Show I Confessions L 1 Of Ofa a Bride Bri de I I Jim Jm Sees a Ghost Ghost D Dr C s Raised From the Dead Dead And And I Scent New Newl Troubles I Jim Jr Is s going to h have ve the doubtfuL doubtful doubt doubt- ful uL pleasure of beating beating- us to Mexico Mex Mex- leo Ice announced d Bob an alter after r reading a aI I wire which arrived late that after after- i lIes Hes going down to the tho border with a no flock of pilots for tor patrol duty Oh la Ia la Ia la ha I 1 trilled If It you you and ancl I 1 are going s south uth O of the Rio maybe maybe maybe may may- be it will be sort of ot comforting to feel that weve we've got a smiling above I Ius us in the clouds Tomorrow w you re going to have a hance to ask Jim Im to play guardian an angel el V Well We'll Il see him between tr trains Im awfully sorry for tor your our mother i Bob She's just stopped worrying I about you ou but she's sites never going to I have a moments moment's peace of or mind as I long as Jim is in the air all service I fIr hope she dont don't realize that that crash was nothing to what's ahead of ot Jim Jim Jim-It if hes he's captured by b bandits ban ban- n- n and and h held ld for ransom The Tho thought sobered us for tor the tUne time but we were all gay enough between trains on the morrow First there was vas the reunion Of bf brothers nothing much for tor the public eye but for tor the family the long handclasp handclasp handclasp hand hand- clasp bel held 1 a world of ot meaning Then there was the flock lock of ot the handsomest aviators in the service B Bob b commended them as such to Chrys and me They held the family's undivided undivided undivided vided attention and gave Jim Jr a chance for a few tew words with me on the side at his own request I 1 say Sissy I 1 bad a spooky e et- et the other diy day I 1 saw saw Ham Ham Hamilton ilton As a ghost a-a-ghost a ghost I stammered Nope my dear As a deck hand on a. a fruit a-fruit fruit company's boat Does flying lying often make you lightheaded light lIght- headed Jimmy boy No Nope Nolie e. e Then what are you talking about who About a foreign looking king was helping to l load ad nice made in America coffins into a gulf SUI freighter The cargo was marked for some small Mexican port You see sec a bunch of or us fellows wanted to go down clown to Calveston Calveston Galveston Calves Calves- ton on some dinky little coastwise sailing salling ship ship and and we had about got it all fixed up when we were ordered to entrain at once Gosh What darn luck luck except except for seeing you and the family You thought you ou saw th the spook on the dock in New York Be Beg pardon pardon-I I didn't think I saw aw Sis I said I 1 saw Doc Doe Certel and 1 I went up to him and spoke to him But Bul the tho only acknowledgment I got for tor my kind greeting was an Impudent Impudent I dent O. O O. O and some Spanish I 1 didn't understand I I might be able to imagine that Dr had bad been raised from the dEa dead I II I said but I never could think of ot that elegant gentleman loading gentleman loading coffins cof cot fins Ins onto a tramp steamer You see sec youre you're all wrong Jim I see But I saw whom saw whom I 1 saw 1 had to tell you had you had to get It off my chest But Dut dont don't you let Chrys get wise to th this s Sissy It wasn't until the wheels of the I tJ train ln began to revolve that I thought of a most important detail I called up to Jim Jin on the Pullman platform Was he one of the crew I shouted to the bewilderment of ot all my family and part of the public Jim nodded briskly vehemently briskly vehemently Then Thep the gink who looked like ike was headed for Mexico too I hoped Id I'd never cross his path I hoped that his nice made-in-America made coffins would never hold an any nice American Ame bodies Above all an I hoped I would be able to get my mind off from the spook Jim had raised to haunt me rue To be continued |