's house and missed his servant by a hair's-breadth. The Italian
was in a room opposite the Crown Prince's palace; he thought that the
falling machine was going to crash through the roof, but it fell in the
street not ten yards away. The camp itself was packing hard, for Mrs.
Stobart had just decided to form a "flying field ambulance."

Mr. Berry and I had a tent assigned to us.

October 4th. Awoke to sounds like some one hitting a board with a
mallet. Ran outside. One found the aeroplane from the little clouds of
shrapnel, for it was flying very high, and was like a speck. Clouds of
smoke were rolling from one quarter of the town, and we thought that a
big fire was beginning, but it was extinguished. Another aeroplane came
later. The guns began long before it could be seen. It dropped two bombs
over the powder factory, and two in the town. Mrs. Stobart ordered
everybody from the camp; but nobody left except the patients, who were
driven a mile out and dumped in a wood. A long procession of townsfolk
filed continuously by, running from the danger. The aeroplane dropped
two more bombs in the town, and came back flying right over the camp. It
was a queer feeling, staring right up at the plane, and wondering if
another bomb were not falling silently towards one.

I went down to the arsenal to see about the car; and Mr. Berry and Miss
Hammond went off to see the anti-aircraft guns. Mrs. Stobart had asked
me to go out on the Rudnik road to see a car which had broken down, and
had promised to send a motor to fetch me. Before we could leave, news
was brought that another aeroplane had been telephoned. Presently we
could hear the guns beginning. Hardinge turned up, and we looked out for
the machine. We saw the aeroplane coming straight towards us; everybody
rushed for the cellars, but I wanted to stay outside for the last
moment. Hardinge was with me. Suddenly I lost sight of the plane. I ran
farther out to look for it, and suddenly there was a report, and a great
column of smoke just outside the arsenal. There was another behind the
rifle shops, and another behind the boiler sheds. Now the aeroplane was
overhead. I heard a noise like tearing silk, and lay flat upon the
ground shouting to Hardinge--

"Lie flat, d----n you!"

It seemed ages before it burst. Dust and bits flew everywhere; the
windows all sprang out into the yard. I looked for Hardinge, but he was
unharmed. I had expected to be terrified, but I was feeling so