or ailerons, my course was corrected and I was kept five hundred feet in front of and slightly below Bane.
It was impossible visually to recognize him in the three-seater; I could get, now and then, only a glimpse of three heads; but I felt Bane's abrupt, decisive hands in the piloting manœuvers which reached me through the radio. The style was the same which I had witnessed in the flight of the radio-controlled monoplane which had borne the effigy.
Of the three heads in the monoplane which drove me, I imagined that the middle was feminine; but I could not see it. I had the word of my pilot, who had leaped, that Miss Lacey had gone ahead with Mr. Bane; and I believed it. He would have her with him; and he had gone ahead but here, over the farm land where my pilot had leaped, Bane had awaited me.
I felt him, I say, take me firmly in hand; now I felt him begin to amuse himself with me, skimming me altogether too close to a single-seater biplane piloted by some amateur,
