Transcriber’s Notes: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Starting in Chapter 3, the missing brother’s first name changes from Tom to Frank. Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end. * * * * * [Illustration: “There goes one poor chap!” cried the Western boy.--_Page 149._] TWO AMERICAN BOYS WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES BY MAJOR SHERMAN CROCKETT _ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES L. WRENN_ NEW YORK HURST & COMPANY PUBLISHERS * * * * * Copyright, 1915, BY HURST & COMPANY CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE STORY OF THE OLD WINDMILL 5 II. A MOMENT OF PERIL 17 III. THE BATTLE IN THE AIR 30 IV. THE TELL-TALE CHART 42 V. STRIKING A CLUE 55 VI. BEHIND THE TRENCHES 67 VII. THE RED LANTERNS IN THE SKY 83 VIII. THE AWAKENING 92 IX. WHEN THE DRIVE WAS ON 105 X. THE CHECK LINE 116 XI. WATCHING THE BATTLE EBB AND FLOW 127 XII. FROM THE CUPOLA LOOKOUT 138 XIII. THE TRAPPED UHLANS 147 XIV. MET ON THE ROAD 156 XV. WHAT CAME OF A GOOD ACT 171 XVI. FIGURING IT ALL OUT 184 XVII. SHELTER FROM THE STORM 194 XVIII. THROUGH A CRACK IN THE FLOOR 211 XIX. JACK DEMANDS THE TRUTH 221 XX. AROUSING A COWARD 231 XXI. BOMBARDED BY A ZEPPELIN 243 XXII. AT HEADQUARTERS IN YPRES 256 XXIII. A RIDE ON A GUN CAISSON 269 XXIV. WHAT LITTLE JACQUES DID 281 XXV. NEARING THE GOAL 296 * * * * * Two American Boys with the Allied Armies. CHAPTER I. THE STORY OF THE OLD WINDMILL. “Why not climb up into this battered old windmill, Amos, and take an observation?” “Now, that’s a good idea, Jack, only we’d better be mighty careful about showing ourselves too recklessly, you know.” “You mean that there might be German raiding parties skirmishing around this section of country, don’t you, Amos?” “Well, we’ve had to hide twice today when we glimpsed suspicious squadrons galloping across the fields, or covering some far-off road. And you remember that one of them bore the stamp of Uhlans in their lances with the fluttering pennons, their dirt-colored uniforms, and the spiked helmets.” “Oh! we’ll try and not show ourselves, Amos; but since we’re a little mixed up in our bearings this seems too good a chance to lose.” “These Dutch-style windmills we’ve run across in this strip of Belgium do make mighty good lookouts and observation towers. I warrant you some of them have figured heavily in the ebb and flow of the war.”