not only--Oh, it couldn't be done!" as he thought of
the cruelty of the Huns, not only to the soldiers of the Allied armies
but to helpless women and children. "You couldn't give yourself up to
those brutes!' he cried.

"To save my brother I could," said Nellie simply. "I would do anything
for him!"

"I know you would," murmured Bessie.

"But it would just be throwing yourself away!" exclaimed Jack, coming
to the help of his chum, who was gazing helplessly at him in this
new crisis. "Tell her, Mrs. Gleason," he went on, "that it is utterly
impossible, even if the army authorities would let her. Even if she
should give herself up to the Germans, they wouldn't keep any agreement
they made to exchange her brother. They'd simply keep both of them."

"Yes, I think they would," said Mrs. Gleason. "It is out of the
question, my dear," and gently she laid her hand on the girl's shoulder.
"That is very fine and noble of you, but it would be wrong, for it
would not save your brother, and you would certainly be made a prisoner
yourself. And of the horrors of the German prison--at least some where
the infantrymen have been kept, I dare not tell you. I imagine it must
be better where the airmen are captured," she went on, for she feared
that if she painted too black a picture of what Harry might suffer his
sister would not be held back by anything, and might sacrifice herself
uselessly.

"But what am I do?" asked Nellie, helplessly. "I want Harry so much! We
all want him! Oh, isn't there something? Can't you save him?" and she
held out her hands appealingly to Torn and Jack.

There was a moment of silence, and then Tom burst out with:

"Well, I may as well speak now as later, and I'll tell you what I've
made up my mind to do. Yes, it's a new plan I've worked out," he went
on, as Jack looked at him curiously. "I haven't told even you, old man,
as it wasn't quite ready yet. But it's a scheme that may succeed, now
that we know definitely where Harry is, from what the German patrol
said. He isn't so far away as when we dropped the packages in the prison
camp, though we don't yet know that he was there at the time we did our
stunt. However, if this new plan succeeds we may have a chance to find
out."

"How?" asked Nellie, eagerly.

"By talking to Harry himself."

"How are you going to do that?" demanded Bessie.

"What kind of game have you been cooking up behind my back?" asked Jack.

"As desperate as the other, I guess yo