The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Chapters of Secret History

Having taken Colonel and Mrs Cator into our confidence, and they having invited Roseye to stay with them, we were all, on the following day, duly installed at Swalecliffe Park.

From our aviation map--a plan of the country unfamiliar to most people-- we had ascertained that about fourteen miles away, in a direct line due east from Holly Farm, and about...

The hue-and-cry had been raised all over the kingdom. Sir Herbert Lethmere had offered a reward for any information concerning his daughter, but nobody came forward with any rea...

A dastardly attempt had been made to kill me, while some evil--what, I knew not--had happened to my well-beloved. It often struck me as most peculiar why she should preserve tha...

The figure before me was pale-faced and wan. She wore an old blue felt hat with wide brim which was most unbecoming, a faded jersey that had once been dark mauve, and an old bla...

I had been shaken very considerably, but actually I was not much the worse for it. I felt quite fit and eager, but the doctor would not hear of me going out, except for a run in...

Picking up the railway line close to Mayfield, I followed it due south towards Heathfield. For half the distance I could see that it ran through woods, for the moon was rising,...

During the morning Teddy and I, assisted by Theed, made some little adjustments to the machine which, though reposing in the barn, was ready at any instant for another flight.

I went back to my rooms in Shaftesbury Avenue and, in consequence of my telephone message, Teddy came and threw himself in the chair opposite me half an hour later, to discuss t...

In secret, I had placed upon my machine--a Breguet monoplane with a 200 horse-power Salmson--another new invention which, with Teddy's aid, I had devised, and was testing. We we...

"Yes. You're quite right, old son," was my cheerful reply. "I'm quite aware that these experiments are confoundedly dangerous--and, besides, there are nasty wind-pockets about j...

"Just before half-past eight, my son having gone in the car over to Horsham to see his young lady, and afterwards to pick up Mr Ashton, I was sitting in the kitchen with Mulline...

Proof indisputable lay there that Roseye--my own dear well-beloved, she whose ready lips met mine so often in those fierce, trustful caresses-- the intrepid girl who had been as...

Of Eastwell we saw nothing, for he had flown up to the north-east coast in order to watch some evolutions being carried out by the anti-aircraft corps, and had not returned.

One bright crisp afternoon in mid-December, Roseye, wrapped warmly in her furs, sat beside me in the car as we sped through Leatherhead on our way out to Burford Bridge, where w...

The next that I recollect is, with my brain awhirl, I tried to open my eyes, but so painful were they, that I was compelled to close them again in fearful agony.

A moment later the sturdy old ex-police-sergeant came in, his felt hat in his hand, and when I had sat him beside the fire I saw an unusual expression upon his grey, furrowed co...

Next day I decided that, in view of the fact that our enemies had traced us, it would be best to at once remove our headquarters. Further, in order to attack a Zeppelin, as I in...

"Terrible--is it not?" Lady Lethmere remarked to me, as I sat on her right. "We were at the Lyric Theatre when the Zeppelins came last night. We heard the guns firing. It was mo...

One afternoon a week later, when out at Hendon, I heard accidentally from a man I knew--one of the instructors at the Grahame-White Aviation School--that Eastwell was very queer...

To approach the spot, we had to leave the market-garden and take a road lined by meagre cottages, then at last, skirting two orchards and yet another market-garden, we came out...

For a few seconds it was shut off, shone out again, and then went out. I knew it to be from a railway engine, the stoker of which had been firing up. Moving trains, notwithstand...

An hour later I made another flight in order to try my new gyroscopic stabiliser, which--for the benefit of those unversed in aerial navigation--I may say is an invention which...