Show THE FICTION DAFFY ENOUGH CORNER by richard H wilkinson NE DAY last spring a transcontinental 0 ONE air liner got off its beam over the rocky mountains and smashed up against a rocky peak it was a few hours before the disaster a was suspected and then the airports could only guess at the location of the wreckage glen owens sitting alone in his cabin on the slopes of white crest valley heard the 4 min MI ut fl announcement ov S er his dry cell set 1 0 fiction young glens cabin was located on the course of the liners flight if h and n earlier in the evening he had heard sounds that oathir now aw he remembered bared as being rather queer glen strapped on his skis loaded a pack with provisions and supplies and set off up the valley three hours later he saw sa w a light and came to the wreckage two people were dead and nother another a was ads so badly injured that unless he had medical attention pretty prett jq quick ul ck he too would die on an improvised sled glen pulled the injured man to the beai nearest town and doctor GI glen en owens owen s not only received a reward bearil re aril DUI he became overnight a fidure of national reputation three thred days after this a man from hollywood od calif arrived ed in crest looked up glen and offered to pay him a week to make a moving picture glen smiled and 9 shook h 0 0 k his head nope he drawled 1 I always wanted io be a ma inist and now with this reward money I 1 reckon I 1 got my chance good gosh man it will take 20 weeks to make this picture 10 do you realize that 1 its a lot of money glen agreed 6 t 0 1 then he faublon fai fashioned blon ea a sled using his okli as trainers runners twisted I 1 some saplings into the shape of snowshoes and wove wave them with twigs 0 but suppose I 1 folk s liked m me e then 1 id d haye to st ayouk there and and keep making I 1 pictures 11 il ae A la b bell if you do dont nt grab thi 11 maybe said glen good natured ly tm im a dumbbell already gleel what Is thep iatter las basti summer you wanted to start i adud ranch down in arizona b but ut yo you have any money so you d de 1 aided to go trapping lor for one winter so you could save enough money toi to buy a halt half interest in a ranch and ancl we could get married and now nov youre offered and you mumble something about being a leger leger whatever lt it is 11 glen told her patiently ALL of which made sw swell ell newspaper I 1 copy the reporters ate it up so did readers if glen had been famous before he was twice as famous now the next week three movie producers arrived on the scene one of them offered a flat price ot of for a single picture leah conroy was almost in tears glen for goodness sake try and understand what this means in another month be forgotten its your chance do you want to bo be a trapper all your life thirty thousandth thou sandl sald said the movie magnate desperately glen heaved a deep sigh 0 K it if the way you want it leahl so glen owens went to hollywood and made a moving picture ure glen returned to crest bearing his and the n next eit day he and leih leah journeyed down into arizona Wi within thina a week they a ranch they were married in the ranch patio and left immediately for a honeymoon to honolulu it was while they were on the boat that leah asked the inevitable question well honey it was like this glen replied that offer of was good but we needed to buy a ranch of our own so I 1 figured if I 1 turned down the first offer folks would think I 1 was daffy enough to make me more famous and the movie folks would offer me more money which they did glen owens what Is a leger 7 1 I dunno glen grinned and I 1 figured nobody else would woul I 1 either all ali I 1 know Is I 1 saw it if written out orce once and copied if off sos id be aure sure to get the spelling right in case I 1 hauled to use it |