She's waited until
everything was ready."
"That's what they mean by the red light markers, then?"
"Yes. They could be on the roofs of houses, and masked, so that they
wouldn't be seen except from overhead. They'd be in certain fixed
positions, and the men on the Zeppelins would be able to calculate their
aim, and drop their bombs so many degrees to the left or the right of the
red marking lights."
"But we've got aeroplanes flying about, haven't we?" said Jack. "Wouldn't
they see those lights and wonder about them?"
"Yes, if they were showing all the time. But you can depend on it that
these Germans have provided for all that. They will have arranged for the
Zeppelin to be above the positions, as near as they can guess them, at
certain times--and the lights will only be shown at those times, and then
only for a few seconds. Even if someone else sees them, you see, there
won't be time to do anything."
"You must be right, Harry!" said Jack, nervously. "There's no other way to
explain that message. How are we going to stop them?"
"I don't know yet, but we'll have to work out some way of doing it. It
would be terrible for us to know what had been planned and still not be
able to stop them! I wish I knew where Graves was. I'd like--"
He stopped, thinking hard.
"What good would that do?"
"Oh, I don't want him--not just now.
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