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"I was thinking," I answered. "And yesterday you were thinking so hard that you did not even hear me call after you! How you look!" she cried in sudden apprehension. "I do not know of anything. How do I?" "Worn out! Terribly! Have you been revelling all night?" "Revelling!" I murmured with a smile, and relapsed into my revery. "But what is the matter with you? Erwin!" "I don't sleep well."
Erwin experienced an incomparable repose and comfort in the life of San Francisco; it was, she declared, the life for which she had really been adapted, after all; and in the climate of Santa Barbara she found all that she had left in Italy.
Leffingwell," replied Peter, but he reddened nevertheless. Honora thought winning an iron foundry suit a strange way to cover one's self with glory. It was not, at any rate, her idea of glory. What were lawyers for, if not to win suits? And Peter was a lawyer. "In five years," said Uncle Tom, "the firm will be 'Brice and Erwin'. You mark my words.
The German machine righted more slowly, however. Erwin dove swiftly down and came upright in the rear of his now swaying adversary. Then the lad saw what fate had done for him. The German had collapsed in his seat, to which, as has been said, he had strapped himself. His head lay on the rim, apparently a mass of streaming crimson.
As they walked on side by side in the twilight, a consciousness of repressed masculine force, of reserve power, which she had never before felt about Peter Erwin, invaded her; and she was seized with a strange uneasiness. In the gathering darkness she slipped her hand through his arm. "I wish I could marry you, Peter," she said.
Can I leave them to vice, to suffering, to crime, and yet be innocent? Will not their souls be required at my hands, now that God shows me their condition? I feel the pressure of a responsibility scarcely thought of an hour ago. You have turned the current of my thoughts in a new direction." "And what is better still," answered Mr. Erwin, "your purposes also." "My purposes also," was the reply.
While his Lewis was spitting forth a continuous fire, by some method not at once comprehended by the other, Erwin ranged alongside, still at a distance where he was free from air suction, and literally riddled that big plane with holes.
Then came a brief moment or two of silent waiting. There were no, spectators. Even the rest of the men at the aerodrome did not appear. This was according to orders. Out in front stood Captain Byers, attended by Blaine and Erwin, talking in low, indistinct tones. Finally Byers looked at his watch. "Time's up, I guess. Do your best, you two.
It will give us time to show you boys about the city a bit. And we're so glad you got back safe and are in time. Besides, tonight is going to be the big time for you boys." "You are right, Vella." Andra smiled roguishly. "Mr. Erwin has been so curious. He's always wanting to know."
Up and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I walking alone from Greenwich thither, making an end of the "Adventures of Five Hours," which when all is done is the best play that ever I read in my life. Being come thither I did some business there and at the Rope Yarde, and had a piece of bride-cake sent me by Mrs.
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