Wednesday, August 26, 1942 The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Nint Chapter One i Smash j- Stephanie signalled, turned left into the stream of traffic pouring onto the Golden Gate ;, bridge. Thrusting back the cuff i, of her trim olive-drab uniform, ; ftie glanced at her watch. Nearly ': fjve-thirty already. And the line ! 'Of cars ahead moving like a I : Fourth of - July parade. She ! aiifftpH fn sppnnH spnp. hold the ! aleak hlnp miine down in a crawl and rpmpmhnrpd that Aunt Al- I llcnn VioH cniH Hiniwp wnniri lip iJ at seven. And dinner at Stone : hurst meant while tie and tails! I :, Stephanie shrugged, tried to j relax. She shouldn't have vol- Oteered to take that extra duty Headquarters this afternoon. 5; She might have known she'd I never be able to get away on h Ume. She hadn't even had time to dash home and pack a bag. I Sow she'd have to borrow a i, dinner dress from Vicky who !; loathed lending things. She :' Brimaced. Poor Vicky. The ? most beautiful deb In all Marin ; county and always afraid some- one was going to challenge her title. I Her slim foot pressed the ac ; celerator and the powerful lit tle car leaped ahead. She flicked on her highway lights ! moved out into the center lane : Passing cars steadily, she fin- i Jly saw traffic ahead thinning ; out. The highway curved grad ually around the breast of a hill i and the needle on Stephanie's i ipeedometer crept toward sixty. OThen she saw the dog. Only yards ahead as she came j. over the last rise, he dashed out Into the center of the highway i full into the path of her head ' lights. She stepped hard on the !.' brake, signalled frantically. The little dog stood, legs apart, . as if transfixed. ; i "I'm going to hit him!" Ste ; phanie heard her own voice ' ihriek. ? She swerved then, yanking the wheel, feeling the car lurch drunkenly. She held her breath as the whisk of white fur dis appeared behind the curve of her fender. Then she let it go when there was no thud, . no ' pained yelping. -!j "Missed him, thank " ) The word was jerked away, ' lost in the terrible scream of tires skidding on loose gravel. . Strong Arms ivij ' For the ' next few minutes, Stephanie went spinning, down' to a black vortex like some relentless maelstrom that suck ,; ed her farther and farther away 'from reality. Thundrous si ; lence pursued her at first. Then Voices from far away off. One voice in particular a man's ; deep-throated command. J "Give me a hand here. We've got to get her out first." . ; Then strong arms lifting her lowly, carefully. As in- a night mare, Stephane struggled to r rouse herself, to fight her way back through the gathering loom. When she did get her yes open, she looked straight , Bp at the owner of the voice, i "That bank was the only thing i that saved you," the man with a i- nice voice said dryly. "What happened? Do you know?" ; 3 Stephanie remembered then. ; "A dog! In the middle of the highway. I .was just trying to ;; avoid hitting it." fiThe tall youn man captain was, Stephanie noted from f the silver bars on his shoulders i -4-shook his head. "Nice for the . dog but a little risky for other ' people on the road. Do ;-ou al I Ways drive like that?" i Stephanie stiffened. "Certain ly not. It was just an im pulse." i "Pretty deadly business hav ing impulses at sixty miles per Hour." S VI realize that perfectly. And I'm sorry. I guess I just didn't think." He was perfectly right : ' of ' course, she realized cha- , grinder, but he needn't rub it in. "That's obvious," dryly Then to the men who had stop oom and Board '"'If f WEVi OBOPU 18 E GOT WIRE AND rtS. VB 1 k. BUD- -OU.jp V -ONE TIME WORK. K f V f ARE I llll'VuYP& W? i ped to help, who were climbing back into their cars now. Thanks a lot. Guess everything is under control now." Everything, that is, Stephanie amended silently, except her ris ing ire. Because this good-looking soldier boy wore a uniform didn't make him a general. "Thank you so much," Ste phanie said sweetly and sat down on the battered running board of her scarred little car. "I don't mind waiting right here. There will be a highway patrol along soon. I wouldn't think of detaining you." "It may be some time before the patrol arrives. You can't wait here alone." "And why can't I? Or isn't this a free country any more?" "It's a free country but a dark one and cold," he said and grasped her arm, pulled her to her feet. "I'd consider I had been negligent in the perform ance of my duty if I left you here." ' She shook his hand off her arm, but she got into his car. "Just your Boy Scout deed for today, am I? Well, I'm not go ing with you so you might as well pursue your line of duty in another direction." Age Twenty Almost He laughed, a rich throaty sound from deep within his tall, lean frame. "No? And your unifor.n doesn't obligate you to drive as if the state highway were your own private race track, either." He glanced at her a moment. "Just what is the uniform for, anyway?" "San Francisco Red Cross Mo tor Corps. Stephanie Merrill is the name. Age twenty almost. Height five feet four. Weight 108 pounds. Anything else you'd like to know, sir?" Oh, good lord," his laughter burst out again, infectious and infuriating. "I'll bet the S. F. Motor Corps doesn't know the risk it runs. Remind me to con tinue traveling by plane." They stopped at the first ga rage, dispatched a tow truck for the battered little blue coupe. "Okay, Captain Knudsen." The garage man wrote out tag. "Where shall I have the young lady's car delivered?" To 18 Hillcrest Circle, please," Stephanie directed cool ly. "Stonecrest Lodge. How soon can you " ; He shook his head. ''Depends on the amo'unt of damage, miss. Probably not until the middle of the week." Stephanie sighedi She was go ing to have a lot of explaining to do. "Can you get a taxi for me now?" she asked the garage owner. He shook his head again. She heard Captain Knudsen smother a laugh. "I'll be very glad to drive you to Stonecrest, Miss Merrill." Furious, she stepped back into the Captain's car. "Thank you so much. I hate to impose.' "No imposition at all. It's a pleasure to help a lady in dis tress," he teased and added with a grin, "Especially girls with big brown eyes and devilish tempers." Stephanie's laugh relented a little.- "You'd be in a devilish temper too if you'd just smashed up your dad's birthday present and " "And been rescued against your will?" He slanted a smile at her. She met his smile with a cool facsimile of her own. "Exactly, and by a Boy Scout whose gal lantry is only exceeded by his conceit." "Ouch!" He whistled softly. "That hurt. Conceited, huh?" He turned into the gravelled road tiiat curved to the top of the hill where . Aunt Allison's spa cious villa sat like a bejewelled duchess. "A woman always grounds a flyer, eventually," he said and as he stopped the car in the drive already clogged with cars, By Gene Ahern he opened the door for her. It was Stephanie's turn to smile treasingly, "And think what a great loss aviation would suffer if Captain Knudsen were to be grounded eventually!" 'I don't know about that," he said, his smile not quite cover ing his seriousness. "I only know that flying happens to be the most important thing in life for me. I wouldn't be worth much if my wings were clip ped." "And I suppose " still mock ing him, "countless of the fair sex have tried time and time again to" ensnare you, you poor dear.'" 'Sure," and laugh lines fan ned around his blue eyes, "I just have to beat them off with clubs. It's terrible." (To be continued) Wednesday Programs KSLM 1300 Kilocycles Wednetday P. 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