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(narieh, 101%, 47 a MeOlare News: i "Berry, young man," sald the portly Me, Horace Seymour, rising to indicate that the ten-minute titerview was stan amd} "but your quest is futile. 1 can- | A not allow my daughter to marry a man | ©, 'with no more alluring future than the one that confronts yon." . Second Nations! bank, "that going up in an alrship does not require as extre amount gf courage, but when it comes 1 to looplag-the-loop und going Shivug) sll these fancy maneuvers---well, oN yourself," "Wouldn't, hey? How much do you want to bet on that? "I'l wager ten thousand," replied the challenger, "that if" you will go up in an airplane and let the aviator put you through & program of stunts you will be crying quits inside of an "hour | after leaving { e ground." : "It's & go," Mr. Seymour. "Put up the cash." A committee was selected to ar! range for the bet. All that was néces- | sary was to secure the services of an aviator at the local flying feld and swear him to secrecy, for it would not \ do for the Seymour family to learn of the matter. The arrangeéinents were | tment showed on his clear cut countenance, but through it gleam- od a hint of a smile, & somewhat deter- | and asked: "Then there's noe hope, Mr. Seymour? | Yeu know. I love Ruth sincerely, and ita not because of your financial standing, | S shout that," he' conceded, "However, that is not og? is not so.much that man, ; Joods So Show hat 1 is specessful. you are a mail carrier, and while | occu; patiod and a very the 'running of the world, it is so 'prosaic, so devold of | thrills, so lacking In opportunity for | b "pee much hope for you. You need not Soll me that Ruth loves you. I be- Jeve she does, or thinks she does, but the will forget you. I'm sorry I let the | matter go so far. I didn't realize that 3 Ser activities In entertaining service i men would lead to any such serious pair." "In concrete térms, Mr. Seymour," sald Weldon, "justh\what would you require of me to make me eligible as p son-in-law? I'm determined to meet your requirements. Just tell me how to go about it and I'll leave you." ~ This was a fair proposition, the banker conceded. "Sit down," he sald abruptly, and dropped into his own swivel chair. *'m wasting time, but I want to be square. Here's the crux of the thing. You're not on your feet, figuratively speaking. You're upside down. Nine young men out of ten are upside down; E they're like turtles flopped on their .. backs, unable to mike progress. Some- times a fellow will get on his feet over- aight and then he can speed to the ts of success. You re honest or' "you wouldn't be carrying mail for a living. You're too honest to succeed. My advice may sound hard, but it's the coin and get it, no matter how, so 'long as you don't run afoul of the law. Use your-brains; put it over the other fellow; grab his coin and you'll win everybody's admiration, especially | your victhu's, to use a harsh but appli- | eable term. You'll find such a course profitable and also thrilling; not hum- drum like carrying mail. "You ask for a plain business propo- | sition. Well, here It is. It sounds Im- | : poasible, and for you It probably is. If | 3 you can come to me inside of two | weeks with a ten-thousand-dollar bank account you can have Ruth and there'll be no questions asked. It will prove your resourcefulness. Good day." 5 Weldon Miller went to his boarding | house and spent the rest of the shut in his room, smoking and 1 g : i aistiiil fi pn : IEE i FisqeE t ~F is 2 g i ir Hn ite he 223 *lvw 28g gd ; il i i if ai tam man * yeut Well, Usten--" * It was mined smile. Ho creased his felt hat | , but that you evi | the only recipe for success. Go 'after | duly made and two days later, on a clear afternoon, Mr. Seymour, attired 3 b aviation clothes, was strapped to @ passenger seat of a biplane. If he | was nervous be it to hig credit that he | did not show it./ The plane rose grace: | fully and Mr.' Seymour's stomach seemed to climb into his throat with | the same motion. He had read it was | best not to look down, so he kept his | | gaze: averted, with the result that he | | did not suffer severe nausea. In fact, he enjoyed the sensation of soaring | | from mentally "pooh-poohing" at the dangers of aviation and' chuckling over "ee ten thousand that would be his. However, he had reckoned not with | { the man in control of the craft. Sud | | denly the machine tipped and started nose first at"a sharp angle for the | clung desperately to the seat. It | seemed that he was going to be dashed to pieces, but abruptly the plane rights | ed Itself and shot 'upward at'the same | | angle. Then it turned far on one side | 3 | and seemed about to tip complétely i over, but recovered its equilibrium and | tipped to the other side. Before Mr, Seymour could realize what had oc | | curred the machine took.another nose dive; this time dropping so far that it almost scraped the top of a tree. Then | ap, far up, it soared again and-- "heavens! It turned! completely over { sideways and began rolling over and {| over. This lasted for, it seemed, an | hour, although it was sctually only fif- | | teen 'seconds. Hardly bad the jeraft got to a horizontal position when it took another dive, but instead of head- ing for the earth the nose turned clear | under, the engine was shut off and the plane, upside down, began falling rapidly. The passenger could have sworn that the machine had dropped fifty miles, but it was only a thousand feet, when it struggled once more to an upright position and began lpoping- the-loop. | "Enough!" groaned Mr, | through the speaking tube. - the ground in safety and you can have , anything I own." The next day Mr, Seymour did not | get to the office until midafterncon. He found Weldon Miller awaiting him. The banker glared at him and inquired brusquely as to his errand. "I've got the ten thousand," sald the young man, holding out a bank beck, | one from the Second National. "Fur | thermore," I have your consent to mar | ry Ruth," Mr. Seymour stood at his desk and glared at Weldon. "Where do you get that stuff? he said in a voice that was almost a roar. "What do you mean, ten thousand? | What do you mean, consent?" Weldon helped himself to a seat. { . "I won thé ten thousand in a bet* 'he sald. "Mr. Hollister of the Second National loaned me an equal amount | and put it up for me. 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