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Pat and Hortense watch Fred leave. Fred walks under the highway overpasses as a train whistles nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the airfield, a corporal looks at Derry’s service card.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well, I’ll tell you, Captain,” says the corporal, “We’ve got two flights going out of here tonight. One eastbound, one westbound. You’ll have to ask the pilot. Which way you going?”<\/p>\n
“Which one leaves first?” asks Fred.<\/p>\n
“Eastbound. Eight o’clock,” says the corporal.<\/p>\n
“That’ll be fine. I’ll just hang around the field until then,” says Fred.<\/p>\n
“Say,” says the corporal, “you don’t seem to care where you’re going!”<\/p>\n
“That’s right, chum,” says Fred. “I don’t.”<\/p>\n
Back at the railroad flat, Pat Derry reads his son’s citations.<\/p>\n
“Hortense,” says Pat, while reading. “Hortense!”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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