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'' Thursday, November 11, 1937 B JB m s-'jJPaW ,mjr Jm Jm jb Btouiah £&\£& FIFTH INSTALMENT * 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 co-worker. Mont cracked his palm across that pink and white cheek. The noise of it made a little echo from somewhere and when the others had rushed onto the bal cony there was deep silence while Sunny slipped limply into Mont's arms and Jimmy Hale came quickly to stand beside Natalie. "Cripes Nat" the photographer said in an awed voice, "that kid is wild. A few drinks and she's half nuts. We better get her out of here." "Now, Jimmy," Natalie said slowly, "she was just hysterical . . . that's all. She sure came out of it when Monty hit her." "Yes, and what a mistake that was. She'll never leave him alone now. He's given her the biggest thrill she's had since she was a little punk in rompers. She'll throw herself at his feet from now on." "I'm afraid you're right, Jim my," Natalie laughed. She tried to take Sunny's arm as she began to Jead her back in to the house but Sunny shook her off. "You better keep away from her," Jimmy advised. "You only stir her up. Come on out here with me." She turned back with him to the balcony and stood with him looking across the parapet. Her mind now was a tumult at thought of the tragedy so narrow ly averted. The chasm was a great bowl of darkness. It seemed im possible that death lay surely there only a hand's-breath away from the security of the place where she stood. That the bright-haired girl had been a witness of the sentimental passage between herself and Mont Wallace, there could be no doubt. It must have been this that had set her to the temporary madness of that climb to the parapet. How much of that act had been true emotion and how much the prompting of her mild intoxica tion, Natalie could not say, but 7 fli£ Cluuiu FENDER BUSTER OF J&SfeTHEU.S.A. f • "Baldy the Slick" I Smooth tires can wreck \ ■ B&X I your car and put you lift r *" hospital in the twinkling of SEIBERLINGS TjUey. Hew. ktea* SmadU! • Take no chances on smooth tires, drive -to our store TODAY, and let us equip your car with Two-Tread Seiberlings, the tire that NEVER WEARS SMOOTHI ... the tire that protects you from "Baldy the Stick." Guaranteed against all I read hazards for 18 months. flHHffMKlw Extra liberal trade-in on your old tires during Wednesday, Thursday. W Friday, and Saturday of this week. HINSHAW CASH HARDWARE CO. Next Door to Turner Drug Co. Elkin, N. C. she knew there must be some in stinct of desperation in what Sun ny had come near doing. It was not likely, she finally decided that Sunny actually contemplated throwing herself from the balcony. More probably she intended mere ly to frighten the two. She said as much to Jimmy. "The blonde is dizzy," he rasp ed out in his husky voice. "I sup pose you wete kissing that bird of prey. Or he was kissing you, which amounted to the same thing. She's nuts anyway and a little liquor ipakes her more so. She took one look and shrieked. Then she had to start her dive to cover up. Anything to get his mind off you, probably." Natalie sighed. "It was a close thing. I'm scared yet." "And no wonder. But the trou ble is she'll throw her arms around his neck and make him talk up. If I know that wren, she's likely to put on her diving clothes now every time he»takes a good look at you. Are you still knee deep about that guy?" "Well, not at least to the point of wanting to throw myself off anything higher than a chair." "You wouldn't be. But I'm afraid you'll crack up some other way. Will you promise me some thing?" "What, please, Jimmy?" He took his eyes away from that chasm of death and dark ness. With one hand he gripped her wrist until it hurt. "Give me a chance if you crack up with him." His gray eyes were searching her face. What she saw there sur prised her. "What what do you mean, Jimmy?" "Nothing, kid," he said quickly, "except that I'm on the spot too. I'd just about jump over there— sober—if I thought it would do you any good." '"Jimmy!" the girl cried. "Now, Nat. Don't get excited. It isn't your fault. And I'm not drunk. It's' really better with me when I am. I can laugh at myself easier then." "Don't laugh, Jimmy," the girl cried. "It isn't any laughing bus iness. Believe me, I know." "I thought that was about it," the boy said softly. "Oh, well . . " "Jimmy!" the girl cried again. "Don't say a word, Nat. Forget about it. But if you ever get to the point where you want to do any high jumping, promise me you'll come and—let me jump with you." That's a bet, Jimmy." The girl thrust out her other hand. "We'll do our high jumping together, when we do." He caught her hand and held THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA it closely for an Instant and then they laughed together.' They went inside and found that Mont had calmed the beau tiful Sunny. "I'm sorry," she told the other two. "Too much dizzy water, I guess. I'll be all right now." Her eyes went back to the flyer's face. "But boy, what a wallop you car ry in that good right hand. Aren't you ashamed of Yourself —striking a helpless woman?" Mont stammered apologies with a glance at Nataiie'. "It was my fault," Natalie ex plained. "You were hysterical and they tell me that a good jolt will always help. I told him-to do it." "Thanks a lot. But I wish after this, Monty, you'd pull your pun ches." They held a conference then on the trip home. Mont insisted that Natalie do the driving down the mountain road. But the girl declared she was still trembling too much to make it safe. "We're all right now," she said. "If we take it easy, I'd rather you drove. You're used to that sort of thing." Mont Wallace seemed entirely himself as he tooled the car care fully along the fearsome moun tain road. And Natalie, taking her place beside him, found that, for the first time since their first evening together, his presence did not bring that helpless hurt that had come to be so constantly a part of her consciousness. Her heart seemed to remember that Jimmy Hale was waiting to bind up its wound if the hurt proved too much to bear. After that night, the foursomes were dropped as though by mu tual consent. Natalie saw a great deal of Mont Wallace. Sunny made it a point to keep an eye oh her as much out of instinctive liking for the girl reporter as be cause of her recurrent suspicions. Jimmy went on as Natalie's guide and mentor with little to say about the secret he had di vulged that night. Indeed, Natalie might have taken it as a bit of unsober pretense if it had not been for his remarks of the next morning. "Sorry I got lit up last night, Nat," he told her. "I'd never have coughed what I did if I hadn't had a couple too many. It's all true but I didn't intend to have you know about it. You've prob ably got enough on your hands already." She reminded him of their pact and declared that it helped to know he was back of her. After that they went on as before. The other great difference in the relations of the four develop ed between Mont and Sunny. They were together almost con stantly, it seemed. M6nt was much engaged at the airport and Sun ny was inevitably at hand in the bright car in which she made such a perfect picture. Much as she tried Natalie could not entirely conquer her jealousy of Sunny and tried to make amends for it by thoughtfulness and kindness toward the girl when they were together. She Was presently convinced by the things that Sunny dropped in her i conversation and by Mont's attitude t)n occasion that there was an understanding between the flyer and his employer's daughter. Not until then did Natalie de termine finally that she must see less of Mont Wallace. Feeling about him as she did, it was ex hausting to sit beside him know ing that barriers between them held them apart. To these there was now added the fact that Sun ny Marion claimed him for her own in sly ways that could not be challenged. It did not ease the torture of his presence to find that he still battled occasionally against her philosophy of love and that her defenses seemed always in some indefinable way to be weakened afterward. She determined to avoid self torture by seeing him less often and had managed without seem ing to do so to evade his presence several times. \ One afternoon, however, there came a challenge to her profes sional instincts that ran counter to this determination. Two fliers were reported missing somewhere in Lower California. They had been gone for twenty-four hours and it seemed certain that they had cracked up in some inaccessi ble section of the peninsula. Scout planes from their home airport were already winging south on the hunt for them. It occurred to Natalie that the one man with the instinct and luck to find them was Mont Wallace. He was already testing a fast plane for a new attempt against his own record. A word from her, she was sure, and he would Join the hunt with herself as his passen ger. She was out on an assignment with Jimmy when the idea occur red to her. She stifled the im pulse to tell him about it, being certain that he would put up a fight. "Listen, please, Jimmy," she cried. "Drive out to the airport and see if we can pick up any news of the two lost pilots. "That's a hunch," the boy com mented and turned his car toward the port. They went first to the hamgar office to inquire about the fate of the men but nothing could be learned. Then they crossed the field to the big MAC hangar of the Marlon Aircraft Corporation. Mont was swathed in coveralls and elbow-deep in work on the new plane. Natalie knew an In stant of alarm lest the ship be out of commission, she greeted him and waved at Sunny who sat nearby. While Jimmy stopped to talk with the two she slipped Into the small office and telephoned the Express. Mack Hanlon answered the phone. "Listen, Mack," she said. "This is Nat. I'm out at the airport. Don't say* anything to anybody till I'm gone but I'm going to see if I can get Mont Walace to take me on the hunt for Conrad and Sturm." "We already tried the com pany," he told her. "They said they couldn't do anything right now. Two of their pilots are work ing out of San Diego trying to find them. The outfit figures that's enough." "Well, I'm going to try. And if you don't hear from me, that's where I've gone." She hung up the phone and went out to talk with Mont. "How's the ship? Got it all apart?" Her first queries went to the important point. "Just got it back together, Nat," Mont replied. "I could hop off this minute for Mexico City and come close to making it." "Come here a minute," she told him. "I want to show you some thing." Beckoning she led him into the small office and closed the door. "Mont," she almost whispered "will you do something for me?" "Most anything," he laughed. "Well, listen. I want to find those two boys that are down the other side of the Border. It will put me on top of the heap in the newspaper business if I can pick them up. I'm going to grab some sandwiches and pop or something. You get set and we'll slip out of here in a couple of minutes." He stared at her for an instant and then he grabbed her by both arms. "It's a bet, kid. Make it snappy. I'm ready whenever you are." "Don't tell them out there. Jimmy and Sunny will put up a terrible holler. Just tell them you're going to take me for a lit tle hop." She seized the telephone again and ordered a great carton of food and a case of soft drinks. 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