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

they could do. Then they stared first at Bessie and then at the other girl-the sis

ee her?" demanded Bessie. "

said Jack.

r-why-of course

llie Leroy that she smiled, though rather sadly, for it was plain to be seen her gri

-I'm not a drea

o mean!" he finished desperately. "Did you know she was going to be

e world," answered Jack. "I'm

" she called; and Mrs. Gleason, who had suffered so much since having been saved from the Lusitani

, and for a time there was an interchange of talk. Then Mr

ho could not take his eyes off Nellie Leroy. "How

some specimen!" laughed the gir

ellie started to do Red Cross work, as mother and I are d

at your escadrille," Nellie broke in, to say to Tom and J

back there," and he nodded to indicate the air headquarters he and Tom

as saying, Nellie came to our hospital-I call it ours though I have such a small part in it," s

friends with Bessie and he

care for the wounded, and, as mother and I found she had settled on no regular place in Paris, we asked her to share our rooms. Then we g

ng friends. I hadn't any notion that I'd meet any when

d indignation. "I like to know how you clas

-you and your mother, a

to deep water," advised Jack quick

yette Escadrille with which many trying, as well as many happy, hours were asso

hat is as happy as one could amid the scenes of war and its attendant horrors. She and Bessie were thro

if I could only hear some good news about him, that I might send it to the folks at h

f war. In his heart he knew that there was but little chance for Harry Leroy, after the latter's aeroplane had been shot down be

e is a chance," said Tom, while Jack and Bessi

a chance t

man prison camps. But it's only one chance in many thousand. No, what I mean

e him. "Do tell me! No chance i

one. I was thinking that perhaps after Jack and I get in with Pershing's boys we might be in some big raid on the

ou think

d will try!" exclai

u enough!" and she clasped his hand

ate chance at best, but it's the only one I can see that we can take.

n you d

he other Boche fighters. They may drop a cap of Harry's or a gl

sighed Nellie. "But it is

e and her mother to report back for their Red Cross work. The boys returned to the

said Tom, on par

ck, as they were going

to rescue her brother,"

ith you!" de

ag. Not that they had not been doing all they could for liberty, but it was different, being with their own countrymen. And so, when their leaves o

ached the headquarters of General Pershing and his

ay of my life that I can