human
Come in!
gpt
Two more cables and a wireless message, sir.
human
Anything from Keane or Sharpe yet?
gpt
Nothing, sir.
human
Then what are these confounded things?
gpt
More about that aerial brigand, sir.
human
Let me see them,
gpt
So the devil has already got to work, Jones, he remarked, quoting from the sheets, laconic phrases such as
human
Oil tanks at Port Said burning for three days. Crew of mysterious aeroplane suspected. (Delayed in transit.)
gpt
Wireless station at Karachi utterly destroyed, after brief visit by strange airmen. The third was a wireless message which proved most disconcerting of all to the Commissioner. It announced that a silent aeroplane, showing no distinctive marks whatever, passed over Delhi
human
Three hundred miles an hour! he gasped;
gpt
Did that second message go out to Keane?
human
Yes, sir.
gpt
And there’s still no reply from him?
human
Nothing whatever, sir.
gpt
H’m. I cannot understand it. Send it out again by wireless telephone; he may be on his way back by aeroplane now, and possibly within reach.
human
Right, sir,