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It was, however, quite possible for him to take a bird's eye view of the city from the crow's nest of the windvane keeper. To this accordingly Graham was conducted by his attendant. Lincoln, with a graceful compliment to the attendant, apologised for not accompanying them, on account of the present pressure of administrative work.
The breeze from landward died as the main was being set, and the Nuestra began to roll gently as she fell off. For a few minutes she threatened to follow the tug back to Manila, with many lurches and angry snappings of blocks. "We'll git a clinkin' good breeze from the south'ard when we're off the land," said Jarrow, glancing aloft to the windvane on the mizzen truck.
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!
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