"Come to think of it, Tom was asking for you at the same time," said Bart.  "He'd brought down the mail for the bunch.  He said he had a letter for you.  But you weren't around at the time and he stuck it into his pocket.  Then the boches came swinging at us, and in the excitement I suppose he forgot all about it.  Likely enough he has it with him now--that is if the Huns have let him keep it."