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The Sky Pilot in No Man’s Land

CHAPTER VIII
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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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