Air Service Boys in the Big Battle; Or, Silencing the Big Guns

render aid to the stricken airman, whose bloo

d, at once summoned stretcher-bearers, and he was carried to the hospital. Then all anxiously a

d Tom, lingering near the hospita

ench, for the two boys of the air spoke this language

t badly hurt?

ed off from them, but tore the flesh badly. The bleeding was held in check by the pressure DU Boise exerted on the wounds underneath his ja

we talk with h

urgeon. "Is that necessary?

about our chum, Harry Leroy, who was out scouting with him. Harry was shot down, s

able to talk to you," the surgeon said. "H

ked Jack. "We want to find out where it was that Harry went down

Torn. "Du Boise must have noticed the machines that fought him and

ope you get it. As soon as we think he is able to talk," and he nodded in the direction

g ready to go back into the game, too! Had it all fixed up for Harry to fly with us in a sort of a t

ack. "I mean about Pershing's boys getting over here to France. I hope Harry's o

t isn't saying much, but they behave a little more like human beings than the rest of the Boch

we started when we saw Du Boise coming back-let's see what chan

they saw, in a small motor car, a girl sitting beside the military driver. She w

om, with a low whist

ow her?" a

h I did,

ickly and curio

hap that has a drag with the girls," wen

k. "Look, she acts as thoug

ft to herself, was looking about the big aviation field, with a look of wonder, mixed with alarm and nervousness. She caught sight

e girl, turning frankly to them. "I know

Jack, who was taking

ite alley," Tom murmured to h

," murmu

ueer to see a girl here-from America or anywhere else. How

t passes to come to see him, but it wasn't easy work. I met this officer in his motor car, and he broug

ator on his tail, while Jack admitted that he felt somewhat as he did the time his gasoline pipe

ther!" Tom man

notice you are both aviators. He told me if I ever got to France to come to se

rried, and, at that moment, the military chauffeur who had brought

ent white. For the chauffeur informed her that her brother, Harry Leroy, whom she h

her fare becoming whiter

the seat, only Tom leaped forw

I not take this opportunity of telling my new readers something of the previ

Young Heroes of the Lafayette Escadrille," were Virginians. Soon after the great world conflict started, t

nt, and there learned the rudiments of flying. Tom's father had invented an aeroplane stabi

up the search after they reached France and were made members of the Lafayet

quainted on the steamer with a girl named Bessie Gleason and her mother. Carl Potzfeldt, a German sailing under false colors, claimed to be a friend of Bessie and her mo

penings, in which the Ai

were rescued from the

Gleason engaging in Re

r as best

this present volume is

he Rhine; or Fighti

had entered the great war on th

nsternation reigned for a time. Tom and Jack had a hand in silencing the great gun, for it was they who discovere

t, when the present story opens, they were taking a much needed and well-earned res

the sad message that Harry Leroy, the chum of Torn and Jack, had fallen behind the German lines. And whe

rked Tom, as he rejoined Jack, having carried the unconsc

Jack. "Do you really supp

son to doubt it. She

ng. Say, it's going to be tough when sh

t for the good news that our boys are in France I'd feel pretty rocky

do you

im. I'm going out and get a few Germans

! But what about what's her

after her. They promised to let me know when she came to. We can

k. "I'm with you.

to propose, for, at that moment, one of the Red Cross nurses attach

the message. "She wants to see you

than ever, sitting up in a chair. She leaned forward eager

him? Can you not let him know that I have come so far to see him? I am anxio