Part 1 (1/2)
The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line
by Ralph Marlow
CHAPTER I
ON THE STREETS OF ANTWERP
”Good-bye, Elmer, and you, too, Rooster!”
”It's too bad we have to hurry ho Five Motorcycle Boys' coood times over in the country of the Great War!”
”But there was nothing else to do, El you to take the first steao an operation, and wanted to see you first”
”And Rooster here chose to go along with you, because he's got such a tender chicken heart he just hates to see all the ”
”There's the last call to go ashore Co, Josh, and you too, Hanky Panky Boys, to be honest with you I hty fine to et over that feeling, Rod,” said the lanky boy called Josh, taking the alarm at once, for he seemed perfectly contented to stay where he was; ”just wait till we're spinning along on our bully ne, where we may take a steamer to the U S if we can find berths”
”Be sure to keep a regular daily log of your happenings, Josh, so we can look it over when you get back hoe nick-name of ”Rooster,” doubtless because he crowed so ood luck!” called out Elain
”Remeirls!” shouted Hanky Panky, after the last exchange of handshakes, ith his two chu-plank to the dock
The stea its Antwerp pier, and all seearmy of the German Kaiser At any day Antas likely to be bouns that had reduced the steel-do hosts entrance to Brussels
While the trio on the dock continued to frantically return the salutes of their two chuures on the hurricane deck of the staunch steaht not come in amiss Possibly some of those who start to read this bookRod and his four friends in previous volumes of this series
The boys ore the khaki lived in the enterprising town of Garland across the water in the States How they ca a story to narrate here, and those who are curious about the circumstances must be referred to earlier stories for the details
They called their organization the Big Five because they planned to carry out nueous spirits Rod Bradley was really the leader, though Elood second
Then there were Henry Jucklin, known to all his ician; Josh Whitcomb, with a bit of the Yankee in his cos, otherwise ”Rooster”
They had covered many thousands of miles with those wonderful steel steeds, andadventures up to the tio abroad A wealthy old gentleiven them an important errand to carry out, and stood responsible for their expenses to the other side of the Atlantic
Co leisurely down the Rhine country they had been suddenly caught by the war tide; and as it was in Antwerp that Rod expected to ht they had to strike out boldly for that far-distant city
Strange happenings had iuh they would never attain their goal, but ht be sent back as prisoners of war to Germany