e the Germans had made. He was furious at Graves, who had discredited him with Colonel Throckmorton, as he believed. He minded the personal unple

ad taken was a sort of blind alley. It had brought them to a meadow, whence the hay had already been cut. At the far side of this ran a little brook, and all about them were trees. Except for the calls of birds, and the ceaseless hum of insects, there was no sound to break

ad though it was, still seemed legitimate. But this driving home of an attack upon a city all unprepared, upon the many non-combatants who would be bound

m. Now he heard something that sounded like the humming of a far vaster bee. Suddenly it stopped, and, as it did, he looked up, his eyes as well as Dick's being drawn upward at

praisingly, to Dick. "He'll manage it all right, too.

he'll land," s

ourse," said Harry. "And there aren't

nly coming down fa

heading for this meadow! Com

you want him

see the car," explained Harry. "We'll run it a

uldn't h

o take all we've got and we may not want hi

soon as the meadow was out of sight Harry

t it. He's got other things to watch. That meadow for one–and all his levers and

ever been

ould if I had to. I've watched other people handle them so o

id Dick. "It's an army machine, I mean. See its number? It's ju

arted out without enough petrol in his tank to see him through any flight he might be making. And wouldn't he have head

tared

it's another s

That's a Bleriot–and the British army flying corps uses Bleriots. But anyone with

n. Its pilot was German; he was unmistakably so. He had been f

he saw the two boys, "Where can

a quick gla

h his breath. "We've got t

nce of utter surprise. Had he suspected that they would attack him he might have drawn a pistol. As it was, he was helpless before the two boys, both in the pink of condition and determined to capture him. He mad

to the car," said Ha

ggested Dick. "That would be ever so much easier for him, and

He loosened the ropes about the avi

try to get away–I've got

d German to the automobile. It looked for all the world as if he were leading a dog, and for a moment

rman had been bestowed in the tonneau, and made as comfortable as possible with rugs an

asked Dick. "Are you going t

can if I need to," said Harry. "That Bleriot may be the saving

the Germans. What he had in mind was risky, certainly, and might prove perilous in the extreme. But he did not let that aspect of the situation wo

will be no way of stopping it from doing all the damage they have planned, or most of it. Thanks to Graves, we wouldn't b

motor. Then he sat in the driver's seat and practiced with the levers, until he de

to-night," he said "This i

g with you,"