offer to help her, I suppose, being, as you might say, neighbors."

"Sure!" agreed Jack. "I'm with you. But let's go and--"

However they did not go at once, wherever it was that Jack was going
to propose, for, at that moment, one of the Red Cross nurses
attached to the aviation hospital carne to the door and beckoned to
the boys.

"Miss Leroy is conscious now," was the message. "She wants to see
you two," and the nurse smiled at them.

Tom and Jack found Miss Leroy, looking pale, but prettier than ever,
sitting up in a chair. She leaned forward eagerly as they entered,
and, holding out her hands, exclaimed:

"They tell me you are my brother's chums! Oh, can you not get me
some news of him? Can you not let him know that I have come so far
to see him? I am anxious! Oh, where is he?" and she looked from
Tom to Jack, and then to Tom again.





CHAPTER III

ANXIOUS WAITING