And now, can you tell me where I can find General Vaugirard ?" "I wish I could.

I'm on his staff, but I've lost him.

He's somewhere to the northward." "Then I'll find him." Caumartin resumed his place in his machine.

John looked longingly at the aeroplane.

He would gladly have gone with Caumartin, but feeling that he would be only a burden at such a time, he would not suggest it.
Nevertheless he called to the aviator: "If you see Philip Lannes in the heavens tell him that his friend John Scott is here behind a low ridge crested with trees!" Caumartin nodded, and as some of the soldiers gave his plane a push he soared swiftly away in search of General Vaugirard.