k there first," Stan said. "If we park in the back
we'll be near to those rooms?"

"Yes," Arno answered. "We can reach them through a narrow hallway
without entering the main part of the house."

"O.K., driver, move on."

Arno started the car and they rolled down the road at a fast pace. Stan
could not see the road but Arno knew every turn. They soon swung into a
long driveway and headed toward a big stone gate with machine gunners at
each side. Sentries armed with rifles paced back and forth across the
opening.

"Here goes!" Stan snapped. "Try your German on the boys. If you flop, we
start shooting our way in."

Arno charged up in the best German manner of driving an official car.
The heavy machine guns on each side of the gate converged on the car and
one of the sentries bellowed an order.

CHAPTER XIII

NIGHT RAID

Arno did not put on his brakes until he had forced the guards at the
gate back two paces. Allison leaned out over the door, his cap pulled
down over his eyes. He bellowed loudly in German, blurring a string of
words together and winding up with the password from the outside post.
He was taking a chance that that was the password for the whole area.

The guards backed away, presented arms, and jerked into stiff positions
of attention. Arno lost no time in shooting the car through the gates.
They entered a shadowy courtyard where the light was dim. The Yank raid
on Bolero Villa, just over the hill, had caused every post in the
vicinity to be blacked out.

"We are under the window of the room," Arno said in a low voice.

"There's a guard down the wall a ways," Allison said. "I'll give you
fellows a calling-down in German to make the guard think I'm really on
the warpath, then we'll march right in."

"Perhaps I had better try the window while you are trying the door,"
Tony said. "You might have trouble. There will be plenty of light
inside."

Allison raised his voice and began berating the boys in German.
"_Schwinehund!_" he bellowed and followed that up with other choice
words of abuse. He had a bright idea and added that he was going to find
the man who had handled the blackout. He said he could see light from
the back hallway all the way out to the road.

Instantly they heard the guard moving toward the back door.

"Now's our chance," Allison whispered. "I said we could see light from
the back hallway. We'll make them douse the lights."

They headed toward the back door and stom