The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squadron

the woods, overcoming all manner of obstacles, Lieu

ed all of you might be glad of a chance to take a spin aloft in an aeroplane. You

d to the army man and

d, "but hardly thought it would happen so soon. And

say so," a

cross his face. It was evident that Bud was too happy for words. He had long dreamed of spinning through the upper currents in one of those bust

em regarding the two strange men who seemed to be hanging about wi

dow of your shack night before last, and then fled when you

We found them, too, marks of a long narrow shoe, that told us the man could never be a hobo but must be a gentleman. After they had rummaged through our ca

nodded his head a

e up most lads and set them to thinking for themselves, years before they would have been aroused under the old way. And I must say I'm heartily in sympathy with the work of the a

d thickets just after the explosion last night. They seemed to act as if more or less frigh

other burst

d it happened that way. Perhaps they may have more respect for Uncle Sam's Flying Squadron after this, and fight shy of running their heads into trouble. I'll have the guards at the camp doubled at night time, and any straggler will

, sir," Hugh remarked, "of course yo

, the one a short Jap, and the other, much taller, undoubtedly a German. Both of them happen to be famous aviators in their

s, and to take note of your war aeroplane, so as to steal the improvements," Hugh went on to say,

on corps; and we keep it closely guarded all the time we are not in the air. So much of a secret are several

turns out what I hope it's going to, I think I'll hand it over to the Government for use with their war aeroplanes. Wouldn't it be just great if a pilot could give his whole attention to the job of dropping bombs and

nfronting him with the cold facts acts in the case. He must learn soon enough that he was several years too late, and that those won

their loads, could not have kept it up much longer, and all of the little party rejo

ces ahead. Then came a s

everal occasions indulged in a flight just in order to scout the land. We discovered your presence some time yesterday, and were at first greatly puzzled on account of your khaki suits. We even tried to figure out how a tri

g off, Bud stared as though his whole heart was in his gaze. He even dropped the burd

ll a war aeroplane, is

ernment meant them for that particular

nt from all others, I

oads in the shape of combustibles and explosives. Besides that, they have the recent improvements which I mentioned before as being secret, but which will add considerably to their effectiveness. The wires

lready," declared Bud with a thr

they could carry back full information concerning the new explosive and the novel features of that splendid monoplane, it would be worth a million dollars, yes, many times that, to their respective governments. Germany, you

tue held up constantly before their eyes by Lieutenant Denmead. Should danger of any type menace the defenders of the flag, boys like these would be among the first to want to enlist. The Boy Scout movement was

actually in a military camp. Of course this was not their first experience among genuine soldiers, though those whom they once before assisted in the yearly maneuvers as signal c

d keep track of the distant aeroplane. They saw it perform several queer

rom him again. "There she goes a second time, as slick as anything! I've done the like from a springboard when in swimming, but I never would have believe

th a shrug. "Any day may see our end; but like the men who drop from balloons with a parachute, we get so accustomed to peril

heading back now,

ny signs of spies in the forest below. We're always thinking of interlopers, you see, though up to the time you gave me that informa

ed to be only boys, and yet we dressed like Uncle Sam's soldiers; and then there was Bud trying out his aeroplane model. That must have

we're under heavy obligations to you boys for bringing this important informatio