station. He was airborne shortly after dawn with Captain Bryce-Roberts. They were greeted with fusillades of rifle fire as they crossed over the German trenches toward the enemy's artillery emplacements. "Blighters seem determined to get us," the captain said. "Dump some of that ballast, and we'll take her higher." Casca dropped a full sandbag, counted to three, then let go another and then another, counting each time and noting with satisfaction that, as he had hoped, they fell in a rough line as the balloon rose and the tether line pulled it back over the trenches, attracting another furious burst of rifle fire. On his next count he dropped a Mills bomb and saw it explode on the earthworks in front of the German trench. The rifle fire ceased abruptly. "Bravo!" Bryce-Roberts cried. "That shut the blighters' yaps. Pity it didn't land in the trench." "The next one will," Casca promised himself. "Hello," Bryce-Roberts shouted, "what's with the hospital?" Casca focused the glasses on the blazing tents.
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