We'll just ask this bird where we are."
Inquiring of the sentry, they learned that they had landed at
Montabaur, which was on the very edge of the zone occupied by the
American Army. The sentry gave them directions as to the best way
to reach camp. They arrived there without further mishap, and
separated, the two friends hastening to their barracks, and Dunton
to his headquarters to make a report on the loss of the balloon.
Great was the joy of Tom and Billy at seeing their comrades safe
and sound, as they had been under intense anxiety concerning them.
"But we might have known better than to have worried about you,"
said Billy finally, after he and Tom had heard the story of their
adventure. "I had a hunch all along that you'd both come piking
along sometime to-night or to-morrow, and after this, I refuse to
worry in any degree about you. It serves you right, anyway, for
going up without us."
"Well, in the future, you can go up without me all you want to,"
laughed Frank. "How about it, Bart?"
"You said it," acquiesced Bart heartily. "I'm off that parachute
stuff for all time.
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