The Ambulance was Stopped as though it had Butted into a Stone Wall.
But strangest of all was the fact that the tail doors had been blown open, the stretcher lifted out on the ground as neatly as though human hands had done it and looking back Don saw the German airman, shocked into consciousness, sitting up and gazing at him.
[CHAPTER IX]
Reprisals
Billy, you aren’t kilt entirely, eh? Well, then, hop out and crank her; maybe that volcano didn’t stall her. We’ll turn round, if she runs, and hunt for those stretcher chaps; guess we can find ’em. Say, I’ll bet they’re sorry they saw us coming.”
“No, for here they come again! It could not have reached them. Oooh, but wasn’t it a daisy? For about one second I longed to be back in the good, old United States. Hah! Wait till I spin her. There she goes as fine as a hand organ!”
Don backed and turned the car; then the lads went to the German.