Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-11
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE.
Five O'Clock.

Five O'CLOCK.
RAY mists of dawn were lift
4 ing from the Potomac as
7 Holly Barlow spun her road
~ Ster across the bridge to the
Washington Airport. All the
way back from the Severn she had
held The wheel on pavement WEI
from storm, still dark with night,
whirling over the county roads of
Anna Arundel and Prince George in
daze of thought so deep that Kim's
occasional words to her had glanced
of 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 gall
Hoped across Maryland like a Freak
ness entry. Well 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 doomed like gia.it,
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 lineup waited, poised
for passage, in 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.
Shed 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 Dicks yacht was just
down there beyond the Point Down
the Potomac and into the Atlantic
Maybe one forgot things out upon the
sea. Would Dick hear anything about
these wild hours since she'd seen him?
If that woman in The New York
World-Banner" got hold OF it
what did you say?" she asked Kim.
Weren't you listening? I said
French may not come"
"Oh, he'll 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 Kim
didn't go down to Bonaventura what d
she do? Let things drift, possibly,
until Cynthia could get a divorce. BY
this time he might not want to stay
in the corps. He might be willing to
60 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, chow miserable I am at
having dragged you through what's
happened. You know, don't you. Hol-
ly dearest, that I'll spend the rest of
my life making up to you?"
II 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 French 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 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 parted.
st wouldn't give a tinkers damn
for it if you weren't going to be there
with me-
"You surely don't discount post
like that? After all the fight for it,"
"It's not settled yet"
"Savedra wouldn't have told Sena-