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BANNERS FLYING
BY MARY'RAYMOND
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JAN FALLS IN LOVE
CHAPTER III
CHRISTIE had hoped she could
win Bart over about the flying.
But though Bart had listened pa
tiently to her arguments, there had
never been a moment when he
was near to yielding.
"I know you're good, Christie.
I saw you make that three-point
landing In a stiflUh wind. But
maybe your luck wouldn't hold
out. You might not know what
to do in - an emergency. I'd be
no good at all, Christie, if I were
worrying about you. I've got to
have that promise, darling."
She couldn't be angry with Bart.
Besides, she wasn't doing all the
sacrificing. Bart was putting a
brilliant future behind him for the
time being. He wasn't asking her
to give up something that would
ever mean anything to the world.
She was just an ordinary flyer
who had soloed for the first time
today.
"All right, Bart," Christie said.
"I'll stay out of the air. But when
you're training, will you remem
ber that I have some anxious mo
ments, too?"
"I'll have a steady hand and
head, now," Bart said. "You can
count on it." He kissed her long
and earnestly.
When the door had closed be
hind Bart, Christie went to her
father's study. He was silting be
hind his desk, which, in these days
of the war emergency, was deep
in papers.
"More home work," Christie
scolded. "I won't have it! So this
is why you skipped the dance."
"Your mother still refuses to
believe the headlines," Christo
pher Colton said. "But I know
what they're saying."
"You think the United States
will get in? Bart does, too. He's
going to an air field. But that's
not really what I came to tell you.
Some day, I'm going to have a
sunny kitchen with little blue pots
filled with yellow flowers on the
window sill . . . and a perfectly
immaculate ice box and blue
linoleum printed in neat little
squares."
She stooped over and kissed
him. "You don't mind if I marry
Bart some day, do you? I would,
anyway, so you might as well be
nice and agreeable about it"
"1 think it's a great idea. Only
I'm a little confused by all the
housewifely details. I thought
you'd be asking for a blue plane
as a wedding gift."
"You can scratch that blue plane
off your shopping list I promised
Bart to give up flying."
"So the first thing Bart does is
to pin your wings back." Her
father was frowning slightly.
"It wasn't such a brilliant idea,"
Christie said lightly. "I think I'll
run up and see Mother."
TVTRS. COLTON was sitting be-
. fore her dressing table, her
eyes looking through a mask of
cold cream.
"Sometimes, I almost wish you
had a face like a horse, then you
wouldn't spend so much time on
it," Christie said from the door
way. "It's just that I came to tell
you I'm going to make you a
mother-in-law, some day, and I
wanted to see how you would
take it."
"Well, I naturally thought you
would," Mrs. Colton was carefully
removing the cream. "I couldn't
possibly give my consent until
Bart has established himself "
"I could compete with a good,
first-class row," Christie said,
turning to go. "But cold logic and
cold cream are too much for me."
She opened her slim hand, blew
a kiss across her palm. "Night
I really like you beautiful."
She crossed the hall and opened
a door. Dad, disapproving because
he thought Bart had been unfair
about those flying lessons; Mother
not even interested because her
marriage was too far off for trous
seau buying
Well, at least she could count
on Jan and understanding. Only,
it would be hard to tell Jan, in a
way, because shy, sweet Jan didn't
have anybody in love with her.
"You're awake, Jan?"
"Yes. What hours you do keep,
Christie. I've been in ages."
Christie sat down on the bed
and surveyed her twin, taking in
the brown-gold hair which tum
bled around her face, the smoky,
gray-blue eyes, so much like her
own.
"Sccretl" Christie spoke softly,
preparing to launch her big sur
prise. Then, she saw that Jan was
blushing.
"Christie, I never knew anyone
i like you. Can you read my mind?"
I Jan was looking off into space
I with a queer, half-smile on her
face, as though her thoughts were
traveling along a little mental road
that was closed to outsiders.
"Heavens!" Christie thought,
"the child's In love or thinks she
ts." This was no time to tell her
own exciting news.
" "HRlSTiE' Janet began, "you
know that party that Mother
has been bogging me to have."
"The party you didn't wantthat
would bore you to tears "
"The same one," Janet smiled.
"I'll go through it on one condi
tion. There's a man I met him
today. I'll face all those dreadful
old people who look me up and
down, and a stagline that doesn't
see me at all if I may invite
him to the dance."
"He must be the World's won
der." Chrlstl breathed.
"Ho. isn't rich and important,"
Jan said, musingly. "Hut you'll
like him. He's a chemist and he
has a new job at the Wiiinwrislit
Company. The way we met was
funny. He simply walked up to
mo and said, 'You look ns though
fou are having a rather slow time,"
and I said, 'I am, but nobody ex
cept you has been rude enough
to mention it.' "
"Jan! How did you ever get
past that brilliant beginning?"
"He thought it was funny. He
said what he had sid called for
a long apology and it would take
him all through the supper hour
to say it Oh, Christie, I had a
lovely time."
Christie felt her throat tighten.
It took such a little to make Jan
happy. Just a bit of uUcnlion.
"Mother will bargain with you,"
Christie said. She added, slowly:
"This man you met he sounds
fair. Maybe a little too sure of
himself."
"He is pretty confident," Jan
agreed. "From now on out, I'll be
bothered about having enough
stags. I'd like scads but Mother
says the draft has simply ruined
cveryk3y's dance list."
"Now isn't that just too mean
of Uncle Sam," Christie said.
"It's just that I don't want to
get stuck with Stephen," Janet
said, smiling at Christie's elab
orate irony.
Stephen. Well, Jan did move
fast when she got going. Christie
was thoughtful as she peeled off
her dress. This was more interest
than her sister had ever shown.
She tried to visualize the type
of young man that Janet would
pick for a party. A chemist, she
had said.
, "He'd sound more exciting if he
were a combat pilot," Christie
thought sleepily, thinking of Bart
and planes.
It was simply amazin? .Ian
.tailing m love wnh sum? young
man who spent his time bending
over test tubes. Ho had sounded
terribly conceited and arrogant,
and ho might havV) long hair and
wear thick glasses, too.
(To Bo Continued)
Anyone who Is constantly
snipcratinR, creating dissension
and constantly criticizing the
government you must keep an
eye on that guy, He's not with
us.
M a y o r LaCuttrdiu o Now
York.
Air forces will be the controll
ing factor in the Pacific. We are
strong, but so is the enemy. It
is no pushover. Mnj-Gcn. Willis
H. Utile, mid-Pacific air com
mnnnVr. Guess the people who used to
ride in the rubber-neck busses
hnvo turned themselves in.
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By William
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