We're over the edge of the mountains now, and presently we'll cross the French lines.

I think I'd better go up a considerable distance, as they won't know we're French, and they might give us a few shots." The machine rose fast and it grew intensely cold.

John looked down now upon a country, containing much forest for Europe, and sparsely inhabited.

But he saw far beneath them trenches and other earthworks manned with French soldiers.

Several officers were examining them through glasses, but Delaunois sailed gracefully over the line, circled around a slender peak where he was hidden completely from their view, and then dropped down in a forest of larch and pine.