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"All the men have gone behind the huts. I wonder what they are up to." Rodier took up a hammer, and gently broke a hole in the flimsy back wall of the hut. "There's a big crowd beyond the village," he reported. "Having a pow-wow, too. They've got spears and muskets." "That looks bad. Hurry up with the stay. The sooner we get out of this the better."
No names were named, sir, but I guessed it was you and Mr. Rodier." "Johnson had discretion, at any rate," murmured Smith. "Well!" "Next day there was a bit about two airmen coming down at some place in India, sir. Putting two and two together " "I see. No names again?" "No, sir, not till to-night." "To-night, eh?" "Yes, sir. There's a bit in the Evening News to-night, not strictly true, sir.
The officer looked incredulous, and said something to his lieutenant, who trotted off across the field. In a few minutes Johnson returned to Smith, who was walking up and down in agitation. Rodier was fast asleep in the car of the aeroplane. "I've given the captain the facts of the case," said Johnson, "and he does me the honour to disbelieve me.
These plunged overboard, and swam after the departing vessels, whose flight Rodier speeded with another bottle or two. In less than a minute the junk was clear. For some minutes Smith shepherded the praus toward the shore. Every now and then he saw a swimmer disappear suddenly: without doubt the sharks were gathering to claim their prey.
"I will go if you wish," she said to the captain, without replying to Rodier. "That's right. Mr. McWhirter, will you please get a couple of cushions and put them in the thingummy where Mr. Smith shows you." The seat was quickly prepared.
A glance showed him that the plane was still rigid enough to stand the strain of motion at a lower speed, but that would neither satisfy him nor achieve success, and so he decided to alight and try to remedy the defect. As he began to plane downwards, Rodier pointed to a cluster of huts at the mouth of a small river. A dhow lay moored to a rough wooden jetty beyond the hamlet.
But the excited crowd was at length forced back so far as to allow a sufficient running-off space. Smith shook hands warmly with the Englishmen; with Rodier he took his place in the car; then at a jerk of the lever the aeroplane shot forward, and, amid cries of "Good luck!" from the Englishmen, clapping of hands and loud "Mashallahs!" from the excited mob, it rose gracefully into the air.
Smith and Rodier stripped off their drenched coats, and by the light of Monsieur de Montausé's lantern soon spliced up the broken leg of the derrick, set the contrivance in a stable position, and lowered the mass of brickwork to the spot the explorer pointed out.
His hand was trembling like a leaf when he stepped out on to the land. The teeth of both men were chattering. "Mon Dieu!" cried Rodier. "That was a squeak, mister. Le diable de machine! It seem I do nothing at all but clean, clean, all the way from London, and yet " "And yet down we come, 'like glistening Phaethon, wanting the manage of unruly jades," quoted Smith.
"We are four hours late, mister." "I know we are," cried Smith. "Confound you, Roddy, you're always telling me I'm late. If you say anything like that again I'll throw you out." Rodier grinned. "Mademoiselle wouldn't like that," he shouted. "Tout va bien, mademoiselle?" he said, turning to the lady. "Vous n'avez pas peur?"
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