By OREN ARNOLD
SUPERSTITION CLOUD .
CHAPTER XXVI
I'JORRYl For Pete's sake keep
mum now. This Is the big
moment!" Jimmy Carr was plead
ing In hushed but desperate tone.
The reporter had run to get his
staff photographer who was a few
yards up the train of sailplanes.
In the Interim, four people held
ttrange conference.
"Keep mum, Jimmy?" Loralne
sked loftily. "But why? I thought
we had an understanding."
"We did! But my lord, we"
Pat spoke up. "Loralne, please!
You mustn't spoil the show now.
For Jimmy's sake. Your own! Any
hint of personal trouble or scan
dal that might involve Jimmy '
"That's fact, lady!" Big Ed
Bryan added. 'You better let
... Miss Pat keep right on using your
name." ' : .
The reporter was back. "That's
tne one. The tall girl, Rusty, In
the flying togs." He was speaking
rapidly to his photographer, and
he called louder to Jimmy now.
"Okay, Captain? Is she on?"
- Ed Bryan stepped In once more
to help a friend, and save face
here all around.
"Sure she's going," Ed boomed,
genially. "Name's Lo uh, name's
Mary Smith. S-M-I-T-H, Smith.
More woman Interest for this sky
train, see? She's gonna ride with
Captain Carr In the towing plane."
"Swell! Can I talk to her now?"
Jimmy, suddenly understanding
Ed, grabbed Loraine's arm. "Not
till we get back! Come on, Lo
rainel" ;. Nobody noticed that he used her
real name, grabbing her and rush
ing away toward a jeep. In a mo
ment they were riding up to the
tow plane, far ahead. And the
officials assumed this was a signal
for everybody else to get going.
They saw all pilots sent to their
ships, but most Interest centered
on Pat Friday alias "Loraine
Stuart, Captain Carr's fiancee"
as she got in the last sailplane of
all. And then, before anybody
quite realized it, the hour was 4
o'clock. A signal was given and
far ahead Jimmy started rolling.
A great cheer rose from the
10,000 spectators.
Bands blared out People were
hi a frenzy of excitement, and
justly so. Slowly, slowly, the
Slider train began to snake along
is. runway. Then all at once it
was gathering incredible speed,
pilots waved. The cheering in
pressed. Like soma gigantic kite tail, this
, sky train lifted gracefully off the
ground. It was spectacular!
Breath-taking! Here indeed was a
beautiful maneuver, and here in
. deed was a harbinger of thing to
come.
Back in the tag-end plane. Fat
Friday felt a sensation of achieve
ment and power. She was in the
big company and yet she was all
alone! Many yards ahead of her
was the ninth plane, flying prettily
as its notch in the kite taiL
Phoenix was streaming under
them now, for Jimmy was circling,
far far ahead. As if she didn't
know how many, Pat began count
ing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and
then her own plane. Beautiful
craft, all. In varied colors against
the Arizona sky.
.
OUDDENLY Pat was aware of
that sky. She looked around
the horizon. It was steel-to-azure-to-turquoise
until it n eared Super
stition Mountain; there on its hori
zon lay an ominous black. This
gave Pat a little shuddery feeling,
for she remembered the warnings
of death up there. Then of course
she laughed. Superstition was just
a legend, a name.
Jimmy was making a great arc
now, leading back toward the east
end that same mountain. To dem
onstrate what could be done, he
made the train form as deep a
curve as possible. It brought him
almost half way around, or so it
appeared, and when he began to
straighten again he actually man
aged to stick out a handkerchief
and drop it.
"Yoo hoo, Number 101" he called
via radio, devilment in his tone.
"Oh!" Pat saw the white dot
Then she promptly dipped her
plane in return salute,
The maneuver sent a wave up
(the entire line! It could have been
scary, and it was to people who
Just looked on. Flaying crack-the-whip
this way In the sky was dis
tinctly unconventional! Radios be
gan to have their fun about the
hero and the heroine playing
games along the sky train,
"Okay, back there In Number
101" Jimmy now radioed. "You're
doing swell, Pat" He quite for
got to call her Loralne.
"Not doing so bad yourself,
Jimmy."
"Are you scared?"
"No."
'You're tops, lady! You nave
What it takes to fly these things!"
That was deserved praise, but
untactful. Beside him, the real
Loraine had heard the conversa
tion in her own ear phones.
She reached over and flipped
both sets off the air, then snapped
at Jimmy direct: "What do you.
mean?"
Jimmy turned to her. "Hunh?"
"Jim Carr, if you don't stop
making love to that girl!" Loraine
was biting mad and Jimmy saw it
"I wasn't making love!"
"You certainly were and I don't
like it, She's a contemptible little
sneak, and if you intend to marry
me you might as well understand
I won't put up with it. Do you
heir?." .....
Copyright, 1943
NEA Service, Inc.
She said It so vehemently, so
harshly, so wilfully, that Jimmy
only stared. Then he concentrated
on handling his plane. A frown
had darkened him and his lips
were tight So this was his Lo
raine! The girl he was to marry
tomorrow noon! . . . She danced
well, looked pretty, but as a
wife? . . . Apprehension began to
assail Jimmy. And yet "I've obli
gated myself; I'll go through with
it!" he told himself, flying there.
Thus matters rested for 10 min
utes. It was just time enough for Lo
raine to come to her senses again.
In a nervous strain herself, of
course, she had done the wrong
thing. And now she realized it.
Contritely, and a bit desperately,
she smiled at him and began talk
ing in a melting tone.
"Jimmy, darling, I didn't mean
it Not that way. I you do love
me, and I do love you."
Jimmee darling apparently
didn't want to answer. He flipped
back to the radio, began speaking
to his pilots in strictly technical
language, all-for-business now.
Even Pat, far behind him, caught
the odd change in his manner and
tone.
But neither Pat nor Jimmy nor
any of the others really had time
to conjecture on personal details.
Each of the 10 pilots, plus Jim
my towing them, had seen that
Superstition cloud. It wasn't a
mere cloud now. It was a black,
boiling monster, stretching around
the compass from north to south.
And as a harbinger it was al
ready attacking the sky train with
driving, pelting, hailstones and
sand.
(To Be Continued)
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