Night FlightAfter a tragic crash in the Andes, an airport supervisor must decide whether to continue the "night flights" of the mail. |
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... arms , taking deep breaths , across one's opened shirt . Rather a pleasant feeling . When it happens at night another feeling creeps into it — of hav- ing done something immensely silly . I shall never again admire a merely brave man ...
... arms , taking deep breaths , across one's opened shirt . Rather a pleasant feeling . When it happens at night another feeling creeps into it — of hav- ing done something immensely silly . I shall never again admire a merely brave man ...
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... arms which , in an hour , would decide the fortune of the Europe mail , bearing a high responsibility , like a city's fate . The thought troubled her . That this man alone , amongst those millions , was destined for the sacrifice made ...
... arms which , in an hour , would decide the fortune of the Europe mail , bearing a high responsibility , like a city's fate . The thought troubled her . That this man alone , amongst those millions , was destined for the sacrifice made ...
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... arms seemed to end in two queer foreign bodies , insentient like flabby rubber pads . " Better try hard to think I'm gripping , " he said to himself . But whether his thought carried as far as his hands he could not guess . The tugs ...
... arms seemed to end in two queer foreign bodies , insentient like flabby rubber pads . " Better try hard to think I'm gripping , " he said to himself . But whether his thought carried as far as his hands he could not guess . The tugs ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT | 33 |
AN HOUR LATER THE WIRELESS | 53 |
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