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Wherefore, not to enter into unnecessary details, the Auriole, instead of making the place a wilderness as Lord Kitchener had quite determined to do, became an aërial pleasure yacht. Orderlies were sent to the Russian, Austrian and French headquarters, and an hour later the chiefs of the Allies were sitting in the deck saloon of the airship, flying at about sixty miles an hour towards London.
Auriole drove the first car, and had Norah sitting beside her on the front seat. Her aunt and the mechanician were sitting in the tonneau behind. Mr Parmenter drove the second car with Lennard beside him. His tonneau was filled with luggage.
"Do you hate me for doing it?" He shrugged his shoulders. "Not at all. I'm sure your reasons were adequate." "They were. Still I thought you'd be surprised." It was clearly evident that some sort of emotion would have to be expressed. Richard passed a hand across his forehead and walked to the fireplace. "My dear Auriole," he said, "did I ever strike you as a man who betrayed my real feelings?"
"Really something quite unknown?" "Unknown except to the three people sitting at this table, unless another miracle has happened I mean such a one as happened in the case of the discovery of Neptune which, as of course you know, Adams at Cambridge and Le Verrier at Paris " "Yes, yes," said Auriole, "two men who didn't know each other; both looked for something that couldn't be seen, and found it.
"And you feel kind of strong soft spots eradicated?" "Naturally." "I'm a hell of a tonic," said Ezra P. Hipps and closed the door behind him. Auriole stood where he had left her. Presently she raised her hands and they were clenched so tightly that the knuckles were white as ivory. "How utterly, utterly awful," she said to herself. "How unspeakable."
"Mention that fact 'cos I know they fall for molasses." "You're very wise about women, Mr. Hipps." But the irony was wasted. "I read a bit of heart stuff in the trains sometimes," he said. Auriole began to draw on her gloves. "Isn't this rather a queer place to settle one's future?" she said. "Donno is it? Struck me it 'ud keep you from side-stepping having me on the horizon." "I see.
Swinging from the lintel, shadowy against the grey light beyond was, apparently, the figure of Richard Frencham Altar dangling on a rope. Even the perfectly trained Blayney deserted his post to leap forward and see, and in that instant of neglect, Richard and Auriole darted from the room and slammed and bolted the door.
We've just crossed the Atlantic in thirty hours, above the clouds, and to-morrow night or morning, if it's cloudy when we've been through things generally, we're going to London in the flagship here I've called her the Auriole, because she is the daisy of the whole fleet biggest, fastest and prettiest. You just wait till you see her in daylight. Now we'll go down to the house and hear your news.
As the lifting-fans began to spin round and the Auriole rose from the gravelled courtyard, Lord Kitchener looked up with a twinkle in his brilliant blue eyes and said: "I wonder what His Majesty of Germany will think of that thing when he sees it. I suppose that means the end of fighting on land and sea at least, it looks like it."
It so happened that the three Imperial leaders of the invaders and General Henriot, the French Commander-in-Chief, were holding a Council of War at the time when the Auriole made her appearance. Of course, her arrival was instantly reported, and as a matter of fact the drilling came to a sudden momentary stop at the sight of this amazing apparition.
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