The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-30
By DECK MORGAN
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KAY Dunn, pretty airPlane
stewardess, falls in love with Ted
Graham, veteran pilot who flies
the trans-Pacific route.
Ted, however, is not interested
in romance. He is devoted to two
interests: his job in the air service
and his adopted son, Dickie, 7
years old. Dickie and Kay become
close friends and soon the three
spend much time together.
One night Kay and Ted have a
long talk in which he explains his
views on marriage. To be success
full, he says, a marriage must be
planned scientifically, just as a
plane flight. Kay does not agree
TO all this, but when he asks her
to marry him she says yes.
The marriage takes place and
the honeymoon is a flight to the
Orient. Later, with Ted away for
weeks at a time, Kay is lonely.
She tries to keep busy, caring for
her home and for Dickie. Ted is
working on an invention, when he
is in port, spends less and less
time at home.
Kay is deeply disappointed be-
cause he is unable to be home for
Christmas. She gives a dinner
party and later goes with three
friends. Doris Lee, Ralph Bangs
and Monte Blaine, to dance.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER NIX
Hays faith in Ted was not
shaken by the gossip she had
heard the night she danced with
Monte. After the shock of the
words had passed she realized that
she would have to make readjust-
ments, and face such things
calmly.
For Ted lived an international
life. On the trans-Pacific route,
because of the very nature of his
job, he met countless people whose
names made news. In ports like
Honolulu and Manila he came in
closer contact with them, and the
world was a whispering gallery.
A celebrity in Honolulu might suf-
fer a toothache one night and the
next morning, over the coffee
cups. it would be discussed on five
continents.
On a smaller scale. Hays life
was now an international one. Be-
cause of her husbands fame, she,
too, was known from San Fran
cisco bay to China. She sought
sophistication as a refuge. She
was seen more and more in pub
lie, but she did nothing that could
be regarded rs indiscreet.
But struggling against her own
nature made her restless. She
wanted to be going places, doing
something all the time.
Ted met such moods with an air
of indulgence that caused anoth-
err quarrel between them, ending
in tears and then reconciliation.
But the recurrence of the conflict
in their natures could have but
one result. Kay began to suspect
again that Ted had married her
only to provide home for Dickie
and to afford himself a well-order-
ed life ashore.
She didn't go to the landing to
see him come in when his ship ar
rived next. She had heard that
Illah was aboard and she didn't
want to face her.
The Mariner alighted on the
waters of Ship Harbor toward
dusk. At that moment Kay sat
patiently at the telephone in her
home, dialing one number after
another. If Ted wanted a gay
life in foreign ports she would
give him one when he was ashore
She could play his game, too, and
she would.
She invited to their home that
night all of the hangers-on about
the airport - people who had no
part in the enterprise, but lived in
the aviation colony to share the
excitement and glamour. 1t was
sort of aviation-country club
crowd.
Since the party was impromptu
and informal, all the guests &C.
cepted the invitations in a similar
manner. 1t was like an open
house. Some of them even brought