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Trial Flight

By Adelaide Humphries

CAST OF CHARACTERS JACKIE DUNN—Heroine; she wanted to fiy. ROGER BRECKNER—Hero; he -wanted to test the stratosphere. BERYL MELROSE — Wealthy widow; she wanted Roger. EVELYN LA FARGE—Jackie’s mother; she wanted a son-in-law. CHAPTER TEN ACKIE did not believe she ever had been so angry before in all her life. She told herself that she simply despised Roger Breckner. So he thought it was ridiculous, did he, to pretend to be engaged to her? He had laughed at her, accused her of being jealous. Jackie forgot that she had called the very idea of their engagement ridiculous too, more than once. She did not know anything about jealousy, since she had never been in love. She did not know how much akin hatred and love can be. , She did know she wished she could square matters some way with Roger for having got her into this mess. She would like to make him suffer for it, as much as she had. Well, one thing was certain, the moment this flight of his was over, Jackie would put an end to this whole crazy business. She would not keep this farce up any longer. Even if she had to tell Evelyn the

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whole truth about everything. “Dear me.” Evelyn said, toward the end of the long evening, “I do think Roger has behaved very strangely toward you, Jacqueline. | Why, do you know he has danced practically every dance with Mrs. | Melrose! He is dancing with her now—see them, darling” “Of course I see them!” Jackie | snapped. How could she help herself? She did not have to have her | attention called to the fact that | Roger was dancing with Beryl Mel- | rose. She had been very much | aware of it all evening. She knew | he was doing it on purpose, because | he thought it would make her | jealous. “It does not look very well when : this is your engagement party,” her | mother murmured. “It's really yours,” Jackie said. “Mine!” Evelyn exclaimed. “Oh, | I see what you mean, darling—be- | cause of myself and Paul. You know, I believe Paul thinks it odd. | too, the way Roger is behaving. ...” | “I don't give a darn what Mr. Scott thinks about anything!’’|

Jackie said. Then she turned away, ||

biting her lips hard. She was not | biting them because it was an ef- | fort to keep back the prick of tears from behind her eyelids, or down | the big lump filling her throat. But she was tired, the silver slippers pinched her feet, her head throbbed from trying to hold it high, her lips felt stiff keeping them | in a curving smile. Besides, she must be careful what she said or her mother would no longer believe in this ridiculous engagement. To have Evelyn find out now that it was all pretense would be more | than Jackie's nerves could stand. | ” 5 8 {

OGER and Beryl Melrose came up to Jackie after that dance. “I'm afraid I'm going to have to say good night,” Mrs. Melrose said smilingly, extending her hand. “It's | been such a lovely party. It was so sweet of you to ask me.” She actually sounded as though | she meant it, but of course Jackie | could see through her. “It was | nice of ycu to come,” she returned politely. It was just lovely of you to spoil my whole evening, she might have added. But she had no intention of letting this other girl know that. “Cf course I'll see you again,” Beryl said. “You'll be coming to the field to see Roger take off. You must be genuinely proud to be engaged to him!” As she said this last, she turned her big dark eves toward Roger, with a look that, although Jackie did not know anything about love, could be easily Tread. Why, Beryl Melrose was in love with Roger! Really in love with him. This knowledge was like an jcy shower descending upon Jackie's head. She did not know why it should be like that. It could not make any difference in her young life. “Of course I'm proud of him.” Jackie said. She had not meant to say it. But she just did. She, too, gave Roger a look; a shy, smiling one that seemed to say how proud she was, more than any words. For suddenly Jackie had been seized with an idea of her own! She really would put on an act. She really would make people believe in this ridiculous engagement. Even Roger himself! Then she would indeed have the laugh on him. o

“ 2 BE was looking at her in bis puzzled masculine way. “You sounded as though you meant that,” he said. “I haven't done anything to be proud of yet.” “But you will!” Jackie flashed. Now she stepped closer to him, slipping an arm through his, looking up at him again. “You know,” she said to Beryl Melrose, “Roger and I are going to be married just as soon as he comes back from his flight.” “We are!” Roger looked quite astonished at this news, as though it was the first he had heard of it —as indeed it was. «ye decided on that tonight,” Jackie said. “At least, I did.” She flashed Roger another shy, sweet smile. She was not Evelyn La Farge’s daughter for nothing, after all! “I found out—just tonight— that I must have that definitely understood—before Roger goes away, I mean.” «I understand,” Beryl Melrose said. Her dark eyes looked into Jackie's a significant moment—as though she did understand, perhaps more than had been said. She said good night once more. Roger said he would see her to her cab. When he came back he found Jackie sitting a secluded corner, sheltered by a mass of flowers and shrubs, screened from the dance platform and the gay lights. She Jooked as though she were waiting for him. Which was exactly how she had hoped to look. ” 8 ” “CEE here,” Roger stood over her, “did you mean that—what you said to Beryl? Or were you still only pretending. . . . Don’t pretend with me now, Jackie, please!” “I won't,” Jackie answered. She lowered her long curling lashes. Maybe because she did not want him to see what her eyes really said. “No—I wasn't pretending. I . . . I guess you were right, Roger. About Beryl Melrose, I mean. I could not bear to see you with her =—all evening.” That was the truth.

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step closer, he caught both of her hands in his. “Don’t pretend with me now, Jackie—I warn you. This is just between us. Not for the benefit of your mother, or anyone else.” “Yes, it is just between us,” Jackie said. This was how she would even the score with him. Certainly nobody else had anything to do with what happened next. With one swift motion Roger drew her onto her feet. He cought her to hip and held her closer than

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he ever had held her before. His eyes, that were as blue as the sky, looked down into hers a long moment. Then his lips found hers and clung to them. Jackie saw now that this idea of hers was almost as dangerous as a flight into the stratosphere! But Jackie was not afraid of anything. She would play this through, too —until the bitter end.

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