They came rising and falling and growing larger, like some hugeflight of gulls or rooks, or such-like birds moving with a marvellousuniformity, and ever as they drew nearer they spread over a greaterwidth of sky. The southward wing flung itself in an arrow-headed cloudathwart the sun. And then suddenly they swept round to the eastward andstreamed eastward, growing smaller and smaller and clearer and cleareragain until they vanished from the sky.
He stared at this in amazement. It was an empty bandage... read more
