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At Brooklands
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The morning of the second day, a neighbour
sent over her car asking if `Abdu'l-Bahá would not
like to take his guests to the Brooklands aviation
ground. Though it was windy, an aviator was on
the track, when he heard who the visitor was
offered to fly for him. `Abdu'l-Bahá left his friends
and walked out into the middle of the course,
where he stood alone watching the biplane
making wide circles above him.
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A Hindu who was learning to fly at the school
joined `Abdu'l-Bahá's friends and asked: "Who is
the man in Eastern dress?"
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When told, he exclaimed, "Oh I know him very
well through his teachings, which I have
studied," and immediately he went to meet
`Abdu'l-Bahá.
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They talked together for some time in Arabic,
the young man showing great joy at being in his
presence. He afterwards said that for many years
he had longed for this moment.
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While having tea out of doors, `Abdu'l-Bahá
and the young Hindu, sitting at the head of the
long benches that has been arranged, talked
merrily to everyone.
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`Abdu'l-Bahá noticed two of the airmen who
were wrestling on the grounds, and when they
stopped, he went to them clapping his hands and
crying in English, "Bravo! Bravo! that is good
exercise."
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Since his return to Egypt, `Abdu'l-Bahá has
sent a kind message of remembrance to the people
of Byfleet, saying that he will never forget them.
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