Ross Gazette 3rd December 1914 - Page 9
Ross Gazette 3rd December 1914 - Page 9
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| Date | 03/12/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 3rd December 1914 |
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[ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED . ] THE WAR IN THE AIR BY H. G. WELLS Author of " Kipps , " " The Time Machine , " " The War of the Worlds , " " The Invisible Man , " " In the Days of the Comet , " & o . SYNOPSIS OF OPENING CHAPTERS : Bert Smallways , of Bun Hill , is a partner in the firm of Grubb and Smallways , cycle dealers in & very small way in a London subang . Every great boon in aeronautics is beginning . body is talking of flying , and Bert and his part- ner experiment with indifferent success . Then the world is startled one day to learn that Mr. But - you a Germant " asked Bert . " Lieutenant Kurt . Luft - lieutenant Kurt , at your service . " " But you speak English ! " " Mother was English - went to school in England . Afterwards , Rhodes schohir . Ger- Detailed for the an none the less for that . present , Mr. Butteridge , to look after you . You're shaken by your fall . It's all right , really . They're going to buy your machine and everything . You sit down , and take it quite calmly . You'll soon get the hang of the position . " Bert sat down on the locker collecting his mind , and the young man talked to him about the airship . He was really a very tactful young man in deed , in a natural sort of way . " Daresay all Alfred Butteridge has completed and back on this is new to you , " he said ; " not your sort cf machine . These cabins aren't half bad . " a small businesslike flying machine . Mr. But- He got up and walked round the little teridge is reported to be quite willing to sell his apartment , shewing its points . Becret to the British Government ; but the nego " Here is the bed , " he said , whipping down tiations are on the point of falling through , and a couch from the wall and throwing it back it seems that the secret of the only practi- " Here are toilet things , " " cable aeroplane in existence is to pass out of the again with a click . and he opened a neatly arranged cupboard . country . There are rumours that Germany is not pleased with America over the Monroe doc " Not much washing . No water we've got ; trine , and the papers comment on the ambigu- no water at all except for drinking . No baths ous attitude of Japan , and at the same time ask , or anything until we get to America , and " What will Britain do ? " Bert Smallways and his partner determine , to fording over with loofah . One pint of hot cycle business and take to singing for shaving . That's all . In the locker below give up on the sands at the coast town of Littlestone in are rugs and blankets ; you will need They say it gets cold . On the first day of the entertainment them presently . Kent . don't know . Never been up before . Except Butteridge descends with his balloon . from the Crystal Palace to He is in lends a you I 4 knees , THE ROSS GAZETTE THURSDAY , DECEMBER 3 , 1914 . CHAPTER XVIII . Like HOW TO NEUTRALISE DANGEROUS STOMACH ACIDS . Aew weapon Germany had assumed so sud- denly and dramatically . He showed things to Bert with a boyish eagerness and apprecia- tion . It was as if he shewed them over again to himself , like child shewing a new toy . Let's go all over the ship , " he said with Few people besides physicians , realise the zest . He pointed out particularly the light the importance of keeping the food contents ness of everything , the use of exhausted alu- of the stomach free from acid fermentation . minium tubing , of springy cushions inflated Healthy normal digestion cannot take place with compressed hydrogen ; the partitions while the delicate lining of the stomach is were hydrogen bage covered with light imita being inflamed and distended by acid and tion leather , the very crockery was light wind - the results of fermenting food in the biscuit glazed in a vacuum , and weighed next stomach . To secure perfect digestion , fer- Bot to nothing . Where strength was needed " Gaw said Bert , turning over after his would take a laty . She was not mis you in seventh fall through infinite space that night . your balloon when you came down at Dorn- When at last the Graf von Winterfeld left He sat up in the darkness and nursed his hot . No ! Only her chacket ! It is your Bert Smallways , he left him in an extremely nearly so smooth as a balloon ; he could feel The progress of the airship was not affair . Still I am curious , " Bert reflected . " ' Ow d'you know that ? " deflated condition , with all his little story told " I chuge by ze nature of your farious pro- a regular swaying up , up , up and then down , He had , as people say , made a clean breast down , down , and the throbbing and tremulous for ze laty , what you had done with her . had had to explain the blue suit , the sandals , I cannot account , Mr. Pooterage , of it . He had been pursued into details . He visions . quiver of the engines . His mind began to teem with memories Nor can I tell why you should wear nature- the Desert Dervishes everything . For more memories and more . sandals , nor why you should wear such cheap time scientific real consumed the secretary Through them , like a struggling swimmer plue clothes . These are outside my instrue- and the question of the plans remained in su Trifles , perhaps . Officially they are pense . He even went into speculation about the in broken water , came the perplexing questions . tion , What am I to do to - morrow ? To - mor to be ignored . Laties come and go I am a previous occupants of the balloon . 1 sup row , Kurt had told him , the Prince's secre- man of ze worldt . I baf known wise men wear pose , " he said , " the laty was the latṛ tary , the Graf von Winterfeld , would come to sandals and efen practise vegetarian habits that is not our affair . there was the new Charlottenburg alloy , Germentation must be stopped of prevented , him and discuss his flying - machine , and then I haf known men or at any rate I haf known " It is fery curious and amusing , yes : but man steel as it was called , the toughest and and the acid neutralised . For this purpose he would see the Prince . He would have to chemists who did not schmoke . You haf , I am afraid the Prince may be annoyt . He most resistent metal in the world . didos Physicians usually recommend getting a stick it out now that he was Butteridge , and no doubt , put so laty down somewhere . acted wis his usual decision - always he acts There was no lack of space . Space did not little bisurated magnesia from the chemist , sell his invention . And then , if they found Well . Let us get to business . A higher wis wonterful decision . Napoleon . matter , so long as load did not grow . The and taking half a teaspoonful in a little hot him out ! He had a vision of infuriated But power " his voice changed its emotional Directly he was tolt of your descent into the habitable part of the ship was two hundred or cold water immediately after eating . They teridges . Suppose after all he quality , his magnified eyes seemed to dilate camp at Dornhof , be said , Pring him ! and fifty feet long , and the rooms in two tiers ; recommend bisurated magnesia because it is owned up ? Pretended it was their misunder has prought you and your secret straight pring him ! It is my schtar His schtar of above these one could go up into remarkable pleasant to take , has no disagreeable after- standing ? He began to scheme devices for So he bowed his head- " so pe it . Destiny ! You see ? He will be dthwarted . He little white - metal turrets with big windows effects and instantly , stops fermentation , selling the secret and circumventing But It is so Destiny of Chermany and my Prince . directed you to come as Herr Pooterage , and and air - tight double doors that enabled one neutralises the acid and makes the sour sci.i I can underahtandt you always carry at you haf not done so . You haf triet , of course ; to inspect the vast cavity of the gas - chambers . food bland , sweet , and easily digested . teridge . What should he ask for the thing ? secret . You are afraidt of roppers and spies . but it has peen a poor try . His chugments of This inside view impressed Bert very much . Bisurated magnesia is quite inexpensive , and how twenty thousand pounds struck him as So it comes wis you to us . Mr. Pooterage , men are fery just and right , and it is better He had never realised Before that an airship can now be obtained locally , either in the about the sum indicated . Chermany will puy it . " for men to act up to them gompletely . was not one simple continuous gas - bag con- original powder form or in 5 - grain compress- " Will shet ' He fell into that despondency that lies in Especially now . Barticularly now . " wait in the small hours . He had got too big " She will , " said the secretary , looking He resumed that attitude of his , with his taining nothing but gas . Now he saw far ed tablets , from Albert Porter , of High- a job on - too big a job . The regular use of bisurated magnesia - be hard at Bert's abandoned sandals in the underlip pinched between his forefingers . He above him the backbone of the apparatus and street . corner of the locker . He roused himself , con- spoke almost confidentially . " It will be awk . its big ribs , " like the neural and haemal aulted a paper of notes for a moment , and ward . I triet to suggest some doubt , but I canals said Kurt , who had dabbled in biology . sure you get the bisurated , as other kinds " Rather ! " said Bert , appreciatively , of magnesia are of little value is an abso- The Prince does not listen . Bert eyed his brown and wrinkled face with was overruled . for it overcomes and prevents that acid con- instructed to say , " said the secretary , with will think his schtar has been making & fool dition which alone is the cause of the Perhaps he will think I had been his eyes on the table and his notes spread of him . out , has always been willing to pay your making a fool of him . He wrinkled his fore- secret . We haf indeed peen eager to acquire head , and drew in the corners of his mouth . it fery eager ; and it was only ze fear that " I got the plans , " said Bert . But you see you might be , on patriotic groundts , acting in Yes . There is that ! Yes . . Memories swamped his scheming . " Where was I this time last night ? " . Some- to us . difficulties with it . and Bert Smallwin , and going down . Three - quarters of the chaps in lengthily . Last night he had been up above expectation and terror . " Chermany , I am He is impatient in the high air . Perhaps he though he had not the ghost of an idea what lute guarantee of healthy , normal digestion , He He recapitulated his evenings tediously and a little work with gliders - which is mostly hand . As Butteridge falls out Bert clouds in Butteridge's balloon . is rushing up into the sky . the fleet haven't . in a moment he Here's a folding - chair and the When he comes to himself Bert is alone in the table behind the door . Compact , eh ? " thought of the moment when he dropped balloon high above the waters of the English He took the chair and balanced it on his through them and saw the cold twilight sea He still remembered that dis- Channel . " Pretty light , eh ? Aluminium lose below . Bert is carried over the North Sea to Ger- little finger . many , where the balloon hovers over what he and magnesium alloy and a vacuum inside . greeable incident with nightmare vivid- And the night before he and Grubb take to be military encampment . & He finds All these cushions stuffed with hydrogen . ness . these phrases meant . Little electric lights could be switched on up there if anything went wrong in the night . There were even ladders across the space . " But you can't go into the gas , " protested Bert . You can't breve it . " The lieutenant opened a cupboard door and himself in the possession of Butteridge's plans Foxy ! The whole ship's like that . And not , had been looking for cheap lodgings at collusion with your Pritish War Office at the Prince was interested in Herr Pooterage displayed a diver's suit , only that it was made he under " first or two others , over stone . Couldn't now . It ago . Germany is preparing for the Conquest of the swent the Prince , you know . We'll go all time he thought of his fellow Desert Dervish , left with the two red - painted bicycles on Air . She has an airship fleet ready to make war of over the thing to - morrow . I'm frightfully Dymchurch sands . " ' E won't make much of on America and Japan ; but it is a secret Bert Small keen on it . " which the world knows nothing . a show of it , not without me . Any'ow , ' e did ways drifts helplessly over a giant herd of air- ' ave the treasury - such as it was in his ships , and he is brought down by a German rifle The night before that was man , who fires at the balloon . He is mistaken pocket ! " for Butteridge , and is hurried on board one of Bank Holiday night , and they had sat discuss- ing their minstrel enterprise , drawing up , a the airships which are about to start their And the programme and rehearsing steps . B voyage to America . night before was Whit Sunday CHAPTER XV . compact young man in uniform appeared , carrying Mr. Butteridge's portfolio , rucksac , and shav ing - glass . “ I say ! " he said , in faultless Eng lish , as he entered . He had a beaming face , and a sort of pinkish blonde hair . you being Butteridge ! " His door was flung open , and Fancy He slapped Bert's meagre luggage down . " We'd have started , " he said , " in another half - hour ! You didn't give yourself much time ! " His gaze He surveyed Bert curiously . rested for a fraction of a moment on the sandals . " You ought to have come on your flying machine , Mr. Butteridge . " " The Prince He didn't wait for an answer . Naturally he see you now ,, but he thinks your coming's providential . Last grace of Heaven . Bays I've got to look after you . can't Like a sign . Hullo ! " He stood still and listened . He beamed at Bert . " You do look young , " he remarked . " I always thought you'd be an old man with a beard - a sort of philosopher . I don't know why one should expect clever people always to be old . I do . " Bert parried that compliment little awkwardly , and then the lieutenant was , struck with the riddle why Herr Butteridge had not come in his own flying - machine . " Look here ! " he said abruptly , " I wish you'd lend " It's a long story , " said Bert . I'm me a pair of slippers or something . regular sick of these sandals . They're rotten things . I've been trying them for a friend . " " Right O ! " The ex - Rhodes scholar whisked out of the considerable room and reappeared with a choice of footwear , pumps , cloth bath - slip pers , and a purple pair adorned with golden sun - flowers . But these he repented of at the last " I don't even wear them myself , " moment . he said . " Only brought ' em in the zeal of He laughed confidentially . the moment . " Had ' em worked for me in Oxford . By a triend . Take ' em everywhere . " So Bert chose the pumps , ger . CHAPTER XVI . Outside there was a going to and fro of feet , a sound of distant bugles suddenly taken The lieutenant broke into a cheerful snig- up and echoed close at hand , men called out " Here we are trying on slippers , " he in loud tones short , sharp , seemingly vital aid , " and the world going by like a pano- , things , and were answered distantly . A bell rama below . Rather a lark , eh ? Look ! " Bert peeped with him out of the window , jangled , and feet went down the corridor . Then came a stillness more distracting than looking from the bright pettiness of the red- sound , and then a great gurgling and rushing and - silver cabin into a dark immensity . The and splashing of water . The young man's and below , except for a lake , was black and eyebrows lifted . He hesitated , and dashed ' eatureless , and the other airships were hid- Presently came a stupen- den . See more outside , " said the lieu- dous bang to vary the noises without , then a tenant . " Let's go ! There's a sort of little distant cheering . " The young man reap peared . out of the room . " They're running the water out of the bal- loonette already . " " What water ? " asked Bert . " The water dodge . Eh ? " that anchored Bert tried to take it in . 115 . " Of course ! " said the compact young " You don't understand . " shan't be long . " gallery . " He led the way into the long passage , which was lit by one small electric light , past some notices in German , to an open balcony and a light ladder and gallery of metal lat Bert followed Artful ice overhanging empty space . his leader down to the gallery slowly and cautiously . From it he was able to watch the wonderful spectacle of the first air - fleet fly- ing through the night . They flew in a wedge . " Now man . very A gentle quivering crept upon Bert's shaped formation , the Vaterland highest and senses . " That's the engine , " said the com- leading , the tail receding into the corners of pact young man approvingly . we the sky . They flew in long , regular undula- tions , great dark fish - like shapes , shewing Another long listening interval . hardly any light at all , the engine making a The cabin swayed . " By Jove ! we're throb - throb - throbbing sound that was " We're start audible out on the gallery . They were going starting already , " he cried . " ing ! at a level of five or six thousand feet , and Below the country lay silent , Starting ! " cried Bert , sitting up . " Where ? " rising steadily . But the young man was out of the room clear darkness dotted and lined out with again . There were noises of German in the clusters of furnaces , and the lit streets of a passage , and other nerve - shaking sounds . group of big towns . The world seemed to a bowl ; the overhanging , bulk of the The swaying increased . The young man lie in reappeared . sirship above hid all but the lowest levels of " We're off , right enough . sky . I say , " said Bert , " where are we start ing ! I wish you'd explain . What's this place ? I don't understand . " " What cried the young man , " you don't understand ? " " No. I'm all dazed - like from that crack on the nob -I got . Where are wel Where are we starting ? " Don't you know where you are - what this is ? " Gollys ! " cried Bert , " what a doing that motor - bicycle give me ! " He recalled the empty flapping of the eviscerated cushion , the feeling of impotence as the flames rose again . From among the confused memories of that tragic flare one little figure emerged very bright and poignantly sweet , Edna , crying back reluctantly from the departing motor- tar , " See you to - morrer , Bert ? " Other memories of Edna clustered round that impression . They led Bert's mind step by step to an agreeable state that found ex- pression in , " I'll marry ' er if she don't look out . " And then in a flash it followed in his ADDRESSES . marvellous invention through intermediaries . was so much more - aht - in the picture : 1 Immediate Cash Advances We haf no hesitation whatefer now , I am in- structed , in agreeing to your proposal of hundert tousand pounâts . " " Crikey ! " said Bert , overwhelmed . " I peg your pardon ? " " Jest twinge , " said Bert , raising his hand to his bandaged head . " Ah ! Also I am instructed to say that as for that noble , unrightly accused laty you haf championed so brafely against Pritish hypocrisy and coldness , all ze chivalry of Chermany is on her site . " Lady " said Bert , faintly , and then re- Had called the great Butteridge love story the old chap also read the letters ? He must think him a scorcher if he had . I ' adn't any aw - right , " he said , about ' er , I Well , " We can knapsack and were of alloy of am afraid you are not equal to controlling aluminium and some light metal . the flying machine department of our aerial go all over the inside netting and stick up park as he wished you to do . He hadt pro bullet holes or leaks , " he explained . THE LONDON AND PROVINCES mised himself that . " There's netting inside and out . The whole " And der was also the prestige the worldt outer - case is rope ladder , so to speak . " DISCOUNT COMPANY , Ltd. , prestige of Pooterage with us . Aft of the habitable part of the airship was pre - eminently the leading establishment of we must see what we can do . " He held out the magazine of explosives , coming near the its kind in the kingdom - lends large sums of his hand . " Gif me the plans . " middle of its length . They were all bombs of A terrible chill ran through the being of various types - mostly in glass - none of the Mr. Smallways . To the end of his life he was German airships carried any guns at all ex never clear in his mind whether he wept as cept one small pom - pom , which was forward no , but certainly there was weeping in his in the gallery upon the shield at the heart of voice . " Ere , I say ! " he protested . " Ain't I the eagle . to ' ave - nothin ' for ' em ? " From the magazine amidships & money daily to all classes . Among the ad- ing deserve attention : No preliminary vantages offered by the Company , the follow- charges whatever ; the despatch with which " Oh ! that's lent eyes . " You do not deserve anyzing " on its floor and a hand - rope , ran back under applications ( in the strictest confidence ) to " They weren't his , very likely . " " No need to pay anyzing . " Bert's being seemed to tighten " Gaw ! " he said , clutching desperate deeds . his coat , ain't there ? " " Listen doubts about that . I- He stopped . The secretary certainly had a most appalling stare . It seemed ages before he looked down again . " Well , ze laty as you please . She is your affair . I haf performt my instructions . And ze title of Paron , zat also can pe done . It can all pe done , Herr mind that if he sold the Butteridge secret Pooterage . " He drummed on the table for Suppose after all he did get second or so , and resumed . " I had to tell he could ! twenty thousand pounds ; such sums have you , sir , st you come to us at a crisis in been paid ! Welt - Politik . There can be no harm now for you , and that is all I can do . With that he could buy house me to tell our plans to you . Pefore you leafe and garden , buy new clothes beyond dream- this ship again ng , buy a motor , travel , have every delight War is perhaps already declared . of the civilised life as he knew it , for him worldt , they will be manifest to all ze Our fleet will descend self and Edna . We go - to America . Of course , risks were in- volved . " I'll ' ave old Butteridge on my out of ze air upon ze United States - it is a country quite unprepared for war eferywhere track , I expect ! " eferywhere , Zey have always relied on ze Atlantic . And their navy . We have selected a certain point - it is at present ze secret of our He meditated upon that . He declined again to despondency . As yet he was only in the beginning of the adventure . He had still to deliver the goods and draw the cash . And before that Just now he was by no means on his way home . He was flying off to America to fight there , " Not much fighting , " be considered , " all our own way . " Still , if & shell did happen to hit the Vaterland on the underside ! " S'pose I ought to make my will . " He lay back for some time composing wills -chiefly in favour of Edna . He had settled now it was to be twenty thousand pounds . He left a number of minor legacies . wills became more and more meandering and extravagant .. The He woke from the eighth repetition of his " This flying nightmare fall through space . gets on one's nerves , " he said . He could feel the airship diving down , down , down , then slowly swinging to up , up , up . Throb , throb , throb , throb , quivered the engine . He got up presently and wrapped himself about with Mr. Butteridge's overcoat and all the blankets , for the air was very keen . tor . commanders - which we shall seize , and zen we shall establish a depôt - a sort of inland Gibraltar . It will be what will it be ? -an Zere our airships will gazzer eagle's nest . and repair , and thence they will fly to and fro ofer ze United States , terrorising cities , what dominating Washington , levying nécessary , until ze terms we dictate are no- cepted . You follow me ? " Go on ! " said Bert . is " We could haf done all zis wiz such Luftschiffe , and Drachenflieger as we posSOSS , but ze accession of your machine renders our project complete . It not only gifs as a better Drachenflieger , but it remofes our last un- easiness as to Great Pritain . Wizout you , sir , Great Pritain , ze land you lofed so well and zat has requited you so ill , zat land of Pharisees and reptiles , can do nozzing ! — ozzing ! You see , I am perfectly frank wiz Well , I am instructed that Chermany We want you to blace recognises all this . We want you to yourself at our disposal . become our Chief Head Flight Engineer . We want you to manufacture , we want to you . tion . We want you to direct this force , And it is at our depôt in America we want you . So we offer you simply , and without haggling , ze full terms you demanded weeks ago one hundret tousand poundts in cash , a salary of three tousand poundts a year , a pension f one tousand poundts a year , and ze title of Paron as you desired . These are my instruc- tions . " He resumed his scrutiny of Bert's face . little short of breath , but otherwise resolute " That's all right , of course , " said Bert , a and calm ; and it seemed to him that now was the time to bring his nocturnal scheming to the issue , Then he peeped out of the window to see aequib a swarm of hornets unter your direc grey dawn breaking over clouds , then turned up his light and bolted his door sat down to the table , and produced his chest - protec- He smoothed the crumpled plans with his hand , and contemplated them . Then he re- ferred to the other drawings in the portfolio . Twenty thousand pounds . If he worked it They watched the landscape for a space . right ! It was worth trying , anyhow . " Jolly it must be to invent things , " said Presently he opened the drawer in which the lieutenant suddenly . " How did you come Kurt had put paper and writing materials . to think of your machine first ? " Bert Smallways was by no means a stupid " Worked it out , " said Bert , after a pause . person , and up to a certain limit he had not Jest ground away at it . " been badly educated .. His board - school had " Our people are frightfully keen on you . taught him to draw up to certain limits , They thought the British " had got you . taught him to calculate and , understand & Weren't the British keen ? " specification . If at that point his country The secretary contemplated Bert's collar with " Still - it's a long had tired of its efforts , and handed him over " In a way , " said Bert . sustained attention . Only for story . " unfinished to scramble for a living in an moment did his gaze move to the sandals and " What a lark ! " cried the young man . " I think it's an immense thing - to invent . atmosphere of advertisements and individual back . Bay ! What a thundering lark ! " Jes ' lemme think a bit , " said Bert , find- Don't you couldn't invent a thing to save my life . " enterprise , that was really not his fault . He know ! We're off to America , and They both fell silent , watching the was as his State had made him , and the ing the stare debilitating . " Look ' ere ! " he haven't realed . said at last , with an air of great explicitness , You've just caught us by a darkened world and following their thoughts reader must not imagine because he was a " I got the secret . " neck . You're on the blessed old flagship with antil a bugle summoned them to a belated little Cockney cad , that he was absolutely in - fot the Prince . You won't miss anything . What dinner . Bert was suddenly alarmed . " Don't capable of grasping the ides of the But ever's on , you bet the Vaterland will be there . " you ' ave dress and things ? " he said . teridge flying - machine . But he found it stiff " Us ! -off to America ? " " I've always been too hard at science and and perplexing . His motor - bicycle and " Ra - ther ! " things to go into society and all that . " Grubb's experiments and the " mechanical " No fear , " said Kurt . Nobody's got drawing " he had done in standard seven all more than the clothes they wear . We're helped him out ; and , moreover , the maker of an airship ! travelling light . You might perhaps take these drawings , whoever he was , had been ' Ere ! I say I don't your overcoat off . They've an electric radia- anxious to make his intentions plain . Bert I want to walk about on my tor each end of the room . " copied sketches , he made notes , he made a " Not a bit of it ! What's all the swaying and the row ? " " In an airship ? " " What do you think ? ' " Me , going to America on " I you After that balloon ! want to go ! legs . Let me get out ! I didn't understand . " He made a dive for the door . out . to their CHAPTER XVII . one " But I don't want the name of Butteridge to appear see ? I been thinking that over . " " A little delicacy ? " " Exactly . I give it you - from Bearer - see ? " You buy the secret - leastways , His voice failed him a little , and the stare " I want to do the thing Enony- continued . mously . Seet " Bert drifted on like me . The secretary regarded him with benevo- covered canvas gallery with aluminium treads neath the gas - chamber to the engine - room at he said . the tail ; but along this Bert did not go , and " I might ' ave tore ' em up . " from first to last he never saw the engines . " Zey are not yours ! " But he went up a ladder against a gale of ventilation - a ladder that was encased in a kind of gas - tight fire - escape and ran right towards athwart the great forward air - chamber to the little look - out gallery with a telephone , that gallery that bore the light pom - pom of Ger- " Pe galm , " said the secretary . man steel and its locker of shells . This You shall haf five hundert pounds . You gallery was all of aluminium - magnesium shall hat it on my promise . I will do that for alloy , the tight front of the airship swelled Take it froma cliff - like above and below , and the black eagle Gif me the name of that bank . Write sprawled overwhelmingly gigantic , its ex- So I tell you the Prince - is no tremities all hidden by the bulge of the gas - bag . choke . I do not think he approffed of your And far down , under the soaring eagles , appearance last night . No ! I can't answer was England , four thousand feet below per- for him . He wanted Pooterage , and you hat haps , and looking very small and defenceless spoilt it . The Prince - I do not understaudt indeed in the morning sunlight . quite , he is in a strange state . It is the ex- citement of the starting and this great soar- ing in the air . I cannot account for what he Bert sudden and unexpected qualms of does . But if all goes well I will see to it you shall haf five hundert poundta . Will that dot Then gif me the plans . " " said Bert , as the door " Old beggar ! clicked . " Gaw ! what an ole beggar ! Sharp ! " He sat down in the folding - chair , and whistled noiselessly for a time . " Nice old swindle for ' im if I tore ' em up ! I could ' ave . " it down . He rubbed the bridge of his nose thought fully . " I gave the whole blessed show away . If I'd je kep quiet about being Enony- mous . Gaw ! ... Too soon , Bert my boy - too soon and too rushy . I'd like to kick my silly self . I couldn't ' ave kept ' it up . It " After all , it ain't so very bad , " he said . " After all , five ' undred pounds . isn't my secret , anyhow . It's jos ' a plok - up on the road . Five ' undred . " " Wonder what the fare is from America back ' ome ? " And later in the day an extremely shattered and disorganised Bert Smallways stood in the presence of the Prince Karl Albert . very The realisation that there was England patriotic compunction . He was struck by a quite novel idea . After all , he might have torn up those plans and thrown them away . These people could not have done so much to him . And even if they did , ought not an Englishman to die for his country ? It was an idea that had hitherto been rather smothered up by the cares of a competitive civilisation . He became violently depressed . He ought , he perceived , to have seen it in that light before . Why hadn't he seen it in that light before ? Indeed , wasn't he a sort of traitor ? He wondered how the serial fleet must loo from down there . Tremendous , doubt , and dwarfing all the buildings . оп He was passing between Manchester and Liverpool , Kurt told him ; a gleaming band across the prospect was the Ship Canal , and a weltering ditch of shipping far away ahead , the Mersey estuary . Bert was a southerner ; he had never been north of the Midland counties , and the multitude of factories and chimneys - the latter for the most part obso- lete and smokeless now , superseded by huge electric generating stations that consumed The proceedings were in German . The their own reek - old railway viaducts , mono Prince was in his own cabin , the end room of rail networks and goods yards , and the vast the airship , a charming apartment furnished areas of dingy homes and narrow streets , in wicker - work with a long window across its spreading aimlessly , struck him as though entire breadth , looking forward . He was sit Camberwell , and Rotherhithe had run to seed . ting at a folding - table of green baize , with Here and there , as if caught in a net , were Von Winterfeld and two officers sitting be- fields and agricultural fragments . It was a side him , and littered before them was a num- sprawl of undistinguished population . There ber of American maps and Mr. Butteridge's were , no doubt , museums and town - halls letters and his portfolio and a number of and even cathedrals of a sort to mark loose papers . Bert was not asked to sit theoretical centres of municipal and religious down , and remained standing throughout the organisation in this confusion ; but Bert could interview . Von Winterfeld told his story , not see them , they did not stand out at all in and every now and then the words Balloon that wide disorderly vision and Pooterage struck on Bert's ears . The workers ' houses and places to work , and Prince's face remained stern and ominous , shops and meanly conceived chapels and and the two officers watchod it cautiously or churches . And across this landscape of an glanced at Bert . There was something a industrial civilisation swept the shadows of little strange in their scrutiny of the Prince the German airships like a hurrying shoal of a curiosity , an apprehension . Then presently fishes . he was struck by an idea , and they fell dis Kurt and he fell talking of aerial taction , The Prince asked Bert and presently went down to the under - gallery abruptly in English . " Did you ever see this in order that Bert might see the Drachen- cussing the plans . thing go op ? " _ flieger that the airships of the right wing had Bert jumped . " Saw it from Bun ' Ill , your pioked up overnight and were towing behind Royal Highness . " Von Winterfeld made some explanation . " How fast did it go ? " " Couldn't say , your Royal Highness . The papers , leastways the Daily Courier , said eighty miles an hour . " They talked German over that for a time . " Couldt it standt still ? Op in the air ? That is what I want to know . " " It could ' ovver , your Royal Highness , like a wasp , " said Bert . " Viel besser , nicht Wahr ? " said the Prince man for a time . " Mr. Schmallvaya , you haf obtained a foot ing in this airship , " he said , " by disgraceful and systematic lying . " " Ardly systematic , " said Bert , The Prince silenced him by a gesture . 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And it busses , and don't drive about so . What can those things dot " and was still explaining when Bert was called Kurt was not very clear upon that himself , And so presently Bert found himself sitting quite tolerable and intelligent copy of the to eat in the presence of the " German Alex essential drawings and sketches of the others . swimmer caught by a current . Fact is , I'm The young man arrested Bert with a ges- ander " -that great and Puissant Prince , Then he fell into a meditation upon them.going to edop the name of Smallways . I ture , took hold of a strap , lifted up a panel Prince Karl Albert , the War Lord , the hero At don't want no title of Baron ; I've altered my rd , and some it last he rose with a sigh , folded up the mind . And I want the money quiet - like . in the padded wall , and a window appeared . of two hemispheres . He was " Look ! " he said . Side by side they looked blonde man , with deep - set eyes , a snub nose , protector and put them into the breast- want the hundred thousand pounds paid into upturned moustache , and long white hands . pocket of his jacket , and then very carefully County Benk Branch at Bun Hill in Kent offloers looked at Bert . One rang a bell , and benks - thirty thousand into the London and " Gaw ! " said Bert . Presently they came to an end , and the two He sat higher than the others , under a black deposited the copies he had made in the directly I and over the plans ; twenty thou- the portfolio was handed to an attendant , who " We're going up ! " " We are ! " said the young man , cheer - eagle with widespread wings and the German place of the originals . He had no very clear and into the Benk of England ; ' arf the rest Imperial flags ; he was , as it were , enthroned , plan in his mind in doing this , except that he into a good French benk , the other arf the took it away.e fully ; " fast ! " They were rising in the air smoothly and and it struck Bert greatly that as he ate he hated the ides of altogether parting with the to the conference we have recorded with the quietly , and moving slowly to the throb of did not look at people , but over their heads secret . German National Benk , see ? I want it put Then they reverted to the case of Bert , and Prince . the engine thwart the aeronautic park . like one who sees visions . Twenty officers of foundly - nodding . For a long time he meditated pro- there , right away . I don't want it put in the it was evident the Prince was inclined to be And after that was over , the last traces of Then he turned out his Down below it stretched , dimly geometrical various ranks stood about the table - and light and went to bed again and schemed Dame of Butteridge . I want it put in the hard with him . Von Winterfeld protested . Butteridge fell from Bort like a garment , and in the darkness , picked out at regular inter Bert . They all seemed extremely curious to himself to sleep . name of Albert Peter Smallways ; that's the Apparently theological considerations came he became Smallways to all on board . The vals by glow - worm spangles of light . the famous Butteridge , and One see were several mentions . name I'm going to edop . That's condition one . " in , for there of soldiers ceased to salute him , and the officers " Go on ! " said the secretary . " Gott ! " Some conclusions emerged , and it ceased to seem aware of his existence , except black gap in the long line of grey , round . astonishment at his appearance was ill - con- backed airships marked the position from salutation , to which , by an inspiration , " he trolled . The Prince gave him a dignified The nex ' condition , " said Bert , " is that was apparent that Von Winterfeld was in- Lieutenant Kurt He was turned out of his which the Vaterland had come . Beside it 6 The hochgeborene Graf von Winterfeld you don't make any inquiries as to title . Istructed to convey them to Bert . nice cabin , and packed in with his belongings second monster now softly , released bowed . fose Standing next the Prince was a was also a light sleeper that night , but then to share that of Lieutenant Kurt , whoso luck mean what English gentlemen do when , they from its bonds and cables , into the air . brown - faced , wrinkled man with silver spec- he was one of those people who sleep little sell or let you land . You don't arst ' ow I it was to be junior , and the bird - headed Then , taking a beautifully exact distance , a tacles and fluffy , dingy - grey side - whiskers , and play chess problems in their heads to got it . See ? Ere I am I deliver you the officer , still swearing slightly and carrying third ascended , and then a fourth . who regarded Bert with a peculiar and dis- while away the time and that night he had goods ; that's all right . Some people are the strops and aluminium boot - trees and weight " Too late , Mr. Butteridge ! " the young concerting attention . The company sat after a particularly difficult problem to solve . cheek to say this isn't my invention , soe ? It less hair - brushes and hand- mirrors and man remarked . " We're off ! I daresay it ceremonies Bert could not understand . At i He came in upon Bert while he was still is , you know - that's all right ; but I don't pomade in his hands , resumed possession . a bit of a shock to you , but there you are ! the other end of the table was the bird - faced in bed in the glow of the sunlight reflected want that gone into . I want fair and Bert was put in with Kurt because there was The Prince said you'd have to come . " officer Bert had dispossessed , still looking from the North Sea below , consuming the rolls square agreement saying that's all right . See ? " nowhere else for him to lay his bandaged " Look ' ere , " said Bert . " I really am hostile and whispering about Bert to his and coffee a soldier had brought him . He His " See ! " faded into a profound silence . head in that close - packed vessel . He was to dazed . What's this thing ? Where are we neighbour . Two soldiers waited . The dinner had a portfolio under his arm , and in the The secretary sighed at last , leant back in mess , he was told , with the men . going ? " was a plain one soup , some fresh mutton , clear , early morning light his dingy grey his chair and produced a tooth - pick , and used Kurt came and stood with his legs wide This , Mr. teridge , " said the young and cheese - and there was very little talk . hair and heavy , silver - rimmed spectacles it to assist his meditation on Bert's case . Gott of this Pooterage flying - machine reach - apart , and surveyed him for a moment as he man , taking pains to be explicit , " is an air- A curious solemnity indeed brooded over made him look almost benevolent . He spoke " What was that name ? " he asked at last , ing his Highness's hand , you haf been spared . at despondent in his new quarters . ship . It's the flagship of Prince Karl Albert . everyone . Partly this was reaction after the English fluently , but with strong German putting away the toothpick ; " I must write You will be allowed to remain on this ship Kurt , who was only imperfectly informed of Yes - you were the pearer of goot tidings . What's your real name , This is the German air - fleet , and it is going intense toil and restrained excitement of flavour . He was particularly bad with his down . over to America , to give that spirited people starting ; partly it the overwhelming " b's , " and his " th's " softened towards weak was " Albert Peter Smallways , " said Bert , in until it is convenient to dispose of you . Do the new state of affairs . ' what for . " The only thing we were at all sense of strange new experiences , of por " z's . " He called Bert explosively , " Pooter- mild tone . Smallways . " uneasy about was your invention . tentous adventure . The Prince was lost age . " He began with some indistinct civili- The secretary wrote it down , after a little We will bring him , " said the Prince , and in thought . He roused himself to drink to ties , bowed , took a folding table and chair difficulty about the spelling because of the added terribly with terrible glare , " als the Emperor in champagne , and the company from behind the door , put the former be- different names of the letters of the alphabet Ballast . " cried " Hoch ! " like men repeating responses tween himself and Bert , sat down on the in the two languages . " You are to come with us , " said Winter- in church . latter , coughed drily , and opened his port " And now , Mr. Schmallways , " he said at feld , as pallast . Do you understandt ? " No smoking was permitted , but some of the folio . Bert opened his mouth to ask about the five Then he put his elbows on the table , last , leaning back and resuming the state , officers went down to the little open gallery pinched his lower lip with his two fore - fin- " tell me how did you let hold of Mister hundred pounds , and then a saving gleam of to chew tobacco . No lights whatever were gers , and regarded Bert disconcertingly with Pooterage's balloon ! " wisdom silenced him . He met Von Winter- safe amidst that bundle of inflammable magnified eyes . " You came to us , Herr feld's eye , and it seemed to him the secretary things . Bert suddenly fell yawning and Pooterage , against your will , " he said at last . nodded slightly . " Go ! " said the Prince , shivering . He was overwhelmed by a sense of Ow d'you make that out ? " asked Bert , Horton's BENEDICT PILLS with a sweep of the great arm and hand to his own insignificance amidst these great after a pause of astonishment , Bert went out like a leaf rushing monsters of the air . He felt life was " I chuge by ze maps in your car . before agale . WOW ! " And here DELICIOUS COFFEE . RED WHITE & BLUE For Breakfast & aft or Dinner . They too big for him - too much for him altogether . were all English . And your provisions . He said something to Kurt about his head , They were all picnic . Also your cords were went up the steep ladder from the swaying entangled . little gallery into the airship again , and so , good . You could not manage ze balloon , and You haf been tugging but no as if it were a refuge , to bed . Anusser power than yours prought you to us . Is it not so ? " Bert slept for a long time , and then his sleep was broken by dreams . Mostly he was Beeing from formless terrors down an inter- minable passage in an airship a passage paved at first with ravenous trapdoors , and then with openwork canvas of the most are- Free to Ladies . In a few days correct all irregularities and remove all obstructions ; also oure Anemia , and ness to dispose of you as a spy . " Ere - I came to sell- " Sah ! " said one of the officers . " However , in consideration of the happy chance that mate you the instrument unter you understandt ? " then ? " said " I thought you were a bit of fraud - even when I thought you were Butteridge . You're jolly lucky the Prince took it calmly . He's a pretty tidy blazer . when he's roused . He wouldn't stick a moment at pitching a chap of your sort overboard if he thought fit . No ! They've shoved you on to me , but it's cabin , you know . " " I won't forget , " said Bert . rt left him , and when he came to look about him the first thing he saw pasted on the padded wall was a reproduction of the great picture by Siegfried Schmalz of the War God , that terrible , trampling figure with the viking CHAPTER XIX . helmet and the scarlet cloak , wading through so no injury to the married or single are terfeld had talked to him and this alarming prince it was painted to please . Between the time when the Graf von Win - strong resemblance to Karl Albert , the destruction , sword in hand , which had so invaluable . From most chemists , or by post , conference with the Prince , Bert had explored under cover , 1/1 or 2/9 , from Horton & Co. , the Vaterland from end to end . Chemists ( Chief Dispenser from the late found it interesting in spite of grave preoccu Birmingham Lying - in Hospital ) , Dept. 10 , Aston pations . Kurt , like the greater number of Manor , Birmingham . Bold over 50 years . 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