AERONAUTICS: Tale of Two

Tears splashed on the jewels of the Queen of Diamonds, otherwise Miss Mabel Boll (Senora Hernando Rocha-Schioos). "Now he has taken another woman," she sobbed.

"He" was Wilmer Stultz, expert pilot.

The Other Woman was Amelia Earhart, who once sold sausage-meat while Mabel was selling cigars, and who looks amazingly like Lindbergh. Stultz had decided to risk a trans-atlantic flight with Lady Lindy rather than with the Diamond Queen, perhaps because: Lady Lindy is tall, blue-gray of eye, curly of hair, while her rival is shorter, dark-eyed, vividly blonde. More probably because:

Miss Earhart...

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