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It happened that one bright summer's morning exactly thirty years after the launching of the first German air-fleet, an old man took a small boy to look for a missing hen through the ruins of Bun Hill and out towards the splintered pinnacles of the Crystal Palace.
He thought a minute and said: "Suppose war kept on in the Balkans, the Russians killed all their Jews, Germany took Holland and sent an air-fleet over London, the Japanese landed in California, the English took all the oil-wells in Central and South America and " "Good Lord!" said I, "do you and I prevent all these calamities? If so, we don't get half the credit that is due us do we?"
"Under restrictions yes." "What sort of restrictions?" "Well, they won't be allowed to have an army or an aery " "Eh?" "An aery," repeated Father Jervis "an air-fleet, I mean. That wouldn't do: they might make war." "I see." "I don't see what better safety-valve could be suggested. They could work out their own ideas there as much as they liked. Of course, details would come later."
Far below, and travelling rapidly down the gorge, whirled something like a huge empty sack. For him it meant what did it not mean? the German air-fleet, Kurt, the Prince, Europe, all things stable and familiar, the forces that had brought him, the forces that had seemed indisputably victorious.
But it is curious that so discredited were the newspapers of that period that a large majority of New Yorkers, for example, did not believe the most copious and circumstantial accounts of the German air-fleet until it was actually in sight of New York. Kurt's talk was half soliloquy.
They were mounted upon rough adaptations of the Doan swivel, which at that time gave the maximum vertical range to a heavy gun. Much of this artillery was still unmounted, and nearly all of it was unprotected when the German air-fleet reached New York.
The Asiatic air-fleet is at present scattered all over the Eastern States, seeking out and destroying gas-works and whatever seems conducive to the building of airships or the transport of troops. Our retaliatory measures are slight in the extreme. But with these machines Sir, this ride of ours will count among the historical rides of the world!" He came near to striking an attitude.
A series of squalls, with hail and thunder, followed one another from the south by south-east, and in order to avoid these as much as possible, the air-fleet came low over the houses, diminishing its range of observation and exposing itself to a rifle attack. Overnight there had been a gun placed in Union Square.
Under ordinary circumstances, our only game would be to turn tail and run for it, or cut away far to the south or else break out a white flag and surrender. But " "That must be the Azores air-fleet," judged Bohannan. "The others couldn't have made so much westing, in this time. Faith, what a buzzing swarm of mosquitoes!
Came a third detonation and, blinding in its intensity, a globe of fire burst almost beneath the window, five stories below. The partners, shaking and pale, retreated hastily. A swift, upward-rising shape swept over the courtyard and was gone one of the air-fleet now launched to meet the attackers.
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