"Duty demands that I should be the last" A sharp explosion beneath, and fragments of fire flying upwards through a hatch, interrupted his words.

The crew could be easily discerned gliding about across the light; and, after a horrible suspense, she blew up, with an explosion far louder and more stunning than the ships which had done so in our vicinity.

The ambulance officer had just started to speak when there was a roar from the clump of trees, at the same instant an explosion directly overhead, and an ugly chunk of irona bit of broken casing from a shrapnel shellplunged at our very feet.