"Halt, you blighters, 'fore I run this through your bellies!"
Then truth crashed home, and the boys let out a gurgling cry of relief as they realized the voice was speaking in English!
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Wings Of Doom
"Hold it!" Dave heard his own voice cry out in the darkness. "We're not Germans!"
"No!" Freddy choked out. "We're English and American! Are we near Dunkirk?"
There was a startled exclamation in the rain and fog, then the tiny beam of a buglight caught them in its glow. The light shook and there was a gasp of dumbfounded amazement.
"Strike me pink!" exclaimed the voice in back of the light. "What are you two young nippers doing here? And where'd you come from?"