How had their rivals fared?  This question was in the minds of every one of our flyers as the Sky-Bird continued swiftly on her course.  In their hearts was a vague feeling that perhaps Pete Deveaux and his crowd might not have come out of the storm as lucky as they, for not one airplane out of a score could have outlived it.  Their own escape had been almost miraculous.  But for the good generalship of John they surely would have met with mishap.