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Updated: June 22, 2025
Dressed, he turned aft through the alleyway, entering immediately the central operating room and storm center of that typhoon of noise, a wilderness of polished machinery in active being. Of the score or more leather-clad machinists silent at their posts, none paid him more heed than a passing, incurious glance as he crossed to a narrow steel companion ladder and ascended to the conning tower.
In the kitchen by the great chimney place I could see a leather-clad chauffeur eating, the same fellow that had driven the blue car from the rue St.-Dominique; and while I watched, madame emerged, bearing the girl's dinner tray, which with much groaning and panting she carried up the winding stairs. It was foolish of Miss Falconer, I thought, to insist on this comedy.
But the sergeant, instead of bristling and giving battle, held up one large, leather-clad hand with the motion of hushing him. "St!" he clicked warningly. "Not now! Be orderly, Votters. See your lady-consul!" "What?" Waters halted, taken by surprise, and turned his head. The sergeant, rigid and formal upon the instant, was saluting.
There were the high cheek bones, the bluish tinge darker now the pleading smile, the leather chaps and dirty Stetson and polka dot neckerchief and huge spurs, there the coarse brown hands hanging limply over the leather-clad knees. Two changes had come one shoulder hung lower than its mate, and the stiff black hair was tidier.
The colt pulled back in an effort to release the forefoot that the man held clamped between his leather-clad knees, then changed his tactics and sagged his weight against Harris. "You Babe!" the man ordered. "Don't you go leaning on me." He pared down the hoof and fitted the shoe but before nailing it on he released the colt's foot and addressed the girl.
I exclaimed, gazing with a new respect at my leather-clad friend and his car. "You've got some good stuff in you, Terry. I didn't quite realize what a responsibility I was throwing on you, old chap, when I named you as my chauffeur.
"I'll turn up in about a quarter of an hour," he said. I watched his lithe, leather-clad figure disappear among the trees, and then wheeled around to my prostrate foe. "I do not know what to say to you," I said, hesitatingly, looking down upon him. He had taken his hand away from his breast, and was fumbling with it on the grass behind him. Suddenly he raised it, with a sharp cry of
Then came the starting of the motor, the wheeled run, and the leap into air. As we took wing, I could have sung for joy. I was so gloriously excited, I was hardly conscious of the noise of the engine. That helmeted head and the firm leather-clad shoulders beneath me seemed the head and shoulders of a god. We circled over the enclosure.
Not one qualm did I feel as I looked down over Eagle's leather-clad shoulder at the various instruments fixed on to what in an aeroplane corresponds, I suppose, to the dashboard of an earth-bound automobile: the revolution gauge, which Eagle had explained to us; the watch; the map to roll up on a frame, like a blind; the compass, the height indicator.
But her eyes travelled past him and rested upon me, standing there between the leather-clad executioners with the cords of the torture pinioning my wrists, and I saw the anguish deepen in their blue depths. Across the length of that hall our eyes met hers and mine and held each other's glances.
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