midday
The king and his minister had talked at first in whispers ; they had fallen silent , for they found little now to express except a vague anxiety . Away there on the mountain side were the white metal roofs of the long farm buildings beneath which the bomb factory and the bombs were hidden . -LRB- The chemist who had made all these for the king had died suddenly after the declaration of Brissago . -RRB- Nobody knew of that store of mischief now but the king and his adviser and three heavily faithful attendants ; the aviators who waited now in the midday blaze with their bomb-carrying machines and their passenger bomb-throwers in the exercising grounds of the motor-cyclist barracks below were still in ignorance of the position of the ammunition they were presently to take up . It was time they started if the scheme was to work as Pestovitch had planned it . It was a magnificent plan . It aimed at no less than the Empire of the World .