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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... watched over him , not for herself but for this night which was to take him . For struggles , fears , and victories which she would never know . Wild things they were , those hands of his , and only tamed to tender- ness ; their real ...
... watched over him , not for herself but for this night which was to take him . For struggles , fears , and victories which she would never know . Wild things they were , those hands of his , and only tamed to tender- ness ; their real ...
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... like a spray of fire- flowers , so pale it seemed that moonlight would have quelled it , but , in this nothing- ness , engulfing all the visible world . He watched it streaming stiffly out into the wind , like 80 NIGHT FLIGHT.
... like a spray of fire- flowers , so pale it seemed that moonlight would have quelled it , but , in this nothing- ness , engulfing all the visible world . He watched it streaming stiffly out into the wind , like 80 NIGHT FLIGHT.
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... watched Robineau . And the longer his chief watched him , the more deeply Robineau blushed and the more it grew on Rivière that this fellow had come , for all his touching and unhappily sincere good - will , to act as spokes- man for ...
... watched Robineau . And the longer his chief watched him , the more deeply Robineau blushed and the more it grew on Rivière that this fellow had come , for all his touching and unhappily sincere good - will , to act as spokes- man for ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT | 33 |
AN HOUR LATER THE WIRELESS | 53 |
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