Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1935, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1935. WASHINGTON NIGHT BY MARY SYNON. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. Five O’Clock, RAY mists of dawn were lift- | ing from the Potomac as | Holly Barlow spun her road- | ster across the bridge to the Washington Airport. All the way back from the Severn she had | held ‘he wheel on a pavement wei | from storm, still dark with night, | whirling over the county roads of Anna Arundel and Prince George in | a daze of thought so deep that Kim's occasional words to her had glanced | off the surface of her mind. Now,| with their goal in sight, she sighed in | a regret that she hoped would sound | like relief. As she caught Kim's| quick glance of question, she lifted her voice to lightness and nodded to- ward the landing field. “The end of the trail, darlin’,” she told him. “What was the big rush?” He| laughed a little ruefully. “You gal- | loped across Maryland like a Preak- | ness entry. We'll have to wait for | French and Savedra, anyway. Neither of them will be getting up at this | hour.” | “Look.” She stared out over the | port, still shimmering in tiny pools left by the passing of the storm. Al- ready men were at work. Helmeted, | leather-leggined pilots, overalled me- | chanics were moving across the wide space from the squat office to the waiting planes that loomed like glaut, ghostly moths in shadowy outline against the Virginia sky. “Some of them are going out now.” In the lee of the Arlington hillside, growing green in the spreading light, the morning line-up waited, poised | for passage, in a strange, leashed power that struck athwart the inten- sity of her brooding. Eagles ready to fly to the far places of the world. If only she had the pinions of Icarus! Well, hadn’t she? If Chenoweth Bar- | low had given her no other heritage, | he had at least fastened upon her wings for flight. She'd use them now. | She’d go with him to Mesopotamia. | He wouldn’'t want her, though, and what'd she do, messing around among the dug-ups? There was always Paris, and London, and Rome—ah, but those were the heights to which Kim couldn’t rise if he married her! She'd | have to find them alone. No, Dick'd take her, and Dick’s yacht was just down there beyond the Point. Down the Potomac and into the Atlantic. ! Maybe one forgot things out upon sea. Would Dick hear anythi; these wild hours since she'd se If that woman in “The New ‘World-Banner” got hold of i “What did you say?” she asked Kim “Weren't you er 20 T said| French may not come.” “Oh, hell come.” If he didn't though, if the plots and plans of all these people—Cynthia and Shannon the Gaynors and Savedra—had been in vain, what'd happen? If K didn’t go down to Bor ura what'd she do? Let thin . possibly. until Cynthia could get a divorce. By this time he might not want to stay in the corps. He might be willing to go into something else. What? Yucca wouldn't take him, Hesperian wouldn’t and Van Ruyter wouldn't if she mar- ried him. What'd he do if he had her and nothing else? “There’s no need of telling you," Kim said, “how mis I am at having dragged you through what's happened. You know, don't you. Hol- 1y dearest, that I'll spend the rest of my life making up to you?” “I know.” ‘They have no right to frighten you the way they have. What did Goef- frey Shannon say to you?” “Nothing I wouldn't have known if I'd stopped to think.” “What?” She couldn't tell him. If he knew her reason, it wouldn't hold. She had urged him to meet Frerch and Savedra against his will. He loved her enough to throw over his old desire for his career if it'd interfere with their hap- piness. In a little while, though. he'd be restless at the barrier. Hadn't her father gone off to Persia a year after he’d married her mother? She'd remembered that when any of the Navy boys had suggested a chapel wedding, and decided that, if there were any travel in her family, she was going to share it. There'd be no correspondence course in matrimony for Holy Barlow. She'd have gone with Kim anywhere, but she couldn't clip his wings. “He thinks you'll like being the minister to Bonaventura,” she parried. | “I wouldn’t give a tinker's damn | for it if you weren't going to be there | with me.” 1 “You surely don't discount a post | like that? After all the fight for it?” “It’s not settled yet.” i “Savedra wouldn't have told Sena- | WoobDwWARD & LoTHROP motors a plane rose from the ground | tor Shannon to send you here if they didn't intend you to go to his country.” “I suppose he wouldn’t. I did let the old boy down, didn't I? That’s one reason why I listened to you and came along. I really owe him an apology.” “It was my fault. I'll tell him.” “Youwll do nothing of the sort. He wouldn't be so willing to overlook it I fancy, if he didn't know that French wants me. Boraventura won't be so hard with the two of them plugging for me. We'll make a record there, Holly dear.” “You like it, don’t you?” From the end of the bridge she could see the great trans-continental Stinson tri- motors of the commercial airways, and, beyond them, the Curtiss-Wright Condors, then private craft, a huge | Sikorsky amphibian, Boeings and Northrops, a Fairchild and Lockheed- Vega, a silvery Bellanca, sports model. Simon French's, she supposed, waiting for him. Ready to take him to the | other side of the Isthmus. “It must be a swell place. Balconies and guitars and walled gardens and senori with roses between their teeth, darlin’.” “I won't be bothering with them.” “You've always enjoyed the service. haven't you. Kim?” ~With a drone of and circled into flight. “The place, the power, and the game?” “I don’t know any other game. I/ suppose every man likes power.” “Would you want to stay in Bona- ventura all your life?” “Oh, Lord, no!” “I didn't think so.” She swung the car off the highway to the airport gate and parked it beside the rail. A porter ran out to them. *“Has Simon French’s plane gone yet?” she asked him. “Not yet.” He pointed to the Bel- lanca. “They've got it ready, but he hasn't come.” He left them, and she watched the WoobpwARD 0™ I™F anp G Smeevs. A New, U in Personalized Stationery “Water Marked” Monog Your St 48 Sheets with 48 Envelopes New and highly original . . . and exclusively at Woodward & Lothrop. to have your monogram traced in shadowy lines on satiny paper. a certain glamour. And the paper is entirely good looking. In white and ivory; single or double sheets. STATIONERY, AISLE 2, FIRsT FLOOR. 0™ 1I™F anD G StreeTs Prone Novel ty Cuff tracks of passengers through the gate. Already streaks of brightness gleamed in the sky above the ghostly whiteness of the Lincoln Memorial. Down the river she caught a glimpse of the mast of the Van Ruyter yacht. She wished | that she were aboard it, sailing away from the place that had been encom- passed these last hectic hours. Sanctu- ary. Dick would be that. She'd been right in the plan of life she'd made | before she'd met Kim. Dick'd be good to her, kind to her, proud of her. She wouldn't be keeping him from any- thing he should have. She wouldn’t be watching day by day, year by year, the misery of a man’s failure, knowing that she'd been its cause. Shannon {had been right. She'd have to give {up Kim. But how'd she tell him? | Not the truth. Not in any way that'd make him sorry for her. The only way would be to rouse the temper that she knew must be under his stub- | bornness. Fight. She'd have to fight | with him, to make him lash back at | her, to hate her if needs be, till this | was done. How’d she start it? | “Some day, Holly, you and I wil |take a plane across Europe. 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