Our Young Aeroplane Scouts in Germany; or, Winning the Iron Cross

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Our Young Aeroplane Scouts in Germany, by Horace Porter
THE FIGHT IN THE AIR. Page 42.

OR Winning the Iron Cross By HORACE PORTER AUTHOR OF Our Young Aeroplane Scouts In France and Belgium. Our Young Aeroplane Scouts In Turkey. Our Young Aeroplane Scouts In Russia.

Copyright, 1915 By A. L. Burt Company OUR YOUNG AEROPLANE SCOUTS IN GERMANY

OUR YOUNG AEROPLANE SCOUTS IN GERMANY.
Hold on there, I want a word with you!
Billy Barry and Henri Trouville, the Boy Aviators, were in the act of climbing into a superb military biplane on the great parade ground at Hamburg when thus hailed by a mild looking man in citizen's attire, with face half-hidden by a slouch hat and a pair of huge, horn-rimmed spectacles.
There was a note of authority in that voice, gently tuned as it was, and behind those spectacles were a pair of eyes as keen as gimlet points.
The speaker was none other than Roque, the noted secret agent— Herr Roque, if you please, fitting into his masquerade as a merchant having contract business with the authorities of the canvas city of aëroplane hangars.