Dick judged the man to be both friendly and all right, from his pleasant, affable manner and his evident knowledge of their pilots identity.Larsen, why arent you by your airplane? demanded Mr. Whiteside.
ONE:Sandy caught Larrys idea even before the airplane had taxied to its place, close to the original take-off.Two war pilots fought it out above the clouds!
ONE:He struck his pony with the fringed end of the horse-hair lariat that hung around his pommel, and cantered on in the direction of the post. The pony had been found among the foot-hills, without any[Pg 218] trouble. That, at any rate, had been a stroke of luck. He had led it into the fort just at the end of guard-mounting, and had met a party of riders going out."Thank you," he said; and Cairness walked away.
Larry was operating the stick!With the first change of direction and the following indecision that showed in the amphibians shifts of direction, Larry spelled a change of plan on the part of its occupants. The resulting glide, enabling his chums to speak above the idling noise of the engine, indicated a similar possibility in the other shipJeff and Mr. Whiteside were talking over plans.Lets lock up, here, and join Jeff, suggested Sandy.The French hastened to comply with this condition, on the understanding that Ormonde would immediately draw off his troops from Quesnoy; and the duke was obliged to announce to Prince Eugene that he was under this necessity, in consequence of the terms agreed upon between France and England; in fact, that he must cease all opposition to the French. Ormonde, therefore, not only gave the command for the retirement of the English troops, but also of all those belonging to the German princes which were in British pay. Eugene and the Dutch field deputies protested most indignantly against this proceeding, and the mercenary troops themselves refused to follow Ormonde. In vain did he endeavour to move the officers of those troops; they despised the conduct of England in abandoning the advantageous position at which they had arrived for terminating the war gloriously, and releasing the common enemy of Europe from his just punishment to gratify party spirit in England.66
