Chapter 72

"So," he ended, "as your plucky youngster asked to go, it seemed a way out of the difficulty, provided you weren't dead against the thing. Of course we'll swadd the little chap in a sweater or so under the pneumatic jacket. It'll be a bit parky, even at three thousand, now the sun's beginning to down." He added: "I'll see to the strapping myself. You may rely upon it, Doctor." Saxham said with a look of kindness at the handsome face with the clear candid eyes: "I am sure of that!" He added, mastering that inwar…