Those were the only words spoken to her until they were nearing their destination. Then that strange young man leaned over once more to say:
“Curious sort of job you’ve got here! Necessary enough, though. And you fit in very well, I can see that. I am no end grateful for what you did back there in Chicago. You saved the situation for me, you surely did! Hope I may travel with you often. This is my first trip by air, but not the last—you may be assured of that. I enjoy being carried along by this—this invisible power.” He chuckled. “And I—I like the company, if you don’t mind my saying it.”
“Not in the least. I’ve enjoyed knowing you.” Rosemary was vexed at herself for saying so trite a thing. Truth was, her mind was still filled with that missing bag. That the dark-faced woman would report the loss to the office and that there would be no end of fuss about it, she did not doubt.
“I—I’d like to know you better,” she added as a kind of after-thought, as she favored Danby Force with a smile.
“You will,” he prophesied, “Oh yes, I am sure you will.”
“And if I don’t,” she told herself a moment later, “I shan’t know much except that he says his name is Danby Force and that he fancies, at least, that he can be of service to a few thousand people. Well—” she sighed, “that’s really something, if it’s not pure fancy.”
The landing field at Salt Lake City seemed hot after their rapid gliding down from the lands of perpetual snow. In spite of this, Rosemary Sample breathed a sigh of relief. Her journey was over. From this point the party would break up. She would rest for a few hours, then go soaring back to home base where she was to have two whole days to herself.
“Guess we’d better stick around for a bit,” suggested the pilot. “That woman will be putting in a complaint. We’ll have to tell what we know.
“For that matter, though,” he added, “I can’t see that we have much responsibility in the matter. She refused to leave the bag locked in the plane where it would have been safe. Took the matter in her own hands. The bag was in her possession when it disappeared. So—o!” He smiled. “That about lets us out. We—
“Look there!” he exclaimed suddenly. “Even the gypsies are taking to the air.”