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And overhead save for a few sharpshooters upon the roof spaces and for a few bands and threads of vapour that multiplied and darkened towards the evening, the day was a clear serenity. Ostrog it seems had no bombs at command and in all the earlier phases of the battle the aeropiles played no part. Not the smallest cloud was there to break the empty brilliance of the sky.
The windvane people, the Labour Company and its millions, burst the bonds. We got the pull of the aeropiles." He paused. "Yes," said Graham, guessing that aeropile meant flying machine. "That was, of course, essential. Or they could have got away. All the city rose, every third man almost was in it!
Throb, throb, throb throb, throb, throb; up he drove. He fancied himself free of all excitement, felt cool and deliberate. He lifted the stem still more, opened one valve on his left wing and swept round and up. He looked down with a steady head, and up. One of the Ostrogite aeropiles was driving across his course, so that he drove obliquely towards it and would pass below it at a steep angle.
The upper surface was a uniform expanse, with portions the starting carriers that could be raised and were then able to run on very slightly inclined rails to the end of the fabric. Save for any aeropiles or aeroplanes that were in port these open surfaces were kept clear for arrivals.
"The aeroplanes are clumsy," he said thoughtfully, "compared with the aeropiles." He turned suddenly to Helen. His decision was made. "I must do it." "Do what?" "Go to this flying stage to this aeropile." "What do you mean?" "I am an aeronaut. After all . Those days for which you reproached me were not wasted." He turned to the old man in yellow. "Put the aeropile upon the guides."
After a time that desire became too strong for him, and he shouted. The machine had now risen as high as was customary with aeropiles, and they began to curve about towards the south.
He clambered into the aeronaut's place, fixing himself very carefully and deliberately. What was it? The man in yellow was pointing to two aeropiles driving upward in the southern sky. No doubt they were looking for the coming aeroplanes. That presently the thing to do now was to start. Things were being shouted at him, questions, warnings. They bothered him.
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