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The Sky Pilot in No Man’s Land

CHAPTER XII
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And you know," continued the girl with rising enthusiasm, "if they are neutral, they have immensely helped us, too, haven't they ?--in munitions and that sort of thing." "That's true enough," agreed Barry, "and it's all the more wonderful when you think of the millions of Germans that they have in their country.

I heard a very fine thing, not long ago, from a friend of mine.

A Pittsburgh oil man about to close a deal, with a traveller, with millions in it, suddenly discovered that his oil was to go to the Germans.

At once the deal was off, and, though the price was considerably raised, there was, in his own words, 'Nothing 'doing!' 'No stuff of mine,' he said, 'shall go to help an enemy of the Anglo-Saxon race.' That's the way I believe the real Americans feel." "This is a wonderful hospital," said the V.A.D.

"Whenever I see it, I somehow feel my heart grow warm to the American people for the splendid way in which they have helped poor France, for, you know, in the first months of the war, the French hospitals were perfectly ghastly." "I know, I know!" cried Barry.


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