“Man or young lady?” asked Ned, with a mischievous smile at his chum.
“Oh, a dear, little, bald-headed man, who peers at you in such a funny way through his big glasses and––”
“Show him in!” cried Ned, Bob and Jerry in one voice.
CHAPTER XXII
AN UNEXPECTED CAPTURE
The smiling Red Cross nurse had no need to mention the name of the visitor. The boys knew him for Professor Snodgrass after that description, which could fit no one else. And the little scientist it proved to be a moment later.
“Ah, here you are, boys!” he murmured, as though he had just parted from them half an hour before, and under ordinary circumstances, instead of the great war being in the background. “I am glad to see you. I want––”
He made a sudden motion toward the smiling, Red Cross nurse, and instinctively she stepped back, with something of a look of alarm on her face.