"Did you hear anything of Philip ?" "That he had recovered fully of his wound, Mademoiselle, and that he and the _Arrow_ were once more in the service of his country.

He knows of your abduction by Prince Karl of Auersperg.

A friend, an aviator, Delaunois, furnished him with many facts, and I cannot doubt that he will come over Austria in the _Arrow_ to seek your rescue." The eyes of Julie, John and Suzanne, as with one impulse, turned upward.
It seemed to John, for a moment or two, that his vivid imagination could fairly create the slender and graceful shape of Philip's aeroplane, outlined against the sky.

But the heavens were flawless, a pure, unbroken blue, without speck or stain, and he suppressed a little sigh of disappointment.
"Do you know the country at all ?" he asked of Weber.
"Somewhat.

It was a part of my work before the war to pass through all the regions of Germany and Austria, and learn as much of them as I could.