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The nine others chosen for dawn patrol signaled their readiness. Out came wheel chocks, motors roared into the smooth sound of ripping silk as one by one they lurched down across the field and took the air. The heart of every man in the flight, save McGee's, was racing in tune with his motor. Here was a mission so much more exciting than any dawn patrol. Harass the advancing enemy!
He turned to Siddons and Hampden. "Ready? Right-O!" During the short motor trip into Is Sur Tille, McGee's curiosity finally got the better of his natural dislike for admitting that his memory had failed him. "I think I have met you somewhere before, Lieutenant," he said to Siddons. "Yes? I do not remember it," Siddons replied, with the air of one who is making no great draft upon his own memory.
Do you get me, Buzz?" "Sure. I felt it, too." He put both his hands on Red's shoulders, holding him off at arm's length. "You want back under the old Stars and Stripes, don't you? ... you little shrimp!" "Yes," slowly, "and yet " "I know how you feel. I'm with you, fellow, when you get ready to make the change." McGee's eyes lighted with surprise and joy. "Really, Buzz?" "Surest thing you know!"
Finally, in March, 1864, it resigned without waiting for a vote of want of confidence. Its successor, the Taché-Macdonald government, had a life of only three months, and its death marks the birth of a new era. "Events stronger than advocacy, events stronger than men," to repeat D'Arcy McGee's phrase, combined in 1864 to remove confederation from the field of speculation to the field of action.
Then, with little or no interest in them, his eye ran along the two converging lines of planes that made up Yancey's flight. That moment he noticed McGee's plane cut out of position and zoom up at an angle too steep to be maintained. Then McGee's plane levelled off and was hurled through a series of quick acrobatics. It meant but one thing manoeuver!
"Eyes bright and everything! Old Saw Bones just told me I could see you for five minutes but to do all the talking. You can have three questions only." A thin, tired smile came to McGee's freckled face, a face almost hidden under the bandages that completely covered his head. "All right," he said. "First question will I fly again?" "Of course! In four or five weeks you'll be good as new."
Dis child know nothing bout dem disgreable duties. All we wants, bredren, is to pick out de best man. How is we to do dat? Bredren, best way is to follow de hair. Mr. McGee has hair like good nigger. Bredren, let us follow our hair." The result was McGee was adopted unanimously. In 1865 a volume of Mr. McGee's speeches was published by Chapman & Hall.
I want to pull off a stunt that'll make the whole bunch of bulls sit up and bellow for fair and I can do it, easy as easy. Think I've croaked, do they? And they can all snooze on their peg-posts, now I'm a stiff? Well, by cripes, I just want half of a half of a chance, and I'll show 'em Slippy McGee's good and plenty alive!"
The sunlight fell upon his vivid scarlet shirt, his bared throat, and head clustering with perspiring curls. The same sunlight fell upon Mrs. McGee's brown head too, and apparently put a wicked fancy inside it. She ran to her bedroom, and returned with a mirror from its wall, and, after some trials in getting the right angle, sent a searching reflection upon the spot where Arthur was at work.
McGee's red cheeks, plump little figure, beribboned hat and brown, still-girlish braids were often seen at sunset on the river bank, in company with her husband, who seemed to be pleased with the discreet and distant admiration that followed them.
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