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Updated: May 6, 2025
Two hours later they were upon the identical spot from which they had wirelessed headquarters in the morning. It was midnight now as two of the Germans, working under Jerry's orders while Slim kept a weather eye on the others, set up the pack-set. Jerry worked the key half a dozen times and then got an almost immediate response.
Sliding the pack-set and their other paraphernalia into a little gully which he easily could identify later, but where it would be entirely hidden from the view of anyone else who might chance upon the scene, Jerry set out in search of his friend. It was a difficult task that he set himself, for he knew no more than the general direction that Slim had taken.
"The pack-set!" ordered the lieutenant. In a very short time it was set up, and Jerry was grinding the crank to generate power while the officer flashed out the headquarters call. In a moment a message began to come: "J-X. J-X. J-X. J-X." Lieutenant Mackinson nervously began tapping the key again, but the only reply was the insistent call for J-X, which was the code call for themselves.
And in half an hour, Jerry carrying the heavy pack-set and Slim toting the equally weighty rations and incidentals, they set off on the Boches' trail. Out in the open, and especially in the mountains, distances are deceptive.
And the pack-set was put back in its compact case, and, paired off as before, the journey was resumed. "Say," said Jerry, as they urged their horses down the side of the mountain leading to fairly level ground all the way into camp, "I'm hungry enough to eat dog meat, but I guess we can hold out now until we reach our lines." "Yes, I suppose so," Slim answered.
"We'll take the pack-set with us, and we can probably advise headquarters of our predicament with that, and also inform them of the progress of the enemy movement." Wearily they turned about, each man loaded down with the necessities that they had to take with them from the wrecked tractor.
They also took with them a radio pack-set, which is another wireless apparatus that can be carried about with little difficulty. This they had in the event of any unexpected emergency. The entire pack-set could be carried about in a suitcase, and after it was set up its current was generated by turning a crank by hand. Its range, under ordinary atmospheric conditions, was about twenty-five miles.
"No use, Boche," called the lieutenant mockingly, "we're out of your range. And now, having escaped you, we'll see what we can do to harass you." Saying which he began opening up the pack-set wireless, while two of the others set up the umbrella antenna. Lieutenant Mackinson began tapping off the headquarters call.
"Well, that's the way that hill seems to be traveling along, always keeping the same distance ahead of us." "I've heard of armies 'taking' a fort, or a city, or a trench," said Slim. "Do you suppose those Germans are 'taking' that young mountain along with them?" "Seems so to me," said Jerry, coming to a halt to shift the heavy pack-set to the other hand.
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