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The Sky Pilot in No Man’s Land

CHAPTER V
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God go with you." He shook hands solemnly with them one by one.

"I only wish to God that my country were with you, too, in this thing," he said when he had performed this function.
"Father," cried Paula, "do you think for one minute that Uncle Sam won't be in this?
You put it down," she said, swinging 'round upon Barry, "where it will jump at you some day: We will be with you in this scrap for all we are worth." "And now for the march," said Barry, who seemed almost to assume command.

Then removing his hat and lifting high his hand, he said in a voice thrilling with solemn reverence, "God grant victory to the right! God save the king!" Instinctively the men took off their hats and stood with bared and bent heads, as if sharing in a solemn ritual.

They stood with millions upon millions of their kin in the old mother lands, and scattered wide upon the seas, stood with many millions more of peoples and nations, pledging to this same cause of right, life and love and all they held dear, and with hearts open to that all-searching eye, praying that same prayer, "God grant victory to the right.

Amen and amen.


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