Show HARD BOILED CHUCK I By Richard H. Wilkinson WALLACE was hard CHUCK Women didn't bother him Flying He owned his own plane and specialized in doing free-lance jobs for private and performing rescues for reward He had 1 quite a at 3 Fiction the annual pilots' he was presented to redheaded Alma Mallory he wasn't impressed at Alma She had heard of Alma was very very sure of used to getting what she She wanted Chuck wasn't quick to catch When finally he realized what she was up to he had almost fallen into her He was glad when news came in that a young flyer had been lost In the north It gave him a chance to get The fact that the young lost flyer was Don Alma's didn't bother him at This was Old Man through his had offered a fat Chuek Wallace loaded up and took off the next morning in his That night he set down on a little wooded miles from the nearest and established a The next day he began systematically to comb the In the afternoon he returned to his and received a There was another plane riding on the surface of the He saw a figure standing on the It was Alma the he at Alma was very very sure of used to getting what she And she wanted do you Don's my She had brought along a lot of the things Chuck hadn't thought There was nothing he could do about her being so he set up one of the tents and ate the supper she cooked for The next day he flew west and covered a strip 25 miles But he didn't sight and was genuinely worried when he returned to the base that THE next just before he sighted a plane on a lake 50 miles east of his base and set taxing up beside A man stood on one of the wings and called to Chuck He didn't like Not a bit of At 2 o'clock he returned to his base and found It Alma and her plane had He swore and packed up his The next morning he reached his home He went home and shaved and bathed and got into He was dead but he couldn't The next morning he took a taxi to the Mallory home and asked for A butler told him that she had gone down to to visit The friends' name was Chuck caught a train for that He arrived at 5 o'clock and located the Hanscom they told was out horseback riding with a chap named Rodney Chuck rented a horse and went looking for Two miles from the Hanscom home he came to a spot where the bridle trail There were two horses in the standing close Rodney Nuys was trying to kiss the rider of the a Chuck rode up close and clipped the gent so hard he fell out of the Then he grabbed hold of girl and shook her the he found your brother In a little lake 50 miles east of the He was looking for He said he didn't think it was so smart for his sister to give out that he was when he really wasn't just so she could send Chuck Wallace up into the country and then What's the Alma looked at him do you she Vou big Indifferent And why you think I gave up and came Chuck but maintained his hold on her For the first time when looking at this he you want me to tell you what I he said |