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The Forest of Swords

CHAPTER X
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We'll call it that.

It looks awkward, John, but it's one of the safest machines built." Plenty of willing hands gave the _Omnibus_ a lift and then did a like service for the _Arrow_.

As they rose, aviators and passengers alike waved a farewell to Lord James Ivor, and he and the Englishmen about him waved back.

But the thousands lying on the grass slept heavily on, while the cannon on their utmost fringe thundered and crashed and the German cannon crashed and thundered, replying.
The _Arrow_ kept close to the _Omnibus_, so close that John could see the white faces of Wharton and Carstairs and their hands clenching the sides.

But he remembered his own original experience, and he was not disposed to jest at them now.
"They're air-sick--as I was," he said to Lannes.


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