By OREN ARNOLD NEA Service, Inc.
DEATH AHEAD i
chapter xxvm '
'PAT1 ... Pat Friday, Plane
Number 101 ... Oh my God,
PATI"
Capt James Carr, V. S. Army
pilot of the motor ship towing a
ky train, was frantically trying to
get a radio communication
through. He yelled at his micro
phone while the ship droned and
bucked and twisted in the storm
over Superstition Mountain. He
gritted his teeth, threw electric
switches, twisted dials. Beside
him, Loralne Stuart was white
with fear, but he Ignored her pres
ence. "PATI" he shrieked again.
"Number 10 . . . Pat!"
In technical truth, that frantic
cry of his did get through to Patsy, i
struggling now in that same storm, j
She heard him, and she tried to
answer. It was Jimmy's receiv
ing apparatus that had gone tem
porarily dead. But then, her own
radio, both ways, seemed to be
fluctuating. What's more, Pat
couldn't spare the time to try to
tune it. From her position as tail-.
end ship of the train, she had cut
loose with astonishing courage.
Her plane had dipped. The gusty
blow had caught her unprepared.
"Eee-e-e-e-c!" She shrieked
there in the loneliness.
For a matter of seconds she
rolled sidewise. And it took all
the skill and strength she could
muster to right the ship again.
'. When she came out of it she;
could see no sign of the parent
train, because the cloud around i
her was streaked, streaming, boil- i
lng. Bightning darted through itj
Oddly, in this moment of stress ;
she remembered what a newspa-,
per reporter had told her about
Superstition Mountain.
"The Indians say the Thunder
Gods live up there," he had said,
"and it's a fact, because on stormy
days you can listen and hear them
pounding their gargantuan tom
toms." She heard tie tom-toms now.
Off right, then left Assailing her
ears, crashing against clouds and
against the earth itself. She felt
Infinitesimal, and indeed she was
exactly that compared to the bulk
and anger of Nature here.
- "If I can ... keep a . . . level
head," she was pleading with her
self. ; The doth and aluminum sail
plane she piloted was a wisp of
straw. Wind whined outside the
.transparent hood like banshees
e. Daylight came through
e storm at Intervals, showing
nothingness ahead and all
und. Lightning intensified that
same blank oblivion. ,
"Jimmy! . . . Captain Carr! ...
Number 10 reporting!" She jig
gled radio dials. Even as she did
so she knew she was wasting time.
The set was completely dead.
She had watched her altimeter
with greatest care.
That delicate needle had shown
12,200 feet when she cut loose
from the tow line. It had dropped
a little. Then Fat had remem
bered Superstition Mountain be
neath, so she soared widely, seek
ing a thermal, an up -current of
air.
'
CHE found itl ' !
r3 Whr-r-r-r-r-r-r! It was ver
ily like a volcano's force, this
storm thermal, for her craft shot
upward so fast her ears pained.
Twelve thousand eight hundred.
Thirteen six. Fourteen. She
watched the needle, and looked
Ifearfully through the hood for any
Isign of earth at all, any possible
(mountain peak or crag. Fifteen
feight ninety. Sixteen thousand.
I Pat was beginning to suffer
acutely from cold and raxified air
'now. Three miles above earth can
be terrific. She had to fight the
controls in an effort to go back
down, and she was afraid to go
down with visibility at zero.
I've got to think!" she literally
Ispoke aloud, to herself. "That . . .
that chart! ... It said the highest
ipeak in Superstition was only
5080 feet! . . . My goodness! . . .
And . . . and even San Francisco
Peaks, in northern Arizona, are
only 12,000. . . . What am I doing
up here!"
She was up there because she
'couldn't help herself, and she
knew it For one thing, she knew
IJimmy had tried to ride above the
storm. He hadn't succeeded. Be-
1 cause she knew she must be very I
near Globe, her original destina
tion, she had cut loose. But thei
thermal lifts had been too power-i
lul. I
! now ner altimeter was gallop
ing left to right; galloping and
jbouncing so as to be of no possible
luse. ' :
i "I might be 100 feet or 100,
000!" Pat breathed, despcr
lately. She knew she was some
where under the three-mile point.
But where? The needle tried to
settle at 14,000 and again at 11,
ffiOO, but in a single instant it shot
jup to 20,000, then back again. Pat
iknew It was oil. But it was all
she had to so by. and she almost
,pleaded with the thing.
A good quarter-hour must have
passed before Pat realized fully
that the instrument was function
ing, after all. The truth was. she
lhad been looping, twisting, sldo
slipping. Unconsciously she and
her ship had done all manner of
"impossible" things. Seasoned pi
lots, even motor ship pilots, could
ttiave told her that storm exped
iences are like that You soon be
come a part of the wind and ac
tion, your ship gives with It, tum
bles with it weaves with it and
because you are strapped In, you
Won't fully realize all that is go
ling on. If you didn't give and
Iweave this way, you'd be de
stroyed! . v
kThat nil came back to Pal's
Ind. Lecturesl Tilings Jimmy
'Jr. and, ihat apiaja JKitter. anjj
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old Colonel Furcdy had said.
Surely! She remembered now.
Those intensified courses she had
taken back in Elmira. She had
had to sit near Loraine Stuart and
had borne many of Loraine's petty
slights. Here, in a real storm
2000-odd miles from Elmira, those
slights seemed trivial indeed. So
idid all of the pettiness concerning
Loraine. Loraine, who was still
with Jimmy, flying with him, lov
ing him, betrothed to him for
life. Jimmy, whom she herself had
so poignantly loved and, in her
heart loved still.
This backward streaming of her
thoughts served oddly to bring
Pat a new feeling of calm. l
"But I can't stay up here In it
forever!" she told herself. "I
haven't the equipment nor the
food nor the strength for an "en
durance test Anyway I I want
to land, near Globe!"
That goal stuck doggedly In her.
It was a part of the plan. A part
of Jimmy's project for the sky
train. Her assigned task from the
beginning.
During a momentary lull Pat
flipped her controls and nosed
down. The altimeter reacted fast
Ten thousand. Nine thousand.
Seven thousand two hundred.
Five thousand eight sixty. Five
two ten.
She decided she had better look
hard. The storm was a bit softer
here and yes, there was a
glimpse of mother earth! She
headed downhill again. But all at
once, a minute later
"Oh-h-h-h-h!" She screamed it,
jerking her controls,
There dead ahead was the omi
nous red bulk of rock wall.
(To Bo Continued)
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