Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1935, Page 26

DAILY SHORT STORY-: HIGH FLYERS BY JANTLEY MOLE. THE afternoon there smiling at her sun played in- . with that shallow tensely on the, 2 3 thick - necked fa- darting colors of miliarity of his. the jockeys as their ko And finally came norses rcared and X over and sat o% the pranced at the . arm of her chair. barrier. It was two She remembered minutes to post how she had flared time, the track up at the sugges- fast, Green up and tion he made then the odds 20 to 2 on \ —had caught him Wingfoot — every- i across the face thing as Mr. Lorry L with her left hand has predicted. and shattered the But with it all, wine glass down his Joan hesitated. Her front. Then the fist, clutching the = ... telephone rang, 20 moist $10 bills, — " just as she had was pressed down 3 W 3 jumped up to leave. heavily on the blis- 3 N “Wait,” Mr, Lorry tering top of the \ had said, imploring white-painted rail. N forgiveness, “don’t The judges had g go. Here's the con- mounted the stand. firntation now.” There was just ; ‘What it was that S b giace The She tore her fist from the rail. had made her wait, | bet that would she didn't know. bring her and Bob that little seaplane | But she had. She had stood there with the means of realizing the hope they her hand on the doorknob, while Mr. | g had been holding ever since their Lorry listened over the telephone. marriage: A vacation on the pine-| Then he had turned and with a half cooled lakes up North. bitter, half mocking voice, drawled: Only yesterday they had cm_mledj “Play Wingfoot on the nose in the their savings—the $200—and wished | tnirg race. Track'll probably be fast that it were $2,000. They had tried t0| ang the odds’ll run about 20 to 2. sell the business property which Bob's | Green'll be riding. And it's fixed.” uncle had left them, but real estate| His peculiar manner, she recalled, was not going well these days. And|paq added bewilderment to her indig- Bob's stock in the air-lines must be| patjon as she hurried out of his apart- held on to. It was part of his job— | pent. would figure in his, future advance- Te % oo < Ve ru in- ork mail forever. g - “That would be something, ail| All that cowld be forgotten—all the right,” Bob would say, “cruising over UPPICAst g wild country till we found the little| With the money on Wingfoot, the Jake that hit our fancy . . . a blue | chains that held them down to a tiring Jewel set in virgin timber . . . some- | trip over dusty roads in an old car thing cool and quiet to set the ship | could be thrown off. After the race down on, where Proppy could bark and | Wwas won there would be $2,000 to| swim to his heart’s content. Imagine ‘ fly with. two weeks of that, honey. And \\'EJ With a last-minute resolve, she tore could do it with that little silver-| her fist from the rail and ran through winged job that Joe would let us have | the wide doorway into the grandstand. | for two thousand . . .” | There, straight ahead, were the betting And that was why Joan had taken | windows. the tip from Mr. Lorry and was here| gne rushed on, her fist clutching the at the racetrack now, with her and |pis before her. Then suddenly she Bob’s vacation money in her hand. | giowed to a walk; from that into drag- | She had come without having told | ging strides, and now she halted . . . Bob what she intended to do when he | ™ The thundering roar of an airplane kissed her good-by &s he was 1eaving | motor overhead had filled her ears. | for the air field this morning. Bob| ang the vibrations were resolving never would have agreed to it. | themselves into familiar words . . . Though they were neighbors 1iving | Boy's words. in the same apartment building, Mr. | appiness and gambling don't | Lorry and Bob rarely spoke. Mr. LOITY | piy » | was a gambler. ; ] .| The betting-windows, now only a “Happiness and gambling don't miX,” | fey feet before her, were distorting Bob would say whenever the subject | themselves in a film of welling water. was brought up. . .. | Tears seemed to cover everything That was another thing she had“‘lsmund her. But her fingers were told Bob about. She had gone to MI.| yqying quickly. They found the catch. Lorry's apartment last night while Bob | y5an drcpped the $200 into her purse. was attending tie stockholders’ meet- |~ wwhen her eyes cleared and came | ing out at the airfield. She had done | jn¢o focus, her gaze was resting on nothing wrong, of course. But Bob|ipe pack of a late-comer placing his | might . . . maybe she shouldn’t have | pe; ot the window before her. He gone. had made it just in time; the betting Mr. Lorry had laughed at the idea | yoq ahout to close. His thick neck of two people starting out for & two- |15 red familiar. week vacation with only $200 and 80| .pive hundred on Golden Gelding,” old car. He wouldn't think of it, Dot | nyr Jorry was saying into the betting | even with his new car, he had sald. | ginqow. But just as soon as I get the con-| " joan caught her breath. She had firmation, which'll be phoned me &NV | peen tricked. He was not betting on minute now,” he had assured her, “I'll | winoroot. | slip you the name of the horse thatll| = Qujet]y she turned and ran from the bring you enough dough for that| gronqstand. High over the track the | § plane.” Then he had offered her some | mqi} plane from the south was dron- champagne. She had refused as best | g contentedly homeward to the air | she could while he poured two or three | foiy. glasses for himself. Then he had sat | (Copyright. 1935.) | TWO MOCK BATTLES | and the R. O. T. C. Engineers here - | will be staged at Fort Belvoir today | PLANNED BY R. 0. T. C. | and tomorrow, with Col. J. G. Ord, | | commanding officer at the Mary- land camp, leading his forces, and the | Fort Washington Infantry and|«gefense” will be in charge of Capt. | Engineer Units to “Fight” J. F. C. Hyde, ranking officer here. | Upward of 500 men are to participate. at Fort Belvoir. Under present plans a flag of truce Epecial Dispatch to The Star. will be waved after tomorrow morn- FORT BELVOIR, Va., July 17.— |ing's contest and the Fort Belvoir men Mock battles between the R. O. T. C. | Will row over to Fort Washington for Infantry at Fort Washington, Md., | “non-combating” activities. Beautiful Fast Colors Greys Greens Ay €fome. X " an rowns * plcal Crals. ol 0 spolt e 1i a) < iis th this Let Us Give You an Estimate—No Charge Enterprise Roofing Co. 2125 Rhode Island Ave. N.E. 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