If they could carry back full information
concerning the new explosive and the novel features of that splendid
monoplane, it would be worth a million dollars, yes, many times that,
to their respective governments. Germany, you know, claims to have the
best equipped corps of aviators in the world, just as she has the most
remarkable army. And Japan, too, is jealous of being left in the mad
race, so she sends out spies to learn all that is going on."
All these things were exceedingly interesting to the three scouts.
They were patriotic boys, like all scouts. Though studying the arts
of peace rather than those of cruel war, love of country was a
cardinal virtue held up constantly before their eyes by Lieutenant
Denmead. Should danger of any type menace the defenders of the flag,
boys like these would be among the first to want to enlist. The Boy
Scout movement was never intended to discourage a love of country.
And if war ever does come to the land we all love, thousands of those
who rally to her defense will be found to have once been wearers of
the khaki as Boy Scouts.
The camp of the Flying Corps was now seen ahead of them. A challenge
from a sentry and the giving of the countersign in a whisper by the
lieutenant, told the lads that they were actually in a military camp.
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