"Accursed boys! They have given me a fright!"
"You haven't caught us yet!" whispered Paul, defiantly.
It was true, as the Germans soon discovered. For when they began
looking for the two boys, they found that it was one thing to know that
they must be somewhere about, and quite another to find out just where.
They did not begin to look immediately in the field, but went along the
road, toward Liege, evidently looking for footprints. Then when they
did take to the field, they crossed the ditch fully a hundred yards
further along the road.
"Come on!" said Paul, suddenly. "We got one of their machines--why
shouldn't we take the other?"
Arthur saw the point as quickly as Paul. The carelessness of the two
Germans had once more given them an opportunity. In a moment they
dashed out, and, just as the Germans, with a yell of fury, saw them,
they were off. Bullets flew about them, but they bent low over the
machine, and they were going fast. Still two bullets found their mark,
one puncturing the rear tire, the other perforating the gasoline tank.
Once more they seemed to be caught. And then a searchlight swept down
upon them again. But this time it was not the great light from
Boncelles. It was the huge headlight of an automobile, and behind it
they saw an armored car. Soldiers sprang from it, and in a moment the
tables had been completely turned.
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