"
"And you think they may do this in my brother's case?" asked Nellie.
"They are very likely to," assented Tom, and Jack, to whom the girl
looked for confirmation, nodded, his agreement.
"How long shall we have to wait?" Harry's sister asked.
"There is no telling," said Tom "Sometimes it's a week before their
airmen get a chance to fly over our lines. It all depends."
"On what?"
"On how the battle goes," answered Tom. "If there is much fighting,
and many engagements in the air, the Boches don't get a chance to
fly over and drop tokens of our men they may have shot down. We do
the same for them, so it's six of one and a half dozen of the other.
Often for a week we don't get a chance to let them know about
prisoners we have, because the fighting is so severe."
"Will it be that way now?" the girl went on.
"Hard to say--we don't have the ordering of battles," replied Jack.
"But it's been rather quiet for a few days, and it's likely to
continue so. If it does one of their men may fly over to-morrow, or
the next day, and drop something your brother wore--or even a note
from him."
"Oh, I hope they do the last!" she murmured. "If I could have a
note from him I'd be the happiest girl alive I I'd know, then, that
he was all right."
"He may be," said Tom, trying to be hopeful. "You see Du Boise, who
was with Harry when the fight took place, is himself wounded, so he
can't tell us much about it.
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