“Jack.”
“Anyone else?”
“Bluff, but he’s at camp.”
“Then it must have been William and Jack who are in the plane,” Paul stated.
“Then you had better wave to them. Signal them to land,” said the agent.
They all ran to the clearing and waved. As the huge machine showed that it was going to land, all of them retreated, so that the plane might have a perfectly clear space in order to land. Tom remarked, “I didn’t know you had aviators among your group.”
Wallace informed him, “Six of us are pilots.”
“And you never told me!” The agent said that he was angry that they had kept the information from him. “In the meanwhile,” he called out, “you boys take shelter. It doesn’t pay to take chances and we really don’t know who is in the plane.”
The boys took up hiding positions and watched the machine descend to a perfect landing.