Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1938 — Page 22

PAGE 22 SERIAL STORY

Trial Flight

By Adelaide Humphries

CAST OF CHARACTERS JACKIE DUNN-<Heroine; she to fly. ROGER BRECKNER-<Hero; he wanted to test the stratosphere. BERYL MELROSE-Wealthy widow; she wanted Roger.

wanted

EVELYN LA FORGE-=-JYackie's mother;

she wanted a son-in-law,

Yesterday: Roger is found,

never known,

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Ras condition, result only of the crack-up but of those two nights and days without medical attention, cal for some time. out vary little hope for his recovery. Jackie spent all her time waiting for news. Nothing else matterad. She read every line in every single

paper she could get. She kept phon=-

or driving back and forth, in hopes she might learn something more. She did not know how big and solemn her eyes were, how ping ched her pretty young face, “Dear me!” Evelyn said, holding up har lovely hands in despair. * 100k like a ghost of yourself, darling. You simply cannot go on like this It is dreadful about Roger, of course. But it won't do for my little girl to go into a decline over him.”

ing the field,

remained eriti= | Newspapers held |

critically | injured, but the joy of the discovery | gives Jackie such gratitude as she has

not |

‘You!

poor |

Jackie said she was not going into |

a decline. It was just like mother and vet romantic out of it. could Evelyn guess what Jackie was going through? Roger “Something must be done about

it,” Evelyn decided. She drew her

her | to make something horrible | How |

She had never loved |

lov ely brow into a thoughtful frown. |

“Let me think. “There's nothing to do,” said, harshly. “Except what I am aoing. Wait.”

” n B’ : «Jackie had

T the latest much the same just returned from the field--Roger was still unconscious, slightly delirious, his condition eritical. She threw herseif face down on her bed She no longer shed tears. She had spent them all in that first dreadful fit weeping, in the streches of the long nights,

“I suppose I might as well send shop,” |

these things back to the Evelyn said. She referred to the huge stack of boxes, containing the wedding dresses and veils, had had sent out and had insisted | Jackie try, “I'm afraid we won't use | them now .. such a pity, when she had so hoped to have a June wedding, with all its glamorous trimmings, for Jackie “At least,” she added, “I suppose we can't use them for some time.” Mother!” Jackie protested She buried her face deeper in the pillows. Why must her mother remind had only been pretense, anyway, wedding that have taken place, that would, indeed, never take place now? Unless Roger got well, unless Jackie could convince him that she really loved him. Even then she did not know if Roger only had been pretending all the time or not; Roger loved her “I'm Sor'y. to think how make vou feel.” to sit down on the bed by She leanad over, stroking back the fair hair from the young sweet brow She could understand her daughter now, at last behaving the way a girl should, a girl in love.

badly that Evelyn came over

side

“I know what I would do if Roger

voung man!” Evelyn said suddenly, for Evelyn, to have ideas of her own. “Why, once,” her beautiful eves grew misty the memory, “when your poor dear dead father was ill, darling though it turned out to be nothing serious then, but I thought he was dving and I was so terribly upset -I went all the way up to Schenecs tady in the most dreadful, the dirtiest old train and had to drive

were my

lonely |

that she |

» she sighed. Tt seemed

her of that wedding that |

was not supposed to |

she did not know if |

darling=I didn't stop | would |

Jackie's |

Jackie was |

too, was likely |

Jackie |

report remained

miles and miles in a horse and bug-

of all things! But nothing, nothing, darling, could me from going to thought he needed me.” » ” J ay raised herself on one elbow. Why, her mother had loved someone loved Roger now.

then, just as she Her mother had suffered and waited and worried . . «Jackie knew, not only from the

gY,

tone of her voice, but from the lock | in her mother's eves, & 100k she had |

never seen in them before. Maybe Evelyn was not always the romantic actress, playing at her romantic

part. “Did you love him, my father--so much?” Jackie asked Evelyn nodded; the tears that sprang into her eyes were genuine. “More than anyone, more than life itself, darling. I shall never really love anyone again. There never any love like the first, my dear.” Yes, Jackie could believe that. If anything happened to Roger, if he did not get well, she would never again love anyone. “Of course I am very Paul,” Evelyn said firmly, as though persuading herself of this fact, She gave her eves a gentle graceful dab. “But, darling, that isn't what I was trying to tell you. What 1 meant was that if I were in love with Roger—and engaged to marry him-— nothing could keep me from himno, nothing on earth!” ‘You mean you'd go to him— now!” Jackie sat up straight. Her mother nodded. “Certainly I'd go to him. If I had to walk every step of the way! Though of » course, darling, that won't be necessary.” She smiled on Jackie fondly. “You won't even have to go in a dirty slow train, or travel for miles in a horse and buggy. You can fly to him—and be there within a few : hours!” “Oh, Mother . . . why, of course, + I can! Why didn't I think of it! How did you ever? Oh, vou are the dearest, the most understanding - mother, the best!” Jackie threw both her arms around Evelyn, hugging her with all her firce young strength. She had scarcely known her mother, or understood her until now! She had never realized how wise, how kind she was beneath her flufly, romantic exterior, her gay acting. Evelyn gave her daughter a tight . squeeze in response. She bent down Mo give her & motherly kiss, as well,

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HOLD EVERYTHING

By Clyde Lewis

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“I posed for this romper ad, and here's one for cod-liver oil, But you know how it Is—-somebody younger always comes along to

get your job.”

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She knew that she and Jackie would always understand one another, always be close, now, “I'll phone Paul right away,” she said, getting up from the bed. When Evelyn had an idea she put it through immediately. “He will gladly make all the necessary arrangements, I Know. He will probably have to charter a private plane for vou, darling, How soon shall I tell him you can be ready?”

“How geoon? Oh, Mother! Tell

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him I'm ready now!” The golden fires leaped back into Jackie's anxious eyes, the soft color flooded her lovely face again, She was going to Roger. She would be with him within a few short hours. Hope sprang, like a new-born star, bright and luminous, within her heart.

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