"About the same as yours," returned the colonel with a laugh. "But, as you say, there is no need to linger now. You have learned what I Came to find out. We may as well be moving."
"How'd you come, an airship?" asked the major. "Yes; and you?"
"Same way."
"Then we may as well get both machines back. I'll take half of your party. My plane is only about a hundred yards from here."
"My plane is not much farther—in a little woods there."
"By Jove! So is mine. Wouldn't be surprised if they were near the same spot. Well, let's be moving."
Colonel Anderson led the way from the house, and the others followed him through the darkness.
CHAPTER XXVII
A NEW VENTURE
It was three days later and Hal and Chester sat in their own quarters in the shelter of the American lines. The flight from the German lines had been made safely. The aeroplanes had been found where Colonel Anderson and Major Derevaux had left them.