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Chapter Nine I Take the Wings of a Dove
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‘Drive me somewhere to breakfast, Archie,’ I said, ‘for I’m perishing hungry.’
He and I got into the tonneau, and the driver swung us out of the station road up a long incline of hill. Sir Archie had been one of my subalterns in the old Lennox Highlanders, and had left us before the Somme to join the Flying Corps1. I had heard that he had got his wings and had done well before Arras, and was now training pilots at home. He had been a light-hearted youth, who had endured a good deal of rough-tonguing from me for his sins of omission2. But it was the casual class of lad I was looking for now.
I saw him steal amused glances at my appearance.
‘Been seein’ a bit of life, sir?’ he inquired respectfully.
‘I’m being hunted by the police,’ I said.
‘Dirty dogs! But don’t worry, sir; we’ll get you off all right. I’ve been in the same fix myself. You can lie snug3 in my little log hut, for that old image Gibbons won’t blab. Or, tell you what, I’ve got an aunt who lives near here and she’s a bit of a sportsman. You can hide in her moated grange till the bobbies get tired.’
I think it was Archie’s calm acceptance of my position as natural and becoming that restored my good temper. He was far too well bred to ask what crime I had committed, and I didn’t propose to enlighten him much. But as we swung up the moorland road I let him know that I was serving the Government, but that it was necessary that I should appear to be unauthenticated and that therefore I must dodge5 the police. He whistled his appreciation6.
‘Gad, that’s a deep game. Sort of camouflage7? Speaking from my experience it is easy to overdo8 that kind of stunt9
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