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PAGE 18 | SERIAL STORY — | HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis

Trial Flight

By Adelaide Humphries

CAST OF CHARACTERS JACKIE DUNN-—Heroine: she wanted te flv. ROGER BRFCKNER-—Hero: he wanted te test the stratosphere, BERYL MELROSE — Wealthy widow; she wanted Reger. EVELYN LA FARGE—Jackie's mother: she wanted a son-in-law,

Yesterdav—Jackie tells Roger of her romantic predicament and Roger suggests he has a way te help her,

CHAPTER THREE HE field was not a large one, but it had two concrete runways, a radio tower. a revolving beam and floodlights. The days were getting longer, so now as Jackie and Roger watched the mechanics wheel the ship. that looked like an awkward big bug on the ground, out of the hangar, the sky was a soft gray in the east while in the west the horizon still held the last lingering rosy patches from the sun. “I love this time of day!’ Jackie said with a sort of awed reverence. “The world is so hushed and perfect. like a beautiful bubble holding all the rainbow colors.” N - \ “Wait till you see it all wrapped EZ ©-4 copr 1838 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. es dm i a oe “O1' Captain Tucker always goes down with his ship!” through and the moon trailing be- | ” ~~ ———— =

hind us. No one has ever seen any- FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia thing. until he's flown at night.” 3 He helped Jackie into the cockpit, it vo . 1 I MT ~ ee 1 | | ! |

climbed in beside her. It was as luxuriant as any limousine with Its \ leather uphoisterv and polished I, dashboard with so many shining in- | Ke! struments. { I~ » x = HEN came the moment that never failed to thrill Jackie, that last rushing contact with the earth, and then that swift upward surge as thev left it behind. Tt seemed to her as though it was the world below that was falling away, rather than the plane that was moving. Jackie forgot everything else for awhile, even Roger close beside her, as she looked down watching the miracle of night take place She almost held her breath it was so beautiful. the gathering shadows growing darker and darker and then the blinking lights turning on one by one in tiny toy villages until the world lay all glittering and dancing, like a lady's sequin shawl. The stars came out, too. myriads of them, and the moon. round and golden, trailed along behind 5 EJ x HAT was the idea you had. Roger?” she asked, turning | toward him. “It will have to be a good one. You don't know Mother. And you do know how I feel about marriage and love and all that sort of thing.” Roger assured her he knew all

upon him often enough. “But vour | death an’ getting kicked outa the club.” mother can’t force you to marry a a : him. or anyone,” he reminded “That just isn't being done in this GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

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PEERING CAUTIOUSLY THRL THE WIN*DOW, MYRA AND JACK BEHOLD A WEIRD SCENE

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enlightened age.” “You don't know Mother,” Jackie repeated darkly. He banked the ship sharply turning it almost on its side. But since he had given her “all the works,” rolls, loops. spins. dives. and whip-stalls, in the open ship he used for stunting. Jackie did not let out so much as a murmur. Or again perhaps the moon which Jackie had assured Evelyn thev never noticed—had had something to do with 1t For now it shed its silvery sheen over Jackie's face. bathing her in an almost ethereal heauty. Roger caught his breath—and looked away “I don't believe vou have am plan at all.” Her voice held a tinge of impatience. It ought not take him this long to concoct one. Besides. she knew that this ship practically flew itself. ‘Sure 1 have. Nothing to it.” Roger snapped his fingers in illustration. “Simply tell your mother that we are going to get married.” 5 ” =

Bs we're not!” “You never can tell. What

1 mean is, I might happen to be that guy who happened to be handy when vou get old and bored and feeble. But that isn't the point.” He kept her in suspense a minute, cleared his throat, leaned forward to pretend to adjust an instrument. He would have to watch his step or he might sav something that would make Jackie

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reject his plan. This was a; “1'don’t recognize one of these billboards—I told you we should have “fine” way to try to win a girl, he brought a road map!” thought grimly When he should have simply swept her into his] : i smothered her with| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson arms and smot Y | Y 9 CAY- WHERE ‘S

kisses We can pretend were going to! hoy NA get married, can’t we?” Rogar A WA NAL 1 NNN My 1 \ \ \

\ \ 4 AANA SSA i WN x 0 \ \ a Et 3 a <aid. “Pretend were engaged. A 0 \e A Ua NN NA \ AW 2 sort of trial flight engzagement-— NW Nab BERNER \ A AN Rt make beheve. . . .” RW & \ \ “But I never heard of such a ) thing!” i “I premised you you hadn't. I never did, either. But if we can | put it over, your mother can go | ahead and marry her Mr. John | Paul Scott and you can go ahead | and do all the things vou want to do ‘with your lfe... .” “You mean we wouldn't really | have to be engaged at all—never | get married, unless, of course, as | you say. . . . But Mother didn’t | sav a thing about marriage! She | simply said if she knew 1 was engaged she could accept Mr Scott.

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think of it, to help me carry 1t| i rE through. . . . You will help me, HAVE WINGS ZZ San EEE won't you?" RESEMBLING- > S —— hE

“To the bitter end.” he vowed | EAT IER solemnly. He put out a hand. They <hook on it gravely. A fine way to | FANS.” seal an engagement. Roger thought! They were circling the field now: they could watch the wide arc made by the beacon as it switched this way and that, like a gigantic, illuminated eye. Roger adjusted the | earphones. He plugged in another | pair for .Jackie. “Okey, Breckner,” | a thin squeaky voice burst suddenlly | on their ears. “Pield all clear. | Watch slight northwest wind | field all clear, watch slight northwest. . . .” They circled lower and lower as the message kept droning a | repeat. Then the flood-lights blazed on, turning the landing mat | into a brightly lighted stage, the ship sailed smoothly down and down, |

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