BIGGLES SEES IT THROUGH

by Captain W. E. Johns

VI. BIGGLES COMES BACK (Pages 92 – 101)

Ginger and Algy are astonished to see Biggles at the window. Algy opens the window and Biggles hands him a file through the bars. Biggles says it should only take about an hour to file through the half-inch iron bars and he will wait on the ramparts. Ginger listens at the door, whilst Smyth sets to work on the centre bar. Once through, Biggles lowers down the parachute and the three prisoners are pulled up onto the ramparts. They then use the parachute to climb down the thirty feet of the outer wall, Algy first. Making their way to the hangers, they find that all aircraft have been taken into the hangers, no doubt due to the weather. Stealing an aircraft is going to be impossible. They decide to get back to their crashed Blenheim where at least they know there is a supply of food. Stealing a sledge drawn by a pony that has been left outside a tavern, they go to a frozen lake and travel due west. The noise made by the sledge-runners on the ice is a hum like circular saws but they appear to make good their escape. Searchlight beams come on and Biggles realises that their escape has been discovered. Getting the pony to gallop, they carry on their journey across the ice.