DECEMBER 23, 1937
NINTH INSTALLMENT
Monty Wallace has just arrived
in California, having broken the
East-West cross country airplane
record. Natalie Wade, mistaken
by him for a newspaper reporter,
writes the exclusive account of
Monty's arrival, and succeeds in
securing a trial job with a paper
in exchange for the story. Natalie
becomes attached to Monty.
Although she discovers Monty's
love for her is not sincere, Natalie
admits that she loves him. She is
assigned by her paper to report
Monty's activities for publication.
Jimmy Hale, the newspaper's photographer,
becomes Natalie's coworker.
Natalie discovers that Sunny is
jealous of iter friendship with
Monty, and that she is trying to
prevent them from being alone.
After driving to a. mountain resort
with Sunny and Jimmy. Monty
again declares his love for
Natalie.
When he susreested that he leave
her alone so that there wouldn't be
any distraction, she cried out, "Oh,
please, Mont. Please stay here. I'd 1
die if you left me here alone." And i
so he sat beside her as she wrote.
Surprisingly, the story was fin- :
ished ir. a short time. Messengers |
came rushing at Mont'3 call and
bore it away. 1
She must gel some sleep now, he 1
told her. And when he had kissed I
her site threw herself on the wide, t
white bed. But fear struck then at
her heart. Sleep would not come. i
Two more days and Mont would .
tx- roaring over the ocean on the !
most impossible flight in history. 1
Something gripped at her heart.
Something told her she would never 1
see him again.
She stood up and moved to the '
window of the room. Children were I
playing at the curb. The world was
going on without a thought of im- 1
pending tragedy.
She tidied her hair and renewed
the light make-up she wore. But
panic was upon her. She had to see
Miont again quickly. His room, she
knew, was at the end of the short
hall. She slipped along the worn
carpet and tapped gently at the
door.
There was no res[ionse. Someone
v/asi coming up the- twisted stairs.
She turned the knob of of the door
ana supped inside
Mont was asleep. Ho had thrown
off coat. an<t shoes anil tie.
For a long Lime she stood there
listening to his heavy breathing.
Then very qulohly she moved forward
and sank to the floor beside
him. She- laid her cheek (against
the sleeve of his shirt.
She would aUiy thcic a little while
guarding him With her love. And
now her fear fell from iier ... it
was as though his nearness and her
adoration for him had driven it out
He: throbbing heart grew cntrn.
She knew content again.
Ami so she fell asleep beside him,
and did not wake till early after
noon.
"Is this nice?" he asked, seeing
that she was awake.
She sprang up quickly but he
caught her hand and drew her down
beside hirn.
"I'm in a hell of a fix," he arid,
her hand to his lips.
She could not speak.
"I'm .supposed,'' he chuckled, "to
be a devil with the women. I've
been that way deliberately so that I
wouldn't ever want to marry anybody.
Now I've got myself in a spot
where you come in here and I wake
up and you are just as safe as
though I didn't love you. What's
the answer?"
"Maybe you really do love me."
she said faintly. "You've only wanted
me before."
"Well, lt'a a new one 011 me . . .
and I love you all right. But there
isn't going to be any marrying in
our business."
He spoke a little angrily, she
thought, as though he fought against
something.
He whipped a glance at the watch
on his arm. "We'd better be getting
back to the field. They'll Ire lookJ..
~ J? n
iuj no.
She went back to her own room
then, but her heart was singing as
though in triumph. It seemed queer
about that when he had just told her
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hey were not to be married. She |
couriered about it a little but there
vas 110 explanation?-unlcsn it was *
hat her heart knew better than her *
ninrl that he loved her as she had
o be loved. ,
He came for her in a few minutes J1
ukI they zushcd away to the field. ;
Jimmy was there and Sunny Ma- ^
ion presently, a frowning Sunny, !
vho attached herself at once to
vlont Wallace. Jimmy tried to get
he girl away once or twice but she :
could not go with him and the four
vent together for dinner at a larger1
lotel in the neighborhood.
Natalie wrote another story in her ;
juiet room that night, when Jimmy |
iad taken her to the small hotel j
ind then she sat waiting for Mont's j
frvr?fr^??T^o 1 -l
"uu?IUMO vuioiuc iter uucfi.
They did not come and she got j
into becoming negligee, hoping to
rest until he should appear. Once,
twice, she waked having dreamed j
Jiat he came up the stairs, but each
time she saw that the door of his
room stood blackly open and knew
that he had not come back.
It was so until the morning and,
when Jimmy telephoned, she went
out to breakfast with him a little
lick at heart. At the field, she
waited and watched for Mont, but
it was mid-afternoon before he appeared.
He was haggard and pale. Natalie
lurried to him with quick alarm,
fearing that he might not be ready
.he next day for the long grind of
.he flight.
But he was intent on his work
ind it was not till Sunny Marion
arrived, her make-up heavy and her
unite oddly triumphant that Natalie
mew the truth of that night.
She took him away from the
Marion girl then. Directly and deliberately
she made him go with her,
md she drove with him straight to
Lhe small hotel.
She got him into the place and
commanded him to sleep.
"Don't you realize,'' she cried,
"that your life may depend upon it?
You're in 110 shape to fly. You're
all broken up about something.
You've got to forget everything but
the flight."
"Alt right," tic told her. "But get
out of here. I'll be all right."
She knew then that something
moro than a night out was behind
those tense white lips of his. It
was something, she thought, connected
with her; something that
made him brusque with her. But.
she couldn't make out what it might i
be.
She saw to it that he was not disturbed
that afternoon and night.
When he appeared the morning of |
the flight, mere was still a line of
tension about his mouth but his
eyes were clear and he could grin.
On the way to the field after
breakfast, he was silent. She thought
ho might be worrying about, the
flight and tried now to bolster tus
confidence But he turned to her
impatiently.
he said grimly, -I may
not be coming back from this thing,
and if I don't, I want you to know
something. I swore 1 wouldn't ever
love it girl enough to want to marry
her. Marriage is not for fools like
me that have to lie taking crazy
risks. I made marriage virtually
impossible for me and then you came
along. If I could have got you, it
would have been all right. But I
couldn't and now I'm mad about
you. I went out last night trying
to forget you and now it's worse
than ever. I'm going to make this
flight or die trying and I'm going
to be wanting you every inch of the
way. But I don't want you to be
where I can see you on the takeoff."
"All right Monty. I'll keop out
? TVinmnh asms1- in he?
heart a3 she said the words. "Everything'
is all light if only I know you
love mc. Even if we never marry
we will have the most importanl
thing. Now stop worrying, especially
about that."
She drove with him to the plane
and then she slipped away into th<
mall early morning crowd. It wit
little more than dawn but thes<
people had come out to see the start
As she passed toward the fligli'
office, she saw a man in shirt sleeve!
pushing his way toward the plane
I wide, she asked the first questioj
everybody had been asking.
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'What is lhe weather report?" |
"It's bad," the answer casne.
'They're going to hold everything
.ill tomorrow'.'
Natalie- strolled back toward the
ilane. She wondered what it was
7est to do. Had she Instter 3ee him
igain, be with him that day? Or
?vou3d it be letter to keep away
from him?
When she came near, she saw that
Sunny Marion was talking with him.
She seemed to be her old, brilliant
itpjri The pout was gone from her 1
face. That little smile of triumph
seemed to ride there.
Mont turned to the shirt-sleeved
man at his side. He took the paper
he held, glanced at it, then tore it
half across.
Leaning down quickly, he kissed J
the blond girl and sprang into the j
cabin of the plane. He revived up j
the motor, found that it had been}
warmed, that it answered to the
throttle.
Then, suddenly the ship was roaring
across the field. Grease monkeys
scattered. Someone rushed out
of the field office crying, 'Stop hirn!
Stop him!" But the plane was rising
now ... it was up and speeding
for the sea.
Natalie drew back alone. A sobbing
moan broke from her lips. The
weather was wrong. He had not
waited.
And this was the man she loved,
the man who loved her, rushing into
unknown terror and death on a mad
flight around the world.
She looked around for someone
and knew at once that it was Jimmy
she sought in that small crowd. But j
Jimmy was not there. He was nowhere.
Through tear-wet lashes she
could not sec him at any rate:
And when she did see, she stood
stock still.
For Jimmy Hale was leading
beautiful blonde Sunny from the
field. And Jabe Marion came behind
with the field officers.
Natalie fled then. She raced for
a taxicab and hurled herself into it.
"Quick!" she cried and gave the address
of her hotel.
For the newspaper woman in her
had come to her rescue. The flash
would go out from the field office.
She must have her story ready for
the wire in half an hour. And as
she rode through the morning streets
she was planning the lead of that
story.
"Defying the elements." ;fie found
her lips saying, "tossing aside contemptuously
the adverse weather reports
that would have held up the
I Mineola field?around the world '
flight from Mjineola field today for
non-stop."
She hardly knew when :;ho reached
the hotel. She stopped for nothing
when she faced her typewriter in
that quiet room.
She thrust paper and ejmxms into
t in- 111.11 1111 It; 111 III (titllgni ,t| uii
Her story must go. Her heart might
break. Her lover might crash to a
thousand deaths on sea or land from
the vast heights at which he fievv,
but these bits of paper must be lashed
by the keys that her fir.gera drove.
They must be whipped out one by
one till the telegraph hoy rusher
away with them, til! the pencil:
slasfceo, til! the linotype.-; crashed
till the presses grumbled and roared
till the whole world knew that Moid
Wallace was on his way.
The story ended at last.
"To be continued," she wrote t'ei
a lasL paragraph. ' To be continue*
is the story Mont Wallace writc3 ir
clouds and sea today."
It was all :<he could do to brie;
herself to enter tlie roomy fri-motoi
that afternoon when she knew tha
it would .still be hours before an;
possible report could come from lb
lone flier. She wanted to cling t
' the window of some telegraph oft"Lc<
or better still, to sit at the elbow o
one of the radio operators in th
1 world flight chain.
(Continued Next Week)
MINISTER PLANS RACE FOi
i SENATE AGAINST 'OUR BOI
t Asheville, Dee. 19.? Rev. A. ^
Johnson, Baptist minister and i'orn
. cr Buncombe county school teach;
I Ol uinai':r rt-uuit: i, igniuiu.v <*<
5 nouncod today he will be a candidal
. next June for the Democratic com
i nation for the seat now held by tin
ted States Senator Robert R. Reyi
'
r THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C.
Noisy Morn Afte
L
It's a rooiin', toctin' Christmas
The doll and the telephone should k
olds, of Asheville. j
"We have tried every kind of man : i
except a preacher in the senate, now j
let's see what a preacher will do," j
said Mr. Johnson's announcement, j
"If T am elected to the senate, I ;
shall ask the ministers to meet and ,
pray for the proper guidance on any I
given issue, then I shall be guided
by ther recommendations."
Mr. Johnson i3 a native of the,
NOTICE
The undersigned having qualified j
as the adntinistrator of B. R. Brown,
deceased, this is to notify all persons
who are indebted to the said estate
to come forward and settle the same
immediately, and all persons having
claims against the said estate will
present the same for payment or re-1
jection within 12 months from thisj
date or this notice will be plead in
! bar of its recovery.
This I8U1 day of December, 1937.
HOSCOE TOM BROWN.
| 12-23-tiu Administrator.
NOTICE
North Carolina, Watauga County.
To All the Heirs of Sarah Elizabeth
Townaend.
You, and each of you, will take
noice that a paper writing has been
filed in the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court for Watauga
County, which purports to be the
nuncupative will of Sarah Elizabeth
Towr.jend: and you, and each of you,
are further notified that if you wish
to contest the proving and probating
of said will that you will appear before
the undersigned Clerk, at his office
in Boone, N. C., within six
weeks from the date of this notice
or the undersigned will allow the
3aid will to be proven and probated,
i This 27Ui day of November, 1937
A. E. SOUTH.
Clc?rk of the Superior Court for
Watauga County. 12-2-Gp
East Tennessee & Western North
Carolina Motor Transportation
Company.
Buses ieave Boone for Johnson City,
Knox.yklk\ Chattanooga, all Alabama
and Western States points at
7:30 a.m.; 12:20p.m.; and 9.05 p.m.
Leave Boone, for Lenoir, Hickory,
Statesville, Salisbury, Charlotte,
Aaheyille, Wilmington and all
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
points at 8:25 a. m.; 1:10 p. m.:
and 5:10 p. m.
For further Information call buo
station?Phone 4ii.
i | K. T. H W. N. C. TKANSPOKTATIOK
;! COMPANY
~ EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
Having: qualified as the executoi
j of the will of T 1-. Criteher, late ol
i the county of Watauga, state o<
North Carolina, tliia is to notify al
persons having claims against thi
estate of tile said deceased to pre
sent t.lieiu for payment within 11
- months of tire date hereof, or the
r notice will be plead in bar of thei
t recovery. All persons indebted t
j the estate are asked to make in:
c mediate settlement,
n This December 8. 1987.
R. H. VAN NOV, Executor,
,f Will of T. L. Criteher, Deck
C 1 i 1
Try BISMAREX
Iji for Actd Indigestion. Insist
j, on Genuine Bismarex and
refuse other so-called Antv
acid Powders recommen'
mended to be "just as
good." Bismarex is sold in
te Watauga county only at
I- BOONE DRUG CO.
|1" The REXALL Store
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IMMlW'iiillMII'Hii coi
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morning for the iad in the center. 7
Jeep his sisters quietly busy. jsj
Leicester section of Buncombe conn- p
Ly* t
Experience shows that greater 1
progress in improved farming is )
found in those counties where theie
is both a home agent and a if&ir.n L
agent al work.
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE S SALE
By virtue of the power of sale .
contained in that certain deed of
trust executed to the undersigned
trustee on the 2nd day of December,
1935, by Charlie Greer and wife, j4
Jennie Greer, to secure the sum cf |
$47.39 to R. H. Townsend, said deed I
of trust being recorded in the office j
of the Register of Deeds for Watauga |
County, in Book 26, page 14, I will, j
on Monday, December 27, 1937, at 1 j
o'clock p. m., at the courthouse door I
of Watauga county, sell to the highest
bidder for cash, to satisfy said
note, interest and costs, the follow!
ing described real estate, to-wit: j
Adjoining the lands of I. M. Reese, j
Charlie Crilcher, A. G. Wilson, Mrs. j
A. Greer, C. L.. Warren, Florence j
Reecc, John Eggers et al, containing I
61 acres, and being more particular- i
ly described in a deed from J. W. |
Byers and wife, Mary Byers, to Jen- j
nie Greer, dated the first day of De- i
j comber. 1932. and recorded in the of- \
fice of the Register of Deeds for Wat- j
auga county, in Book 41. at. page 421. j
From the above land is excepted
about seven acres, which is not covered
by the mortgage to the Atlantic
Joint Stock Cand Bank of Raleigh.
ALso a tract of about twenty acres
heretofore conveyed to R. H. Townsend,
it being the intention io convey
the property described in the
mortgage or deed of trust to the
Atlantic Joint Stock D3nd Bank, except
that part already conveyed to
R. H. Townsend.
This land will be sold subject to
a deed of trust to the Atlantic Joint
Stock Band Bank, with a balance of
j 51,779.00 due.
| This 24th day of November, 1937.
T. E. BINGHAM,
112-2-Ic Trustee.
NOTION OF SANE
Pursuant to power and authority
contained in a certain mortgage deed
dated July 1, 1927, and executed by
, W. J. Wagner and Mara Wagner to
1 Bank of Blowing Rock, which mortgage
deed is duly registered in the
office of the register of deeds for
Watauga county. North Carolina, in
Book 12, at page 66 securing a certain
note to tlie Bank of Blowing
, Rock and default having been made
in the. payment of a note secured by
. said mortgage deed, and said mortgaged
deed having been transferred
, to J. E. Wagner, dated June 29,
1 1936. which is duly recorded in the
t- office of the register of deeds for
, | Watauga county in Book 44, at puge
J 594, will offer for sale at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash
2 at the courthouse door in Watauga
s county at 12 o'clock, noon, on the
r 5th day of January, 1933, the foliowu
ing described property:
Beginning on a railroad culvert
Harrison Baird's comer, and runs
north 33 degrees west with Byrd':
line 8 poles and 9 to a stake; thence
j north 48 degrees with Byvd's line 1
polos to Taylor street; thence r.orll
~ 16 degrees west 29 poles with Tay
lor street to Watauga aveitu.e; tlienci
south 50 degrees west 22 poles ant
51 with Watauga, avenue to a stake
thence south i0 degrees east 101
' r/oles Brewer's line to a stake: thmc
48 degrees cast with Cook's line
poles to a stake: thence south 40 dc
grecs east 0 poles aril 9 links t
roekline; thence north 49 degree
i east '.villi railroad 40 poles and 1
' links to beginning, containing 2 4j
acres.
This 6th day of December, 193'
j 12-9-4C J E. WAGNER.
PAGE SEVEN
OTICE OF MORGAGEF7S S&LB
3y virtue of the power of sale
itained ir a certain mortgage deed
ecuted to the undesigned by O. E.
uupton and wife, Blanda Hampton,
the -1th day of April, 7 036. to se*e
the sum of $53 45. .said niort86
be in ir recorded m the office of
e register of deeds for Watauga
uoty in Book 8 of Mortgage Deeds
page 288. and default having
en made in the payment of the?
aueya thereby secured, as therein,
ovided, I will on Monday, January
, 1938. at the courthouse dcor of
'atauga county, at. 1 o'clock p. m.,
11 to the highest bidder, for cash,
tc following described real estate,
r wit:
Being the O. F.. Hampton interest
. the J. Hampton estate in Blue
.idge township, Watauga county,
rorth Carolina, and being Lot No.
of Uie division of said estate, as
fiown on a plat of said lands made
y I. A. Burn garner, surveyor, which
lat, together with a record of said
artition proceeding, is on record in
he office of the clerk of the superior
court of Watauga county, to
.hick plat and the registration
hereof reference is hereby made for
uller and more complete descriptor.
of same.
This 14th day of December. 1937.
W. S. HAMPTON,
12-16-4C. Mortgagee.
NOTICES OF SALE
Tinder and hv virtue of an nrHfr
of the Superior Court made made
in the special proceeding UT. H. Coffey,
Administrator of E. S. Coffey.
Deceased, against Carrie C. Williams
and Husband, B. F. Williams, Ruth
C. Porter and Husband, R. B. Porter,
Nellie C. Linney ancl Husband,
Baxter M. Linney, Louise C. Black
and Husband, W. C. Black, and Mrs.
E. S. Coffey, Widow," the undersigned
commissioner will on the 27th
day of December, 1937, at 12 o'clock
noon at the courthouse door in Boone.
North Carolina, offer for sale to the
highest bidder for cash the following
real estate:
First Tract: Lying and being in
the town of Boone, Watauga County,
North Carolina, on the south
side of King Street and being more
particularly described as follows:
Beginning on an iron stake at the
intersection of the old Blowing Rock
Road with King Street and runs
south 23 degrees west 285 feet to
an iron stake in Owen Wilson's line;
thence with his line north 69 degrees
cast 425 feet to an iron stake,
WilSon's corner; thence north 14 degrees
east 115 feet to an iron stake;
thence north 69 degrees west with
| Russell D. Hodges' line 121 feet to
| an iron stake; tlience north 14 degrees
17 feet to an iron stake; thence
north 89 degrees west 118 feet to
an iron stake, J. D. Rankin's corner,
thence with Rankin's line north 19
degrees east 135 feet to an iron
stake in the south margin of King
! Street* theiwo with the canfh mni^oih
of King Street north 62 degrees west
160 feet to the beginning, containing
one and three-fourths (1 3-41 acres
more or less.
The above tract of land has been
allotted to Mrs. E S. Coffey ns her
I dower. The same will be sold subject
! to said dower.
| Second Tract: All that certain
I tract of land containing 420 acres,
I more or less, located in Meat Camp
i Township m Watauga County, North
j Carolina, and more particularly described
as follows: Beginning on a
| birch in Noah Miller's line and runs
west 82 poles to a chestnut; thence
north wiili George Winkler's line 208
poles to a bunch of chestnuts; thence
west 24 pole:! to a water oak; thence
south 66 degrees west 37 poles to a
stake in Andy Stone's line; - thence
west 100 poles to a white oak and
maple; thence south 41 poles to a
white oak; thence west 30 poles to a
cucumber: thence south 60 polos to
a stake in road, center in Wade
Moretn's irr.d; thence with the road
south 60 degrees east 11 poles to a
. stake: south 36 degrees east 18 poles
i to a stake; south 17 degrees east 0
; poles to a stake; south 12 degrees
i west 26 poles to a stake; south Si
i degrees west 20 poles to a stake:
i south 67 degrees west 314 poles to
- a stake; thence leaving the road
1 south SO poles crossing the road at
I j about HO poles to a chestnut, Enzor
, ! Beach's corner; thence west 25 poles
, j to a maple; thence south 44 poles to
e - a slake in Hardy Green's line; thence
: east with Green's line. 260 nolcs to a
- white oak, Noah Miller's comer;
o thence with Miller's line north IS deit
gTees east 120 poles to the begtn3
nir.g, containing; four hundred twenty
5 (420) acres, more or less.
i This 26th day of November, 1937
i. | T. 33. BINGHAM,
112-2-40 Commissioner.
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