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Mr. Robinson had to
travel somewhere on business, and as he was in a hurry, he decided
to go by air. He liked sitting beside a window when he was flying,
so when he got on to the plane, he looked for a window seat. He
found all of them had already had been taken except for one. There
was a soldier sitting in the seat beside this one, and Mr. Robinson
was surprised that he had not taken the one by the window; but,
anyhow, he at once went towards it.
When he reached it,
however, he saw that there was a notice on it. It was written
in ink and said, "This seat is preserved for proper load balance,
thank you." Mr Robinson had never seen such an unusual notice
in a plane before, but he thought that the plane must be carrying
something particularly heavy in it, so he walked on and found
another empty seat, not beside a window, to sit in.
Two or three people
tried to sit in the window seat beside the soldier, but they too
read the notice and went on, when the plane was nearly full, a
very beautiful girl hurried into the plane. The soldier, who was
watching the passengers coming in, quickly took the notice off
the seat beside himself and in this way succeededin having the
company of the girl during the whole trip.
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