Of course,
as I tell Torn, it's a long chance, but it's worth taking. Of
course it isn't easy to drop any object from a moving aeroplane and
have it land at a certain spot. We may miss the mark."
"For that reason I'm going to take several packages," put in Tom.
"If one doesn't land another may."
"But if you do succeed in dropping a package for Harry in the midst
of the German stockade, won't the guards see it and confiscate it?"
asked Mrs. Gleason. "You know they'll be as brutal as they dare to
the prisoners--though of course,"' she added quickly, as she saw a
look of pain on Nellie's face, "Harry may be in a half-way decent
camp. But, even then, won't the Germans keep the package
themselves?"
"I've thought of that," replied Tom. "We've got to take that chance
also. But I figure that, in the confusion, Harry, or some of his
fellow prisoners, may pick up the package, or packages, unobserved.
Of course there's only a slim chance that Harry himself will pick up
the bundle. But it will be addressed to him, and if any of the
French, British, or American prisoners get it, they'll see that it
goes to Harry all right."
"Oh, of course," murmured Mrs. Gleason. "But what was that you said
about the 'confusion?'"
"That's something different," said Tom. "I'm counting on dropping a
few bombs on the German works outside the camp, to--er--well, to
sort of take their attention off the packages we'll try to drop
inside the stockade.
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