Thursday. December 9, 1937
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NINTH 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.
Natalie interviews Jabe Marion,
a wealthy airplane builder, who
deckles to build a record-breaking
"round the world plane for Monty.
Marion's daughter, Sunny, ex
quisitely beautiful, is attracted to
Monty. She invites Natalie to dine
with her, when they meet the avi
ator unexpectedly.
Natalie discovers that Sunny is
jealous of her friendship with
Monty, and that she is trying to
prevent them from being alone.
After driving to a mountain re
sort with Sunny and Jimmy,
Monty again declares his love for
Natalie.
Natalie induces Monty to set
out with her in an airplane search
for two missing aviators. At dusk
Monty lands the plane in the
open country, where he and
Natalie must spend the night.
Resuming the search in the
morning, they finally locate the
fliers. Natalie wires the story to
her paper. That night at dinner,
Marlon announces a non-stop,
•round the world flight, with
Monty piloting the new plane,
'Sunny Marlon.'
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Monty's plan is to have ten re
fuelling stations along the route,
where pilots are to go aloft to re
fuel his plane. Monty files with
Natalie to New York, where he
will begin the flight eastward.
They are followed by Jimmy and
Sunny.
Two mbre days and Mont would
be roaring over the ocean on the
most impossible flight in history.
Something gripped at her heart.
Something told her she would
never see him again.
She stood up and moved to the
window of her rooirf. Children
were playing at the curb. The
world was going on without a
thought of impending tragedy.
She tidied her hair and renew
ed the light make-up she wore.
But panic was upon her. She had
to see Mont again quickly. His
room, she knew, was at the end
of the short hall. She slipped
along the worn carpet and tap
ped gently at the door.
There was no response. Some
one was coming up the 'twisted
stairs. She turned the knob of
the door and slipped inside.
Mont was asleep. He had
thrown off coat and shoes and
tie. ,
For a long time she stood
there listening" to his heavy
breathing. Then very quickly she
moved forward and sank to the
floor beside him. She laid her
cheek against the sleeve of his
shirt.
She would stay there a little
while guarding him with her love.
And npw her fear fell from her. .
it was as though his nearness and
her adoration for him had driven
it out.
Her throbbing heart grew calm
and she knew content again.
And so she fell asleep beside
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TOE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
him and did not wake till early
afternoon.
"Is this nice?" he asked, seeing
that she was awake.
She sprang up quickly but he
caught her hand and drew her
down beside him. _
"I'm in a hell of a fix," he said,
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 mar
ry 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, it's a new one on 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. N
He whipped a glance at the
watch on his arm. "We'd better
be getting back to the field.
They'll be looking for us."
She went back to her own room
then, but her heart wa3 singing
as though in triumph. It seemed
jueer about that when he had just
told her they were not to be mar
ried. She wondered about it a
little but there was no explana
tion—unless it was that her heart
knew better than her mind that
he loved her as she had to be
loved.
He came for her In a few min
utes and they rushed away to the
field.
Jimmy was there and Sunny
Marion presently, a frowning
Sunny who attached herself at
once to Mont Wallace. Jimmy
he coulcTgrin.
On the way to tne field after
breakfast, he was silent. She
thought he might be worrying
about the flight and tried now to
bolster his confidence. But he
turned to her impatiently.
"Nat," 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 1
wouldn't ever love a girl enough
to want to marry her. Marriage
is not for fools like me that have
to be 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 L'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 take
off."
"All right, Monty. I'll keep out
of sight." Triumph sang in her
heart as she said the words. "Ev
erything is all right if only I know
you love me. Even if we never
marry, we will have the most im
portant thing. Now stop worrying,
especially about that."
She drove with him to the plane
and then she slipped away into
the small early morning crowd. It
was little more than dawn but
these people had come out to see
the start.
As she passed toward the flight
office, she saw a man in shirt
sleeves pushing his way toward
the plane.
Inside, she asked the first ques
tion everybody had been asking.
"What Is the weather report?"
"It's bad," the answer came.
"They're going to hold everything
till tomorrow." •
Natalie strolled back toward the
plane. She wondered what it was
best to do. Had she better see him
again, be with him that day? Or
would it be better to keep away
from him?
When she came near, she saw
that Sunny Marion was talking
with -him. She seemed to be hex
old, brilliant self. The pout was
gone from her face. That little
smile of triumph seemed to ride
there.
Mont turned to the shirt-sleev
ed man at his side. He took the
paper he held, glanced at it, then
tore it half across.
Leaning down quickly, he kiss
ed the blonde girl and sprang in
to the cabin of the plane. He rev
ved up the motor, found that it
had been warmed, that it answer
ed to the throttle.
Then, suddenly, the ship was
roaring across the field. Orease
monkeys scattered. Someone
rushed out of the field office cry
ing, "Stop him! Stop him!" But
the plane was rising now ... it
was up and speeding for the sea.
Natalie drew back alone. A sob
bing 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 Jim
my she sought in that small
crowd. But Jimmy was not there.
He was nowhere. Through tear
wet lashes she could not see 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 Jake Marion came be
hind with the field officers.
Natalie fled When. She raced
for a taxicab and hurled herself (
tried to get the girl away once or
twice but she would not go with
him and the four went together
for dinner at a larger hotel in
the neighborhood.
Natalie wrote another story in
her quiet room that night when
Jimmy had taken her to the
small hotel and then she sat
waiting for Mont's footsteps out
side her door. \
They did not come and she got
into becoming negligee, hoping to
rest until he should appear. Once,
twice, she waked having dreamed
that 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 uptil the morning
and, when Jimmy telephoned, she
went out to breakfast with him a
little sick at heart. At the field,
she waited and watched for Mont,
but it was mid-movning before he
appeared.
He was haggard and pale. Na
talie hurried to him with quick
alarm, fearing that he might not
be ready the next day for the long
grind of the flight.
But he was intent on his work
and it was not till Sunny Marion
arrived, her make-up heavy and
her smile oddly triumphant that
Natalie knew the truth of that
night.
She took him away from the
Marion girl then. Directly and
deliberately she made him go with
her, and shfe drove with him
§traight to the 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 no shape to fly.
You're all broken up about some
thing. You've got to forget every
thing but the flight."
■"All*right," he told her. "But
get mt of here. I'll be all right."
She knew then that something
more than a night out was behind
those tense white lips of his. It
was something, she thought, con
nected with her; something that
made him brusque with her. But
she couldn't make out what it
might be.
She saw to it that he was not
disturbed that afternoon and
night. When he appeared the
morning of the flight, there was
still a line of tension about his
mouth but his eyes were clear and
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 o1 that story.
"Defying the elements," she
found her lips saying, "tossing
aside contemptuously the adverse
weather reports that would have
held up the flight from Mineola
field today for Mineola field
around the world —non-stop."
She hardly knew when she
reached the hotel. She stopped
for nothing when she faced her
typewriter in that quiet room.
Bhe thrust paper and carbons
into the machine and banged at
the keys. Her story must go. Her
heart might break. Her lover
might crash to a thousand deaths
on sea or land from the vast
height at which he flew, but these
bits of paper must be lashed by
the keys that her fingers droves
They must be whipped out one
by one till the telegraph boy rush
ed away with them, till the pen
cils slashed, till the linotypes
crashed, till the presses grumbled
and roared, till the whole world
knew that Mont Wallace was on
his way. ,
The story ended at last.
"To be continued,",, she wrote
for a last paragraph. "To be con
tinued is the story Mont Wallace
writes in the clouds and sea to
day. To be continued is the epic
of the Twentieth Century's fourth
decade as one tousled-headed
youth rides high to new fame or
death.
She did not break when the
story ended. She did not stop till
the last page had been thrust in
to the hands of the waiting boy
and hurried on its way.
There were two pilots on the
plane going home.
Natalie could have screamed
when she saw them, for they re
minded her again that Mont Wal
lace was alone as he fought his
way across the Atlantic.
It was all she could do to bring
herself to enter the roomy tri-mo
tor that afternoon when she knew
that it would still be hours before
any possible report could come
from the lone flier. She wanted
to cling to the window of some
telegraph office, or better still, to
sit at the elbow of one of the radio
operators in the world-flight
chain.
Continued Next Issue
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
trix of the estate of Sadie Frank
lin, deceased, this Is to notify all
persons holding claims against said
i estate to present them to the un-
I dersigned within one year from
date of this notice or same will
be pleaded In bar of their recov
ery. All persons owing said estate
please settle at once. This Decem
ber l. 1937.
Mary F. McNeely, adminis
tratrix of the estate of Sa
-12-23 die Franklin, deceased.
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