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Two mornings before , while making his first flight alone , from the training camp near Paris , something went wrong with his engine while he was but a thousand feet in the air -- and over Neuilly . He had to glide down , and being over a town he could not make a landing . They took him from the wreck of his plane , to the hospital near by -- fortunately an American Red Cross Hospital , where the people recognized him and sent for his aunt . All day and all night he had lain unconscious , and at noon had opened his eyes for a minute to find his aunt beside him . `` I brought with me , '' said Auntie , in a tone so significantly casual that it arrested our attention before she added , `` that capable young nurse , the first assistant -- '' As she spoke she caught Henry 's eyes and held him from looking at me . `` You mean the one -- '' said Henry in a tone quite as casual as Auntie 's while giving eye for eye . `` Yes , your pretty mid-western girl .