CHAPTER 16THE SPITFIRES GO THROUGH
In strict accordance with the timetable the first Spitfire arrived at one o’clock, and thereafter there was little opportunity for those on the causse to worry about their affairs. Worrals’ spirits mounted as one by one the fighter pilots came in, and, with their tanks replenished, departed on their southward journey. Whatever happened now, they had done the job they set out to do—or nearly. Two machines remained.
The pilot of the first of these two machines—that is to say, the fifth aircraft of the flight—was about three minutes late in landing. He apologised, and explained that just before reaching the rendezvous, he had deviated slightly from his course to examine, away to the west, a flare path. At first he had thought that it might be the one he wa
