Ross Gazette 26th November 1914 - Page 6
Ross Gazette 26th November 1914 - Page 6
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| Date | 26/11/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 26th November 1914 |
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CALL RIGHTS RESERVED . ] PEO THE ROSS GAZETTE - THURSDAY , NOVEMBER · 26 , ICE LEA SIMOR TIME HOME MOTTUOROH below were the shining clouds . They had Pargent tout suite , l'argent en main . Com THE WAR IN THE AIR . kened so that the whole world was hidden . prenest . C'est la machine à jouer dans l'air . Southward they were piled in great snowy Compresnez ? C'est le machine à faire l'oiseau masses ; he was half disposed to think Them Comprenez Balancert Oui exactement mountains ; northward and eastward they Battir l'oiseau en fait , à son propre jeu . Je were in wavelike levels , and blindingly sunlit désire de vendre ceci votre government " Wonder how long a balloon keeps up , " national . Voulez vous me directer lat he said " Bit rummy , I expect , from the point of in - view of grammar , " said Bort , " but they ought to get the hang of it all right .. But then , if they arst me to explain the blessed thing ! " BY H. G. WELLS Author of " Kippe , " " The Time Machine , " The War of the Worlds , " " The Invisible Man , " " In the Days of the Comet , " & c . SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS : Bert Smallways , of Bun Hill , is a partner in the firm of Grubb and Smallways , cycle dealers in a very small way in a London suburb . The first great boon in aeronautics is beginning . Every- 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. the journey from the Alfred Bute has complete and back on Palace to a small businesslike flying . -machine . Mr. But teridge is reported to be quite willing to sell his secret to the British Government ; but the nego- tiations are on the point of falling through , and it seems that the secret of the only practi- cable seroplane in existence is to pass out of the There are rumours that Germany , is not pleased with America over the Monroe doo trine , and papers comment on the ambigu- the ous attitude of Japan , and at the same time ask , " What will Britain do ? " Bert Smallways and his partner determine to country . He imagined he was not moving , so sensibly did the monster drift with the air about it . " No good coming down till shift a bit , " he said . He consulted the statoscope . " Still Monty , " he said . we " Wonder what would happen if you pulled a cord ? " " No , " he decided . " I ain't going to mess it about . " Afterwards he did pull both the ripping and the valve - cords , but , as Mr. Butteridge had already discovered , they had fouled & fold Nothing happened . of silk in the throat . But for that little hitch the ripping - cord would have torn the balloon open a though it had been slashed by a sword , and hurled Mr. Smallways to eternity at the rate of some thousand feet a second . " No go ! " he said , giving it a final tug . Then he lunched . soon be cut the wire blew its cork out with He opened a bottle of champagne , which as He returned in a worried , way to the plans . " I don't believe it's all here ! he said . He got more and more perplexed up there among the clouds as to what he , should . do with this wonderful , find of his A moment , so far as he , could tall , he might do soond among he knew not what foreign people . It's the chance of my life ' he said It became more and more manitoat to him that it wasn't Directly I come down they'll telegraph - put it in the papers . Butteridge'll know of It and come along on my track . searching bellow and the glare , after He removed his oap and wig , for the air Was warm , and an improvident impulse made him , past the latter object overboard The tatoscope responded with vigorous , swing Montée . The blessed thing goes up if you only look overboard , he remarked , and assailed the loeker . He found , among other items several time of liquid cocoa containing explicit direc tions for opening that he followed with minute care . He pierced the bottom with the key provided in the holes indicated , and forthwith the can grew from cold to hotter and hotter , until at last he could scarcely toneh it and then he opened the can at the other end , and there , was Dis Cocos mormig without the use of match or flame of any sort was an old invention , but new to Bert . There was also ham , and marmalade and bread , so that he had a really very tolerable breakfast indeed . 1014 . He Everybody now was aware of the panoon , of the fish form to serial conditions , the post - over the hesitating Emperor to the scheme . Everybody was either trying to dodge the tion of swimming bladder , eyes , and brain Prince Karl Albert was , indeed , the central grapnel or catch the trail rope . With a pen being , however , below instead of above . A figure of the world drama . He was the dar dulum - like swoop through the crowd , that striking and unfish - like feature was the ap - ling of the Imperialist spirit in Germany , and sent people flying right and left , the grapnel paratus for wireless telegraphy that dangled the ideal of the new aristocratic feeling - the came to earth again , tried for and missed from the forward cabin - that is to say , under new Chivalry , as it was caled that followed stout gentleman in blue suit and a straw the chin of the fish . the overthrow of Socialism through its inter- hat , smacked away strestle Afrom under a These monsters were capable of ninety nal divisions and lack of discipline , and the stall of haberdashery , made a cyclist soldier miles an hour in a calm , so that they could concentration of wealth in the hands of a few in knickerbockers leap like a chamois , and face and make headway against nearly every great families . He was compared by obse- secured itself uncertainly among the hind- thing except the fiercest tornado . They varied quious flatterers to the Black Prince , to Alci- lege of a sheep which made convulsive un- in length from eight hundred to two thousand biades , to the young Cæsar . To many he gracious efforts to free itself , and was dragged into a position of rest against a stone feet , and they had a carrying power of from seemed Nietzsche's Overman revealed . seventy to two hundred tons . How many was big and blonde and virile , and splendidly cross in the middle of the place The balloon Germany possessed history does not record , non - moral . pulled up with jerk . In another moment but Bert counted nearly eighty great bulks The first great feat that startled Europe , score of willing hands were tugging it earth recoding in perspective during his brief in- and almost brought about a new Trojan wat , ward . At the same instant Bert became spection . Such were the instruments on was his abduction of the Princess Helena of aware for the first time of a fresh breeze which she relied to sustain her in her repudia Norway , Then came the gallant rescue , which blowing about him . tion of the Monroe Doctrine and her bold , bid almost cost him his life , of three drowning For some seconds he stood staggering in for a share of the empire of the New World . sailors whose boat had upset in the sea near Then he took off his overcoat , for the sun- the car , which now swayed sickeningly , sur- shine was now inclined to be hot , and that But not altogether did she rely on these ; Heligoland . For that and his victory over veying the exasperated crowd below him and she had also reminded him of the rustling he had heard in trying to collect his mind . He was extra- Drachenflieger of unknown value among her Emperor forgave him and placed him in con- one - man bomb - throwing the American yacht Defender , C.C.I. , the the night . He took off the waistcoat and ordinarily astonished at this run of mishaps . resources . examined it . " Old Butteridge won't like me Were the people really so annoyed ! Every But the Drachenflieger were away in the man forces . This he developed with marvel- picking this . " He hesitated , and finally body seemed angry with him . No one seemed second great aeronautic park east of Ham- lous energy and ability , being resolved , as he proceeded to unpick it .. He found the missing interested or amused by his arrival . A dis burg , and Bert Smallways saw nothing of said , to give to Germany land and ses drawing of the lateral rotating planes , on proportionate amount of the outery had the them in the bird's - eye view he took of the sky . The national passion for aggression quality of imprecation - had , indeed , strong Franconian establishment before machine depended . favour of riot . Several greatly uniformed him down . they shot found in him its supreme exponent , and officials in cocked hats struggled For they shot him down very achieved through him its realisation in this Fists and sticks were neatly . They used the new bullets with steel astounding war . But his fascination was more control the crowd . shaken . And when Bert saw a man on the trailer that Wolffe of Engelberg had in- than national ; all over the world his ruthless The bullet tore strength dominated minds as the Napoleonic outskirts of the crowd run to a hayeart and vented for serial warfare . get a brightly - pronged pitch - fork , and a blue- past him and made a sort of pop as its trailer legend had dominated minds . Englishmen clad soldier unbuckle his belt , his doubt rent his baloon - a pop that was followed by turned in disgust from the slow , complex , whether this little town was , after all , wuch a rustling sigh and steady downward - move- civilised methods of their national politics to good place for a landing became a certainty . ment . And when in the confusion of the mo- this uncompromising forceful figure . French- He had along to the fancy that they would ment he dropped bag of ballast , the Ger- men believed in him . Poems were written to make something of a hero of him . Now he scruples by shooting his balloon again twice . mans very politely but firmly overcame his him in American . knew that he was mistaken . which the whole stability of the flying give up the cycle business and take to singing incredible violence , and for the most part fol- of the great Butteridge secret crumpled ap in An observant angel would have seen Bert on the sands at the coast town of Littlestone in Kent . On the first day of their entertainment Butteridge descends with his balloon . He is in difficulties with it , and Bert Smallways lende hand . As Butteridge falls out Bert falls in , and in a moment he is rushing up into the sky . When he comes to himself Bert is alone in the balloon bigh above the waters of the English Channel . CHAPTER VIII . lowed it into space . Bert , however , got about a tumblerful . " Atmospheric pressure , " said . Bert , finding an application at last for the elementary physiography of his seventh- standard days . " I'll have to be more care- ful next time . No good wastin ' drink . " Then he routed about for matches to utilise Mr. Butteridge's cigars ; but here again luck was on his side , and he couldn't find any wherewith to set light to the gas above him . Or else he would have dropped in a flare , a splendid but transitory pyrotechnic display . Eng old Grubb ! " said Bert , slapping un- productive pockets . " E didn't ought to ' ave kep ' my box . ' E's always sneaking matches . " Bert Smallways looked down with pinched face at the receding beach , and re- lected that he wasn't giddy ; then he made a superficial survey of the cords and ropes about him with a vague idea of " doing some- thing . " " I'm not going to mess about with the thing he said at last , and sat down upon the mattress . " I'm not going to touch it ... I wonder what one ought to do ? " Soon he got up again and stared for a long the floor , watched the clouds for a time , and CHAPTER IX . He reposed for a time . Then he got up , paddled about , rearranged the ballast bags on turned over the maps on the locker . Bert liked maps , and he spent some time in trying to find one of France or the Channel ; but they were all British ordnance maps of Eng lish counties . languages and trying to recall his seventh- That set him thinking about standard French Je suis Anglais . C'est une méprise . Je suis arrivé par accident Butteridge would be a terrible person to be on anyone's track . Bert thought of the great black moustaches , the triangular nose , the noon's dream of a marvellous seizure and sale his mind , dissolved , and vanished . He awoke to sanity again . Wouldn't do . What's the good of thing- ing of it ? " He proceeded slowly and re- luctantly to replace the Butteridge papers , and portfolio as he had found them . He became aware of a splendid golden light upon the balloon above him , and of a new warmth in the blue dome of the sky . He stood up and heheld the sun , a great ball of blinding gold , setting upon tumbled sea of gold - edged crimson and purple clouds , strange and won- derful beyond imagining . Eastward cloud- land stretched for ever , darkling blue , and it seemed to Bert the whole round hemisphere of the world was under his eyes , Then far away over the blue he caught sight of three long , dark shapes like hurrying fish that drove one after the other , as porpoises follow one another in the water . They were very fish - like indeed - with tails , It was an unconvincing impression in that light . He blinked his eyes , stared again , and they had vanished . For long time he scrutinised those remote blue levels and saw " Wonder if I ever saw anything , " he said ; and then : " There ain't such things . Down went the sun and down , not diving Chen he decided to him that he would enter steeply , but by sing light and the expansive no more . time at the sinking world below , at white eliffs to the east and flattening marsh to the eft , at a minute wide prospect of weald and downland , at dim towns and harbours , and rivers and ribbon - like roads , at ships and thips , decks and foreshortened funnels upon the ever - widening sea , and at the great mono- rail bridge that straddled the Channel from Folkestone to Boulogne , until at length , first ice , " passing northward little wisps and then a veil of filmy cloud hid the prospect from his eyes . He wasn't at all giddy nor very much frightened , only in a state of enormous consternation . Bert Smallways was a vulgar little creature , the sort of pert , limited soul that the old civi- lisation of the early twentieth century pro- duced by the million in every country of the world . He had lived all his life in narrow streets , and between mean houses he could not look over , and in 8 narrow circle of ideas from . which there was no ascape . He thought the whole duty of man was to be smarter than his fellows , get his hands , as he put it , on the dibs , " and have a good time . He was , in fact , the sort of man who had made England and America what they were . The luck had been against him so far , but that was by the way . He was a mere aggressive and acquisitive indi- vidual with no sense of the State , no habitual loyalty , no devotion , no code of honour , no code even of courage . Now / by a curious acci- dent he found himself lifted out of his mar- vellous modern world for a time , out of all the rush and confused appeals of it , and float- ing like a thing dead and disembodied be- tween sea and sky . It was as if Heaven was experimenting with him had ninkad him aut as a sample from the English millions to look at him more nearly and to see what was hap- pening to the soul of man . But what Heaven made of him in that case I cannot profess to imagine , for I have long since abandoned all theories about the ideals and satisfactions of Heaven . No To be alone in a balloon at a height of four- teen or fifteen thousand feet - and to that height Bert Smallways presently rose - is like nothing else in human experience . It is one of the supreme things possible to man . flying - machine can ever better it . It is to pass extraordinarily out of human things . It is to be still and alone to an unprecedented degree . It is solitude without the suggestion of intervention ; it is calm without a single irrelevant murmur . It is to see the sky . No , sound reaches one of all the roar and jar of humanity , the air is clear and sweet be- yond the thought of defilement . No bird , no insect comes so high . No wind blows ever in a balloon , no breeze rustles , for it moves with the wind and is itself a part of the atmos- phere . Once started it does not rock nor sway ; you cannot feel whether it rises or falls . Bert felt acutely cold , but he wasn't mountain - sick ; he put on the coat and over- coat and . gloves Butteridge had discarded- put them over the " Desert Dervish " sheet that covered his cheap best suit - and sat - very still for a long time , overawed by the new- found quiet of the world . Above him was the light , translucent , billowing globe of shining brown oiled silk and the blazing sunlight and the great deep blue down of the sky . Below , far below , was a torn floor of sunlit cloud , slashed by enormous rents , through which he saw the sea . He wasn't in the least degree uncomfort able nor afraid . He did think that as this un- controllable thing had thus rushed up the sky with him it might presently rush down again , but this consideration did not trouble him very much . Essentially his state was won der . There is no fear nor trouble in balloons -until they descend . Gollys " he said at last , feeling a need for talking ; " it's better than a motor - bike . " It's all right ! " I suppose they're telegraphing about , about me . tain himself by reading Mr. Butteridge's letters and examining his pocket - book , and in this manner he whiled away the afternoon warmth of daylight had gone altogether , and the index of the statoscope quivered over to Descente . sitting for a long time after this discovery in a state of intense meditation . Then at last he rose with an air of inspiration , took Mr. But teridge ripped , demolished , and ransacked waistcoat , and hurled it from the balloon whence it fluttered - down slowly and eddyingly until at last it came to rest with contented flop upon the face of a German tourist sleep- ing peacefully beside the Höhenweg .. near Wildbad . Also this sent the balloon higher , and so into a position still more convenient for observation by our imaginary angel , who would next have been Mr. Smallways tear his collar , open his shirt , thrust his hand into open his own jacket and waistcoat , remove " his bosom , and tear his heart out or at least , if not his heart , some large bright scarlet rob ject . If the observer , overcoming a thrill of celestial horror , had sorutinised this scarlet nesses , would have been laid bare . It was a He now proceeded to unbutton object more narrowly , one of Bert's most cherished secrets , one of his essential weak red - flannel chest - protector , one of those large quasi - hygienic objects that with pills and medicines take the place of beneficial relics Christendom . Always Bert wore this thing ; and images among the Protestant peoples of advice of a shilling fortune - teller at Margate , it was his cherished delusion , based on the that he was weak in the lungs . his fetish , to attack it with a penknife , and to thrust the new - found plans between the two layers of imitation Saxony flannel of which it was made . Then with the help of Mr. Butter CHAPTER X. idge's small shaving mirror and his folding " Now what's going to ' appen ? " said Berk , canvas basin he readjusted his costume with He found the cold grey cloud wilderness the gravity of a man who has taken an irre- rising towards him with a wide , slow steadi- vocable step in life , buttoned up his jacket , clouds ceased to seem the snowelad mountain- As he sank down among them the east the white sheet of the Desert Dervish on one side , washed temperately , shaved , re- slopes they had resembled heretofore , became sumed the big cap and the fur overcoat , and , drift and eddy in their substance . the country below him . For a moment , when he twilight masses , his descent was was nearly among their Then abruptly the sky was hidden , the last vestiges of daylight gone , and he was falling rapidly in an evening twilight through a whirl of fine snowflakes that streamed past him to things about him and melted , that touched wards the zenith , that drifted in upon the his face with ghostly fingers . He shivered . His breath came smoking from his lips , and everything was instantly bedewed and wet . He had an impression of a snowstorm pour- He did not know where he might be drifting with unexampled and increasing fury ing , or what might happen next . upward ; then he realised that he was falling cepted this state of affairs with faster and faster . ness . vain to CHAPTER XIII . trol of the new aeronautic arm of the Ger- He made the war . and Of all these world - forces and gigantio de- signs Bert Smallways knew nothing until he found himself in the very focus of it all and 8 Hewaar perhaps ten feet above the people when he made his decision . His paralysis ceased . He leaped up on the seat , and , at On the eve of the outbreak of the war there gaped down amazed on the spectacle of that imminent risk of falling headlong , disengaged mere six Great Powers in the world and a giant herd of airships . Each one seemed as long the grapnel - rope from the toggle that held it , cluster of smaller ones , each armed to the as the Strand , and as big about as Trafalgar sprang on to the trail - rope and released that teeth and straining every nerve to get ahead Square . Also . A hoarse shout of disgust greeted the of the others in deadliness of equipment and mile in length , Some must have been a third of a descent of the grapnel - rope and the swift military efficiency . He had never before seen leap of the balloon , The Great Powers were anything so vast and disciplined as this tre- and something - be first the United States , a nation addicted to mendous park . fancied afterwards it was s turnip - whizzed For the first time in his life commerce , but roused to military necessities he really had an intimation of the extraordi- by his headwrned to jump away from by the efforts of Germany to expand into South nary and quite important things of which low . The crowd seemed to jump away from America , and by the natural consequences of contemporary may go in ignorance . He had him . With an immense and horrifying rust , her own unwary annexations of land in the always clung to the illusion that Germans the balloon brushed against a telephone pole , She maintained and for tense instant he anticipated either very teeth of Japan . two were fat , absurd men , who smoked china oiled silk , or both . But fortune was with him and State Governments upon the question of things generally . an electric explosion or a bursting of the immense fleets east and west , and internally pipes , and were addicted to knowledge and she was in violent conflict between Federal horseflesh and sauerkraut and indigestible bottom of the car , and , released from the In another second he was cowering in the universal service in a defensive militis . Next weigh up once more through the air : For It flashed into his head , as he cowered in of the grapnel two ropes , close - knit came the great alliance of Eastern Asia , a the bottom of the car , that he might avoid coalescence of China and Japan , all sorts of disagreeable and complicated ex- time he remained crouching , and when at last advancing with rapid strides year by year to planations by pretending to be mad . he looked out again , the little town was very the German alliance still struggled to achieve seemed to rush up about him as if to look at predominance in the world's affairs . Then That was his last ides before the airships amall and travelling with the rest of lower Germany in a circular orbit round and round its dream of imperial expansion , and its im- him , and his car hit the ground and bounded the car or , at least , it appeared to be doing forcibly united Europe . These were the three position of the German language upon and pitched him out on his head . that . most spirited and aggressive Powers in the World . Far more pacific was the British Empire , perilously scattered over the globe , and distracted now by insurrectionary move- ments in Ireland and among all its Subject Races . CHAPTER XII . He sat upon the padded locker , wrapped about very carefully , for the air , though calm , was exhilaratingly cold and clear . He was wearing first a modest suit of blue serge and all the unpretending underwear of a suburban young man of fashion , with sandal- like cycling - shoes and brown stockings drawn over his trouser ends ; then the perforated sheet proper to a Desert Dervish ; then the coat and waistcoat and big fur - trimmed over- I coat of Mr. Butteridge ; then a lady's large unsubstantial , confessed an immense silent much refreshed by these exercises , surveyed the readers of the late G. P. R. James , a - soli . fur cloak , and round his knees a blanket . Over his head was a tow wig , surmounted by a large cap of Mr. Butteridge's with the flaps down over his ears . And some fur sleeping- boots of Mr. Butteridge's warmed his feet . The car of the balloon was small and neat , some bags of ballast the untidiest of its con- tents , and he had found a light folding - table and put it at his elbow , and on that was a glass with champagne . And about him , above and below , was space - such a clear emptiness and silence of space as only the aeronaut can experience . He ac a serenity checked . Everything was extraordinarily clear as well as minute . Once or twice he saw guns and soldiers , and was reminded of the stir of mili tary preparations he had witnessed on the Bank Holiday in England ; but there was nothing to tell him that these military pre- occasional faint irregular firing of guns that parations were abnormal , or to explain an drifted up to him . S was CHAPTER XIV . He awoke to find himself famous , and to bear a , voice crying , " Booteraidge Jal Ja ! Herr Booteraidge ! Selbst ! " He was lying on a little patch of grass be- side one of the main avenues of the seronau- So it came about that in every country tic park . The airships receded down a great great and growing proportion of its energetic vista , an immense perspective , and the blunt and inventive men was busied either for prow of each was adorned with a black eagle offensive or defensive ends , in elaborating of a hundred feet or so spread . Down the the apparatus of war , until the accumulating other side of the avenue ran a series of gas tensions should reach Each Power sought to keep its preparations where across the intervening space . Close at the breaking - point . generators , and big hose - pipes trailed every . secret , to hold new weapons in reserve , to hand was his now nearly deflated balloon , and rivals . anticipate and learn the preparations of its the car on its side looking minutely , small , a The feeling of danger from fresh discoveries affected the patriotic imagination irast with the gigantic bulk of the nearer air- mere broken toy , a shrivelled bubble , in con- of every people in the world . Now it ship . This he saw almost end - on , rising like rumoured the British had an overwhelming cliff and sloping forward towards its fellow gun , now the French an invincible rifle , now on the other side so as to overshadow the the Japanese a new explosive , now the Ameri- alley between them . There was a crowd of cans a submarine that would drive every excited people about him , mostly big men in ironclad from the seas . Each time there tight uniforme . Everybody was talking , and would be a war panic . And then at last it came . It came as several were shouting , in German ; he knew sounds like startled kittens . Only one phrase , a that , because they splashed and aspirated repeated again and again , could he recognise the name of " Herr Booteraidge . " " Gollys ! " said Bert . " They've spotted it . " " Besser ! " said someone , and some rapid German followed . Late in the afternoon of a pleasant summer day , in the year 191 , if one may borrow mode of phrasing that once found favour with tary balloonist replacing the solitary horse man of the classic romances might have been observed wending his way across Fran height of about eleven thousand feet above conia in a north - easterly direction , at a the sea and still spinning slowly . His head was craned over the side of the car , and he sion of profound perplexity ; ever and again surveyed the country below with expres " Wish I knew how to get down , " said his lips shaped inaudible words . " Shootin ' Bert , ten thousand feet or so above it all , and at a chap , for example , and " I'll come down right enough soon as I find out ' ow . " gave himself to much futile tugging at the red and white cords . Afterwards he made a Over the side of the basket the robe of the sort of inventory of the provisions . Life in consideration , an ineffectual white flag . Desert Dervish was hanging , an appeal for the high air was giving him an appalling Mysterious voices spoke to him in his ear , appetite , sad it seemed to him discreet at this jerking the words up to him by means stage to portion out his supply into rations . , megaphones , in weird and startling man So far as he could see he might pass a week ner , in a great variety of languages . Official At first all the vast panorams below had looking persons had signalled to him by been as silent as a painted picture . But the whole guttural variant of English pre means of flag flapping and arm waving . On the day wore on , and the gas diffused slowly vailed in the sentences that alighted upon the from the balloon , it sank earthward again , balloon ; chiefly he was told to " gome down details increased , men became more visible , or you will be shot . " and he began to hear the whistle and moan of trains and cars , sounds of cattle , bugles and kettle drums , and presently even men's voices . And at last his guide - rope was trail . Latterly he had been shot at six or seven times , and once the bullet had gone by with ing again , and he found it possible to attempt sound so persuasively like the tearing of silk deciding cause , it is now known , was He landing . Once or twice , as the rope that he had resigned himself to the prospect dragged over cables , he found his hair erect of a headlong fall . But either they were aim- with electricity , and once he had a slight Imperceptibly a sound grew upon his ears . The great silence of the world was at an end . What was this confused sound ? He craned his head over the side , con- cerned , perplexed . creditable to the Smallways ' courage , which one might reasonably have expected to be of a more degenerate and contemptible quality altogether . His impression was that he was bound to come down somewhere , and that then , if he wasn't smashed , someone , some First he seemed to see , and then not to see . Then he saw clearly little edges of foam pur- " society " perhaps , would probably pack him suing each other , and and the balloon back to England . If not , he wide waste of welter- would ask very firmly for the British Consul . Far away was a pilot " Le consuelo Britannique , " he decided this boat with a big sail bearing dim black letters , would be . and a little pinkish - yellow light , and it was roll- " Apportez moi à le consuelo Britannique s'il vous plait , " he would say , for and pitching - rolling and pitching in a Ingale , while he could feel no wind at all . Soon he was by no means ignorant of French . the sound of water was loud and near . the meantime he found the intimate aspects of Mr. Butteridge an interesting study . There were letters of an entirely private character addressed to Mr. Butteridge , and among others several love - letters of a devour . ing sort in a large feminine hand . These are no business of ours , and one remarks with re- gret that Bert read them . When he had read them he remarked , " Gollysin an awe - stricken tone , and then , after a long interval , " I wonder if that was her ? " Heavens ! " He mused for a time . teridge interior . He resumed his exploration of the But- It included a number of Press cuttings of interviews and also several letters in German , then some in the same German handwriting , but in English . " Hul - lo ! " said Bert . " We But , sir , ing water below him . was dropping , dropping - into the sea ! He became convulsively active . Ballast ! " he cried , and seized a little He did not wait for the effect of that , but Back from the floor , and heaved it overboard . sent another after it . He looked over in time to see a minute white splash in the dim waters below him , and then he was back in the snow and clouds again . Thank ballast and a fourth , and presently had the He sent out quite needlessly a third sack of immense satisfaction of soaring up out of the damp and chill into the clear cold upper air in which the day still lingered . Heaven ! " he said , with all his heart . A few stars now had pierced the blue , and in the east there shone brightly a prolate moon . That first downward plunge filled Bert with It was a summer's night , but it seemed to haunting sense of boundless waters below . him , nevertheless , extraordinarily long . He had a feeling of insecurity that he fancied quite irrationally the sunrise would dispel . One of the latter , the first he took , began with an apology to Butteridge for not writing to him in English before , and for the incon venience and delay that had been caused him by that , and went on to matter that Bert Also he was hungry . He felt in the dark in found exciting in the highest degree . can understand entirely the difficulties of the locker , put his fingers in the Roman pie , your position , and that you shall possibly be and got some sandwiches , and he also opened watched at the present juncture . rather successfully a half - bottle of cham- That warmed and restored him , he at grumbled Grubb about the matches , wrapped himself up warmly on the locker , and dozed for a time . He got up once or twice to make sure that he was still securely high above the sea . The first time the moon- lit clouds were white and dense , and the shadow of the balloon ran athwart them like a dog that followed ; afterwards they seemed thinner . As he lay still , staring up at the huge dark balloon above , he made a dis- we do not believe that any serious obstacles pagne . will be put in your way if you wished to en- deavour to leave the country and come to us with your plans by the customary routes- either via Dover , Ostend , Boulogne , Dieppe . We find it difficult to think you are right in supposing yourself to be in danger of murder for " Funny ! nvaluable invention . " or said Bert , and meditated . Then he went through the other letters . Bert ; but they don't seem hurting them- They seem to want him to come , " said selves to get ' im . Or else they're shamming don't care to get his prices down . " They don't quite gov'ment , " he reflected , after an It's more like some firm's paper . Ballonstoffe . That's all right . car were a number of canvas bags that Bert about that ! Gollys ! Here is the secret ! ' decided must be ballast to " chuck down " if the balloon fell . yet , " said Bert . ) he was in the air . proper reflection . of All very well , " said Bert , but ' OW ! " Then they shot a little wide of the car , his anxious soul . surprise to all the world because its real causes were hidden . Relations were strained between Germany and the United States be cause of the intense exasperation of a tariff conflict and the ambiguous attitude of the former Power towards the Monroe Doctrine , and they were strained between the United States and Japan because of the perennial citizenship question . But in both cases these were standing causes of offence . The the real perfecting of the Pforzheim engine by Ger . many and the consequent possibility of rapid and entirely practicable airship . unsenti- He perceived that close at hand was a field telephone , and that a tall officer in blue was talking thereat about him . Another stood close besidé him with the portfolio of draw- inge and photographs in his hand . They looked round at him . " Do you spik Cherman , Herr Booteraidge ? " Bert decided that he had better be dazed . He did his best to seem thoroughly dazed . " Where am I ? " he asked . mentioned . " Der Prins " Wan A bugle sounded far away , and ita call was taken up by one nearer , and then by one close at hand . This seemed to in- crease the excitement greatly . A mono - rail car bumbled past . The telephone bell rang passionately , and the tall officer seemed to engage in a heated altercation . Then he ap proached the group about Bert , calling out something about " mitbringen . " An earnest - faced , emaciated man with a white moustache appealed to Bert . " Herr Booteraidge , sir , we are chust to start ! " " Where am It " Bert repeated . Someone shook him by the other shoulder . " Are you Herr Booternidge ? " he asked . " Herr Booteraidge , we are chust start ! " repeated the white moustache , and then helplessly , " What is de goot ? What oan we do ! " shock , and sparks snapped about the car . He ing near him or they had missed , and as yet took these things among the chances of the nothing was torn but the air about him - and At that time Germany was by far the most effolent Power in the world , better organised voyage . He had one idea now very clear in Volubility prevailed . He was quite involuntarily playing that for swift and secret action , better equipped his mind , and that was to drop the iron grap weird , mysterious part - the part of an Inter- with the resources of modern science , and nel that hung from the ring . with her official and administrative classes at From the first this attempt was unfortunational Spy . He was seeing secret things . a higher level of education and training . nate , perhaps because the place for descent He had , in fact , crossed the designs of no less power than the German Empire , he had These things she knew , and she exaggerated was ill - chosen . A balloon should come in a blundered into the hot foous of Welt - Politik , that knowledge to the pitch of contempt for empty open space , and he chose a crowd he was drifting helplessly towards the great the secret counsels of her neighbours . It may He made his decision suddenly , and without Imperial secret , the immense seronautic park be that with the habit of self - confidence her As he trailed , Bert saw ahead of him one of the most attractive little that had been established at a headlong pace spying upon them had grown less thorough . Moreover , she had tradition of B towns in the world - cluster of steep gables in Franconia to develop silently , swiftly , and surmounted by a high church tower and on colossal scale the great discoveries of mental and unscrupulous action that vitiated her international outlook profoundly . With diversified with trees , walled , and with a fine , Hunstedt and Stossel , and so to give Ger the coming of these new weapons her collec- large gateway opening out upon tree - lined many , before all other nations , fleet of high road . All the wires and cables of the airships , the air power and the Empire of the tive intelligence thrilled with the sense that now her moment had come . Once again in countryside converged upon it like guests to world . comfortable quality , and it was made gaye work , warm lit in the evening , light , a great entertainment . It had most homelike and gether , Bert saw that great area of passionate Later , just before they shot him down alto- the history of progress it seemed she held the decisive weapon .. Now she might strike by abundant flags . Along the road a quantity and conquer - before the others had anything but experiments in the air . afoot , were coming and going , besides an occa of peasant folk , in big pair - wheeled carts and area of upland on which the airships lay like herd of grazing monsters at their feed . It Particularly she must strike America sional mono - rail car ; and at the car - function , was vast busy space stretching away north swiftly , because there , if anywhere , lay the chance of an aerial rival . It was known that under the trees outside the town , was a busy ward as far as he could see , methodically cut little fair of booths . It seemed warm up into numbered sheds , gasometers , squad America possessed a flying machine of con- human , well - rooted , rnd altogethor delightful encampments , storage areas , interlaced with siderable practical value , developed out place to Bert . He came low over the tree gether free from overhead wires or cables . the omnipresent mono - rail lines , and alto- the Wright model ; but it was not supposed that the Washington War Office , had made tops , with his grapnel ready to throw , and everywhere was the white , black , and yellow any wholesale attempts to create an anchor him a curious , interested , and inter of Imperial Germany , everywhere the black navy . It was necessary to strike before they esting guest , so his imagination figured it , ongles spread their wings . Even without the very middle of it all . these indications , the large vigorous heatness France had a fleet of slow navigables , seve- of everything would have marked it German . ral dating from 1908 , that could make Vast multitudes of men went to and fro , headway against the new type . They had many in white and drab fatigue uniforms been built solely for reconnoitring purposes sensible drab . Here and there a full uniform busy about the balloons , others drilling in on the eastern frontier , they were mostly too small to carry more than a couple of glittered.dozen men without arms or provisions , and The airships chiefly engaged his attention , not one could do forty miles an hour . Great and he knew at once it was three of these he Britain , it seemed , in an access of meanness , had seen on the previous night , taking ad- temporised and wrangled with the imperial . vantage of the cloud welkin to manoeuvre spirited Butteridge and his extraordinary in- unobserved . vention . That also was not in play - and They were altogether fish - like . For the could not be for some months at the earliest . CHAPTER XI . In his vain little mind Bert thought of him- self performing feats with the sign language miring rustion . and chance linguistics amidst a circle of ad And then the chapter of adverse accidenta began . The rope made itself unpopular long before the crowd had fully realised his advent over the trees . An elderly and apparently intoxi- and could do ao . of aerial stared for to The officer from the telephone repeated his sentence about " Der Prinz " and " mit- bringen . " The man with the moustache a moment , grasped an idea and became violently energetic , and stood up and bawled directions at unseen people . Questions were naked , and the doctor at Bert's side answered , " Ja ! fa ! " several times , also With a something about Kopf . " urgency he got Bert rather unwillingly to his feet . no Two huge soldiers in grey advanced upon Bert and seized hold of him . " ' Ullo ! " said Bert startled . " What's up ! " " It is all right , " the doctor explained ; " they are to carry you . " Now or never , " " Where ? " asked Bert , unanswered . certain " Put your arms roundt their - hals - round them ! " " Yes ! but where ? " " Hold tight ! " The The second hour found him examining the equipment of the car with great particularity . Above him was the throat of the balloon covery . bunched and tied together , but with an open His or rather Mr. Butteridge's waistcoat fustled as he breathed . It was lined with papers . But Bert could not see to lumen through which Bert could peer up into a vast , empty , quiet interior , and out of which descended two fine cords of unknown seem to be the wished to do so . get them out or examine them , much as he interval . import , one white , one crimson , to pockets He was awakened by the crowing of cooks , below the ring . The netting about the printed All this the barking of dogs , and a clamour of birda stuff at the top . Drachenflieger . He was driving slowly at a low level over a balloon ended in cords attached to the ring , a Drachenballons . big steel - bound hoop to which the Before Bert could decide to say anything car was Green to me . Kugelballons . broad land lit golden by sunrise under a clear ented peasant in a shiny black hat , and carry slung by ropes . From it depended the traili more he was whisked up by the two soldiers . rope and grapnel , and over the sides of the secret abroad . But he was trying to sell his blessed stared out upon hedgeless , well - ing large crimson umbrella , caught sight of great airships with which Germany attacked From Asia there came no sign . The Germans They joined hands to seat him , and his arms cultivated fields intersected by roads , each No Greek lined with cable - bearing red polen . it first , as it trailed past him , and was seized New York in her last gigantic effort for world explained this by saying the yellow peoples Someone ran before him with the portfolio , were put about their necks . " Vorwärts ! " had with a discreditable ambition to kill it . He supremacy - before humanity were No other competitor and he was borne rapidly along the broad He tumbled off the seat , opened the looker , just passed over compact , whitewashed pursued it briskly with unpleasant ories world supremacy was dream - ware the was worth considering Not much falling just and had the portfolio open before him on the village with a straight church tower and steep crossed the road obliquely , splashed into lineal descendants of the Zeppelin airship said the Germans " now or never we may avenue between the gas generatora and the folding - table . red - tiled roofs . There were an It was full of drawings done A number of peasante , men pan of milk upon a stall , and slapped it that flew over Lake Constance in 1906 , and of seize the air - as once the British seized the airships , rapidly and , on the whole , smoothly , shaped instrument from the ring . colours engineers adopt . hanging another box in the peculiar flat style and conventional and women , in shiny blouses and lumpinh milky tail thwart a motor - car load of factory the Lebaudy navigables that made their seas ! While all the other Powers are still except that once or twice his bearers stum footwear , stood regarding him , arrested on The latter had And , in addition , their way to work . plate bearing there were some rather under - exposed photo - end of his rope was trailing . an ivory girls halted outside the town gates . They memorable excursions over Paris in 1907 experimenting . " bled over hoce - pipes and nearly let him down . " statoscope " He was so low that the screamed loudly . People looked up and saw and 1908 . Swift and systematic and secret were their He was wearing Mr. Butteridge's Alpine and other words in French , graphs , obviously done by an amateur at close and a little indicator quivered and waggled quarters , of the actual machine Butteridge how you land , " he thought Bertaking what he meant to be genial salu cap , and his little shoulders were in Mr. These German airships were held together preparations , and their plan most excellent . Butteridge's fur - lined overcoat , and he had between Montée and Descente . " That's all had He stared out at these people . " I wonder tations , but what they considered , in view of by rib - like skeletons of steel and aluminium So far as their knowledge went , America was right , " said Bert . " That tells if you're go- Palace . made , in its shed near the Crystal the feminine outery , to be insulting gesture within which was an impervious rubber gas of Germany and one of the chief barriers to the only dangerous possibility ; America , responded to Mr. Butteridge's name . Bert found & stout inelastic canvas outer - skin , which was also now the leading trade rival sandals dangled helplessly . Gaw ! Everybody S'pose I ought to land ? " trembling . ing up or down . " On the crimson padded " Heavens ! " he said , " here am Then the car hit the roof of the gate - house seat of the balloon there lay a couple of rugs whole blessed secret of flying - lost up here on three handfuls of ballast to clear it . He found himself drifting down towards a I and the mono - rail line , and hastily flung out two or smartly , snapped a flagatai , played a tune bag , cut up by transverse dissepiments into seemed in a deuce of a hurry . Why ? He was and a Kodak , and in opposite corners of the the roof of everywhere . upon some telegraph wires , and sent a broken from fifty to a hundred compartments . These her Imperial expansion . So at once they carried joggling and gaping through the twi bottom of the car were an empty champagne wire like a whip - lash to do its share in accu were all absolutely gastight , and filled with would strike at America . They would fling a light , marvelling beyond measure . bottle and a glass . " Refreshments , " " Let's see ! " He fell to studying the draw - nez ! Wish I knew the French for take hold convulsively , said ings and comparing them with the photo- of the rope ! " Lemme seel One might say just Pre- mulating unpopularity . Bert , by clutching hydrogen , and the entire aerostat was kept at great force across the Atlantic heavens and There was a matter of eentinels , gangwaya , Bert , meditatively , tilting the empty bottle . graphs . just escaped being pitched any level by means of a long internal bal- bear America down unwarned and unprepared . and a long narrow passage , a scramble over a Then he had a brilliant idea . I suppose they are French ? " headlong . Two young soldiers and several loonetto of oiled and toughened silk canvas , hopeful and spirited enterprise , having regard himself lowered to the ground and standing They puzzled him . Half of them The two seemed to be missing . He tried to imagine Holland . Altogether it was a well - imagined and most disorder of baggage , and then Bert found padded bed - like seats , each with blankets how they fitted together , and found the effort far as I know . Wonder what those big affairs He surveyed the country again . Might peasants shouted things up to him and shook into air could be forced and from Or Luxembourg . and mattress , he perceived , were boxes , and too great for his mind . sts at him , and began to run in pursuit as he which it could be pumped . So the airship to the information in the possession of the in the doorway of a spacious cabin - it was within he found Mr. Butteridge's conception disappeared over the wall into the town . could be made either heavier or lighter than German Government . The chances of it be- perhaps ten feet square and eight high , fur- " It's tryin ' , " said Bert . " I wish I'd over there are . Some sort of kiln Admiring rustics indeed ! air , and losses of weight through the con- ing a successful surprise were very great . nished with crimson padding and aluminium . The balloon leaped at once , in the manner of sumption of fuel , the casting of bombs , and The airship and the flying machine were very head , a long nose , and very pale hair , with balloon been brought up to the engineering . If I perous - looking country ... A tall , bird - like young men with a small The respectability of the country's appear balloons when part of their weight is released so forth , could also be compensated by ad- different things from fronciads , which take a ance awakened answering chords in his nature . by touching down , with abort of flippancy , mitting air to sections of the general gas- couple of years to build . Given hands , given his hands full of things like shaving - strops , his wig ( which now felt hot on his head ) , and " Make myself a bit ship - shape first , " he said . and in another moment Bert was over bag . Ultimately that made a highly explo- plant , they could be made innumerably in a boot trees , hair - brushes , and toilet tidies , was He resolved to rise a little and get rid of street crowded with peasants and soldiers , sive mixture ; but in all these matters riaks few weeks . Once the needful parks and saying things about Gott and thunder and that opened into a busy market - square . The must be taken and guarded against . foundries were organised , airships and Dummer Booteraidge as Bert entered . wave of unfriendliness pursued him . There was a steel axis to the whole affair , Drachenflieger could be poured into the sky . Grapnel , " said Bert , and then with an a central backbone which terminated in the Indeed , when the time came , they did pour afterthought shouted , Téte there , you engine and propeller , and the men and maga into the sky like , as a bitter French writer Bay ! I bay ! Tetes . Eng it ! " . xines were forward in a series of cabins under put it , flies roused from filth . The grapnel clattered down a steeply slop the expanded , headlike forepart . The engine , The attack upon America was to be the first ing roof , followed by an avalanche of broken which was of the extraordinarily powerful move in this tremendous game . But no sooner tiles , jumped the street amidst shrieks and Pforzheim type , that supreme triumph of had it started than instantly the aeronautic cries , and smashed into a plate glass window German invention , was worked by electric Parks were to proceed to put together and in- with an immense and sickening impact . The controls from this forepart , which was , in- ate the second fleet which was to dominate balloon rolled nauseatingly , and the ear deed , the only really habitable part of the London , Paris , Rome , St. Petersburg , or Europe and manoeuvre significantly pitched . But the grapnel had not held . It ship . If anything went wrong , the engineers emerged at once bearing on one fluke , with went aft along rope ladder beneath the A World Surprise it was to be - bo less , a wherever else its moral effect was required . ridiculous air of fastidious selection , a small frame or along a passage through the gas child's chair , and pursued by maddened chambers . The tendency of the whole affair World Conquest ; and it is wonderful how shopman . It lifted its patch , swung about to roll was partly corrected by a horizontal near the calmly adventurous minda that with au appearance of painful Indecision lateral fin on either side , and steering was planned it came to succeeding in their colos amidst a roar of wrath , and dropped it at last chiefly effected by two vertical fins which al design . nently , and , as if by inspiration , over the normally lay back like gill - dope on either side the Air , but it was the curious hard Von Sternberg was the Moltke of this War head of a peasant woman in charge of the head . assortment of cabbages in the market place . It was indeed most complete adaptation romanticism of Prince Karl Albert that won G ! an adequate equipment for B ascent ; a hamper which included a game pie , could only make it out ! " a Roman pie , a cold fowl , tomatoes , lettuce , He went to the side of the car and remained Or Lorraine's Pros ham sandwiches , shrimp sandwiches , a large for a time staring with unseeing eyes at a cake , knives and forks and paper plates , self- huge cluster of great clouds - a cluster of heating tins of coffee and cocoa , bread , slowly dissolving Monte Rosas , sunlit below . so forth . He threw out a bag of ballast , and butter , and marmalade , several packed bottles of champagne , bottles of spot that moved over them . carefully . His attention was arrested by a strange black Perrier water , and a big jar of water for It was a black spot moving slowly with him It alarmed him . through the air very rapidly . was astonished to find himself careering up washing , a portfolio , maps , and a compass , a far below , following him down there inde- " Blow ! " said Mr. Smallways . " I've over- rücksack containing a number of conveni- fatigably over the cloud mountains . Why done the ballast trick . ences , including curling - tongs and hairpins , a should such a thing follow him ? What could Wonder when I cap with ear - flaps , and so forth . down again ? ... Brekfus He had an inspiration . " Uv course ! " he A ' ome from ' ome , " said Bert , surveying it bef this provision as he tied the ear - flaps under said . It was the shadow of the balloon . But his chin . He looked over the side of the car . REST FOR ALL . MRS . WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP . FOR CHILDREN TEETHING If your baby is restless and cannot sleep dive this old - fashioned remedy a trial , as it cures WIND AND TEETHING DIARRHOLA You will all have a good night and baby will wake up bright and happy . Far he still watched it dubiously for a time . He returned to the plans on the table . He spent a long afternoon between his struggles to understand them and fits of medi- tation . He evolved a remarkable new sen- tence in French . " Voici MossoOJe suis Mon nom est But teridge . 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