“And I’ll be glad of it,” declared Chester. “It’s been quite an eventful trip and we’ve learned a few things about the enemy that we didn’t know before.”
“Right,” said Hal. “By the way, did you examine the papers we took from the German to make sure that they were what he said?”
“Yes. I have the dispatch, and it is as he represented it to be. I made sure of that, all right.”
“Good; then our mission has been successful.”
“It has if Marshal Foch lives up to his word,” said Chester.
“He’ll do that, all right. You heard him make the promise, didn’t you?”
“Yes; but maybe he’ll say this is not sufficient proof.”
“He can’t very well, to my mind. Hello, here we are!”
The car came to a pause in front of the villa occupied by General Pershing. The two lads climbed out.
As they would have ascended the steps, they were stopped by an American sentry.