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CHAPTER XVII
TJEAUTTFUL Sky Harbor here at
Phoenix had nearly 10,000
people out to welcome the man
and girl flying across the nation In
a sailplane. One reason was, tree
barbecue. A local meat packer
and rancher, Inordinately proud of
his town, had made a deal with
officials at the flying fields. '
"This valley around Phoenix,"
he said, "is now the second largest
aviation center in America.' You
Army fellows planned a big soar
ing carnival for Captain Carr. All
right, we hometown folks can
chime in. I'll furnish the meat if
your Army cooks will make the
barbecue. IH get pickles, bread
and music too."
All of this was as western as the
sunset itself. Westerners will ar
range a barbecue for the slightest
or no reason! This time, they had
a reason; distinguished flyers from
all neighboring states were to be
here, young men and women pi
oneerlng the new field of soaring
as a big-business and blg-adven
ture enterprise. At Thunderbird
Field and Luke Field as well as
Sky Harbor sailplanes had been
. dotting the air all day as contest
entrants arrived from surrounding
states. Los Angeles had a team of
experts. So did Albuquerque, El
Paso, Denver, San Antonio, and
Salt Lake City. This was to be the
biggest soaring meet in history.
The approach of CapL Jimmy
Carr's transcontinental glider was
announced to the crowd by loud
speakers. His was a craft dec
orated in brilliant gold anything
but camouflaged! and the irides
cent quality of the paint was
heightened by Arizona's slanting
un. The plane was still gleam
ing, shimmering, like feathers of
some gigantic hummingbird, when
Jimmy set it down on a runway.
Pat Friday, being half led, half
dragged by pilot Ed Bryan, felt
new admiration for the craft as
they ran toward it
"But Ed," Pat demanded again,
"what do you intend to do?"
"Sh-h-h-h!" he pleaded. "You
stick by me. You just do exactly
like I tell you."
"But but "
"ThereH be a bunch of photog
raphers and reporters and news-
. reel men again, Miss Pat You
know how to act your part."
"But what do you mean? Why
on I do?"
The golden ship was only 100
yards off now and had come to. a
full rest Pat and . Ed trotted
among the group of a dozen or so
mechanics and field officials who
were the first to fan out But
other people were leaving-the
crowd, Pat observed. In a minute
or so the plane would be sur
rounded. i "Miss Pat!" Ed Bryan mur
. mured. "It was your picture they
look at Elmira and Cleveland and
Chicago. Don't you see?"
! j "I know, Ed. But"
! "There haven't been any stops
between Chicago and here. That
' itself is a kind of record, for two
, eeater towed flight in this country,
over these mountains and all.
', And so "
"I know that ' But you know
' and I know that Loraine Stuart's
in there with Jimmy. And she's
likely to act up, Ed! I mean, if she
sees me here. We don't want to
make a scene!"
i "No, and we don't want any
thing to mess up this whole stunt,
either. This trip the captain's mak-
ing. Coast to coast."
"Of course not But what will
' we do? Us?"
"Let me handle this. You stick
. by me, don't ask any questions,
i and do jusfrlike you're told!"
, Ground crews held the golden
s sailplane and would have pushed
it on up close to the main crowd,
' but saw the crowd itself coming.
The people seemed to flow out
: here like waters of a flood. Ed
i Bryan, still holding tight to Pat,
was. among the six or eight men
who ran to the fuselage as Jimmy
pushed back the transparent hood.
"Hello, everybody!" Jimmy
shouted, grinning.
A HULLABALOO of greeting!
followed. And the next 30
seconds were a strange melange to
Pat.
She caught a glimpse of several
men all trying to shake Jimmy's
hand at once. Another, glimpse of
Loraine Stuart, smiling from the
passenger seat behind him.
Next moment, she saw big Ed
Bryan sort of lunge in front of
Loraine and begin to lift her bod
ily from the seat Everywhere
people were shouting, laughing,
talking, all at the same time, amid
a happy confusion. Loraine was
saying something, or trying to.
"What are you doing here?" Pat
heard het shriek at Ed Bryan.
"Business, miss!" she heard Ed
shout back, "You wanta keep
quiet!"
"What?"
; "I say you wanta keep quiet, you
understand me!"
There was menace in Ed's tone.
Pat would not have heard him but
for the fact that ho had to shout
it, and she herself had been pulled
nnd crowded close behind him.
Only now, In fact, did he release
her wrist . ' . .
It was not easy to extricate Lo-ralno.-
The safety belt had to be
unbuckled. She was stiff-muscled
from sitting so long, and the crowd
was jostling the ship. But big Ed
lifted her, pulled her right out of
the plane. He managed to keep
Up a sort of running hullabaloo
while about it, and Pat saw 'him
deliberately push two or three
men into positions that screened
what he was. doing here. Pat was I
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appalled. Was the man actually
trying to punish Loraine? Do her
bodily injury? He perhaps had
cause to, but he hadn't indicated
any such wrath!
That wasn't the answer, of
course.
Because, next moment Pat felt
big Ed manhandling her own self.
He lifted her like a child, plumped
her down in the passenger scat!
"Sh-h-h-h, don't talk!" ho
growled once more, at her ear.
Loraine discovered Pat, then.
"What are you doing?" Loraine
shrieked.
"DON'T CROWD UP, LADY!"
Ed roared now, dominating every
body and pushing Lornine back
ward. "STAND BACK, STAND
BACK. PLEASE! THE PHOTOG
RAPHERS WANT TO GET A
PICTURE OF CAPTAIN CARR'S
GUEST!"
"What are you do ?" Loraine
began repeating it, but her voice
was drowned out and Ed himself
was subtly forcing her away from
the plane!
"DON'T CROWD UP!" He was
still roaring, good-naturedly. "LET
THE LADY PASSENGER HAVE
A CHANCE!"
Other gentlemen western gen
tlemen heard that and began to
help him in all good faith. Army
men joined in. AE at once chiv
alry and hospitality were in full
play here. Photographers were
squatting and squinting and click
ing their boxes. Jimmy Carr was
engulfed in Army men.
Facing the cameras with genu
ine astonishment Pat Friday
finally realized that she had been
adroitly substituted as the pas
senger again! With the crowd en
tirely unaware!
(To Be Continued)' .
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