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 starboard boats over to port to be dropped from the davits.

Now I discovered the missing biplane on the water beside the sinking Wotan, on the right. The biplane had no bombs now; it had been lightened and become a cargo carrier, capable of taking on two tons dead weight; so it was alongside, demanding—undoubtedly—the jewels and platinum and the thousands of pounds of bullion gold.

The ship seemed to refuse or delay the delivery of it. Perhaps, in the panic, someone attacked the biplane's crew; for a signal went from the biplane on the water to the bombers in the air. And one of the evil eggs went down.

Not so near the ship; not so near as the first two. Perhaps some mite of mercy moved the hand releasing that third ton of TNT; perhaps the hand considered solely that it must not too greatly hasten the sinking of the ship. The bomb splashed and burst to the left of the Wotan, on the opposite side from the biplane on the water, on the same side as the little boats which were launched all acluster