“Take mine, son, until I can get you a pair of your own!â€â€œTake mine, son, until I can get you a pair of your own!â€
“Take mine, son, until I can get you a pair of your own!â€
“Take mine, son, until I can get you a pair of your own!â€
Ever since the first minute he had entered the Flying Corps, the boy had lived for the great day when his efforts and craftsmanship would earn him his wings. Now that the glorious moment had arrived, he wasn’t the slightest bit interested in the solemn procedure, for over to the right of the plane, Elinor stood alone, her cheeks flushed crimson with pride for the man she idolized.
She threw pride to the winds and, with strong determination, walked directly to the spot where Lefty awaited her coming with suppressed eagerness.
Just as he took her in his arms, unmindful of the others about them who watched the procedure interestedly, two Bed Cross men carried Panama from the plane and, at the sergeant’s command, brought him over to where the lovers stood in a warm embrace.
“What did I tell you about that Lindbergh stuff?†Panama called to the boy as a wide grin spread over his face from ear to ear, and then gazing at Elinor with a look of unselfish devotion, assured the girl in no uncertain manner, “Well, even if you didn’t get ‘We’ you sure landed the next best thing!â€
The boy and girl smiled after the sergeant with gratitude and as the medical attendants carried him off, they once more became locked in each others arms, sealing the joining together at last with a long, lingering kiss.
Major Harding ran across the field after Williams, finally joining up with the sergeant as the attendants carried him down the company street to his tent.
“Sergeant!†the commander panted, “I won’t forget your bravery this time! I’m going to see that you get a medal if I have to go all the way back to Washington and fetch it for you myself!â€
Williams smiled in a sly, mischievous way as he watched Lefty and Elinor walk across the field, arm in arm, wrapped completely in their new-found happiness.
“Better save all that expense, sir,†he advised the major in his typical droll manner of speech, “there’s goin’ to be a weddin’ around this base soon and them kids will be needin’ dishes and things!â€
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This brilliant chronicler of the French Foreign Legion is an Englishman born in Devonshire and educated at Oxford. He is a veteran of three armies, the crack British Cavalry Corps, the French Foreign Legion and the Indian Army in East Africa.
BEAU GESTE
Mystery, courage, love, self sacrifice, adventure on the burning sands of North Africa—in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion.
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A sequel to Beau Geste in which the age old spell of the desert is the background for a tale of mystery.
STEPSONS OF FRANCE
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WAGES OF VIRTUE
A modern Enoch Arden reappears and goes back to remain “dead†in the Legion of the Condemned, but his story comes out at last.
FATHER GREGORY
Mystery and Father Gregory play a desperate game on a picturesque background of Hindustan. Written with gusto by the author of “Beau Geste.â€
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Another romance of the East by the author of the Foreign Legion stories. The fascinating mystery of Kipling’s India is the background for a strange love.
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Within the space of a few years Sinclair Lewis has become one of the most Distinguished of American Novelists.
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Elmer Gantry, hypocrite and voluptuary, is painted against a background of church members and professing Christians scarcely less hypocritical than he. In this book Sinclair Lewis adds a violent stroke to his growing picture of materialistic America.
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SERGEANT EADIE ... Leonard Nason
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WINGS ... John Monk Saunders
Based on the great Paramount picture, WINGS is the Big Parade of the air, the gallant, fascinating story of an American air pilot.
LEAVE ME WITH A SMILE ... Elliott W. Springs
Henry Winton, a famous ace, thrice decorated, twice wounded and many times disillusioned returns after the war to meet Phyllis, one of the new order of hard-drinking, unmoral girls.
NOCTURNE MILITAIRE ... Elliott White Springs
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CHEVRONS ... Leonard Nason
One of the sensations of the post-war period, CHEVRONS discloses the whole pageantry of war with grim truth flavored with the breezy vulgarity of soldier dialogue.
THREE LIGHTS FROM A MATCH ... L. Nason
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TOWARD THE FLAME ... Hervey Allen
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Jesi, a diminutive city of the Italian Marches, was the birthplace of Rafael Sabatini.
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