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Hal addressed the commander: "General, I can assure you that all we have said has been the truth. You will learn so in time. I, sir, have seen active service. I have fought with the Belgians, the British in France and the Russians in the eastern war zone." "From your own accounts you must have had quite a time," said the Italian commander dryly.
While Tomba spoke none answered, but many baleful glances were cast at Sergeant Hal Overton of the Thirty-fourth Infantry. When Tomba had ceased speaking two or three of the rascals spoke, slowly, briefly. "What do the scoundrels say?" demanded the Army boy. "They do not like the situation, señor." "Can you blame them? Or can they help the situation in the new turn that it has taken?"
Ten minutes later the naval surgeon returned with Benson. Hal Hastings, Mr. Mayhew and Ensign Trahern followed Jack and the doctor. “Here’s Mr. Benson, Truax,” announced Doctor McCrea. “If there’s anything you wish to confess, the rest of us can bear witness and help straighten matters out if you’ve done any wrong that you now regret.” Sam Truax feebly stretched out a hand that was hot and dry.
The darkness made accurate shooting by the Germans impossible. Not pausing to return the fire of the enemy, the fugitives stumbled on through the woods. Another and another volley came from the pursuing Germans, but they were firing at random now, and the fact that Hal and Chester had led the way well to the right augured well for their chance of safety.
Jim Kenerley had gone to business, and Van Reypen and Hal Ferris were playing golf, so Patty had the place to herself; and by dint of slow but persevering pounding on the typewriter, she picked out the following missive: "Mr. Christopher Cameron: DEAR MR. CAMERON, A few weeks ago I heard you play the violin at a concert!
Claire clinging to his with a grasp which said plainer than words could have done: 'I believe in you, Hal, and am so sorry for you, the tension of his nerves gave way entirely, and, sinking down in their midst, he cried like a child when freed from some terrible danger.
This was done in the mineralogical nomenclature proposed by Professor Mohs. “The names framed by him were not composed of two, but of three elements, designating respectively the Species, the Genus, and the Order; thus he has such species as Rhombohedral Lime Haloide, Octohedral Fluor Haloide, Prismatic Hal Baryte.” The binary construction, however, has been found sufficient in botany and zoology, the only sciences in which this general principle has hitherto been successfully adopted in the construction of a nomenclature.
Hal was not hit; he had merely let go of the controls. It was part of the plan to let the machine fall out of control. But, for a moment, it was too much as if Hal had been hit. The biplane side-slipped, "went off the wing," sickeningly, dropping down spinning.
Then the tears came and I sat with my face buried in my hands, and cried like a child. A hand touched me, an arm crept round me, "Hal," I said, starting. "No," said Wilmur Benton in his sweeter tone, "It is I." "Oh!" I screamed almost, making an attempt to rise, but his arm held me firmly as he said: "Forgive me, Miss Minot, if I have caused you pain I spoke harshly, I fear."
"Now, let's see what's going on in the air," said Cub. "Hal, you take the first whirl through the atmosphere." Hal sat down by the table and put a pair of phones to his ears. Then he began to tune. First there came to him a discordant confusion of static and other noises, including an admixture of "ham impudence".
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