THE CONTINUING BATTLE The _Arrow_ bore in toward the _Omnibus_.

Wharton had put his rifle aside and was staring downward as if he would see the wreck that he had made.

Lannes called to him loudly: "You've saved us all!" Wharton looked rather white, but he shouted back: "I had no other choice." The French aeroplanes were around them now, their motors drumming steadily and the aviators shouting congratulations to Lannes and Caumartin, whom they knew well.

It was a friendly group, full of pride and exultation, and the _Arrow_ and the _Omnibus_ had a triumphant escort.

Soon they were directly over the French, and then they began their descent.