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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... town to another , the shepherd of those little towns . Every two hours he met another of them , drinking at its riverside or browsing on its plain . Sometimes , after a hundred miles of steppes as desolate as the sea , he encountered a ...
... town to another , the shepherd of those little towns . Every two hours he met another of them , drinking at its riverside or browsing on its plain . Sometimes , after a hundred miles of steppes as desolate as the sea , he encountered a ...
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... he seemed just or un- just . Perhaps the words were meaningless to him . The little townsfolk of the little towns promenade each evening round a bandstand and Rivière thought : It's nonsense to talk of being 38 NIGHT FLIGHT.
... he seemed just or un- just . Perhaps the words were meaningless to him . The little townsfolk of the little towns promenade each evening round a bandstand and Rivière thought : It's nonsense to talk of being 38 NIGHT FLIGHT.
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... in their traveling rugs , had pressed their foreheads on the window , as if it were a shop - front glittering with gems . For now the little towns of Argentina were stringing through 124 THE ASUNCION MAIL SIGNALED THAT IT WAS ABOUT TO LAND.
... in their traveling rugs , had pressed their foreheads on the window , as if it were a shop - front glittering with gems . For now the little towns of Argentina were stringing through 124 THE ASUNCION MAIL SIGNALED THAT IT WAS ABOUT TO LAND.
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT | 33 |
AN HOUR LATER THE WIRELESS | 53 |
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