Within five minutes I will have here a car that will take Captain Prescott to the communication trenches, and in that car will be a trench guide." "And I'm going, too, Dick," Tom added, squeezing his chum's arm.
"We have a lot to talk over yet." As the German airplane had been turned over to Commandant Perrault, Reade had no further concern with that.

He bounded into the motor car when it arrived.

Later the trench guide conducted them into the front trenches, even to the section from which Prescott had been taken.

Major Wells was now, with Captain Holmes and Lieutenant Terry, at a point about a third of a mile to the westward.
Thither Dick and Tom turned their steps, still with the trench guide showing the way.

Unexpectedly this little party came upon Major Wells just as the latter was saying: "The greatest blow to us was the loss of Captain Prescott.