.
"I'll have them kicked into the street."

"Oh, let them alone," said Uncle John, but the official, mumbling that it
was against the rules of the hotel, summoned a porter and ordered him to
throw the lads out.

"Are you going to let them kick us out, Uncle John?" asked Chester,
in English.

Uncle John turned quickly, and walked straight up to him. Stooping he
gazed searchingly into his face and then turned to Hal. With an
exclamation he waved aside the porter and grasped each lad by the arm.

"You young rascals!" he said. "Don't you know you have worried your
mothers nearly to death. You'll come with me now."

He led them to the elevator, and soon the two lads were once more in
their mothers' arms.

"Well," said Uncle John, when the greetings were over, "I don't think you
will get away from us again. We'll sail for America at once."

"I am afraid," said Chester slowly, "that we cannot go."

"Cannot go? And why not, sir?"

"Because," replied Chester, "I believe that Hal and I shall return
immediately to the front, and rejoin General French and his heroic
British troops."

Both Mrs. Paine and Mrs. Crawford cried out in alarm, and Uncle John
looked at the two lads with disappointment when Hal said:

"Chester is right."

But Uncle John was nothing if not a diplomat.

"We won't discuss it now," he said, with a wave of his hand. "To-morrow
we will talk the matter over."

This suited all concerned.

"And that decision having been reached," continued Uncle John, "let's all
go down to dinner!"

THE END.

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