The boys sat on their improvised bunks until a late hour that night. They discussed the airplanes; the men they had met; their work in rescuing the fallen aviators, and the things they had learned in this, to them, the most eventful day.
"I wonder what father would say if he knew we were going to join the aviation corps?" said Alfred.
"Well, I wonder what he will say when he hears what we were doing in Belgium," replied Alfred.
"He must have gotten our letters by this time," said Ralph.
"Then why doesn't he answer our telegram?" asked Alfred.
"Why, we forgot to go back to the city and inquire for it," said Ralph.
"That's so; but we've been too busy for that; we must do that the first thing in the morning," said Alfred.