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Captain March couldn't be expected to know, poor fellow, that Di, if obliged to choose between two deadly dull evils, would rather hear a cook tell how to boil potatoes than listen to any mechanical talk. However, it wasn't really needful to listen, if one's eyes were well trained; and Di was having the "time of her life" in meeting an airman.
It was made up, in the main, of young Americans of good family and independent means, most of them being college students who had laid down their books for the more exciting life of an airman.
Practically he is in hostile country all the time, and he has to get back across the same dangerous air zones. It is a far easier task to dodge a few sea-planes over the wide seas en route to London. And on reaching the coast the airman has to evade or fight scattered local defences, instead of penetrating the close barriers which confront him all the way to Paris.
On the 1st of April, 1915, the British Government's press bureau announced that bombs had been dropped, with unknown success, on two German submarines lying there, and that on the same day a British airman had flown over Hoboken and had seen submarines in building there.
This problem is being attacked in an ingenious manner. It is proposed to substitute for audible signals visual interpretations, by the aid of an electric lamp, the fluctuations in which would correspond to the dots and dashes of the Morse code. Thus the airman would read his messages by sight instead of by sound.
And then, pressing his hands over his breast, the brave airman staggered and fell, as a stream of blood issued from beneath his jacket. At once half a score of hands reached out to render aid to the stricken airman, whose blood was staining the ground where he had fallen.
The sun was shining upon it in such a fashion that its gleam made inspection very difficult. Once he fancied that he could make out a short, compact figure within the "eye"; but he could not be sure. The glass, or whatever it was, reflected everything within range. Was the airman a quadruped? Did he sit or stand upright, like a man? Or did he use all four limbs, animal-fashion?
It seemed like a game of "conquer," which Andy remembered so well; where the rival aviator dared to go they must follow, or acknowledge his superiority as a bold airman, something neither of them felt like doing. Frank had figured it all out while he was speeding along so smoothly.
He detects the slender sign of life, forms his own conclusions, and returns to his headquarters with the intelligence that the enemy is playing "Brer Rabbit." It has also become increasingly difficult for the airman to gather absolutely trustworthy data concerning the disposition and movement of troops.
I’m going to try to explode their gas cylinders if I can. The tocsin is the signal for our people in the salient." "You’re crazy!" remarked one of the airmen. "No; I’ll bluff it out. I’m to have a Boche uniform in a few moments." "You are crazy! You know what they’ll do to you, don’t you, Jim?" The bandaged airman laughed, but in his eyes there was an odd flicker like a tiny flame.
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