The times-news., 1938-05-20
CAST OF CHARACTERS
aY ADELAIDE HUMPHREYS S

wanted to fly.
ROGER BRECKNER--hero; h
x.nted to test the stratosPhere.
BERYL MELROSE - wealth
widow; she wanted Roger.
EVELYN LA FARGE-Jsekie
mother; she wanted q soa-in.iA~
Yesterday: Jackie decides to g
to Roger and new hope shines fo
her in the gravest crisis OF he
life.
John Paul Scott not only char
tered a private plane so tina
Jackie could fly to Roger, but h
took Jackie to the airport, saw
TO il that she had every comfort
and even offered, at the last mo
memt, to go with her. y
"See here, Miss Jacqueline," h,
said in his deliberate, precise way
'.it does not seem right, a younf
,yirl like you, starting off on saei
n Journey alone. shall be glat
70 accompany you, if you wish me
to nv dear. Of course, it woulG
be too much for year dear moth
en-"
Jackie smiled at the idea OF
EVELYN, who had never put foot II
a pIane, undertaking such trip
Rut she was touched at Mr.
{ Scott'S supoestion. Why. he was
not such an impossible person, af.
Ter all! He was human, under
standing, kind, underneath hi:
poIiShed exterior. Perhaps she
would not mind having to call him
father" some day.
"Thank you just the same, she
said, "but ! wouldn't think OF ask
ing YOU to go with me. know
what an extremely busy man you
are. | appreciate, oh! much more
than | ever can tell you, all that
YOU have done for me. And
don't mind going alone. Not the
least bit. shall be quite all right,
truly shall"
II expect you WILL" Mr.. Scott
said. He shook hands gravely.
Young girls do such remarkable
things these days. Young men,
too. Take that young man of
yours-he's got great deal OF
courage, so much, my dear, that
he is bound to pull through. He'll
oct places-I see that now-with-
out any help from me! There
actually was a twinkle in Mr..
.Scott's eyes, as he said this;
Jackie knew he was recalling the
dinner party when he had offered
to help Roger, and Rogers indig-
nant reply that he would not &C.
cept charity. ...
Mr.. Scott had scared clear up
TO the sky again, in Jackie,s esti-
nation. He appreciated Roger, all
right. lie had paid a fine compli-
ment to his courage. Jackie sur
prised both herself and Mr. Scott
by turning before she got into
the plane, that stood ready to take
off now, to throw him kiss from
her fingertips. "Goodby,', she
called. "And thank you again. A
million timesp'
Mr.. Scott so far forgot his dig
nifty as to run a few steps, bare
headed, hat in hand, beside the
plane-and to throw Jackie a kiss
in return.
Even when the plane had left
the ground, soaring up, up into
the clouds, Jackie, looking back,
could see him standing. waving
his hat frantically, until Mr..
Scott, and the airport, and the
earth itself, became so small as to
be almost indistinguishable, only
a blurred unreality. ...,
The ship kept steadily climbing
higher, passing through bank Of
lovely, whipped-cream clouds, un-
til they lay, like a foamy ocean of
fluffy white spray beneath, sepa-
rating the plane from the world
below, shutting it out completely.
1t was the most beautiful sight
Jackie ever had seen, riding over
the tops Of the clouds, watching
the tiny dark shadow of the plane
cast on them, following along, so
that it seemed indeed as though
the world had been left behind.
Fear and doubt and anxiety
dropped from Jackie's heart, as
well. They could not exist i'm such
a clean, celestial world, bathed
in pure sublimity. She knew that
Roger would live. He could not
die. As Mr.. Scott had said, Rog-
er's courage was too big--he was
bound to pull through.
Would he be glad when he
knew that she had flown to him?
Would Roger know that she loved
him now, had always loved him
If she had not been such a blind