We are to deliver a message, but we can't let go an opportunity like this.

You recall how you threw the bombs on the forty-two centimeter.

I have more bombs here in the _Arrow_--I never fly now without 'em--little fellows, but tremendously powerful.

I shall dip and when we're directly over the ammunition depot drop the bombs squarely into the middle of it." "I'm ready," said John, feeling alternate thrills of eagerness and horror, "but Philip, don't you go so near that if the depot blows up it will blow us up too." "Never fear," said Lannes, laughing, not with amusement but with excitement, "I've no more wish to be scattered through the firmament than you have.

Besides, we've that message to deliver.