Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1937, Page 13

WINGED REMORSE By Frank Kern Levin. Joml thought of her as he watched the air- plane come cir- faas cling over the trees, == Hp its wings, Sstraighten out and then bounce along the surface of the |- water. From this P 8pot. the night be- fore he had seen three falling stars, making each time & wish. S8he was the wish, “What’'s the Dlane doing here?” somebody from the Tesort asked. “Those are the fellows I was tell- ing you about. [~ They take up pas- sengers. It's only $2.50," some one replied. “Is it safe?” “I guess s0. They've been flying around here all Summer and nothing’s happened yet.” “I wouldn't take a chance with any of those fellows.” “Oh, I've been up a couple of times. It’s nothing.” There were two men in the plane. ©One got out and in the meantime the others from the resort came down to the lake, attracted by the novelty. “Half-hour trip over the beautiful lake country. It's something you don't want to miss. . Youll get a real thrill—" John thought it was a shame that with all the centuries there had been ) Of waiting, one didn't fly now there ‘was the opportunity. “I'd like to go up,” hesaid to theman. “Two can go at a time. Is there any one else?” the man asked and walted. John hoped that the man would not be able to find another customer—he would be free then to . think of her all to himself while in flight. It was a fine thought to have. ‘They helped him into the plane, he heard the roar of its motors, they were speeding over the surface of the lake, the noise of the motor decreased, then increased, and he realized he was in the afr, flying! ® ok ok ok TE! ground moved away under him, the lake, the houses, the trees, all of it. He saw the trees swaying back *_with the wind, He still could make out ‘people, animated specks upon the elean surface of the earth. The plane moved surely, smoothly, as though it knew its way, and for the first time since he had left her he felt rested. In that higher air there was no pisce for pain, not even the pain of her, but only exultation. She could say: “I've thought it over, the way ‘Wwe've been going around with one an- other for almost two years now. You know, it isn't my fault. I told you from the first, you remember, that we oould only be friends.” ‘That's what she actually had said, and she had gone on: “We'll have to break up some time and it's better we do now. It will only make it worse if we don't.” The piane lurched. John thought they must have hit an air pocket ex- cept that he read somewhere that there weren't any, but, rather, cur- % rents of alr that carried the plane up or down. Well, it was & sick feeling, anyway. * x ox % HEN she had said that he had answered: “Why will it be worse then than it is now? How can it be? Of course you couldn’t have cared. But we did have & good time, didn't we, eoing to plays, the art galleries, con- oerts—" . TOWNSEND TO SPEAK Indiana Governor to Make First 8Speech Here Tomorrow. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend of In- diana, who is being boomed by his friends for & place on the 1940 na- “ tional Democratic ticket, will make his first speech in Washington tomorrow ‘night at & dinner given by the Woman's National Democratic Club in his honor. His subject will be “Why Indians Backs the New Deal.” ‘Gov. Townsend, who succeeded Paul V. McNutt, now Governor Gen- eral of the Philippines, is one of the most effective campaign orators in the Middle West, his friends say. REPAIR COI CONTRACT LET Baltimore Firm Gets $5,460 Work. at Medical School. A $5460 contract for alterations 8nd repairs to the Medical School at the Naval Medical Center here has been awarded to William F. Kirwan of Baltimore, the Navy Department announced yesterday. department also revealed a eontract for $58,589 has been award- ed to the Roberts Paving Co., 2 Water street southwest, for shore Protection and construction of a road at the Naval Academy. SHIPS TO BE SHOWN Models to Be on Exhibition in Canadian Pacific Offices. The Ship Model Makers' Club of ‘Washington will exhibit selected models in the Canadian Pacific Rail- Way offices at New York avenue and Fourteenth atreet, opening with an dnvitation preview at 8 p.m Saturday. The exhibit will continue through June S, Capt. Dudley W. Knox, librarian ©f the Navy Department, and John A. Remon, chairman of the Presi- dent’s Cup Regatta Assoclation, are sponsors of the show. RUB SHOULDERS WITN TNE SMARTEST WOMEN AT THE “He was in the air, flying.” “We did have fun lnd I'm sorry !‘vt N‘HJ got 'n like books and things Jike music, and I never did be- fore. Oh, I guess I'm just foolish. That's why it's bd:.er. don't you 'Is there any one else?” “I krew you'd ask that! Well, yes, there is. I met him two woeks ago. that’s all I'm going to say sbout it.” He kissed her good night, be- cause during these two years they had gotten in the habit of kissirg one an- other. Then he said good-by to her and eame up to the resort to get away for a while. There was that lurch again. Air pockets. No, wind currents. . . . He was beginning to forget. Gee, if only he could be in a plane all the time! It was almost as good as being with her. There was an intimacy with a spiritual self that was more than self, like his love for her, that was why it was just as though she were with him. “I don’t like music like that,” she said. “I like Schubert much better. It seems like you can reach out and touch Schubert with your hands.” “But Wagner is a different thing,” he replied. “You don’t reach out for ‘Wagner—it's he who does the reache ing out.” Then he remembered and he asked. “How did you get here? How did you get into the plane?” “I was going by,” she said, and it wasn't at all clear to him, and they were together, flying, trying to reach outiicy 1 ® X ox X OMEHOW he knew at once when he opened his eyes that he was in a hospital. He could see the sun coming along the edges of the drawn shade, and heard the voice of the nurse. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again he saw there was one small light in the room and knew it 'was dark out. It was strange that day should have passed to night 50 quickly. “How do you feel?” he was asked. The nurse stood high above him. “I'm all right. What happened? Did the plane crash? Is that what happened?” “Yes, the plane crashed. You were very badly hurt.” “I've not been here long, have 17" “Por three weeks.” “All that time?” Three—he closed his eyes—three—one for each star that fell. “Your mother and dad are here. Do you feel strong enough to see them?" They came into the room, and it was being alive again to see them. Looking at them there, his mother and father, became normal. “Oh,” his mother exclaimed, “you shouldn’t have gone up in the plane.” It was- what she had been thinking about, and she could not help saying the words. In their comforting presence he ceased searching for something, an old pain, because he knew it was gone. Maybe by this time she had everything all at once | THE EVENI married the some one she had mel but it did not matter. Two years with her, then those few minutes in the sky and he knew that the flight was worth the crash and that there would be greater flights to come. Copright, 1937.) HERNDON TO TALK HERE Figure in Georgia Case to Speak to Civil Liberties Group. 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