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

rs. The German airmen, falling in with the chivalry which had been initiated by the French and English, and

?" asked several, as all crowded a

h, though in a German hand. It stated that Harry Leroy had been shot down in h

he would remain in the hands of his captors until the end of the war. The reason his whereabouts was no

made unconscious by his fall and injuries, and when he

nd the plane with the gasoline that still remained in the tank. He destroyed them so the

back of the front lines. This French peasant took Harry to his little farm and hid him in the barn. There the man, his wife, and his granddaughters, looked after the injured aviator, feeding him and binding up his hurts. It was a great ris

n in the Frenchman's barn began to spread through the country, and rat

from his 'Injuries, but it was not to be. He was captured by a German patrol. But by his quick

arest prison camp, and there he was put in custody, together with some unfo

missing and when it was surely thought that he was dead, Ha

exclaimed Jack, as the note dropped by the

d," agreed Tom. "We must

n Jack. "We must try to figu

French ace, one with whom the

t?" ask

has never been a rescue yet from behind the German

ared Jack, and Tom nodde

nother of their friends. "Harry may n

Germans would say what

ven if they have truly said where Leroy is, he may be moved at any time-sent to s

was no easy task ahead of them in trying to rescue their chum from t

ey were formerly quartered, it was, strictly speaking, the property of the airmen there. But having been told how much the sister

!" called the Frenchmen to the two lads,

," was t

er brother was alive was tempered by

Tom even though he realized, as he said

good," murmu

f their leave-and then, bidding the girls and Mrs. Gleason farewell, they report

little time for anything but flying and teaching others what they knew of air work. They had no opportunity to do anything toward the rescue of

ve it to luck for

e," add

are no more superstitions than any other soldiers, yet there are few airmen

must have been impressed with the fact that often the mer

do not know it until after they have made a landing and have seen the bullet hol

and they both believed that this same luck might

r a time on their sector of the front. The arrival of new fliers from America made i

er flying men-not always older in years-would go aloft in their single planes and do all sorts of trick flyin

ne at the flying schools in the United States, and had flown alone. But they had to start all ov

o undertake these trick features by themselves, they were a

in them to these enthusiastic pupi

one morning, as they went out after breakfast to ge

huns." ("Hun," used in this connection, not referring to the Germans. "Hun" is

little bunch of h

and the two were soon p

way certain feats were done, Torn and Jack began climbing. Presently they were fairly tumbling about like pigeons, s

ay it is the hardest half of the game. For it is comparatively easy to leave the earth. It is the coming

aid to Tom and Jack. "The boys may have to use th

hose in a roller-coaster railway. It is a very useful stunt to be master of, for it enables one

his aeroplane was out of gasoline, and soon the former was rolling ac

m sure!" crie

ordered the

olled the rudder, Tom sent himself aloft,

or airman's fur-lined jacket. As Tom's machine "zoome

climbs. However, he went through with his performance, doing some beautiful "zooming," and then, as he was

acket. His heart turned sick and faint, for, unaware of what had happened, he thought his chum had tumbled out w

ow did it happen

it worried until the empty jacket fell on the grass and, a little later, Tom hi