Yes, it's a new plan I've worked out," he
went on, as Jack looked at him curiously. "I haven't told even you,
old man, as it wasn't quite ready yet. But it's a scheme that may
succeed, now that we know definitely where Harry is, from what the
German patrol said. He isn't so far away as when we dropped the
packages in the prison camp, though we don't yet know that he was
there at the time we did our stunt. However, if this new plan
succeeds we may have a chance to find out."
"How?" asked Nellie, eagerly.
"By talking to Harry himself."
"How are you going to do that?" demanded Bessie.
"What kind of game have you been cooking up behind my back?" asked
Jack.
"As desperate as the other, I guess you'll call it," answered Tom.
"But something has to be done."
"Yes, something has to be done," agreed Jack. "Now what is it?"
Tom arose and went to the door. He opened it, looked carefully up
and down the hall, evidently to make sure no one was listening, and
then came back to join the circle of his friends.
"I'm going to speak of something that very few know, as yet," he
said, "and I don't want to take any chances of its getting out.
There may be German spies in Paris, though I guess by this time
they're few and scattering.
"I'm not going to tell you how I know," he said, "but I do know that
soon there is to take place a big battle--that is, it will be big
for the American forces that are to have part in it.
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