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"The quarter is uncommonly quiet," said Lannes. "I suppose it has a right to be after such a day." Then be looked up, scanning the heavens, after the manner that had become natural to him, a flying man. "What do you see, Philip?" asked John. "A sky of dark blue, plenty of stars, but no aeroplanes, Taubes or other machines of man's making."
She knew nothing about the mechanical virtues and vices of cars, though she had two at home for her own use, and the Prince a dozen, valued only less than his aeroplanes. Hers had been gray and dark green. She had always wanted a blue car, and this was a lovely colour.
The aeroplanes were fighting at last, and suddenly about him, above and below, with cries and uproar rushing out of the four quarters of heaven, striking, plunging, oversetting, soaring to the zenith and dropping to the ground, they came to assail or defend the myriads below.
Then came days of black despair: all Italy mourned, but in Venice especially was the horror felt. From her situation she had always been a bulwark against the Austrians, and not yet had she forgotten the hated rule of her enemies. Nearer drew the lines until the roar of the cannon could be sometimes heard, and there was scarcely a clear night that aeroplanes did not hover over the terrified city.
Again on July 22, 1917, fifteen to twenty German aeroplanes reached the English coast. Felixstowe and Harwich were raided. Eleven persons were killed and twenty-six injured. On the way back to their base one of the German planes was brought down off the Belgian coast.
'We heard there had been mischief with aeroplanes and bombs in Paris, Barnet relates; 'but it didn't seem to follow that "They" weren't still somewhere elaborating their plans and issuing orders. When the enemy began to emerge from the woods in front of us, we cheered and blazed away, and didn't trouble much more about anything but the battle in hand.
A multitude of people still swarmed over these ruins, and the huge openwork stagings in the distance from which started in times of peace the service of aeroplanes to the various great cities of Europe and America, were also black with the victors.
'By this time your bombs may have settled it. 'But if so, these infernal aeroplanes would go. 'They may not know yet. 'But, Pestovitch, why couldn't you do all this without me? Pestovitch made no answer for a moment. 'I was for leaving the bombs in their place, he said at last, and went to the window. About their conveyance shone a circle of bright light. Pestovitch had a brilliant idea.
"We have driven them out of the under galleries at Norwood, Streatham is afire and burning wildly, and Roehampton is ours. Ours! and we have taken the monoplane that lay thereon." A shrill bell rang. An agitated grey-headed man appeared from the room of the Ward Leaders. "It is all over," he cried. "What matters it now that we have Roehampton? The aeroplanes have been sighted at Boulogne!"
As the two aeroplanes drew abreast, Mortlake muttered something, and bent over his engines. The Cobweb leaped forward like an unleashed greyhound. But the Golden Butterfly was close on her heels, and making almost as good time. Mortlake plunged his hands in among the machinery and readjusted the air valve of the carburetor. Another increase of speed resulted.
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