[Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer by Percy Keese Fitzhugh]@TWC D-Link bookTom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer CHAPTER FIVE 2/14
Not a civilian was to be seen.
Several soldiers walked away from the big wheel and it moved around slowly like one of those gigantic passenger-carrying wheels in an amusement resort. Presently some one remarked that Collie was in and there was a hurrying away--toward the rear of the village, as it seemed to Tom. "Who's Collie ?" he ventured to ask. "Collie? Oh, he's the Stormy Petrel; he's been piking around over the Fritzies' heads, I s'pose." Evidently Collie, or the Stormy Petrel, was an aviator who had alighted somewhere about the village with some sort of a report. "Collie can't see in the daylight," his neighbor added; "he and the Jersey Snipe have got Fritzie vexed.
You going to run between here and the coast ?" "I don't know what I'm going to do," said Tom.
"I don't suppose I'll go over the top, I'd like to go to Cantigny." "Never mind, they'll bring it back to you.
Did you know the old gent is here ?" "Pershing ?" "Yup.
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