"Glory be!" This was Billy's high-pitched note.
"Here's to you, Buddy, bully old boy!" Henri cried.
The "bully old boy" then made a dash for Schneider and worked the latter's brawny arm up and down like a pump handle.
Roque repeated the last-named performance with both the recovered members of his crew.
In the meantime the Austrians were saluting Captain Schwimmer, well known to them as a gallant officer in a famous command.
"But for them, gentlemen," gravely stated the captain, nodding toward Schneider and Henri, "I had been in my last fight. Through danger, cold and hunger have they brought me, and neither needs a patent of nobility—nature took care of that."
Roque had only to listen to the happy reunion chatter of the boys to get the side of the story he wanted to hear.
"It seems," he commented, "that Billy and I were not in the same class this time with these trouble hunters."
"Do you suppose that there is anything left of our biplane?"