With a start so violent that it seemed to wrench her, Mrs. Cartwright came to herself again, and to—what Horror was this?
Through that perfect stillness a cry had rung out, sudden as a shot. Close beside her; it came from the right. It was a man's voice crying hoarsely, "Got him!" Then another cry, of agony; a scream....
What was it?
CHAPTER VI
THE CLUTCHING OF THE CHARM
"Fights all his battles o'er again;
And thrice he charged the foe, and thrice he slew the slain."
Dryden.
"Un aviateur, un de ces demi-dieux dont l'existence sur terre
doit être courte. (La lumière dont ils procèdent les rappelle
bientôt. On croit qu'ils tombent, mais ils remontent.)"
Marcel Astruc.