian’s utter astonishment, he turned and deliberately crossed his eyes al Ann. THE END

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