Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1935, Page 41

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935 FEATHER INHER HAT JULIE ANNE MOORE INSTALLMENT XI tain of a freighter at sea saying he EE MONDAY had encountered |had heard an airplane motor dis- tricky weather on many occa- | tinctly a little after 1L o’clock. sions, but not in all his pre- “Flukes,” Charlie Biggs said. vious flying experience had he Bill nodded. “Let’s hope that last known a storm to come up with such | one is.” incredible suddenness. Sensitive to| No one there knew how near that every atmospheric change, he had |came to being a prayer. It had taken noted, BbLI Elx:)xlvu:f, a stubborn breeze | these hours of increasingly anxious . y ° o . ' and a blue-blackness in the north- | waiting to bring Bill to his senses. west; but in neither had he sensed | Earlier he had said, “Tough if Lee G"‘IS and Junlor HI Glrls Bo s' Ru ed the violence of this lashing demon | kicked off mow when he’s sitting on | y gg that had come upon them. |top of the world.” Perhaps then he With the lights of New York City had really believed his chief concern dimly seen, far to the left, through |was for Lee's safety. Or had wanted the beating rain, Lee had been half |to believe it. But for an hour now N g [ ] decided to seek out the nearest emer- | he had been abusing himself for what, v gency field. Twenty minutes later he | in retrospect, he saw as his “shabby” regretted that he had not obeyed this treatment of Ann; and it was Ann's | R \ impulse. | face—not Lee's—that burned in his A “What do you say we get out of | brain like a picture in flame when he this, Ann?” It was the first admis- |thought of the tragic possibilities of sion of uneasiness and he expected |this flight she had made with the her to assent without question. “It|man whom he, Bill Hudson, had al- > et ° might blow over in half an hour, and | most thrust upon her. ‘.‘v § 11ig it might not, If it gets any rougher | * ok ok X 4 \! ! than this, we may find ourselves in| Lee was trying to start a fire with | IS o a S u I S trouble.” | wet matches. Every time a match | . § . Ann, to whom the storm was a |spluttered and went out, Ann grinned. | / A N thrilling climax to an unforgettable | She was sitting in the open door ~ adventure, half suspected he was |of the twisted cabin, a bandage around teasing; but her smile faded when he her head. / Jooked at her and she saw the un-| Lee drew a fresh match along the 4 v .. ’ B . mistakable signs of strain in his face. | edge of the box. There was a mo- 4 Y Y Many W|th Earl-clo meg Wllh 2 palrs chkers “But suppose it doesn't blow over?” | mentary flash, followed by a faint Y she asked, troubled. “Rita and I | splutter as the flame died out. start to work at the Census Bureau' *“If I were you,” Ann suggested, tomorrow morning. I can't afford to|“I'd put the rest of those matches in be late, Lee.” the sun and give them a chance to N 3 Lee was silent. If necessary he dry. You may need ‘'em before we YR by 5 could put her on a train. But he was get down from wherever this place is - 9 ~ conscious now of an obligation. He'... Do you suppose we're still in the . 3 . . had brought Ann off on a gay little United States, Lee?” excursion and until this moment Laughing, Lee closed the match box there had been not one untoward in- | and pulled up on one leg. Ann jumped cident to mar what was obviously to up and ran to him. her a perfect and immeasurably de-| “You mustn’t try to use that leg, lightful experience. And, after all, | Lee. You'll only make it worse.” g ' A 4 " i = r £00 he had been in worse storms than| He looked down at his limp left ; The Hecht Co. believes in girls’ anlllm}%oi)el(:gg‘sf}:é:geglzgdfgez “All right,” he said at last. “We’ll | who was mlsb_ehnving, “Couldn't if 2 > go through . . . Don't lose your I tried,”-he said grumplly. / 4 character. Take these coats for it aed c]othes ot don’t ca]l { . 3 ¢ o1 e . Ann laughed. Lose her nerve with |head and over her shoulder and put | £ example. She can be very, very for pampering. The Hecht she started a little when Lee sud- | “All right—let’s go.” 3 i Genly pulled the stick back and she | Putting as little welght as possible A% VLT Sunday-go-to-meeting with a coat action—in sturdy cheviots, in the back of the snug little seat. He |to the wrecked plane and sat down : b Lok said nothing, but she guessed, rightly, | by the open cabin door. He leaned | + 8 / tree bark, suede, silver fleece, chécks and mixtures. Double- tive calm above the storm. at the irregular shaped patches of blue | breasted with sports backs. Minutes later Lee glanced back. sky. “Looks like swell weather up| e oak brown, rust or navy. 7 to 10, “We're going into the middle of it!”|the old boat couldn't have stuck on | . with knit bottoms. &8 to 16. The next moment the plane quivered | top of one of these trees .. . Must be | snatched it up and tried to shake it to | “Ye gods! It's just 7 o'clock. Unless | pieces, and the roar of the storm beat | this thing has stopped | . is legs 7 o'clock—which meant that exactly eru::: dfl:g\x\nr:;nut]xés ::3;;0“5,&?5 l;fl: eight hours ago he was hearing that | jaw was set and the tense muscles o! e | At intervals since Ann had regained 36 face Wulged. | consciousness and learned they had, trouble in the air. He knew all the : e a forced landing in what appeared to dangers, all the tricks to outwit the Belal s lain pildcives § ane ihad g something that shook his confidence. G o= ¢ . ring the interval when she was . PN s SRS ] CONSULT Mr. Louis R About whipped back against the glass On .4 steadfastly refused to talk about | r. ouls osenwasser u this a dozen times. | leg as a mother would look at a child clothes that ha\ve 1~931 poise and under the o g “'hat ails nerve.” Ann pulled his arm behind her Loy e e e e I X . 4 British in a balmacan or ready for Co. designed this suit for boy e e e e e : ; collared in fur. Diagonal tweed, gray, brown, blue and in he hoped to climb to the compara- |back and looked up through the trees et % plaids and checks. Kent green, " “Keep that strap fastened,” he yelled. | there,” he said, musingly. “Too bad | 10to 16, Two pairs lined golf knickers @s if some giant hand had suddenly |late, too.” He looked at his watch. (Second Floor, Girls' Dept.) (Second _mu. Boys' Dept.) at her ears until they hurt. Lee was| _ His watch had not stopped. It was “flrst ominous cough of the motor. The great Lee Monday was in | ¥t fantemptyiessslineitnk mnde! = = -v : - e : " : elements—but now he was up against teased Lee to tell her what happened her side with a metalic click, and | ;8% T O TG B ooin the oft- - (I eyes that was little less than horror. | “.gome day, maybe. Not now, Ann. 9 A A e e window. with, | 10, Tather talk about something pleas- < ) Mr. Rosenwasser, a representative of Dr. M. W. sharp click against the window, With-|gnt Byt after a little he said: “I'll i : o - in a few inches of her face. Lee did o) you what I was afraid of, though | Locke, will be in the children’s shoe department not look back again, but with every _tnat we had been carried out to sea | : . ; Friday and Saturday to help you with your young- metallic _click his muscles Vsibly|. .. The minute we came out on top : .« C sters shoe problem. The famous Dr. Locke shoes jerked. To Ann this reflex action Was | and the old boat responded to the | y e < e ¢ - like the flinch of flesh gashed by a | controls, I put her nose right in the : o > give your child coriect bo(%-_\h bz;l{am}:le Candh help knife . . . Later she was to recall wind and held her there. That's why . to correct posture faults. e Hecht Co. has a this simile as the last thought that'y can't figure out where we are. We : - §o complete range of Dr. Lockes for boys and girls flashed through her mind before the may have gone 10 miles inland, and | Z : and junior misses. Secientifically fitted by the broken section of aileron crashed ' we may have gone 200 . . . By the ; fluoroscope method g i through the glass and knocked her way, are you any good at shinnying | ¢ > = i senseless. up a tree?” 5 PY. . * k kX Ann laughed. “I'm out of practice, ‘ Fiihoeag $ $ Grace, troubled faces saw each other but I'll probably manage to get up a i i’o only dimly through the blue haze in | nice skinny one.” the airport manager’s office. At mid-| She chose a maple far up the moun- | <. ¥ P night the assistant manager had | tain side and ultimately reached @] ] i e (Second; oo GBlidrensShice Depk) sent out for coffee and sandwiches. point from where she could see out | e Bill's cup was still on the desk. It over miles of forest. Forest that | was half-filled with coffee, hours cold. spread out over a broad valley and, | A man who had introduced himself in the distance, swept up on all sides | to Bill as Overton—“just one of the to completely cover a winding moun- help"—broke the half-hour’s silence:'tain wall. “I don't care where he landed, he's| Lee shook his head grimly when | had time to get to a phone before she told him what she had seen. now.” | “What a mess!” he said. “I'm darned | The chief mechanic looked at his|sorry, Ann.” watch. “Yeah,” he said. “It's 4 She forced a smile. “But there’s o'clock.” He continued to stare at his | nothing to be sorry for. It was all my watch, rubbing the crystal with a fault. If I'd let you land when you gnarled finger. | wanted to——" She saw the shadow The telephone jangled; it was Rita. | that suddenly passed over his face and “Bill—I've been trying to get you knew the pain in his knee was grow- | everywhere. Ann hasn't come in. Are ing worse. “Ill take a little hike | they there? Is that why vou're there after a while and see if I can dig at the airport?” {up a human being. There must be a | Bill explained. “They've probably farm house around here somewhere.” | landed in some out of the way town ‘That’s the devil of it,” he said, his | and can't get hold of a phone. Go to | head shaking slowly. “If you went | sleep and T'll call you when they Of alone, youd probably get lost. And come in.” since I can't navigate on this leg, | “No, no—wait!” She was appa: .. | there’s nothing to do but wait and | ently afraid he would hang up. “I've hope theyll come looking for us., just got a wire from Mr. Rogers— | ADD—" he paused as if undegided | Ann's father—Lee and Ann went to| Whether to continue, then abruptly Elmville. Tl read it: | leaned toward her “we may be in “‘Ann and Lee Monday left here 8 | this place for days, Ann—" o'clock stop Ann promised to tele-| . And so?” said Ann. graph mother on arrival at Wash-| . LRere’s nothing to eat.” ington stop no wire yet and reporter| . EecoPle don't starve in a few days.” from Simsbury Press says plane re- It may be more than & few . .. ported lost stop please telephone im- | And there’s no water.” eIl AN re & i &5 | “There’s water in that thar valley, “Haven't v -4 | Probably,” Ann grinned. “I'll go down .nl;:;’:n:at‘;f:fe’. Bxfli:': en’t you heard ;.4 'taye a look presently.” Bill said they had not but expected , Corine admiration filed Tee's e to hear something any minute. “Go o o1 gt went off i o 18] : back to bed, Rita. Il call you.” A Z:"g‘;‘y of & e H 2 The issistant manager came in with 1 : = J : " | matches. She wasn't ves s ] ltnhr;ebpress service reporis. A plane girl blexi she }Emd courngery Pt the { un Ior 'g ad been reported fiying very high|°." i ! over Troy, N. 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