Show r 0 08 0 the N I Am Puzzled How to Get a Reply Back to Katherine Miller Quite characteristic of or her Her lIer morals are true to type trpe I remarked to Jimmy-boy Jimmy when I handed Katherine Kather ine rne Millers Miller's letter to io to him an hour later After Arter he had read it It Jim helped me compose a reply We Ve told Miss Mss Miller that the party part headed for the Lorimer mines was eally hunting for her we prop promised ls d we w uld send a courier to tell Hell Morrison 1 where she was held we mad madee the made the lett letter 1 as brief us as possible arid and put It In French French- knowing she could read It If It our answer answel went ent astray tray If wouldn't it-wouldn't wouldn't be of or much value to any Mexican who might chance to find I it We Ve hired a a messenger to follow the party starch and sent him off oft on the I evening eV train carrying a a. note which I was also lone done in our best French Then Jim promised to watch me from a distance the next afternoon when I was due to deliver a note to Indian messenger Early EJ n next morning Jim took me out outto outto outto to the field where he ho parks his bus The Tho mechanics were dandy chaps While Indifferent to the thrills of or the tho game they appeared to approve of at a girt girl with nerve nerve enough to want to bea bea be bo boa a pilot What I really had I suppose was the nerve nerve of ot a fool I hadn't the least no notion notion notion no- no tion of at what I was letting myself in for Some women have made airplane records record II and I told myself that I 1 might just as well be numbered among the pioneers though as I peered into the 1 blue above me mt I didn't care much ab about ut making an altitude record By the time Im I'm a grandmother wOmen will have their own own- coz cozy airplanes air air- I planes sedan planes sedan style style to to do errands and I make calls In Why wait walt Better Metter go goto goto goto to It now nos thought ht I to myself a The ship ship may have been a steady old taxi as Jim In Insisted but it didn't feel teel so to me The mechanics had Installed a telephone tE connection between the Instructor and pupil By Dy means of it Jim explained how he ha did things That was enough for a a. first lesson leNon he said He lIe showed me how to hold the Joystick Joy Joy- stick stick let let me hold her steady for tor a afew afew few tew minutes But Dut a bump In the tho air I frightened me out of ot my senses To quiet me Jim sat around on the clouds for a while As we skimmed the edge of at a a. cloud bank I recalled an- an othet unique experience Once I had dined In a a. U boat U-boat at tho the bottom of ot the sea I preferred an airplane to a submarine submarine submarine sub sub- marine although I climbed out of or the tho car after Jim had made his landing with more fear in my heart beart than I cared to confess to To prove pro that I was game I suggested sug- sug rested soother another lesson on In the afternoon but Jim said that the bus would have to be tuned up by the mechanics after each ascent Moreover there thero was the tho business with the Indian guide he re reminded remInded reminded re- re I minded me i That however will always remain unfinished business The field where Jim parked his plane was at the end of the towns town's main street at the end where most of the gambling houses were situated AS we wo approached a dive we woe saw two men carrying a body to a a. hearse One of the crowd told Jim that it was only u a dead Indian shot Indian shot Jn n a a card game same There'd been a fight over a ring too I Jimmy I I think you'd you better go go go- and look at the the the-the the dead man I suggested suggested suggested sug sug- that is If It you dont don't feel as sick and faint taint as I do t t may be be r Sure Sure It It may be be- be echoed Jim But Dut whether it was was we we never knew The corps was long and thin like lIle the figure of the halfbreed I had seen Inthe in inthe inthe the dark I patrolled the walk before the hotel at the appointed hour am and Jim stood guard but nobody came tor for our letter to l Katherine Miller all right anyway said ald Jim Jun T w. w Cobs Bobs bunch will soon hear from our courier But she sh wont won't know Jim She wont won't know And now now just Just read tho the last lut 11 line lino of ot her letter again Jim read it Jt aloud Help in me this week Or I 1 will run runaway runaway away with Manuel Manue Good Lord Somebody ought to save that girl from herself herselt exclaimed Jim It wasn't for mo me to say that the girl I wasn wasn't t worth saving savin She Sho had treated I me mo very ery badly nevertheless I must help her to the limit of ot my m resources re resources i I could never understand how one human being can Mn deliberately Injure another To be continued |