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While The Aerolanes Were Coming |
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He stopped. She sat in silence. Her face was a white riddle. For a moment they heeded nothing of a sudden stir outside, a running to and fro, and cries. Then Helen started to an attitude of tense attention. "It is--," she cried and stood up, speechless, incredulous, triumphant. And Graham, too, heard. Metallic voices were shouting "Victory!" Yes it was "Victory!" He stood up also with the light of a desperate hope in his eyes. Bursting through the curtains appeared the man in yellow, startled and dishevelled with excitement. "Victory," he cried, "victory! The people are winning. Ostrog's people have collapsed." She rose." Victory? " And her voice was hoarse and faint. "What do you mean? " asked Graham. "Tell me! What?" "We have driven them out of the under galleries at Norwood, Streatham is afire and burning wildly, and Roehampton is ours. Ours!--and we have taken the aeropile that lay thereon." For an instant Graham and Helen stood in silence, their hearts were beating fast, they looked at one another. For one last moment there gleamed in Graham his dream of empire, of kingship, with Helen by his side. It gleamed, and passed. A shrill bell rang. An agitated grey-headed man appeared from the room of the Ward Leaders." It is all over," he cried. "What matters it now that we have Roehampton? The aeroplanes have been sighted at Boulogne!" "The Channel! " said the man in yellow. He calculated swiftly." Half an hour." "They still have three of the flying stages," said the old man. "Those guns?" cried Graham. " We cannot mount them--in half an hour." " Do you mean they are found?" "Too late," said the old man. |
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