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Updated: May 15, 2025
The charcoal burners up in the Kil mountains hardly dared take a cat-nap, for as soon as she saw an unwatched kiln, she stole up and blew on it until it began to burn in a great flame.
We both looked out to the white courtyard, heard the snarl of another plane, obviously French, but still disconcerting, saw the slow even pace of the lovers, unaffected by the approaching growl of the plane, and it came to me to quote one wiser even than Solomon: "O death, where is thy sting!" We took but a cat-nap that night, and in the morning set down the score on our love affair.
But it is extremely doubtful whether a single one of those eighteen boys secured so much as a decent cat-nap between that hour and dawn.
But I reckon it was more than a cat-nap, for when I waked up the stars was shining bright, the fog was all gone, and I was spinning down a big bend stern first. First I didn't know where I was; I thought I was dreaming; and when things began to come back to me they seemed to come up dim out of last week.
I have taken it upon myself to recover Monsieur his papers. I must carry it through myself to the very omega." I said no more, partly because it would have done no good, partly because, in spite of the strange word, I understood how he felt. "Perhaps you should go home and sleep," he suggested tenderly. "Nay," cried I. "I had a cat-nap in the lane; I'm game to see it through."
"It has been a good many days since any of the crew gave us a chance to show what we could do with a bullet, sir." "How long are you on duty to-night?" "Until morning, sir. Jacob Sitz and I have thought best to stay with the sentinels of our company during all the hours of darkness. We catch a cat-nap now and then, so it isn't like doin' extra work."
Twice the book slipped from my hand, and I woke with a horrid start from my cat-nap. Then I would go softly to the library door and peep in. Always the same tableau the two men sitting opposite each other, alert, silent, watchful, and between them the shaded lamp and that little box lying in the circle of its light.
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