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Updated: May 18, 2025
Cothope really knows more about the fall than I do. He describes the easterly start, the tilt, and the appearance and bursting of a sort of bladder aft. Then down I swooped, very swiftly, but not nearly so steeply as I imagined I was doing. "Fifteen or twenty degrees," said Cothope, "to be exact." From him it was that I learnt that I let the nets loose again, and so arrested my fall.
"How's Lord Roberts B?" Cothope lifted his eyebrows. "I've had to refrain," he said. "But he's looking very handsome." "Gods!" I said, "I'd like to get him up just once before we smash. You read the papers? You know we're going to smash?" "Oh! I read the papers. It's scandalous, sir, such work as ours should depend on things like that.
"I hate to be faced out of my opinion, so I've taken a pedometer over it since. It's exactly forty-three yards further. "Lord Carnaby looked at her pretty straight," said Cothope, finishing the picture; "and then he give in." But my story has made a jump from June to October, and during that time my relations with Beatrice and the countryside that was her setting had developed in many directions.
John's Ambulance classes to a rather abnormal case, Beatrice came galloping through the trees full-tilt, with Lord Carnaby hard behind her, and she was hatless, muddy from a fall, and white as death. "And cool as a cucumber, too," said Cothope, turning it over in his mind as he told me. Also he witnessed she acted with remarkable decision.
I talked much and boasted to Cothope whom I suspected of scepticisms about this new type of what it would do, and it progressed slowly. It progressed slowly because I was restless and uncertain. At times I would go away to London to snatch some chance of seeing Beatrice there, at times nothing but a day of gliding and hard and dangerous exercise would satisfy me.
I motored up to the pavilion, found Cothope reading in bed, told him for the first time of West Africa, spent an hour with him in settling all the outstanding details of Lord Roberts B, and left that in his hands to finish against my return. I sent the motor back to Lady Grove, and still wearing my fur coat for the January night was damp and bitterly cold walked to Bedley Corner.
It seemed to me we might be able to cross over the water in the night, set our airship adrift, and turn up as pedestrian tourists in Normandy or Brittany, and so get away. That, at any rate, was my ruling idea. I sent off Cothope with a dummy note to Woking, because I did not want to implicate him, and took my uncle to the pavilion. I went down to my aunt, and made a clean breast of the situation.
I even got permission from the trustee to occupy my chalet for a fortnight while I cleared up the mass of papers, calculations, notes of work, drawings and the like, that I left in disorder when I started on that impulsive raid upon the Mordet quap heaps. I was there alone. I got work for Cothope with the Ilchesters, for whom I now build these destroyers.
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