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CHAPTER II
T'M afraid I can't come out to.
x the field today." Jackie (aid
regretfully, when Roger Breckner
telephoned that next morning.
Her foreboding had proved cor
rect so far, Evelyn had taken to
her bed with one of her lick
headaches! She teemed really ao
111, however, that Jackie felt the
ought not leave her. One never
knew Into what Evelyn'i head
aches might develop.
"I'm taking off for Washington
tomorrow," Roger Interrupted. He
was a free lance pilot; occasion
ally he did some test flying, be
sides Instructing. "If you can't
take your lesson today, couldnt
you run out long enough to grab
a bite with me at the Airport
Inn? Maybe we could manage to
get aired out, too, afterwards."
Jackie never turned down a
chance to get "aired out" ai Roger
called it if she possibly could help
herself. "I'll do my best," she
promised. "Maybe I can leave
Mother that long." If Roger was
going away she would just have
to manage. Not because she had
to see Roger, but because the
might not get "upstairs" until he
returned, and besides she was so
eager to hear all about the testa;
he was going to make In Washington.
WHEN Evelyn learned her
' daughter had an invitation to
have dinner with her young man
she got surprisingly better. "Of
course you must go, darling," she
Insisted sweetly. "And do wear
something especially nice.". She
meant something feminine and
frilly, if such a garment could be
found in Jackie's wardrobe. ' r..
The slate-blue tailored suit,
with its silk blouse, that Jackie
zipped into afteffa hasty shower,
was not as beguiling as It might
have been, but it was decidedly
smart and the golden flecks in
Jackie's eyes were so dancing and
eager that most any young man,
with the aid of the moon, -would
want to talk about something be
sides flying. . - ,
Evelyn would not have consid
ered the Airport Inn a very ro
mantic setting. Its tables were
covered with red and white check
ered cloths, booths lined the sides:
there were musical and game ma
chines and always a great deaLof
clatter and laughter. What ap
pealed to Jackie were the auto
graphed photos of aviators,, many
01 in em oia-omen, that nung
proudly on the walls, the hum of
airplanes overhead, the press of
excitement and activity.
"Isn't It terribly dangerous?"
Jackie asked, after Roger had fin
ished telling her about the tests
he would make. So far they had
talked of nothing but flying. .
"Dangerous?" Roger's fine even
white teeth were exceptionally
white in contrast to his weathered
akin; his eyes crinkled at their
corners whent he smiled. - His
rough tweeds were always casual,
but he wore them with an air of
distinction. His thick . hair was
wavy, bronzed from sun and wind;
his shoulders broad and strong.
He would never admit any dan
ger connected with his beloved
flying. Now he shrugged even the
suggestion away. "At worst I
might break an eardrum, or get
a bit groggy from lack of oxygen,"
he said. "You've got to climb
about 15,000 feet to do a straight
drop in order to see if the ship
Will hang together." .
e '
HOPE it's
a good . ahlp,"
T
Jackie said. She shivered ap
prehensively. No matter what
Roger said, she knew test diving
was the most dangerous thing any
pilot could do. It didn't seem right
to ask a man to do it. Roger had
told her how the blood drained
from one's head, rendering one
almost blind,' how centrifugal
force pushed the head down to
the shoulders and caused the back
to ache.
"I hope ao," too," Roger returned
cheerfully. He looked as though
be liked to pull the whiskers of
fate. A man had to be a mixture
of fool and poet to be a' born
flyer like Roger. "I guess it's a
pretty swell bird. It's no expert
mental job. A bomber, with a
700-horsepowcred engine, sturdy
and ' squat and bulldoggish."
Jackie heaved a big sigh of re
lief. "That's good," she a a Id,
"How long will you be gone.
Roger?" Even when she started
soloing she would have to do SO
hours to get her pilot's license.
She supposed she would be old.
before she got to do something
witn her lite.
"A week ten days, maybe,"
Roger seemed to be taken up with
thoughts of the future, too. He
wore his dream-drunk look, chew
ing on the end of a toothpick.
which he substituted for cigarets;
always having one dangling from
the'corner of his humorous mouth.
"What I hope to do some day."
he said, "are a few stratosphere
tests. Think of the speed that
could be developed up there! Why,
you could get from coast to coast
in a few hours! If I ever get a
lucky break, or meet a Santa
Claus who'll stake me . . ."
"That would be grand!" Evelyn
would have thought her daughter
lovely, could she have seen the
way her eyes glowed now. But
even Evelyn's romantic imagina
tion couia not have conjured what
they would talk about later. "I
hope you get such a break," Jackie
said. A trifle enviously. For she
knew somehow that Roger would.
Oh, if only she had been born a
man! That was he sort of thing
she'd do, too. And Evelyn wanted
her to get married!
"WHAT'S the matter?" Roger
- asked. He . leaned toward
her in consternation. She did not
know she suddenly had looked
like that accusing angel again.
"Everything!" Jackie blurted.
She had not meant to confide in
Roger, but hadn't he just told her
his most secretly cherished am
bitions? Besides she felt she had
to confide in someone. "It s
Mother, Roger. She thinks she can
plan my life, when I want to do
something important She thinks
she can marry me off. Just be
cause she wants to get married
herself. And what's more, she's
likely to manage somehow to do
it" - -
'"Get married!" Roger almost
swallowed his toothpick. "Who
does she want to marry you oft
to?"
. "You," Jackie supplied.
VMe!" .
"Yes, I know. It's too utterly
ridiculous." Jackie spread her
hands in a helpless gesture that
was more appealing than any of
her mother's dramatics. "But you
don't know Mother. My life will
be plenty miserable from now on.
Unless I can think up some way
to pacify her."
"That ought to be easy enough."
Roger said. His eyes crinkled at
their corners again.. He pushed
back his chair. "We can't talk in
here with all this racket" Some
one had put a nickel in the elec
trical music-box; an orchestra was
swinging high. "Suppose we ao
over, to the hangar," he added.
we can take a flip and mull
things over."
"You mean you have an idea of
some way to help me?". Jackie
jumped up excitedly. "Oh, Roger,
a you only could . . ."
I m made of ideas!" Roeer
boasted. "I'll concoct one you've
never heard the like of before,
let me assure you."
(To Be Continued)
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An Inventor has discovered that
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