“I didn't hear her name. Some of the Red Cross nurses are looking after her. They promised to let me know when she came to. We can offer to help her, I suppose, being, as you might say, neighbors.”
“Sure!” agreed Jack. “I'm with you. But let's go and—”
However they did not go at once, wherever it was that Jack was going to propose, for, at that moment, one of the Red Cross nurses attached to the aviation hospital came to the door and beckoned to the boys.
“Miss Leroy is conscious now,” was the message. “She wants to see you two,” and the nurse smiled at them.
Tom and Jack found Miss Leroy, looking pale, but prettier than ever, sitting up in a chair. She leaned forward eagerly as they entered, and, holding out her hands, exclaimed:
“They tell me you are my brother's chums! Oh, can you not get me some news of him? Can you not let him know that I have come so far to see him? I am anxious! Oh, where is he?” and she looked from Tom to Jack, and then to Tom again.
CHAPTER III. ANXIOUS WAITING
Nellie Leroy—for such the boys learned was her name—broke the silence, that was growing tense, by asking:
“Is there any hope? Tell me, do you think there is a chance that my brother may be alive?”