We're going to rise and dive, and rise and dive and swerve and swerve, John, so be ready.

I'll signal to Caumartin to do the same, and maybe the machine gun won't get us." John was quite sure that the _Arrow_ could escape by immediate flight, but he knew that Lannes would never desert the _Omnibus_, and its passengers, and he felt the same way.

The subject was not even mentioned by either.
The German machines, approaching rapidly, spread out like a fan, the heavier one with the machine gun in the center.

John could see the man at the rapid firer, but he did not yet open with it.

The _Arrow_ and the _Omnibus_ were wavering like feathers in a storm and closer range was needed.