dropped some bombs I had left on the moving gray something I saw.
After that I skimmed over the bluff. Then there was a stream, and
another embankment beyond. After that I don't seem to remember much.
How did I get here?"

"You got here, Orry, because the Boches downed you right over our front
trench at this angle, which is nearer the Boche line than anywhere in
this sector. We didn't even know that the enemy had dug a covered
trench to the far side of the bluff on the river bank until you let us
know by dropping bombs on them. This so angered them that they dragged
out two Archies and peppered you good. You fell into our trench, and -
and with the knowledge you gave us we directed our heavy artillery
right on that bluff.

Here Blaine grinned complacently while patting Orry's head again, very
gently though, on account of the bandages.

"Yes, mon comrade," supplemented Cheval. "It was to you that our
batteries owe their accuracy of firing in dealing with that bluff. Do,
you know that they must have been digging there for days, perhaps
weeks? The whole interior had been hollowed out, and there was a
picked battalion stationed there. La, la! It was a lucky accident
that led you in my own good Bleriot to lay open to us the secrets of
those over yonder, who are trying to enslave the world."

"But -- but I didn't know," murmured Erwin gratified, yet somehow
feeling as if honors were being heaped gratuitously on his undeserving
head. Something of this escaped him the while. Monsieur Cheval held
up a protesting hand.