-aircraft guns. As soon as he had a response, and knew that h

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Nd daring aviator, Harry Leroy by name, who had had the misfortune to be
shot down behind the German lines, and it was in connection with his
discovery and rescue by the chums that some of the events of the last
volume came about. And it may as well be confessed here that Tom felt
more than a passing interest in the pretty sister of Harry, for Nellie
Leroy was serving her country as a Red Cross nurse, being just then in
one of the American field hospitals to which the wounded were being
carried day after day while the Argonne drive was on. Tom was a full
hour and more reading his letters, rereading them, and dreaming over
them. After their rescue from the chateau Mrs. Gleason and Bessie had
gone to Paris, where the mother, ably assisted by her daughter, had
thrown herself into Red Cross work. Now, so Bessie's note told Tom, her
mother was very tired and the two had gone down to Nice for a brief
rest. It would be perfect, Bessie wrote, if only Tom and Jack and Nellie
Leroy were with them. For a while Tom lost himself in the thought of
being at Nice, by the blue sea, with Mrs. Gleason and Bessie and
Nellie--especially Nellie--and with Jack. With Jack! That thought
aroused him. Still no Jack! He grew more and more concerned, and began
to picture all sorts of grievous things as having happened to his chum.
Several times he thought he heard the well known voice near by, but on
each occasion discovered that he had deceived himself. Tom felt he could
stand it no longer, and had even commenced to set forth when, to his
delight, he discovered Jack coming. "But what's he doing with that mite
of a French child?" Tom asked himself, staring in wonder and perplexity.
"A cunning little girl she seems to be; but a battlefield isn't just the
place for such an innocent. Poor thing! I suppose she's lost all her
kin, and Jack brought her along because he couldn't let her stay at the
ruins of her home and starve." He was so filled with joy over the coming
of his chum, who did not seem to be wounded in the least, that
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