Brodno also is particularly well acquainted with that part
of the Belgian frontier. Get in, Pete!"
"But, Captain, how can we spare you?" This from Stanley anxiously.
"You will have to spare me. Sergeant Anson is handy, too. In the
early morning, if you see signs of our return, it would be well to send
out a few scouts. But we shall return. Those plans are too important
to King Albert of Belgium and our Allies here to risk any more
uncertainties than can be avoided."
"Are you sure of what you speak? I thought, from what those women
said, that they were private papers."
"Private they may be, in a sense. But they are important enough to all
of us, when you consider how vital they are to certain knowledge
necessary for our leaders to have in regard to a further offensive
which I believe is contemplated. Now back to bed, boy. You've warned
us and we who are well will do all that is needful."
About this time Brodno, waiting impatiently, gave a signal and the
plane, propelled along gravel by mechanics, soon rose lightly in the
air. Byers, having hauled Pete in, followed suit, waving good-night to
Senator Walsen and the ladies. In another minute both big biplanes
were lost to sight, so swiftly did they vanish in a easterly course
under the starlit heavens, shimmer of gray haze hugging the lower just
above the earth.
CHAPTER XV
MAKING READY FOR ANOTHER FORWARD DRIVE
After Stanley's sudden departure from the ruined chateau, the two boys
fretted ineffectually.
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