Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1936 — Page 27

"BEGIN HERE TODAY ¥ Dunn, pretty airplane stewardess, in love with Ted Graham, veteran £ who flies the trans-Parific route. Ted has evo interests in fiTe—his job Dickie, his adopted sea, 7 years When Ted asks Kay to marry him, fears it is merely to make a home Dickie, but she agrees. She does not agree, though, with Ted's pries that marriage, to be success must be planned scientifically, just & plane flight. She is rebellious behe insists her housekeeping must earried on in the same way, with eharts and budgets. Kay gives a party one night and Ted, fired and weary, instead of remaining the guests, goes to his room. To punish him, Kay implusively decides to the morning plane for Honolulu. - NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

Kay had an opportunity, through: the long hours of the day and night, to observe.Illah closely. The Oriental had the seat ciosest to the radio room and she seemed to listen to every message that came in, sitting tensely when the rapid-fire crackling of code came out of the land receiving set. Kay thought she. saw

to herself, At other times TIllah’s seemed” fixed on the chart room. Once, when she stood up, she passed | a swift look over the captain's] shoulder at the chart. questioned the second officer pilot about the ship's course. When he had gone down the aisle she made swift notations in a little book.

BY DECK MORGAN ~ CHAPTER TWENTY

ONTE laughed, but his eyes | answered Kay's eagerly. There | “Was something restless in his man- | ner as he stood up, looking out | over the ocean. | “So you want to fly to Honolulu, 40 you?” he said. “Sorry, it’s Ralph's turn to make the today.” . Kay, however, refused to be dis- | suaded. The impulse to board the plane, to set off on such an utterly | mad, reckless flight seemed the | answer to all her unhappiness and | worries. To fly away was the thing! To fly away from everything that | was sensible and dutiful and matter of fact. She didn't want to make | the trip, through, with Ralph. She | wanted Monte to be the pilot. “It's your turn, Monte,” she said. “Do it for me! We'll lock Ralph | in his room and run away to the ‘airport. We can say he was ill and | “that you'll take his place today. Doris, alarmed, protested in vain. What had come over Kay to ‘put | her in such a mood? Doris looked | from Kay to Monte, tried to out-! talk them, but it was no use. Monte | - seemed as much carried away with the notion as was Kay. “Come on,” he cried.

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T Ralph's hotel, he left orders | that the pilot was not to be | ‘disturbed. They hurried off to the | ‘airport then-—Kay and Monte in| ‘high good humor, excited about | their proposed adventure. Doris decided that the whole thing was out | f her hands. She_and Ralph had | quarreled, as usual, the night before, and she felt some sa! isfac- | tion in the thought that they were | ‘playing a trick on him. Kay bought a ticket to HonoInlu and Monte reported to the ~ operations division and was as- - signed Ralph’s place in the crew of the Mariner. Almost in no - time it was time to leave. Baggage was stowed aboard. Passengers appeared. There were leaveyanings—some gay and some tearul Doris stood at the landing place, tears dimming her eyes, as she watched the great silver ship rise gracefully from the water and disappear in the west. Now that it was too late to call them back, she was terrified to think of what At be before her friends. Crazy, insahe—what had come over Kay to start her off on such an adventure? Doris felt that she should have done something to stop them. She should have told Ted, or found some means to reach Ralph. Some one was sure to suffer for the outcome of this recklessness! But there was nothing at all that she could do now. Nothing whatever. Perplexed and worried, she turned and made her way home. u n on 2 AY, likewise, was worried. After : the first hour in the air, the flight seemed much less thrilling. She sat back in her chair, looked at the water and took stock of the situation. She wondered how many adventures in history, later repented, have been inspired by a rToseate dawn! She tried to regain her sense of I portion and her sense of humor, 100. Her well-disciplined mind took increasing stock of the situation before her as the hours wore on. z; She thought of all she had left behind. of Dickie who would be asking where she had gone, Was it today that she had promised to take him tc a movie? And she thought of Ted, though she tried not to—Ted, waking and pding her gone from the house, g, as he must sooner or later, that she was running away, Was she—was- that it? Far up in the cockpit she could see Ralph, with his handsome head over the instrument board. There ‘was a restless smile on his lips that she knew too well. Poor Monte! She had dragged him, too, into someing he would repent.

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“Let's go!”

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; 5 n = TI ACK at Ship's Harbor she could AD imagine Ted hearing Ralph's jon of Montes guilt. Ralph : d do nothing but say that fonte had promised to wake him time. ‘Ralph. of course, would punished. She wondered what d would say about such a breach “discipline. Why, oh, why, had gone out of her way to cause so . trouble? Dickie would be in school by . Ted would have waked to his wife gone, and, once p, the responsibility of the 's care would be in his hands. wished she had written Ted ote, but the departure had too impulsive even to think that. The ship's radio was constant contact with the airShe could send him a mesof course. decided to wait. It was noi glear in her mind what this was to mean. It had r a present status, nor a fuIt was Simply a - suspension ; w looked around at the other ; S. There was ° the Tot of international travelers, of them prominent persons. re was one woman, swathed p and heavily veiled, whose Kay recognized instantly.

to Honolulu after a single the mainland. ‘could not see the face une veil, Be es jhe look : Illah fixed. on. Tah had recognized

| IZ AY'S alert mind began to cor- | relate places and events in Illin her seat. crets of operation on this line, for { the ship is

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lah’s life, and suddenly she sat up ‘Something seemed to

warn her, “Illah is a foreign spy.

She can't be trying to learn the se- meant everything to him,

open to inspection. She after the secrets of Ted's the gyropilot.” Kay had no way of knowing this. She smiled, realizing the suspicion was prompted by nothing more than woman's intuition. And, .too, she was supposed to be jealous of this woman! Was she, Kay Graham, giving way to foolish, jealous suspicions?

But suddenly the events that had led up to this escapade crystallized and left her with a clear under{standing of what she intended to do She knew her own heart now; the |-escapade, as such, had been over the minute she stepped on the plane. She would disembark at Honolulu and wait for Ted. She would go to him and explain $hat it had been only a single night's lark and nothing more. She was sure he would understand this much. Beyond that, she could not know | reaction would be. Of colurse she had hag ' no intention of running .off with Monte, except

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a wild ride in the air, and it w~ be over when they reachoidl H: lulu. 5 s "2

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ONTE came back pre:s¢ntly «nd | spoke briefly to her. Fe lociied worried. He had lost his davil-1n:ay- | care manner during the long hi Irs | of his watch. “Ted has ordered me off (he pl ne | {at Honolulu to await insiructicns,” “The messige (ime | through on-the radio just now.’ Kay sat up, her eyes wici¢, “Mote, they won't do anything to you!” : He smiled and salute with a gesture that was not as jaunt: as he intended. “Adventuis in ihe air!” he said. . “Ted didn’t say anythiiig abo i — me?” she asked. “No. Only company mess: have come through thus far.”

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AY’S heart sank. Ted, all right! The

That, ‘was comp; ny It was the trans-Pacific flight and she was only his wife. 3ut she knew now thai she ov ed her loyalty both to Ted #ad the ir service, She resolved to (ry fo vet something on Illah as a spy. [ay was defending her own iipgainst (he outside world! She was defending what was Ted’s, and whit beloni od lo the-trans-Pacific fliglit. She thought that perhaps Ted had been duped by Illah into giving away the secrets of the gyropilot. That would explain everything—the flirtation, 1Illanh’s pearances on -the f{rans-Pacific route, the mystery of lier movements, She didn't know how Ted could have been so easily dupéd. He had successfully eliminated “the human element” in flying, but was\lie blind to the' danger of people who might want to do him, personally, harm Perhaps he was a victim of his own elaborate precautions. Throughout the night s she watched Illah closely.

(To Be Continued)

She had simply taken

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DISG

HE little man in the worn velveteen jacket looked calmly at the ugly automatic in Knuck Luger's steady hand. His watery eyes, behind their spectacles, showed the faintest flicker of interest. “Often,” he stated dispassionately, “men outside the law come to this little costume and make-up shop to be disguised. Some, like you, come by stealth, then bluster and threaten.” He glanced at the gun, glinting in the dim light from the single hanging bulb. “I never ask questions—as long as they can pay.” “I can pay,” Luger said gruflly. He glanced at the closed door to the street, then stooped and swung a battered traveling bag up to the counter, Simon Lazarus watched indifferently as his hand emerged with several crisp new. bills. Silently, Lazarus took the -money, tucked it into his jacket pocket, then led the way inté@ the back room of the shop. He picked up a stick of grease paint, rubbed a bit of it on to his own skinny wrist, then frowningly replaced it and selected another. : #82 =n LWAYS,” he observed absently, “they come to grief in spite of what they ask me to do. I watch the papers. I know. Only last night a man was here—in that very chair there in front of the mirror. It occurred to me at the time that he looked startlingly like Gordon Brock.” He nodded, satisfied with the. shade of the second stick of grease paint. “Gordon Brock. Wanted in a good many states. Then, this morning, when I saw Brock’s picture in the paper, I—” Knuck Luger's left hand snaked out swiftly. His stubby fingers hooked on to the garrulous old man's collar. “Listen, Uncle,” he grated. “I ain't Gordon Brock, see? But I got reasons to look different. I got to get out of town. And I'm in a hurry.” Simon Lazarus speculatively. “You do not look in the least like Gordon Brock,” he agreed. His watery eyes narrowed slightly. “And now, if you will sit down before the I will see what I can do for

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you.” - Luger sat down. Lazarus bent forward and spoke softly, while his deft fingers were at work on Luger's face. x E- 4 ” = “Y WAS thinking atthe moment,” he said, “of the man who shot down that bank messenger early this evening. His description—rather an accurate one, I thought--was broadcast only an hour ago. . Steady now, please; we're adding a dozen years to your age.” Luger winced at the sting of a liquid on the taut skin across his temples. ~ “My clients, as I say,” Lazarus resumed, presently, “can trust me implicitly.” He pressed hard with the tips of both forefingers against Luger's upper lip, then stepped back. “All right, take a look.” Knuck Luger nodded, satisfied, at the face that peered back at him from the mirror. That dinky little mustache gave him a different look around the mouth. Sort of snooty. The grease paint helped. So did the touch of gray in his hair. But the best part of the disguise was that thin, jagged scar from the corner of the mouth to the right ear. It looked for all the world like a wound that had healed over years ago. Behind Luger, Lazarus spoke quietly. “It is an excellent disguise,” he commented. “An excellent disguise, indeed. T can assure you that even the Star pest; eyes will fail to penetrate it.” x ye Knuck Luger's eyes were cold as he accepted the natty felt hat the ingratiating little man: was extending and pulled it down low over his face. ‘He allowed Lazarus to help him into his coat. Slowly, he games to face the disBuise Sxpers His 5: 7ight. hand in his

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Then, suddenly, the hand came out. Twice, his wrist jerked back. The silencer on the automatic deadened the explosion of the twa shots. The shopkeeper’s face showed ro sign of surprise. He fell ‘back step, then stood wavering, both hands spread flat against his stomiach. He tottered, glazing eyes star ing straight at Luger. Then he slumped forward on his face, and lay motionless at the gunman’s feet. Luger grunted as he slipped tI: gun back into his pocket. He glance into the mirror again, picked up th traveling bag, and strode brisk]. cut through the store. H T was at the railway station, in front of a ticket window, tha Luger felt a hand clamp har around his right elbow, He pivoted

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his ribs. In an instant. his hané¢: were forced together. Ile heard a metallic click, and felt a biting pressure on both wrists. Stealthily, he reached out with his: foot and gave his traveling bag a push. It skidded away from him across the floor. The detectives seemed not to notice. ~ One of them jerked Luger’s ha! off, peered into his face, then suddenly whistled incredulously. A forefinger prodded at Lugar’s face: the nail scraped down tli¢ gunman’; right cheek. 3 “Wrong again, Mack!” he exclaimed. “It ain’t him! But it look. kind of screwy why # guy shoulc rig himself up, scar and all, to be the spittin’ image of Gordon Brock! Take a look in that grip. Let's sec what this guy was so anxious to ditch.” THE END

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