Again came a sheet of flame.
The ranks actually seemed to fall back.
Then once more, from the rear, rose the deep notes of Das Fatherland. It stiffened the thinned ranks. They rushed forward, the fierce cry of victory mingling with the strains of their national anthem.
“That was great!” cried Jack. “My sympathies are not very strongly with the Germans, but I’m bound to give credit where credit is due. Well, what now——?”
Jack became aware that the machine on which he was a prisoner was going to make a landing. Silently, swiftly, the winged mechanism was guided toward earth behind the German lines.
Jack smiled with satisfaction.
“I’ll have a chance to stretch my legs,” he said. “As long as Radwig is dead, I have not so much to fear. I wonder what they want of me?”
CHAPTER XXXVIII
MILITARY CROSS-EXAMINATION
The machine came to a stop. The pilot never moved from his seat. Instead, he motioned to a soldier to come to him. Evidently a few words were exchanged.