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Updated: June 7, 2025
Every mail to me was burdened with the letters of applicants who were suffocating in the "man-stifled towns," and it soon dawned upon me that a twentieth century Ulysses required a corps of stenographers to clear his correspondence before setting sail.
I am tremendously glad about it all." But she did not know, could not know, just how much it meant to me. "Good night, my patriotic Muse!" I said. "Good night, Mr. Secretary Dick!" And so we parted on the night of my return to London. We were dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the man-stifled town; We yearned beyond the sky-line where the strange roads go down.
He who knew his Piccadilly, Night Clubs, the theatres, the haunts of fair women and brave men, standing, no sitting, on a lonely hill-top watching, watching, the lives of the garrison in his hands.... He would return to those haunts, bronzed, lined, hardened the man from the edge of the Empire, from the back of Beyond, the man who had Done Things and talk of camp-fires, the trek, the Old Trail, smells of sea and desert and jungle, and the man-stifled town, ... battle, ... brave deeds ... unrecognized heroism ... a medal ... perhaps the ... and the nodding head of Augustus settled upon his chest.
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