. The war in the air, and particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways fared while it lasted . spurting out in three newplaces, had crashed against the bridge that joinedGoat Island and Niagara city, and forced a longarm, as it were, in a heaving tangle under thecentral span. Then the middle chambers blew upwith a loud report, and in another moment thebridge had given way and the main bulk of theairship, like some grotesque cripple in rags, stag-gered, flapping and waving flambeaux, to the crestof the Fall and hesitated there and vanished in adesperate suicidal leap. Its detached fore-end remained jamm
. The war in the air, and particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways fared while it lasted . spurting out in three newplaces, had crashed against the bridge that joinedGoat Island and Niagara city, and forced a longarm, as it were, in a heaving tangle under thecentral span. Then the middle chambers blew upwith a loud report, and in another moment thebridge had given way and the main bulk of theairship, like some grotesque cripple in rags, stag-gered, flapping and waving flambeaux, to the crestof the Fall and hesitated there and vanished in adesperate suicidal leap. Its detached fore-end remained jammed againstthat little island. Green Island it used to be called,which forms the stepping-stone between the main-land and Goat Islands patch of trees. Bert followed this disaster from the Parting of theWaters to the bridge head. Then, regardless ofcover, regardless of the Asiatic airship hoveringlike a huge house roof without walls above theSuspension Bridge, he sprinted along towards thenorth and came out for the first time upon thatrocky point by Luna Island that looks sheer down. THE AIRSHIP STAGGERED TO THE CREST OF THE FALL—ANDVANISHED IN A DESPERATE LEAP. [To face p. 272. A WORLD AT WAR 273 upon the American Fall. There he stood breathlessamidst that eternal rush of sound, breathless andstaring. Far below, and travelling rapidly down the gorge,whirled something like a huge empty sack. Forhim it meant—what did it not mean?—the Germanair-fleet, Kurt, the Prince, Europe, all things stableand familiar, the forces that had brought him, theforces that had seemed indisputably it went down the rapids like an empty sackand left the visible world to Asia, to yellow peoplebeyond Christendom, to all that v/as terrible andstrange! Remote over Canada receded the rest of that con-flict and vanished beyond the range of his vision. . CHAPTER IX ON GOAT ISLAND THE whack of a bullet on the rocks beside himreminded him that he was a visible object andwearing at least port
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