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As the grey plodded tiredly down the avenue of trees, a smooth road bordered by a hedge of cactus and lanten, Barlow turned him to the right up a drive of broken stone, and dropping to the ground at the verandah of a white-waited bungalow, lifted the girl down, saying: "Within it can be arranged for a rest place for you."
"And just what psychiatric help can I give you?" Holden said tiredly: "I don't like this any better than you do, Jed. I'm scared to death of space-travel. But go get your ticket and I'll tell you about it on the way up. It's a special production job. I'm roped in on it too." "Happy holiday!" said Cochrane, because Holden looked about as miserable as a man could look. He went to the ticket desk.
Yes, it was pointing him the only way out, the path to the distant ocean and utter forgetfulness again! The chill of his saturated clothing brought him to himself once more, he turned and hurried home. He went tiredly to his bedroom, and while changing his garments there came a knock at the door. It was the porter to say that a lady had called, and was waiting for him in the sitting-room.
That face in the greenish glass, looking tiredly back at her! She gave a little out-loud cry of vexation now as she thought of it, two hours later. "I must have looked to Eva like a battered bisque doll no wonder she couldn't place me!" she muttered crossly.
He kissed her, but so tiredly that again it was almost her irresistible woman's impulse to drag down that fiercely black head to the beating width of her bosom and plead from him drop by drop some of the bitter welling of pain she could see in his eyes. "Nicky," she started to cry, and then, at his straightening back from her, "come out in the dining room after I pack off the men.
"Excuse my interruption," said Varney. "Is Mr. Higginson in?" The clerk's glance lowered tiredly. "Naw. Left town on the four-seven." "I don't believe it," said Peter instantly. There followed a silence. So stern were the gazes fastened upon the clerk that, looking hastily up at Peter's word, he promptly lost something of his lordly demeanor and became for the moment almost human.
I congratulated myself that I was no longer a gunner, strenuous over interminable corrections, or tiredly alert in a close observation post. Our party consisted of four machines, each complete with pilot, observer, and several hundred rounds of ammunition. The job was an offensive patrol that is to say, we were to hunt trouble around a given area behind the Boche lines.
A drizzle softens the windows. She sits with her pasty face and her dull, little eyes looking out at the dripping street. Her cotton suit curls at the lapels. The ends of her shoes curl like a pair of burlesque Oriental slippers. She holds her hands in her lap. Red, thick fingers that whisper tiredly, "We have worked," lie in her lap. A slavey on her day off. There is no mistaking this.
Bivouacs are under the best of circumstances mere makeshifts. "Stoke Camp" CAMP! The irony of it was on a par with the average. Here and there a scattered tent, here and there a sheet or two of oilcloth, and everywhere an abundance of water. Still it was a haven of rest. Men filed tiredly by in Companies, sorted themselves out, and cast down packs; boots were jerked off anyhow, rifles stacked.
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