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He looked round sleepily at the group about him and asked in the voice of a very tired man: "Which of you fellows bombed our Kaiser?" Tam leant forward, his face blazing with excitement. "Say that again, sir-r," he said. Von Rheinhoff looked at him through half-opened eyes. "Tam eh?" he whispered. "You nearly put an empire in mourning." Tam drew a long breath, then turned away.
Sergeant-Pilot Tam struck a bad patch of luck. In the first place, he had missed a splendid chance of catching von Rheinhoff, who with thirty-one "crashes" to his credit came flaunting his immoral triumph in Tam's territory. Tam had the advantage of position and had attacked and his guns had jammed.
No, says A' says our young hero 'no, says he, 'he has a distinguished audience as like as not. "Speerin' ower the side an' fixin' his expensive glasses on the groon, he espied sax motor-cars " The door was flung open and Blackie came in hurriedly. "Tam get up," he said briefly. "All the damn circuses are out on a strafe and we're It von Bissing, von Rheinhoff, and von Wentzl.
They're coming straight here and I think they're out for blood." The history of that great aerial combat has been graphically told by the special correspondents. Von Rheinhoff might have unloaded his bombs and got away, but he showed deplorable judgment. To insure an absolutely successful outcome to the attack he ordered his machines to descend.
The luck was not altogether against him, for, if every man had his due, von Rheinhoff should have added Tam's scalp to the list of his thirty-one victims.
"Got him whoop!" yelled a thousand voices, as from one machine there came a scatter of pieces as a high-explosive shell burst under the wing, and the soaring bird collapsed and came trembling, slowly, head-over-heels to the ground. Von Rheinhoff, that redoubtable man, was half conscious when they pulled him out of the burnt and bloody wreck.
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