Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1918, Page 5

CHAPTER XI. 1 Encounter German Soldiers. — What the Belgian told me about the need of & passport gave me fresh couse for worry. Suppese I should run into a German sentry before I succeeded in getting one? _ { I decided thet until I reached the big city which the Belgian had men- tioned—and which I cannot name for fear of identifying some of the peopie there who, befriended me—I would proceed with the utmost precaution. Since I had discarded my uniform and had obtained ctyilian clothes, I Last Photograph Taken of Lieutenant O’Brien Before His Captdre. With Him Is His Chum, Lieutenant Raney. had not been quite as careful as I wes at first. While I had done my trav- eling at night. I had not gone into! hiding so early In the morning as before and I had sometimes started| aguin before it was quite dark, rely- ing upon the fact that I would prob- ably be mistaken for a Belgian on his: way to or from. work, as the case might be. From now on, I resolved, however, I would take no more chance. That eyoning I came to a river per haps seventy-five yards wide and 1) was getting reaay to swim it when I thought I would wate a little way to find, if possible, a better place to get} to the river from the bank. = had not walked more than a few husdred yards when I saw a boat. It was the first time T had seen a boat in all my experiences. It was firmly chained, but as the stakes were sunk in the soft bank it was not much of a job to pull them out. I got in, drank to my heart's content, Shoved over to the other side, got out, drove a stake into the ground and moored the boat. It would have been a simple matter to have drifted down the river, but the river was not shown on thé map and I had no Idea | where it might lead me. Very reluc- | tantly, therefore, I had to abandon the | and proceed on foot. | I made several miles that night and before daylight found a safe place in which to hide for the day, From my hiding place I could see thepuEn the bushes a heavy thick . w only. & short distance away. E decided that I would start earlier than usual, hurry over to the wood and perhaps, in that way, I could cover two or three miles in the daytime and gain just so much time. Traveling through the wood would be comparatively safe. There | was a railroad going thro} the wood, but I did not figure that that would make it any the less safe. About three o'clock that afternoon, therefore, I emerged from my hiding | place and hurried into the wood. | After proceeding for half a mile. or so I came to the railroad. I took a} sharp look in both directions and see- | ing no signs of trains or soldiers, I | walked boldly over the tracks and | continued on my way. I soon came upon a élearing and | knew that someone must be }iving in, the vicinity. As I turned a group of trees I saw a small house and in the | distance an old man working in a garden, I decided to enter the house sod ask for food, figuring the woman would probably be old and would be ho match for me even if she proved 1 The old woman who came | door in response to my knock was older than I expected. If she ®asn't close to a hundred, I miss my & very much, She could not speak English and & could not speak Flemish, of course, but nevertheless I made her under- stand that I wanted something to eat. She came out of the door and hol- loed for her husband in a sbrill voice that would have done credit to a girl of eighteen, The old man came in from the garden and between the two of them they managed to get the idea {hat I was hungry and they gave me 4 piece of bread—a yery small piece— which was quite-a treat. he house they lived in consisted of just two rooms—the kitchen and a bedroom, ‘The kitchen was perhaps fourteen feet square, eight feet of) one side being taken up by an enor- nious fireplace. What was in the bed- room T had no way of telling, as 1 did not dare to be too inquisitive. 1 made the old couple understand that I would like to stay in their ho all night, but the old man shook hi head. I bade them good-by aad dis-/ “Ppeared into the woods, leaving them ‘© speculate as to the strange for | “suer they had entertained. From the great density of the popu a in this section through which 1} ‘ now passing I realized that. 1} ‘ust be in the outskirts of the big “\\y which the Belgian had mentioned ; ! where I was to procure a pass- ort. Village after village intereepted me, and although I tried to skirt them | Wherever possible I realized that 1) ould never make much progress if | 1 continued that cou To gain a ‘vle T would sometimes haye, to mak “ detour of two or three, I decide that I would try my luck in-going | pin through the» Hext Village 1 *. lat | work things so that I would never | have. to an§wer questions and thus As I approached ft, I passed num- bers of peasants who were ambling along the road. I was afraid to mingle | with them because it was impossible | for one to talk to them and it was dangerous to arouse suspicion even, among the Belgians. For all I knew, | one of them might be treacherous enough to deliver me to the Germans | in return for the reward he might be sure of receiving. Abont 9 o'clock it came to a point why ead of me on the right was a Belgian police station —I knew it from its red lights—and on the other side of the street were two German soldiers’ in uniform) leaning agafnst a bicycle. Here was a problem which called for instant decision; if I turned back | the suspicion of the soldiers would | be instantly aroused and if I crossed | the road so not to pass so closely to them they might be equally sus-| picious. I decided to march bravely | by the Huns, bluff my way through and trust to Providence. If anybody | imagines, however, that I was at all comfortable as I approached these soldiers, he must think I am a much. braver man than I claim to be. My} heart beat so loud I was afraid they would hear it. Every step I took) brought me so much nearer to what might prove to be the end of all my! hopes. It was a nerve-racking ordeal. | I was now within a few feet of, them. Another step and— t ‘They didn’t turn’a hair! I passed | right by them—heard what they were | Saying, although, of course, I didn't | understand it, and went right on. I) can't say I didn’t walk a little faster | as I left them behind, but I tried to/| maintain an even gait $0 as not to evening I! give them any idea of the inward ex- |- ultation I was experiencing. No words | can explain, howeyer, how relieved I) really Yelt—to know fhat I had suc- | cessfully passed through the first of | a series of similar tests which I real-| ized were in store for me—although | I did not know then how soon I was to be confronted with the second. -As it was, however, the incident | gave me a world of confidence. It| demonstrated to me that there was nothing in my appéeirance at any rate to attract the attentfon of the German Apparently I looked like a soldiers. d id only Belgian peasant, and if give away my nationality, I figured I would be tolerably safe, As I marched along I felt so happy T couldn't help humming an air of one of the new pateiotie songs that we used to sing at the airdrome back in Ypres: ahs | In this happy frame of mind I cov. | ered the next three miles in about an | hour gid then came to another little village. My usual course would have heen to go around it—through fields, back yards, woods or whatever else | lay in my way—but I had gained so | much time by going through the last } village instead of detourifig around | it and my appearance seemed to be so unsuspicious that I decided to try the | same stunt again. | I stopped humming and kept very | much on the alert, but apart from | that,” I” walked “boldly through the | main street without any feeling of | alarm, | I had proceeded perhaps a mile | along the main street when I noticed | ahead of me three.German soldiers | standing at the curb. | - Again my heart. started to beat fast, | I mist confess, bat T was not nearly so seared as I had been an hour or so before. I walked ahead, determined to fol- low my previous procedure in every particular. } I had got to about fifteen feet away | from thé soldiers when one of them Stepped onto the sidewalk and outed: of : i t iy heart stopped beating fast—for | a moment, I believe, it stopped beating altogether! I can't attempt to de- | scribe my feelings, I thought that the jig was up—that all I had gone through and all £ had escaped would ; ndéw ayail me nothing, mingled with | the feeling of (disgust with my: | self because ofthe foolish risk I had taken jn going through te vile lage, combined to take ail the stareh out of me, end f could feel myself | wilting asthe soldier advanced to the | spot where I stood rooted in my tracks. ° | Thad a bottle of water in one pocket sad a plece of bread in the other, gnd 2s (he Hun advaticed to search me I held the bottle up in one hand and | the piece of bread in the other so that he could see that was all 1 bad. | i 1 | do, Was to ascertain whether I had | | through Pek of ag ogg is, feet be es for armg_6r other weapons, place mie under arrest oa march me off to the guardhouse. I had not the slight-_ est idea but that I was captured and | there didn’t seem to be thuch use in| Tesisting, unarmed as I Was and with | two otlier German soldiers within a | few feet of as. | Like a flash it suddenly dawned on | t™me, however, that for all thig soldier could have Known I was only a Bel- | lan peasant and ‘hat his objeet in| hing me, Which he proceeded to; oF} committed the common “ suiuggling potatoes. The Belgians were allowed only a! eértain amount of potatoes, and it is | agulast the laws laid down by the} Huns to deal in vegetables of any, kind except pnder the rigid supervi- | sion of the authorities. Nevertheless, | ime | it was one of the principal vocations of the average poor Belgian to buy Potatoes out, in the country from, Peasants and then smuggle them into, | the large cities and sell them clan-| | destiney ata high. price, \ To stoy this traffic in potatoes, the | German svidiers were in the habit of | subjecting the Belgians to frequent | search, ard I was being held up by} | this soldier for no other reason than | that he thought I might be a potato’| smuggler! He felt cf my outside clothes and} pockets, avi Axding no potatoes | seemed to be quite Satisfied. Had he but known who I was he could have | earned an iron croys! Or, perhaps, in | view of the fict that I had a Benvy | water bottle fa my uplifted hand, it nilght have turaed out to be a wooden | cross | | He said something in German, which, of course, I did not understand, and then some Belgian peasants came | along and seemed to distract his atten- | tion. Perhaps he had said: “Tft’s all right; you may go co,” or he may! have been talking to the others in| Flemish, but at any vate, observing that he Was more intorested in the | other$ than he was in me at the mo-| ment, I put the bottle in my pocket and walked on. After I walked a few uteps, I tooka furtive glunce backward and noticed | the soldier who had searched me re- Join his comrades at the curb and then stop another fellow wh» had come along, and then I disappeared in the darkness, t I cannot say that the outcome of this adventure left me in the same! confident frame of mind that followed the earlier one. I was sure I had! come out of it all right, but I could not help thinking what a terribly close shave IT had. Suppose the soldier had questioned ine! The ruse I had been following ii my dealings with the Belgian peas- ants—pretending I was deaf and, dumb—might possibly have worked here, too, but a soldier—a German! soldier—might not so easily have been! fooled. It was more thun an even Chance that it would have at least aroused his suspicion and resulted in} furtheF fuvestigation. A search of! my clothing would have revealed a! dozen things which weuld have estab- lished my identity and all my shum- ming of deafness would have availed me ,nothing. As I wandered along I knew that T was now approaching the big city | which my Belgian friend had spokep | . Searched by German Guards. | and had directed me how to get there, _of the Huns beyond their power to | | harm will more than repay me for all | | You'd better turn in now, | enter, he tc | hours, 2 t It sechrred wom eet teeoana | store Tor-ine; 1 Yet that f Would In- | cre We a BeTgian would PB ne iD-» on the aa hve: asingly dificult, he pointed out, and] op the top. In the days that were to on fhe third and five finitely prefer to be fighting again in| would bring inevitable disaster in the} come I was to have plenty of oppor- Huns. who had been the cause of my | present plight—then, at least, I) would have a chance to fight back, bot now I had to risk my life and| take what was Coming to me without & chance to strike a blow in my.own defense. - I shall never forget my feelings as| we came within the shaft of light pre-| ! Jected by that great are light nor the faces of those three~ guards as we passed by them. I didn’t look directly | at them, but out of the corner of my vye Z ever missed a detail, I held a) handkerchief up to my face as we/ passed them and endeavored *to fit: | tate the slouching gait of the Belgian as well as I could, and apparently ‘it | i worked. We walked right by those guards and they paid absolutely no attention to us. If ever a fellow felt like going down on bis knées and praying I did at that moment, but it wouldn't have done to show my elation or gratitude in that conspicuous way. It was then welhafter 11 o'clock and I knew it would be unsafe for me to. attempt to find a lodging place in the | city, and the only thing for me to do } was to locate the Man whose name the | Belgian had given me. He had given me a good description of the street | and I followed his instructions closely. After walking the streets Tor about half an hour, I came upon one of the landmarks my friend had described to me and ten minutes afterwards I was knocking at the door of the man who was to make it possible for me to reach Holland—and liberty! At least, that was what I hoped. CHAPTER Xil. The Forged Passport. For obvious reasons, I cannot de | scribe the man to whom I applied for the passport nor the house in which | he lived. While, In view of what sub- sequently happened, I would not be) very much concerned {if he got into trouble for having dealt with me, I} | realize that the hardships he had en- dured in common with the other in- habitants of that conquered city may possibly have torted his idea of right and justice, and I shall not de- \fberately bring further disaster on _ him by revealing his identity. | This man—we will call him Huy- liger becanse that is as unlike his name as it is mine—was very kind to me on that memorable night when [ aroused him from his sleep and in a few words of e ation told him of | my, plight. He invited me inside, prepared some | food for me and, putting on a drest | ing gown, came apd sat by me while I ate, listening with the greatest inter- est to theyshort account of my adyen- tures. He vould spea’ English fluently, and hé interrupted me several times to ex- | press his sympathy for the sufferings I had endured. “O'Brien,” be cluded my story, id, after’I had con- am going to help you. It may ral days—per- | haps as long ast weeks—but event- ually we will provide the means to en- able you to get to’ Holland.” I thanked him a thousand times and told him that I didn’t know how I/ could possibly repay him, | “Don’t think of that,” he replied; “the satisfaction of knowing that 5 a have aided in placing one more victim | the risk I shall run in helping you. "Brien, and | in the morning I'll tell you what I plan to do.” As [removed my clothes and noticed hat my knees were still swollen to twice their normal size, that my left ankle was black and blue from the wrench I had given it when I jumped from the train and that my ribs showed through my skin, I realized what a lot T had been through. As @ matter of fact, I could not have welghed more than one hundred and fifty pounds at | that time, whereas I had tipped the Scales at one hundred and ninety when I was with my squadron in France. lost no time in getting into bed | and still less in getting to sleep. I don’t know what I dreamed of that night, but I had” plenty of time to go through the experfences of my whole life, for when I was aroused by a knock on the door and Huyliger en- tered in response to my invitation to | 1 me that ft was nearly | I had slept for almost twelve | | { | noon! I cannot say that the thought did ) not run through my bead that per- | haps after all I was living in a fool's paradise, and that when Huyliger re- | ‘appeared it would be with a couple of | of and which I would have to enter if I was to get the passport, and I realized now Bow essential it wus to have something to enable me to get) the frequent examinations | to which I expected to be subjected. While I was still debating in my mind whether it was goltig to be pos-) sible for me to enter the city that} night, 1 saw the distance whut ap- peared to be &n are light, and as 1 neared it that was what it turned out 0 be. Beneath the light 1 could make out the forms of three guards, and the thought of having to go | through the same kind of ordeal that I had just experienced filled me with misgivings, Was it possible that. 1 could be fortunute enough to get by again? 4 As I slowed up a little, trying to make up my mind what was best to do, Twas overtaken by a group of Bel glan women who. were shuffling alon; the rond, and I decided to mingl with them and see if I couldn't convey the impression thut I was one ot | their party, a AS we approached the arc light, the| figures of those three soldiers with! their spiked. helmets loamed before | like a regiment. I felt as if I wote walking right into the Jaws of-death. | Ruther than go through what.was ip r | German soldiers behind him, but L dis- | missed such misgivings summarily, re- | alizing that I was doing Huyliger an | injustice to iet such things enter my | bead even for an instant, I had no | right to doubt his sincerity and It | would do me no good to entertain such | suspicions, If he was going to prove treacherous to me, I was powerless any way to cope with him. In a few moments my host reap- peared with a tray containing my breakfast. I don't suppose I shall cyer forget that meal. It consisted of a | cup of coffee—rea! coffee, not the kind | L bud bad at Courtral—several slice of | bread, some hot potatoes ‘and a dish of scrambled eggs, Every monthful of that meg! tasted | like angel-food to me and Huyliger} gat on the edge of the bed and watched Mme. enjoying it, at the same tiie out- Iining the plans he had made tor my escupe, ; In brief, the scheme>was to conceal me in a convent antil conditions were ripe for wie to make my way to the | border. In the meanwhile I was to be dressed in the garb of a priest, and| when the time came for me to leave the city I was to pretend that I was a Spanish sailor, because I could speak a. little Spanish, which I bad picked | the alr with those four desperate | event that I was called upon to speak. | tanity to familiarize myself with the Huyliger said I would be given gif contents of that house but at that time ficient money to bribe the German I did: not kdow it and I wan curious guards at the Dutch frontier, and He| esotgh to want to know just what the | fissured mo that everything would work | hose contalned. out according to schedule. Down In the basement there was « “Yonrs i$ not the first case, O'BHEn, | buge Pantry but it was absolutely bare. we have handled successfully,” he de-| except of dust and dirt. A door which clared. “Only three weeks ago T heard f evidently led to 2 sub-basement at- Outlining the Plans He Had Made for My Escape. from an English errant who Nad escaped from a German detention catap wedee aba | and came to me for asst} whom T had been able to get through the lines. His mossage telling me of his safe arrival in Rotterdam came to me in an indirect way, of course, but the fact that the plans we ‘had made enrried through without mishap makes me feel that we ought to be able to do as much for you.” I told Muyliger I was ready to follow his instructions and would do any- thing he suggested. } | tratted my attention and I thought it might be a good idea to know just where {t led to in case it became netes- sary for me to elude searchers. Ia that cellar I found case after case of choice wine—Huyliger subsequently told me that there were 1.800 bottles of it! I was so happy at the turn my affairs had taken and in the rosy pros- Deets which I now entertained that I | was half inclined.to indulce in a little | iting bedroom after bedroom, I discoy-| | Germans had apparently | | | and brought me some b “T want to rejoin my squadron as, soon as I posstbly can,” “but I realize that lt will take a cer- tin length of fime for you to make the Necessary arrangements, and I will be as patient as I ean.” ‘The first thing to do, Huyliger told me, was to prepare a passport. He had a biank one ond it was a comparatively | simple matter to fill in the spaces, us- ipg a genuine passport which Huyliger Possessed as a sample of the hand- writing of the passport clerk. My oc- told hit, | cupation was entered as that of a! sailor. My birthplace we gave a& Spain, and we put my age at thirty. As a matter of fact, at that time I) could easily have passed for thirty- five, but we figured that with proper food and a decent place to sleep at night, F could soon regaih my normal appearance, and the passport would | have to serve me, perhaps, for several | weeks to come Filling in the blank spaces on the Passport was, as I have said, a com- paratively easy matter, but that did not begin to fijl the bill. Every gent-| ine passport bere an official rabber stamp, something like an elaborate | postmark, and I wis at a loss to know how to get over that difficulty. ~ Fortumately, however, Huyliger had | half of a rubber stamp which had eyi- | dently heen thrown away by the Ger mans, and he planned to construct the other half out of the cork from a wine bottle, He was yery skillful with a penkuife, and although be spoilt. a score or more of corks before he suc- j ceeded in getting anything like the result he was after, the finished article was far better than our most sanguine expectutions. Indeed, after we had pared it over here and there, and re- moved whatever imperfections our re- | | peated test disclosed, we had a stamp which made an impression so closely resembling the original that without a magnifying glass, we were sure, it would have been impossible to tell | that it was @ counterfeit. Huyliger procured, a camera and took a photograph of me to paste on the passport ly the place provided for that purpose, and we then had a pass port which was entirely satisfactory to both of us and would, we hoped, Proye equally so to our ftiends thé Huns. It had taken two days to fix up the passport. informed me that he had changed his | asked. a celebration then and there. On second thonght, however, I remembered the old _ warning of the folly of shouting before yon are well out of the woods, and I decided that it would be just os well to postpone the festivities for o while and go to bed Instead. In such an elaborately furnished house I had naturally conjured up ideas of a wonderfully targe» bev with thick hair mattress. downy quilts and big soft pillows. Indeed, | debated for a while which particular bedroom I should honor with my pres- ence that night. Judge of my diaap polntment, therefore, when after vis ered that there wasn't a bed in any one of them that was in a condition to sleep in. All the mattresses had been remoyed and the rooms were abso- lutely bare of everything in the way of wool, silk or cotton fabrics, The swept the house clean. There was nothing to do, therefore. but to make myself as comfortable as I could on the floor, but as U had grown accustomed by {his time to sleeping under far less comfortable conditions, I swallowed my disappointment 2» cheerfully as I could and lay down for the night. In the morning Huyt! kfast, and after IT had eaten it he asked me what connections I fad in France or & land from whom I could obtain money. I told him that I banked at Cox & Co., London, and. that if he needed any money | would do anything 1 to get it for him, although I did know just how such things could be a ranged. “Don't worry about that, O'Brien, he replied. “We'll find a y of ting it all right. What I want to know is how far you are prepared to go te compensate me for the risks I am rendering you!” The change in the man's attitude stunned me. I could hardly believe my ears. “Of course I shall pay you as well as I can for what you have done, Hnyli- ger,” I replied, trying to conceal us far as possible the disappointment bis de mand had occasioned me, “ty t don't yon think that this is hardly the proper time or occasion to talk of compensa- tion? All I have on me, a8 you know, is a few hundred francs, and that, of course, you are welcome to, and when I get back, if I ever do, I shail not ensily forget that kindness you have shown me. I am sure you need have no concern about my showing my gratitude in a substantial way.” oes all right, O'Brien,” he tin- sisted, looking at me in a knowing sort of way; “you may take care of me is, and then agiiin you may not. I'm not satisfied to walt. IT want to be taken care of now!” “Well, what do you want me to do? How much do you expect ‘In the way of compensation? How can I arrange to get it to you? I am willing to do anything that is reasonable.” “I want —— pounds,” he replied and be named a figure that staggere:) me. If had been Lord Kitchener in- stead of jpst an ordinary, Heutenant in the R. F. C., he would hardly have larger sum, Perhaps he thought I was. “Well, my dear man,” I said smiling: ly, thinking that perhaps he was jok- ing, “you don't really mean that, do } you?" In the meapwhile Huyliger | plans about the convent and that in- | stead he would take me to an empty house, where I could reyain in safety until he told me it was advisable for | me to proceed to the frontier. This was quite agreeabl: bad had misgivings as of a priest I would make and {t seemed to me, as to me to be safer to remain aloof from | everyone in @ deserted bouse than to have to mingle with people or come in contact with them, even with the bes | of disguises, to a fashionable section of the city, where the house in whl . concealed was locat This house turn story, structure of brick. Huyliger told me that tt had been oceupled by. 4 wealthy Belginn before the war, but since 1914 it had been unipbabited save for the oceasioval Habitation of some refugee whom Huyliger was befriend: ing. Huyliger had a key and tet me in, but he did not enter the house with me, stating that he would visit me in the morning. © T explored the place from top to bet- tom as well as I could without lights. The house was elnborately furnished, but, of course, the dust lay a quarter of an inch thick everywhere. * It was a, large hogse, containing some twenty, rooms,” ‘There were two rooms in the That night { accompanied Huytiger, I was to a 0 the find | | | { “L certainly do, O'Brien, and what is more,” he threatened, intend to get every cent I have asked, and you are going to help me get it.” He pulled out an order calling for the payment to him of the amount he had mentioned und demanded that I | Sign it. I waved ft aside. “Huyliger, Me out so far and perhaps you hare the power to help me farther. I appre- clate what you have done for me, al- though tow, I t k. [ see what your Motive was, but i certainly don’t in tend to be blackmailed and I tel! rou right now that { won't stand for it. “Very well,” he sald, “it is just ou gpy, but before you make up your yo obstinately I would vise you * think it over. I'll be back this evening.” My tirst impulse, after the man had left, was to get out af that house § soon as I could, I bad the pax he had prepared for me, and I figs that even without further help I pow get.to the border without | Munch diMculty, and when I got there out to be a four! ; anything until he puld me a secon , ' ! WD on the coast. ‘To attempt to play | basement four on thé first oor, four | P would have to use my own inge to get through, Tt was evid liger stil) had an ¢ehan, my mind with re payment he had de cided that ‘it would. be f nt visit, At the beginning of my dealings with Huyliger I had turned some plétutes, papers, and that T had on te w le house, including my identification disk, and | was rather ufrais! that he might refuse to return them to me, ov All day long I remained in the house» without a particle of food other thia ht te Whe brewkfast Hugliger bud bs I said, “you have nelped } we. From the Wihdows 1 counl see | plenty to interest mie and help pass the | time aw but of my experiences While In that heuec J shall tell im de tail Inter on, confining my atteotion now toa narrative of my dealing with Huyliger. ‘That night he appeared as he hed promised. ¥ “Well, O'Brien,” he asked, as be ep- tered the room where I was awaiting him, “what do you say? W the order or not?” It had occurred to me duting the day that the amount demanded waa so fatiulons that I might have signed the 1 you sign | order without any danger of ‘its ever | being. paid, but the idea of this msn, who had ct 0 be be endeavoring to make my plight galled me so that I wis deter- milned not to give it him whether I could do so | tal any I shalt paid for you bavt will not accept any from you at any pri more I t t once all mgings of n pers and be! I turned over to you a day or two 2 , T'm sorry about that, retorted. cerity, If you don" papers at take ster quick to« pictures you country Te you if I to anted to.” hg told me the man was Huoyliger!” I threate pipers ond f Y war midnight tonight “Your Lives Won't Be Worth a Damn.” thorities, give myself up, show them the passport t you fixed for me, tell then got and esplals everythin Huyliger paled. We in the house, but we near a landing at. the moonlight was stained: The started “Mind y fter hita, “I shall wait for y city clack Strikes twelye n't show up with those ne, the next you will se is when yeu cont t yefore t thorities. I am a desperate ger, and Lr He le satou t what he pala march on me and get In a first to the authorities: se at mr 3 uid be Giscredited waen I pat it to the or « up tet y threat to give myself Huns was a pure biug. While I had » desire to } the papers whiet had a which in- clu op and th ast resting pla f poor chum fF » Teer tainly- had tention of cutting off ty ne my face by surren- dering to the Germans. I would have been shot, as sure as fate, for after all T had been able to obsezre Sehind the German lines I would be regartad as nS such th < e Tt thoggne I) de “i a yellow Streak io Huyliger, and T Sgured that he would not want to take the risk of my ¢ eat even the he had of mine we » I ha © been able te asteriaka why it was he Wished te ce tain the a ual they contained same Uiing—some ucimation about me Which accounted for his ‘ coMente MT® towards me ia ihe und he wanted the papers WANTED—Waman to’ do family washing and come to the Phone W prefer. having her house; small family, Jardine at 17. Ll-4-3th ene aoe meee ype ete tone e ae