That ain't all. I guess our downing them sausages was a bit too for
Hans. Directly after that they started the hottest barrage fire you've
seen in a month of Sundays. Keepin' it up yet, only they've slacked a
bit along here. I kept thinkin' how I was going to get out of this
when I heard the tramp and scuffle of advancing infantry.
"All at once I knew. They're sour yet over busting up their big
underground at Appincourte Bluff; and now comes this raid of ours and
away goes that string of a dozen balloons. I guess it was too much."
"Infantry! What infantry? Oh, you mean Fritzy!"
"Who else? Well, Fritz came with such a rush he didn't look for me.
There was a lot of him passed. I scrunched down inside this crater the
best I knew how and directly I knew I must let our folks know. Then's
when I sent up my signals -- in code, of course."
\"That's so, Buck. I saw 'em and read 'em."
Buck was grinning to himself.
"You?" Bangs looked his astonishment. "Well, if we warned our folks in
time, and I guess I did by the sounds, and then caught hold of you, it
was a lucky venture."
"You caught me all right. But how are we going to get away? Say your
machine is busted?"
"How'd ye know?"
"Well, by the way it came down and struck. I have no tools with me,
and I had to crawl in here in a hurry."
"Come on," ordered the Sergeant in his official tone.
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