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"He gave us the name of a British officer who would post us," added Tom. After a bit they were passing over the outskirts of Dunkirk, and making for what appeared to be an aviation field, since they could see various hangars, and another plane was just settling ahead of them. Ten minutes passed, and Jack was delighted to find that they had made a successful landing.
There was talk, and the guard let it through. A small crane lift came over from the hangars. Its normal use was the lifting of plane motors in and out of their nacelles. Now it was to pick up the useless pieces of equipment on which the best workmen and the best brains of the Kenmore Precision Tool Company had worked unceasingly for eight calendar months, and which now was junk.
The navy ensign and the student were the snobs who lived away from the hangars, in boarding-houses.
"Oh, it's true!" she declared, emphatically. "Father has known that the Army people have been thinking of it for some time, but it was really decided and the leases signed only last Saturday. They will begin building the barracks and the buildings the oh, what do they call those big sheds they keep the aeroplanes in?" "The hangars," said Winslow, promptly. "Yes, that's it.
Not the least of the calculations in this activity was to screen every detail from aerial observation. New hangars had risen at the edge of level fields, whence the swift fighting machines of an aircraft concentration in keeping with the concentration of guns and all other material rose to reconnaissance, or to lie in wait as a falcon to pounce upon an invading German plane.
In the morning he rose refreshed, eager to be about, to look up men he knew, to talk of things beyond the scope of war. But when he went out into Vancouver's highways and met people, his uniform gave them a conversational cue. And he found that here, six thousand miles from the guns, even less than among his fellows in the hangars behind the fighting line could he escape that topic.
At first sight they seemed to outnumber the Nicaraguan army mechanicians, chauffeurs, armourers, motorcyclists, telephonists, wireless operators, Red Cross stretcher bearers, clerks! Afterward I learned they totalled seventy-odd, and that all of them were glad to be connected with the American Escadrille. In their hangars stood our trim little Nieuports.
Twice flying bits of metal came uncomfortably close to Jack, but he was kept too busy with the management of his machine to more than notice them. Harris was working hard at the camera and the maps. Then, suddenly, came the danger signal from the leading plane, and only just in time. Out from the German hangars came several battle machines.
At each time three machines, each carrying eight 25 pound bombs, will bomb respectively R , C , L . Secrecy is imperative. Each member of the three squads thus assigned will be ready at Hangars No. , No. , No. at times mentioned above." Meantime each aviator, with his observer, had been privately notified by the Sergeant in person.
I saw the shed our hangars our work shop! There's where our ship is!" They were lost once more in the snow that seemed to be driving past in solid drifts. Chet heard Spud shouting down a voice tube. And, curiously, it was plain that the Irish pilot had lost all tenseness from his voice; he was happy and as carefree as if he had found the answer to all his perplexing questions.
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