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The road to Vinton was usually well sprinkled with jitney busses conveying soldiers to or from camp, so Prescott had chosen another road which, at night, was likely to be almost free of traffic of any kind. "As this is the first evening I've had off in three weeks I don't believe I need feel that I'm loafing," Dick reflected. "It's gorgeous outdoors to-night.
The earnestness of the eager young face, wan in its illness, the light of love in the big gray eyes, went to the doctor's heart. He gave the boy a troubled look. "Where is it you want to go, Billy?" "Economy, Doc. It ain't far, only two or three hours' ride. I c'n get a jitney somewheres I guess ta take me. I'll pay up ez soon as I get home. I got thirty dollars in the bank my own self."
"Maybe they've come back early to be on the scene and get a stand-in with the freshies," cannily suggested Jerry. "Wouldn't it be funny to see us and the Sans down at the station every day, grabbing the freshies as they came off the train, like a couple of jitney drivers?" Leila laughed. "They will never go that far. That would take some kindness of heart and consideration.
"Y-y-yes, he drove the jitney." "Where did he drive it?" "H-h-he drove it everywhere." "He drove it over here with the suit-case, didn't he?" "Yes, he did." "And you know Biddle, and you know what he did, don't you?" "Yes, I know." "And you're willing to tell all you know about it, are you?" "Yes, I'll tell it all. I'll tell whatever you " "You'll tell whatever you know, will you?"
We conquered our tendency to scamper panic-stricken for the sidewalk at the raucous bark of a jitney bus. In the winding roads of the park we learned to turn corners on two wheels and rest the other pair for the reverse curve. One remembered day we went for a run in the country. On a ten-mile piece of new macadam he gave me all the gas I craved.
Also there was the thought that Tessie might fix it at home by sending a letter filled with glowing promises of good money but she would require at least one day to mail her promise to Flosston. So Dagmar sat with a melancholy expression on her face while Tessie hid her silent chuckles in her wearing apparel. "Here we are," whispered the latter, as the jitney jolted to a standstill.
On a certain bright February morning Ben Hallock puffed up the Calle Rivera and across the plaza of Limasito as fast as his battered jitney could carry him and rushed into Baggott's hotel with an anticipatory gleam in his heavy eyes. "Hey, Jim! I got your message and I come a-hummin'!" he announced. "What is it? Vigilance Committee?" "Sort of!"
McNally," I said cheerfully. Her use of the word gave me an inspiration. "That's one of the new jitney 'buses we hear about. He's going to take me to the station. Don't you worry about me. I'm going for a holiday. You get Mr. McGill's dinner ready for him. After dinner tell him there's a note for him in the living-room." "I tank that bane a queer 'bus," said Mrs. McNally, puzzled.
Let a sizable body of troops move from one station to another, and hard on its heels there came a squad of men and women of the Salvation Army. An army truck may bring them, or it may be they have a battered jitney to move them and their scanty outfits. Usually they do not ask for help from anyone in reaching their destinations.
When the truth leaked out, it was rejected indignantly as a blind to conceal their real destination. They revelled in their own importance. That night they told their girls in town that they were "going to get the Germans." Anthony circulated for a while among the groups then, stopping a jitney, rode down to tell Dot that he was going away.
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