[The Sky Pilot in No Man’s Land by Ralph Connor]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sky Pilot in No Man’s Land CHAPTER VIII 9/27
For a moment he stood irresolute; then walked quietly toward the group. "I couldn't help hearing you, Major Bustead," he said, in a voice pleasant and under perfect control.
"I gather you were referring to me." "I was, sir," said the major defiantly. "And why should I be sent to Coventry, or exchanged, may I ask ?" Barry's voice was that of an interested outsider. "Because," stuttered the Major, "I consider, sir, that--that--you have been guilty of a piece of damnable impertinence toward your Commanding Officer.
I never heard anything like it in my life.
Infernal cheek, I call it, sir." While the major was speaking, Barry stood listening with an air of respectful attention. "I wonder!" he said, after a moment's thought.
"If I thought I had been impertinent, I should at once apologise.
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