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and American air power, we will launch gas attacks upon the principal
English cities and later make an invasion." He smiled slightly.

"You have the planes?" Stan asked.

"For one big blow. First we smash the air power, then we attack. We have
endured much bombing to save air power for this." Domber had ceased
smiling and for the first time his hate came to the surface. He shrugged
his shoulders suddenly. "But we waste time. We will have a look at the
P-51."

CHAPTER XI

MUSTANG

Herr Domber led the way from his shop and laboratory to the street
entrance where a car was waiting. He scowled at the guards outside his
door and shouted, "Heil Hitler!" Then he marched down the walk to the
car. This time no uniformed guards went along. There was just the
driver, Domber, and Stan.

Stan was beginning to get the idea that the Dutch Quisling disliked the
military. But he was not fooled into thinking Domber did not have his
own henchmen. The driver of the car was a powerful fellow with beetled
brows and scowling face. As soon as they pulled away from the curb,
another car slipped in behind them and never left them until they parked
outside a walled enclosure.

They were getting out of the car when a German military machine roared
up and stopped. Two officers got out and moved stiffly toward the spot
where Stan and Domber stood.

"Heil Hitler," Domber said. Then he opened up with an angry flow of
German.

The officers snapped back at him and a heated argument raged. Stan
gathered the officers were angry because Domber had taken Stan out
without a proper armed guard. Apparently Domber won the argument. The
officers saluted and made off.

"Such fools. They fear you would escape," Domber explained. "I have told
them you would not get a hundred yards before you would be killed. No
one has ever escaped from the Bloodhound."

"Bloodhound?"

"That is a pet name my Dutch friends have given me." He smiled at Stan.
"But come, we are being delayed."

A gate opened and a man in coveralls came up to meet them. Domber spoke
to him and the man walked with them to a locked door in a second wall.
Producing a key, he opened the door and let them through.

Stan was startled by what he saw. There was a sunken runway leading into
an underground hangar. Domber beamed.

"Not a bomb ever falls here. Above our shops there is a church and a
schoolhouse. We do much valuable research here and cannot afford to be
disturbed."