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Looks like there might be some other motorcycle fellows around these regions , though I guess they 've left their mounts behind . '' It was Hanky Panky who said this . They had halted at a wayside spring to refresh themselves , for the road was proving pretty dusty . At noon the three boys had swung through Ostend on the Belgian coast . The famous watering place did not look just the same as on other summers , when tens of thousands visited it for the sport to be enjoyed in the sea . True , it was swarming with people , but in the main soldiers walked the sands , and there was a decidedly martial air to the place generally given up to gaiety . The boys had , of course , been stopped quite frequently .