So he once more looked down, filled with a sudden fear lest the gallant fighters in that adventurous bomber had paid dearly for their success.

Meanwhile Brigade Majors and Adjutants, holding a stumpy pencil in one hand and a burning brow in the other, are composing Operation Orders which shall effect the relief, without (1) Leaving some detailthe bombers, or the snipers, or the sock-driers, or the pea-soup expertsunrelieved altogether.

Hour after hour the giant bomber must wing its swift flight, ever speeding onward into the realm of space through which it was now making a voyage unequalled since Columbus sailed his three high-decked boats into that unknown ocean at the end of which he expected to come to the East Indies.

A grenadier, bomber . . . . .

They had been speeding for some hours at a rate of more than sixty miles, which was good time for one of those monster heavily laden bombers to make.