The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-06
n WITH THE STORY.
CHAPTER THREE

- gasped when she was finally
released.
What's the 6natter?"
"You have no right" she stormed.
Then, struck by the futility of her
own words, "All right You've
proved your point. Now take me
home"
Have you anything against me?"
Tom demanded.
Certainly not! 1t just happens
that I dislike promiscuous petting."
who would have dreamed it?" he
murmured, starting the car. "And
here I've spent the whole evening
thinking you were leading me on"
Well, hadn't she been? In per-
fectly innocent way, of course d.
In the cool darkness her cheeks be-
gan to burn.
Think nothing of it," he said,
gayly honest for once. Merely the
salutation of a pilot to charming
little air hostessl"
Wen let 1t go at that anyway"
Irene answered.
She found the publicity man for
the air line lettering about the air.
port when she arrived there the fol-
lowing noon. Bill Naughton was a
debonair, attractive looking chap in
his early thirties. Irene had been
told by some one, she couldn't re-
member whom, that he was engaged
to the first air hostess she had met,
Virginia Cathcart.
VERY becoming" Bill approved,
cycling the green uniform on the
slender girl. How do you feel?"
Fine" she boosted.
I'll bet you didn't have a bite OF
lunch"
"'I didn't care for any,"
Come with me-" he commanded,
marching her toward the lunch
room. Never go without some
thing in your tummy if it's only a
glass of milk"
"a glass of milk it is them" she
agreed, smiling back at him.
They touched the rims Of the in
nocuous glasses.
"a toast to your career in the air"
he cried. wish I could use pic
ture of you instead of the one I'm
waiting for"
What is that?" she asked, swal-
lowing the cold milk.
Mrs. Astorbilt, who has just di-
vorced her we'll known husband, is
arriving on a plane from Reno.
"She is the worlds homeliest
woman" he added gloonily. But
it's swell publicity which is all that
is supposed to matter in a publicity
mans life"
His mock melancholy delighted
her no less than his friendlineSs.
And he accompanied her to the
plane. lifting her inside.
Good luck, child" he said. you
are flying with one of the best pilots
on the line if that's any encourage
ment to you"
EDDIE FAIRFIELD was a shy,
L quiet, person as unlike Tom
Merritt as possible. Irene remem-
bered that he had married one of
the air hostesses last week. The
co-pilot, freckle-fsced and engaging,
reminded her of her brother.
She waved her hand to Bill
Naughton as they took off from the
Alameda Airport for San Francisco.
At last, she thought proudly, she
was one of them. A member of that
blithe profession which found as
phalt pavements too mundane for
travel; high powered motors too
slow, who looked to a Star-spangled
sky for inspiration and sought adj
venture among the clouds.
The trip was an uneventful che.
She left San Francisco at noon, ar
rived in Seattle at and stayed
there overnight. The next morning
she flew to Portland and back. Left
Seattle at $50 p. m, waited in Port
land for the west bound plane which
left at 6 in the morning and reached
San Francisco at noon with the re-
mainder of the day off.
They had told her she would need
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the airport so she had invested in
ramshackle second hand model
which waited for her in the parking
space outside.
They're exposed to the wind and
fog for hours" the head stewardess
had explained. 80 there's no point
in buying a good one"
AS Irene was driving away, Vir-
GINA Cathcart hailed her.
Mine won't start. Mind If ride
with you?"
Grateful for a chance to become
better acquainted, Irene opened the
door and waited for the other girl
to climb inside. Virginia was fair
with long slender hands and a quiet
well-bred manner.
1--WE been talking to Bill about
you," Virginia said. He seems to
think you might like to come to live
with Eve Meadows and me. Eve
works for a lumber company in
Oakland. 1t was her sister Paula
who married Eddie Fairfield last
week"
Where is your apartment" Irene
asked, interested.
In Alameda. We have years
lease and it's a lot more comfor-
table than living in hotel but ex-
DenSiye for two. If you'd like to