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SYNOPSIS.
CIIAPTKK I Introduc tory. I’at O’Brien
tells of ms purpose in writing the sloiy
of his mi ventures.
CIIAPTKK 11 —Tells of his enlistment In
the Koyul 1-lying turps, his training in
Canada anil his transit ! to France for ac
tive duty.
CIIAPTKK III Describes lights In which
ho brought down two German airplanes
and his final fight in which ho was
I brought down woundod within tho Ger
man lines and was made a prisoner of
war.
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CIIAPTKK IV—Discovers that German
hospital staff burbanmsly neglected tho
fatally wounded and devoted their ener
gies to restoring those who might bo
returned to tho firing lines. Witnesses
death In tight of his best chum, l.»lout.
Paul Kainoy.
CIIAPTKK V—He Is taken to the of
ficers' prison camp at Courtral. There he
began planning his escape. By groat sac
rifice lif manages to j.ivo and hide away
1 tvs o dally rations of bread.
CHAITKK VI-IP* confiscates a map of
Germany and Just half an hour later Is,
I put on a train bound for a prison camp
1 in Germany, lit* haps through A window ,
j while tho train Is traveling nt a rate of 30 I
miles an hour.
' CIIAPTKK VII For nine days he
1 crawls through Germany, hiding during
the day, traveling at night, guided by tho
stars and subsisting on raw vegetables,
i He covers 75 miles before reaching Lux
emburg.
i <jtlA KfiSK Vlfi- For nine days moro ho
| struggles on In a weakened condition
through Luxemburg In tho direction of
| Belgium.
CIIAPTKK IX —Ho endures terrlblo
I hardships, swims rivers while delirious
from hunger, living like a hunted animal
md on the eighteenth day after Jumping
from the train 1^ * crosses into Belgium.
CIIAPTKK X When well on his way
through Btdgiuni ho is befriended ono
night by a Fh-mlsh peasant, who feeds
him arid directs him to a man In a Bel
gian city who will ii< lp him It* got a pass
port.
CIIAPTKK ::i By mlngl!:: : with Bel
gian p- asantr. he manage* t.. elude Ger
man soldiers and ie.minus the Belgian < tty
where he finds the home of tho man from
Whum he exp- - is heip
| CILAPTKKXII Huyhger forges a pass
| port for O’Brien and promises to assist
I Mm in getting into Holland. Later Huy
1 liger and his associates demand an ex
orbitant sum for their services and
I O'Brien breaks with them.
CIIAPTKK XIII IB- spends five days
and nights In an uno- oupled house with
out food except for the scraps he picks up
In night forays.
CHAPTER XTV-To Bain confidence for j
th®. iulventures to come in his attempt to ,
get into Holland, he ventures one night !
Into a moving picture theater patronized
by German soldiers.
CIIAPTKK XV—Some observations in a
Belgian city.
CIIAPTKK XVI — IIo leaves the city In
the daytime and after some hair-raising
adventures reaches tho frontier of Hol
land.
CIIAPTKK XVII—He passes the elec
trically charged wire barrier that sepa
rates Belgium from Holland by digging
under tie wire Seventy-two days after,
he had leaped from tho train he breathes
the air of freedom.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Experiences in Holland.
Hut I wuk not quite out of the
woods.
I now knew thut 1 wns in Holland,
loit just whore 1 Imd no idea. 1 walked
i for ah,ait thirty minutes and eaiae to
a path loadiiu; to the rlttht, anti I had
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Heard the German Guard Coming.
i proceeded along; it hut a few hundred
yards when I saw In front of me a
i feme exactly like the one 1 had
I crossed.
"This is funny,” ! said to myself. “I
didn’t know the 1 Mitch hud a fence,;
too.” I advanced to the fence and
examined it closely, and Judge of my
astonishm. at when I saw beyond it a
nine-foot fence apparently holding
live wires exactly like the one which
had nearly I.. tin- death of me!
i IuhI very little time to conjecture
"'bat it all meant, for Just then I
heard a guard coining, lie was walk
irig so fast that I was sure it was a
1 Mitch sentry, as the Huns walk much
slower.
I was so bewildered, however, that
I decided to take no chances, and as
the road was fairly good I wandered
down it and away from that mysteri
ous fence. About half a mile down I i
«ould see the light of a sentry stn
tion and I thought I would go there j
•md tell my story to tin* sentries, real
izing that as 1 was unarmed It was
perfectly safe for me to announce
myself to the IMitch authorities. I
r,,uld be Interned only if I entered
Holland under arms.
As I approached the sentry box (
noticed three ne n in gray uniforms, !
the regulation IMilch color. I was on ;
the verge of shouting to them when
the thought stnu'k me that there was
Just a chance I might be mistaken,
as the Herman uniforms were the '
same color, and I had suffered too ■
many privations and too many narrow |
escapes to lose all at this time hy
Jumping nt conclusions.
I had just turned off the road to go
back into some bushes when out of
the darkness I heard that dread Her
man command :
“Halt ! Halt!”
He didn’t need to holler twice. I
ik'iimi iiii'i 11> i t11*ij iih* 11i si um»\ i iien
I heard another man come running up,
and there was considerable talking,
but whether they were Hermans or
Hollanders t was still uncertain. He
evidently thought some one was on the
Other side of tin* fence.
Finally I heard one* of them laugh
and saw him walk haek to the se-ntry
station where the- guard was billeted,
and I crawled a little* nearer to try to j
make out Just what it me ant. I had
begun to think it was all a night
mare*.
F»e*tween myself and the light In the
sentry station, I then noticed the j
stooping figure* of a man bending over
as if to conceal himself and on his j
head was tin* spike-el helmet of a Her
man soldier !
I knew then what another narrow
escape- I had had, t"r I am quite- sure
lie would have* shot me without ce*n*
mony if I had foolishly made* myself
known. I would have* been buried at
once* and no one* would have be-en any
wiser, even though, technically spe ak
ing. I was on neutral territory and im
mune from capture or attack.
This new shock only se rve d to be
wilder tin* more. I was completely
lost. The re seemed to he frontier be
hind me and frontier in front of me.
Evidently, however, what had hap
pened was that I had lost my sense ■
of direction and had wandered in the* j
arc <*f a circle*, returning to the same I
fe*nce that I had been so h»ng in get
ting through. This solution of the
mystery came to me suddenly and I at
once searched tin* landscape* for some
thing in the way of a landmark to
guide me. For once my faithful
friend, the North Star, had failed me.
'Hie* sky was pitch black and there
wasn't a star in the heavens.
In the* distance, at about what ap
peared to he* about three miles away,
hut which turned out t«» be six, 1 could
dlsce*rn tin* lights of a village, and I
knew it must lie- a Dutch village, as
lights are* not allowed In Belgium in
that indiscriminate way.
My course was now clear. I would
iimkf :i 1mm line- fur that villain* He-forO
I tmil gone very far 1 found myself In
a marsh or swamp and I turned hack
n little, hoping to find a hotter path.!
Finding none, I retraced my steps(
and kept straight ahead, determined'
to reach tluit village at all costs and
to swerve neither to the rigid or left
until I got there.
One moment I would tie in water up
to my knees and the next I would sink
in mud clear tip to my waist. 1 paid
no attention to my condition. It was
merely a repetition of what I had gone
through many times before, hut this
time I had a definite goal and once 1
reached it I knew my troubles would
be over.
It took me perhaps three hours to
reach firm ground. The path I struck
led to within half a mile of the village.
I shall never forget that path: it "as
utmost as welcom# to my feet as the
opposite bank of the Meuse had
seemed
The first habitation I eaine to was a
little workshop with a bright light
shining outside. It must have been
after midnight, hut the people Inside
were apparently Just iptitHtig work.
There were three men and two hoys
engaged in making wooden shoes.
It wasn't necessary for me to ex
plain to them that I was a refugee,
even If I had been able to speak their
language. I was caked with mud up
to my shoulders and I suppose my face
must have recorded some of the ex
periences I had gone through that
memorable night.
‘‘I want the British consul!" I told
them.
Apparently they didn’t understand,
hut one of them volunteered to con
duct me to the village. They seemed
to he only too anxious to do all ihey
could for me; evidently they realized
I was a British soldier.
It was very late when my compun
\ ion finally escorted me Into the vll
! lage, lint he aroused some people he
! knew from their beds and they
dressed and came down to feed ine.
The family consisted of an old lady
and her husband and a son. who was u
soldier In the Dutch army. The cold
shivers ran down my hack while he sat
tieside me, beeause every now arid
again I caught a glimpse of his gray
uniform and it resembled very mu»h
that of t!»e Herman "Idlers.
Some of the neighbors, aroused by
the commotion, got up to see what It
was nil about, and dime in and
watched while I ate the meal those
good Dutch p» ople prepared for me.
Ordinarily I suppose I would have
been enibnrrussed with so many peo
ple staring at me while I ate ns
though I were some strange animal
that has Just been ruptured, but just
then I was too famished to notice or
care very much what other people did.
There will always he a warm place
in my heart for tin- Dutch people. I
had heard hits of persons say that
they were not inclined to help refu
gees, hut my experience did not bear
these reports out. They certainly did
more for ipe than I ever expected.
I had a little Herman money left,
hut as the value of Herman money is
only about half in Holland, I didn’t
ImAe enough to pay the fare to Rot
terdam, which was my next objective. I
It was due to the generosity of these i I
people that I was able to reach the
British consul as quickly as I did.
Some day I hope to return to Holland
and repay e\erv single soul who,
played the part of the good Samari
tan to me.
With the money that these people
cave me I was able to get a third
class ticket to Rotterdam, and I was
glad that I didn’t have to travel first
class, for I would have looked as much
out of place in a tlrst-class carriage j
as a Hun would appear in heaven.
That night I slept in the house of
my Dutch friends, where they fixed
me up most comfortably. In the morn
ing they gave me breakfast and then
escorted me to the station.
While I was waiting at the station
a crowd gathered round me and soon
it seemed as if the whole town had
turned out to get a look at me. It was
very embarrassing, particularly as I
could give them no information re
garding the cause of my condition, al
though. of course, they all knew that
I was a refugee from Belgium.
As the train pulled out of the sta
tion, the crowd gave a loud cheer and i
the tears almost eume to my eyes as 1
I contrasted in my mind the conduct •
of this crowd and the one that had |
gathered at the station in Hhcnt when
I had departed a prisoner en route j
for the reprisal camp. I breathed a
sigh of relief as I thought of that re
pi sal camp and how fortunate I had
really been, despite all my sufferings,,
to have escaped it. Now, at any rate,
I was u free man and I would soon he
s» ding home the joyful news that I
ha 1 made good my escape!
(To he Continued)
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