Wings in the Dark Page #4

who laid the air track to Rio

when the whole world said

it couldn"t be done,

and did a lot of other things

that nobody else would tackle,

well, that man would hardly

be the one to wait

for a piece of paper

in order to do something

a great deal more important.

Mac, Mac, Mac,

are you still here?

Coming, boss.

How soon can I take off?

You"re going anyway?

Right away. Don"t want

to lose this weather.

Get your maps, man.

You"re on your way.

What are you going to wear?

Heavy flying suit,

moccasins, gloves.

Where are they?

In that locker.

L"ll get those.

You get your maps.

Say, you"re a pretty good

sport to do this after the way

I treated you today.

Forget it. If I can"t go

with you, at least I can

see you off.

These moccasins

are torn.

That doesn"t matter.

You know,

you"re nothing like

what I thought you were.

What did you think I was?

Well, l"ve always heard

of you barnstorming,

flying under bridges,

doing stunts for the movies.

In other words,

working the aviation racket

for all it"s worth.

Well, yes.

Where do you keep

your coffee?

Mac has it ready on the stove.

I didn"t mean to be

as rotten to you

as I was today.

This coffee"s cold.

L"m not often

as wrong about people

as I was about you.

You just didn"t

understand, that"s all.

You see, I want to fly,

but I haven"t the money.

Do you realize how little

women can do in the air?

We can"t fly for the Army,

we can"t fly the mails.

Even the good transport jobs

are closed to us.

How do you light this thing?

L"ll show you.

I wasn"t fair. I hope you"ll

let me see you when I get back

to sort of make up for it.

Watch that match.

You"ll burn your fingers.

Isn"t it always the way

when you"re in a hurry?

Mac! Mac!

Oh, my dear!

What"s happened?

Get some olive oil,

butter, any kind of grease!

Hurry!

Let me see. Let me see.

Let me see.

I can"t see. I can"t see.

Mac, hurry! Hurry!

Just as we thought after

the first examination.

There are no surface burns.

The explosion did its damage

within the eye.

Then l"m blind.

The chief injury"s due to

a major disturbance

of the eye fluid, Mr. Gordon.

Tell me the truth.

Will I ever see again?

That"s hard to say.

But as long as the optic nerve

is uninjured,

there"s always hope,

but we can tell nothing yet.

How long before you can tell?

A long time, l"m afraid.

You mean weeks? Months? Years?

Months, at least.

Now, let me get this straight.

L"m blind now

and it"ll be months before

you can tell me if l"ll

ever see again, is that it?

Sorry, but l"m afraid

that"s about it.

Thank you.

Goodbye, Mr. Gordon.

Goodbye and thanks.

You"ve been very kind.

Here, Ken.

Thanks, Mac.

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