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The aviator's warning had been heeded by the officers, and detachments were stationed at places along the river above and below the main bridge. Suddenly one morning, a whole fleet of boats, large and small, shot out at the same instant from the enemy side of the river.
If the unfortunate aviator's theory is correct that this air- jungle, as he called it, existed only over the south-west of England, then it would seem that he had fled from it at the full speed of his monoplane, but had been overtaken and devoured by these horrible creatures at some spot in the outer atmosphere above the place where the grim relics were found.
The aviator's wings, the motorist's wheel, and many of the newer symbols, are easily recognizable but there are all the other arms, and the doctors and the stretcher-bearers, the sappers and miners, and heaven knows how many more ramifications of this great host which is really all the nation.
Hunger, which he had forgotten in the novelty of his surroundings, began to manifest itself again. He got up and gleaned his aviator's helmet from a branch of the mahogany hatrack and looked at it dubiously, wishing that it was his Big Four Stetson instead. "What I'm ready for right now is chuck," he said pointedly. "I ain't fortune teller enough to give you any line on my future.
The young pilot turned a lever, and the racket subsided into a soft, steady humming. Bill repeated his remark. Ernest stopped the plane and, getting out, commenced to adjust the engine. "I see she needs a little tuning up this morning," he said, pulling off his gauntlets and fishing a screwdriver out of one of the many pockets in his aviator's coat. Bill joined him.
The company, gazing at him, saw a slight, well-knit figure of middle height or a little less, in aviator's togs. "I'm here to see your master, my good fellow, not you!" The man at the head of the table raised a finger to his lips, in signal of silence from them all, and beckoned the Arab. "Let him come in!" he ordered, in Rrisa's vernacular.
She turned back again at the hemlocks which flanked the forest path. "I'll ask Miss Westfall to send some men," she added and halted. For Diane had surprised a look of such keen regret in the young aviator's face that they both colored hotly. "Beastly luck!" stammered the young man lamely. "I am disappointed. I I don't seem to have another match."
"That is the programme, yes." "Well, I suppose breakfast is the first move?" asked the young aviator's assistant. "I'm hungry as a bear," announced Dave. "So am I," agreed Hiram, and he set at work to explore the accommodation, basket. Hiram soon had a tempting spread. There was cold ham, a roasted chicken, an abundance of bread and butter, and a two gallon jug of cold coffee.
Shells of varying calibre came thundering in our direction, throwing up, as they burst, miniature volcanoes and filling the air with dust and mud and smoke. This shell-fire continued for about three-quarters of an hour, but due to the defect in the aviator's signals and our own skill in taking cover we suffered no casualties.
Vanno looked back, and saw a biplane on wheels, fitted with a kind of float. It was moving out of the hangar, down an inclined plane that bridged the beach as far as the water's edge. In the aviator's seat sat Dick, and behind him the red motor-bonnet was decorative as a flower. She was going with Carleton!
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