The Boy Volunteers with the French Airmen. Kenneth Ward

I thought you had to go to Paris to meet your father?" said Tom.

      "Yes," replied Alfred ruefully; "but we can come back. I'm sure there will be no objections."

      "Of course, it's your first duty to go to Paris—that is, if you can get there," said Tom, rather slyly.

      There was now nothing for them to do but to make an effort to reach Paris. Immediately after landing, they started for the tram way, and reached Dunkirk after six in the evening.

      "I never was as hungry in my life," said Ralph.

      "Do you know why?" answered Alfred.

      "Come to think of it, we didn't get anything to eat at noon," was Ralph's answer.

      After alighting from the cars, their first mission was to seek a restaurant, and from that point they soon reached the post office, only to be again disappointed. At the telegraph office they had the same bad luck.