The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-08
BY H. G. WELLS,

resolve to follow out very exactly me instructions that had been given him, 1 the mans mind was a blank His anul- line profile against the starlight ex- pressed nothing but profound gloom
 The sky below grew clearer as the central European capital was ap- preached.
 So far they had been singularly lucky and had been challenged by no aero planes at all. The frontier scouts they must have passed in the night: prob ably these were mostly under the clouds. The world was wide, and they had had luck in not coming close to any soaring sentinel. Their machine was painted a pale gray that lay al- most invisibly over the cloud levels be low. But now the east was flushing with the near ascent of the sun. Ber- lin was but a score of miles ahead, and the luck of the Frenchmen held. By imperceptibie degrees the clouds below dissolved.
 Away to the northeastward in n cloudless pool of gathering light and ]
 with all it's nocturnal nIHminatfons still blazing was Berlin. The left H1- ger of the steersman verified roads and open spaces below upon the mica GOV cred square of map that Wus fastened by his wheel. There, in a series oe lakelike expansions was the HaVeI away to the right. over by those for ests must be Spandau. There The river split about the Potsdam island. and right ahead was Charlottenburg. cleft by great thoroughfare that fell Ike an indicating beam of light straight 10 the imperial headquarters There, plain enough. was the Thiergarten; beyond rose the imperial palace. and to the right those tall buildings, those cluster ing behagged, bemasted roofs, must De the offices in which the central Euro pean stan was housed. It was all cold ly clear and colorfess in the dawn
 He looked up suddenly as humninas sound grew out of nothing and became swiftly louder. Nearly overhead Ger man aeropIane was eircling down fren. an immense height to challenge him. He made gesture with his left arm to the gloomy man behind and taen gripped his little wheel with both hands, crouched over it and twisted his neck to look upward He was atteu- tive, tightly strung, but quite centel1p- tUous of their ability to hurt him. No German alive he was assured cou36 outfiy him, or, indeed, any one Of ths best Frenchmen. He imagined they might strike at. him as a hawk strikes but they were men coming down out of the bitter cold up there, in q huns gry, spiritless morning mood They came slanting down like a sword swung by lazy man. and not so rap idly. but that he was able to slip away from under them and get between them and Berlin. They began chal- lenging him in German with g mega- phone when they were still perhaps a mile away The words came b him, rolled up into mere blob Of hoarse sound. Then, gathering alarm freEa his grim silence, they gave chase and swept down a hundred yards above him perhaps and a couple of Hundred behind They were beginning to un- derstand what he was He ceased t9 watch. them and concentrated himself on the city ahead, and for a time the two aeropIanes raced.
 bullet came tearing through the air by him, as though some one was tearing paper A second followed. Something tapped the mRchine
 It was time to act. The broad ave nues, the park. the palaces below rush ed, widening out nearer and nearer to them
 'sReadyr said the steersnan
 The gaunt face hardened to grim ness, and with both hands the bomb thrower lifted the big atomic bomb from the box and steadied it against the side. It was black sphere two feet in diameter. Between. its handles was a little celluloid stud. and to this he bent his head until his lips touched it. Then he had to bite in order to let the air ia upon the induciYe Sure o9 it's accessibility. he craned his neck over the side of the aeropIane and judged his pace and distance. Then very quickly he bent forward, bit the stud and hoisted the bomb over tha side
 Round" he whispered inaudib8y
 The bomb flashed binding scarlet In nidair and fell, a descending column of blaze eddyfng spiraIly in the mfdst of a whirIwind Both the aeroplanes were tossed like ahuttIecocSs, hurled high and sideways. and the steersmal with .gIeaIning eyes and set teeth fought in great banking curves for a balance The gaunt man clung tight with hands and knees; his nostrils di- lated. his teeth biting his lips. He waa firmly strapped.
 When he could look down again is was like looking down upon the cEater of a small volcano. In the open gar den before the imperial castle g shud- AeH4AS SIdE oA eNA SpAeAAor sp4ftEN and poured up smoke and flame fo- ward them like an accusation. They were too high to distinguish people clearly. or mark the bombs effect upon the building until suddenly the faeads tottered and crumbled before the na1a as sugar dissolves in water. The ma stared for a moment, showed all hla long teeth. and then staggered Into fta cramped standing position his strans permitted, hoisted out and bit an0Eh bomb and sent it down after it's fel- low.
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