CHAPTER XV

MANLIUS DECIDES The lights of London from the air! The four great beacons, marking the boundaries north, south, east and west—great steel towers flinging their rays like trumpet-blasts of light into the night sky. The gliding lights of the air-liners as they sailed in from the continents of the world. The quick flashes of the moths, five tiny green lamps, tossed this way and that, like will o’ the wisps above a swamp. The dull red fore-and-aft lights of the airbuses, changing to dull blue when the airship moors. Th…