Sweet Smith
Out Our Woy
By J. R. Williams Our Boarding House
With Major Hoopla
gun, giti
By OREN ARNOLD
THIS STOI1YI Pat Friday Iibb
trn employed br Jimmy Crr,
10 Irarn aonrlnv vralle ahe works
l'a nnd. hcrarlf, Iorciocp Willi
Jimmy Anil I.oralne Slnnrr, nla
tlnncre, en route to Klmlra, the
nation' Klitlrr eanllal. rat baa
proven hor efficiency or taklnff
core of all the travel detail. On
Board tho train, Jimmy t'nrr ea
pounda at length on the faclnn
tloaa of aonrlng-, and he flndi lnt
faactnnled lUteaer. Loralna
Htnart. mallcfimaly, remlnde rnt
thnt Jlmmr la enicajred to her.
llon't bother vrnatlna; your time
fend, talenta,' ahe hliaea,
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SOLO FLIGHT
CHAPTER IV
pAT FRIDAY nursed a kind oi
zero-hour feeling.
It had begun to grow on her
six days ago, when she piloted a
sailplane two consecutive houn
without her instructor once touch
ing the controls. She had even
landed the ship without his help
and ho had walked away wits
that matter-of-fact air.
"You're doing fine, Patty," kind
ly Mrs. Anderson told her. Mrs.
Anderson was head file clerk in
the headquarters of Elmira's new
Double Eagle Soaring Field.
"I can face what's coming," Pat
admitted, "but I'll be petrified!"
"Scared of what, dear? You're,
good! You've had 16 days of
training. I heard the officers talk
ing. They said you could have
done solo days ago. They'll be
turning you loose any time now."
i "I know it!" said Pat, omi
nously. That's what created the zero
hour Jitters inside her. Solol In
n sailplane! Well, she could do
it, if Jimmy Carr expected her to.
Funny, how Jimmy's wishes and
trust in her gave her a strange
determination.
"Jimmy Carr put you under the
best instructors," Mrs. Anderson
went on.
"He gave me Miss Stuart at
first," Pat said. "We didn't get
along so well, though."
"You wouldn't It's hard for
anybody to get along with Lo
raine." ' '
"I was touchy, Mrs. Anderson."
The older woman smiled. "No.
You're pretty, Pat Very pretty.
That's where the trouble lay. But
you learned to soar in 10 days,
and thaf s better than Loraine did
at the start And you've had six
more days of hard training now.
You must have confidence!"
Pat sighed. "It seems impos
sible. It takes long months to
learn even the groundwork of
motor ship flight, but this"
.. VThis is soaring. Gliding. It's
very different This is easier, and
safer all around. Even a boy or
girl, a hi$i school senior, can
learn to s in three to six weeks.
Not many people realize that
Patty."
"People ought to be told more
. about it The public doesn't real
ize how Important sailplanes can
be!"
"It's your Jimmy that's telling
them, honey."
Mrs. Anderson's "your" was
benevolent, motherly; but Pat
glanced at her self-consciously.
"It's all so wonderful," she mused
"And when my Big Moment
comes !"
It came as unexpectedly as only
an anticipated something can.
. a
;QNE day when nothing had hap
pened, when no portent cloud
fed the world, when no talk or
rumor suggested excitement the
door burst open ahead of a whirl
wind. "Hi, Friday!" the whirl
jwind called. "Your number's up!
Get going! Solo!"
"Jimmy!" She was wide-eyed,
appalled. Feminine heads all
around looked up, including Lo
raine Stuart's.
"Hurry! Don't just stare. Want
me to court-martial you? Squi-i-ik!"
He gestured as if choking
somebody and made a horrid
Bound with his tongue. That was
like him; eternally teasing, happy,
gay.
They moved fast. She had
learned soaring in 19 days, and
now she was to prove it in nine
minutes! Her pulse was thump
ing as they motored out to the
hangars in a peep.
Jimmy helped her into her 6hip,
a new Laister-Kauffman trainer,
ft was like a delicate bird, wings
already spread. Then he roared
off in the same peep to his air
plane, 600 yards distant A wire
ran from his ship to Patsy's mo
torless one.
. A signal was given. The wire
tightened. Patsy, thus towed, held
her breath.
Z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-zin-n-n-ngt
The first soft swish of air be
' came a whine. Earth faded away.
Green hills of New York were re
treating and cumulus clouds of
fered welcoming hands. : Pat's
headset crackled.
"Smooth as satin, Patsy!" Jim
my radioed. "We're 2000 now.
I'm gonna take you to 5000."
: "Oh, Jimmy!" It was all she
could say! The ecstasy of soaring
gripped her. Soaring, alone. Lit
erally towed like a kite, then
fumed loose as free as the wild
birds around her.
She watched the altimeter, and
at 5000 feet pulled the release
lever that cut her loose from the
' tow line. She and Jimmy talked
no more. There was no shock to
jthis solo job. No fright. Instead,
there was beauty. A whole uni
verse of beauty in silver and blue.
Jimmy dipped his plane in salute,
(lien went back to earth again.
' y
fTHAT'S when Pat breathed,
A "Oh, Jimmy! Jimmy!" again,
quite forgetting her radio. Down
stairs, they heard it, and Jimmy
Carr'a fellow; officers grinned
openly at hirri when he landed.
Lucky devil, having a cute pupil
sold on him personally that wayt
j1 By rigid if unspoken agree
ment, however, nobody made any
big fanfare or "to-do" When Pat
ilandcd safely. . The Army can't
afford to compliment and pamper
Sveryhtllgraw reci'iijt,. Patsy was
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told she did well, and if her eyes
looked around for Jimmy and
showed disappointment, she at
least didn't say anything. Sho re
flected that girls were kind of
extra-curricular here anyway. Not
officially In the Army, and yet
striving to help the Army atr
program, by learning to be in
structors where instructors were
sadly needed. Women could teach;
men could go abroad and fight
Dutifully Pat trudged back to
headquarters, to await orders
again.
In the rush of office work there,
too, nobody questioned her. This
was all business, all speed, all
routine. First solo flights, how
ever thrilling to the individual,
were common to the field as a
whole. But on her desk was a
note from Jimmy asking her to
wait in the front reception room
for him after 5 o'clock.
When she closed her typewriter
for the day and went to the re
ception room, Loraine Stuart was
already there, smoking and look
ing coolly perfect
"Oh," said Pat surprise.
"Oh?" Loraine lifted her lovely
eyebrows. She gave Pat that half
amused, half-disdainful smile.
"I I thought"
Pat didn't finish, because sha
heard Jimmy's rapid walk outside
and knew it was he, prompt to
the minute. Like the virile young
animal he was, he swung through
the door and came striding for
ward. Then he saw both girls
and stopped. His smile seemed to
weaken, as if in surprise or in
decision. Under white tissue and green
ribbon was an unmistakable box
of candy, and the ribbon also held
the, daintiest possible corsage,
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
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Headquarters.
7 Mother (Fr.).
8 Grandparental
10 Wager.
11 Age.
13 Deep hole.'
15 Enthusiast
(colloq.).
16 Include.
17 Diamond
cutter's cup.
19 Sedan.
20 Steamship
(abbr.).
22 Soft mass.
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To make blueprint paper on
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35,000-ton battleship requires
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made of defense stamps. ' They
loomed conspicuously, there in
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(To Be Continued)
By William Ferguson
A FOEHN IS A
INSIGNE
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12 Mystic
syllable.
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15 Facilitated.
16 Consents.
18 One who loves
his country.
19 Where soldiers
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21 Cut.
23 Performers. '
25 Short-napped
fabric.
27 Entomology
(abbr.).
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35 Touch.
40 Tilt.
42 Sailors.
43 Paid notice
44 Not short.
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47 Japanese
porgy.
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51 Within.
53 Half an em.
sleeve just
below the
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