"It's word from Harry Leroy! Word from Harry at last!"





CHAPTER X

STUNTS


Truly enough, word had come from the missing aviator, or, if not
directly from him, at least from his captors. The German airmen,
falling in with the chivalry which had been initiated by the French
and English, and later followed by the Americans, had seen fit to
inform the comrades of the captured man of his whereabouts.

"Where is he? What happened to him?" asked several, as all crowded
around Tom and Jack to hear the news.

Jack, reading the note, told them. The missive was written in very
good English, though in a German hand. It stated that Harry Leroy
had been shot down in his plane while over the German lines, and had
fallen in a lonely spot, wounded.

The wound was not serious, it was stated, and the prisoner was doing
as well as could be expected, but he would remain in the hands of
his captors until the end of the war. The reason his whereabouts
was not mentioned before was that the Germans did not know they had