Doc See Sniper

Distinctly audible over the bawl of the motors came two more metallic plinks. then a series. The unseen marksman was doing his best to perforate the pontoons and sink the craft.

All five of Doc's men were staring through the cabin windows, seeking trace of the one who was shooting.

Abruptly bullets began to whiz through the plane fuselage itself. Renny clapped a hand to his monster left arm. But the wound was no more than a shallow scrape. Another blob of lead wrought minor havoc in the box that held Long Tom's electrical equipment.

It was Doc who saw the sniper ahead of all the others, thanks to an eye of matchless keenness.

"Over behind that fallen palm!" he said.

Then the rest perceived. The sharpshooter's weapon projected over the bole of a fallen royal palm that was like a pillar of dull silver.

Rifles leaped magically into the hands of Doc's five men. A whistling salvo of lead pelted the palm log, preventing the sniper from releasing further shots.

- The Man of Bronze (1933) Chapter 8