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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... peace and happiness ! No , peace there could be none ; nor any victory , perhaps . Never could all the air - mails land in one swoop once for all . Rivière paused before Leroux ; the old foreman was hard at work . Leroux , too , had ...
... peace and happiness ! No , peace there could be none ; nor any victory , perhaps . Never could all the air - mails land in one swoop once for all . Rivière paused before Leroux ; the old foreman was hard at work . Leroux , too , had ...
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... peace to all this vastness , as in dead castles the passing centuries spread peace . Two hundred miles without a man , a breath of life , a movement ; only sheer peaks that , flying at twenty thousand feet , you almost graze , straight ...
... peace to all this vastness , as in dead castles the passing centuries spread peace . Two hundred miles without a man , a breath of life , a movement ; only sheer peaks that , flying at twenty thousand feet , you almost graze , straight ...
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... peace . Peaceful , yes , but tense with some dark potency . Suddenly all grew sharp ; peaks and ridges seemed keen - edged prows cutting athwart a heavy head wind . Veering around him , they deployed like dreadnoughts taking their posi ...
... peace . Peaceful , yes , but tense with some dark potency . Suddenly all grew sharp ; peaks and ridges seemed keen - edged prows cutting athwart a heavy head wind . Veering around him , they deployed like dreadnoughts taking their posi ...
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ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT | 33 |
AN HOUR LATER THE WIRELESS | 53 |
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