To-day, science would settle the whole affair.

The war would be won in the laboratory, the engine room and the workshop.

I doubt whether any battleship could keep afloat for a week, and as to the fighting in the air, if a hundred airships were in action, I do not suppose that one of them would escape.

Then they say that France has a gun which could carry a shell from Amiens to London, and more mysterious than all, China has something up her sleeve which no one has even a glimmering of." "Except Jesson," Nigel muttered.
"And Jesson's gleam of knowledge, or suspicion," Prince Karschoff remarked, "seems to have brought him to the end of his days.

Can anything be done with Prince Shan about him, do you think ?" "Only indirectly, I am afraid," Nigel replied.