"There
hasn't been as much as this stirring since the armistice was
signed."
"Either that, or we're getting all ready to start again, which
seems more likely to me. But we'll probably find out soon enough,
one way or another," remarked Billy.
It was in fact the preparation of a new drive that they saw going
on about them. And this time, should it start, the drive would not
stop its easterly course until it reached Berlin. The Allied
leaders were determined to make this advance so irresistible and
conclusive that there could be no discussion afterward as to
whether the German Army really was beaten.
More men and supplies arrived constantly. Two days after the visit
of Marshal Foch and General Pershing a number of aeroplanes
arrived, and a flying field was established adjoining the main
camp. Here a number of observation balloons were continually being
tried out, and it was seldom that one was not hovering over the
camp.
"That's one thing," fellows, that we have yet to try," said Frank,
addressing his friends. "We've been in the tanks, up in
aeroplanes, and about every other place you can think of except a
'sausage' balloon.
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