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There is a house in that direction, and it is occupied by the Prince of Auersperg, one of the German generals." He pointed where the château lay, and Bougainville uttered a shout: "Ah!" "He holds there a prisoner, Mademoiselle Julie Lannes, the sister of the great Philip Lannes, the aviator; and other Frenchwomen." "Ah!" said Bougainville again. "You will help rescue them, will you not?"
Dave had been looking out of the car window enjoying the scenery and thinking over affairs in general, when he chanced to direct his gaze at a newspaper the man in the forward seat was reading. A glaring head line had caught his eye: "A Burglar In The Clouds." Anything suggestive of the air was of interest to the young aviator. He wondered what the item might refer to.
They entered the field in 1900 and immediately achieved greater results than any of their predecessors. They followed the idea of Lilienthal to a certain extent. They made gliders in which the aviator had a horizontal position and they used twice as great a lifting surface as that hitherto employed.
Men who had been overwhelmingly welcome while they wore shoulder straps were now rated according to bank accounts or "family." The "doughboy shavetail", a hero before the armistice, or the aviator who held the stage until November eleventh, once he put on his serge suit and went back to selling insurance or keeping books, became a nodding acquaintance, sometimes not even that. I was heartsick.
"Besides that," went on Dave, producing the duplicate N. A. L. badge, and glancing at the scratched initials on its back, "I know who stole the Drifter." "What's that?" almost shouted the aviator, springing to his feet, in a great state of excitement. "Say, Dave, are you sure?" pressed the eager Hiram Dobbs, worked up to fever heat with curiosity and suspense. "Who was it?" asked Mr. King.
Whether there was any truth in this myth we never found out, but we did see an enemy aeroplane forced down behind our lines by Robert Lorraine, the actor aviator, on October 26th, after a very daring fight.
The hurried consultation of officers, the rapid falling in line in the darkness, the clear brisk words of command, the quick mechanical response, the departure of one group after another, the thought of that aviator alighting behind the village, the sight of the great, ugly tanks and the big spool aroused his patriotism and his craving for adventure as nothing else had in all the months of his service.
M. Bleriot an admirable judge in this respect singled out Mr. Hamel, while this young man was learning to fly in France, as an aviator of quite unusual promise; and his prediction was, of course, more than fulfilled. Devoting himself exclusively to the monoplane, Mr. Hamel became a pilot whose perfection of control, very wonderful to witness, was marked strongly by his own individuality.
The wind was now blowing more fitfully, creating pockets those holes in the air so dreaded by cloud pilots and in quest of more constant resistance the aviator was swinging his craft in a wide northerly curve, climbing ever higher and more high.
Upon a time I mentioned some such thought to an American aviator, who nodded youthful head and answered in this manner: "The best fellows generally go first, and such a lot are gone now that there'll be a whole bunch of them waiting to say 'Hello, old sport! so what's it matter, anyway?" Much has been written concerning Ypres, but more, much more, remains to be written.
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