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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Going back to France? When?" "By the leave-boat to-night!" Desmond smiled resignedly. "My dear Chief," he said, "you must be more explicit. What am I going back to France for?" "Why, now I come to think of it," replied the Chief, "I never told you. You're going back to France to be killed, of course!" "To be killed!" Desmond looked blankly at the other's blandly smiling face.
"And he promised to take me up some day," he said sadly. "Yes, some day, Peter," I said encouragingly. "But it's time we were getting back. You know you've got to catch the leave-boat at four o'clock this afternoon." Peter's father and I stood on the quay, having taken farewell of Peter.
Passengers on a Channel leave-boat are quieter than might be expected. With the country of war behind them they have attained the third degree of content, and so novel is this state after months of living on edge that the short crossing does not allow sufficient time for them to be moved to exuberance.
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