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Five minutes later his orderly came to the group of which Zeiglemann was the center and handed him a small linen parachute and a weighted bag. The squadron-leader was cutting the string which bound the mouth of the bag when a shrill voice said: "Herr Captain, do be careful; there might be a bomb."
Another burst into the open and did no damage, but the third fell plumb between two machines waiting to go up and left them tangled and burning. The German squadron-leader saw the machine bank over and saw, too, something that was fluttering down slowly to the earth. He called his orderly. "There's a parachute falling outside Fritz. Go and get it." He turned to his second in command.
"As we took up our position again I saw the colonel was not well pleased. He had little of the romance of war about him, and did not understand his officers acting much on their own discretion. Without hearing the words, I could guess, from the expression of his hard old face, that he came down on the squadron-leader heavily.
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