95/152 The provision for three days was all ready to put aboard, and barrels of fresh water to trundle aboard when the yacht should return. At one end of the quay, ready to lift on board, stood also the Gospodar's aeroplane, fully equipped, and ready, if need were, for immediate flight. She still wore her shroud; but no one seemed to notice it as anything strange. The whisper had evidently gone round of what had been. |