Always make the best
of everything -- that is all we can do and what we must do.
CHAPTER XVI
THE CONFLICT
For another day many quiet yet suggestive movements were made in the
vicinity of these headquarters where most of the activities of this
tale have taken place. That night secret word went out among certain
picked birdmen that they were to be ready that night for literally
anything
"What do you think is up, anyhow?" asked Erwin, who had been busy with
a mechanic nearly all that day putting his favorite scouting flier
machine in complete readiness.
"How should I know?" snapped Anson, hurrying by. "We know we gotter be
ready any old time, night or day. I 'opes I may niver see Blighty
ag'in though, ef I don't think we're in fer somp'in' damn big and
hard." And he passed on, vouchsafing Orris a wink that might mean
anything.
That next night other planes from near-by sectors began flitting in
here, there, until, with the planes already at the aerodrome, there
must have been at least fifty of the various types of battle and
scouting planes on hand. Many of the airmen were French, many British,
not a few Americans, inclusive of the Lafayette Escadrille, composed
mainly of men from overseas.
The early evening passed, the dark hours flitted by, and so came
midnight with a long line of planes stretched far and wide over that
war-scarred expanse.
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