The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21
CHAPTER VIII

'What - 13 days in foreign waters and no whoopee!" Monte exclaimed.
 '.Not for me-" Ted replied. "I1l be up half the night-checking the results of the last trip. Con- ditions were excellent for a re- check of the radio navigation de- vices, particularly the new direc- tion finder. See you tomorrow Good night"
 He took Rays hand, tipped his fingers to his cap, and was gone. Rays spirits suddenly went low. This was the dramatic meeting she had awaited so long - the past two months!
 Kay awoke with the wish that she might fly down to the beach and find Ted Graham there, hap pily awaiting her. But 1t was the sun, streaming through the win dows of the Girls Club, that greeted her when she was wide awake. She jumped up and ran to the window, looking down the bay to Ship Harbor where the Mariner lay, glinting in the sun.
 This was her day! One day out of ten she could break the routine of her twice-daily flights as stew ardess on the Overland Airways, to spend 8 day and night in Oak land. Her plane left at 3:05 for her home port of Reno, high up beyond the Sierra Nevada range on the fringe of the desert.
 Standing in the shower, she sang. Last night she and Monte Blaine had danced until 3, but she felt completely fresh now after her sleep. She decided to lounge in her room until time to go to the airport. Monte had promised not to call. He had paid assiduous court to her for the past 48 hours, and she had told him he positively could not have an- other minute of her time. Monte was impulsive-a bit too much so.
 Just then the telephone jingled. Kay frowned and thought, "I'll tell him thing or two" She wrapped the huge towel about her, went to the telephone and picked up the receiver, saying grossly, "Oh, don't be so tiresome. was still in the shower"
 But it was not Monte's laugh that greeted her; it was Ted Gra- hams voice.
 "Oh!" she said, with a high pitched little cry.
 Crossed wires," Ted said. sMonte was just in the office and said you were free until this after noon. I've put him to work and now he's out of the way! But if you want to inspect the Mariner -or-" he hesitated. I'm driv- ing up to the San Carlos valley to see the kid. You remember I told you about my adopted son, Dickie. When I'm in port I like to snatch him out of the military school and take him up to camp. It's lovely up there. Would you like to go?"
 "Oh, I'd love it!" she said. "I can inspect the Mariner any time"
 He said, "Ill come by for you in my car.
 She dressed hurriedly. Ted, she knew, was anxious to see the boy and she didn't want to keep him waiting. She put on her sim nlest white linen frock with a gay kerchief, matching her green eyes, tied around her throat. She was waiting in front of the clubhouse when he drove up.
 There's something about you!" Ted said, puzzled. And that was all he said just then. He didn't realize that, in setting her apart, he had paid her the compliment women prize most.
 Kay leaned back in the seat and watched the flashing panorama. They sped past the green hills of Berkeley and began to climb a road between the yellow walls of a canyon. Soon they were in 8 high valley where there were pleasant fields of wild flowers and little pines. Everything was fresh- Iy green and in bloom.
 They drove up to group of yellow buildings, nestled among