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At a table in the center of the room the medical officer was working over a man with a terribly crushed leg. Several others were sitting or lying along the wall, awaiting their turn. They watched every movement he made in an apprehensive, animal way, and so did I. They put me on the table next, although it was not my turn. I protested, but the doctor paid no attention. "Aviateur américain," again.
An' still tha'z droll you di'n' know that, but tha'z maybe biccause each one he's think another he's tol' you, and biccause tha'z not a prettie cheerful subjec', eh? Yes, they are two son' of Dubroca and Castanado, soldier', and two of De l'Isle and me, aviateur'." "And up to a few weeks ago they were all well?"
Ah, you cann' do that! And when that young Dubroca and Castanado get the win' of them, the all four, all of same sweet maladie, they go together; two to be juz' poilu', two, aviateur'. That old remedie, you know; if they can't love they'll fight! They are yonder, still al-ive, laz' account." Mainly to himself Chester said, "And I am here, my land still at peace, last account."
"Ah ah, yes; 'Two aviateur' riceiving from General Joffre' my God! De l'Isle my God! madame," Scipion pounded his breast with the paper "they are yo' son and mine!" The company rushed to his elbows. "My faith! Castanado, there are their name'! and 'For destrugtion of their eighteenth enemy aeroplane, under circumstance' calling for exceptional coolnezz and intrepid-ity!"
I div-ine that. Why you di'n' take me al-ong? You'll arrange to go at that France, of my grand'mère, and that Alsace, of her mother, to be fighting aviateur, and leave 'Oiseau behine?
Thus equipped he resembled an advance agent for Payne's fireworks more than an aviateur de chasse. Having carefully mapped the enemy "sausages," he would sally forth in hot pursuit whenever one was signalled at a respectable height. Poor Norman had a terrible time of it!
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