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SYNOPSIS.
( HAI’TKK I Inti.xlin tury. Pat U'Hrlt'n
tull.s uf tn.s in wriUtiK the ttluty
l of Ills udventun a
I Cl 1AI’TKit II T« ’.Is of his enlistment in
the ltoynl dying > .ujis, ills training In
Canada and his trai. !-•» to l iance for a<
tlvo duly.
CIIAl'TKK III Posrrihes lights In whh h
he brought down two Get man airplanes
and his final fight in width he was
brought down wounded within tho Ger
man lines and was made a prisoner of
war. . «*■/•;
i CHAPTER IV—I Msrovcrs that German
; hospital staff barbarously neglected the
fatally wounded un i devoted their ener
gies to restoring those who might bo
i returned to the firing lines. Witnesses
i vi’.iiu in iiKiu ui mo uvu v — • >
Paul liuiney.
CHAPTKH V—lie Is taken to the of
ficers' prison camp at Courtral. There he
I began planning libs escape. Hv great sa> -
rile e be manages to save ami hide away
1 two dally rations ol bread.
CHAPTKH VI ii e.infiscatefl a map of
' Germany and just half an hour later is
I put on a train bound for a prison camp
in Germany He leaps through A window
I while tho train is traveling at a rate of 30
i miles an hour.
j CHAPTKH VII For nine days he
crawls through Germany, hiding during
, the day. traveling ai night, guid« I by the
1 stars and subsisting on raw vegetable.
He covers 73 miles before reaching Lux
emburg.
t ir.\rn.!t vin For nine days more ho
struggles on in a weakened condition
through Luxemburg in the direction of
D< lgium.
CH UTKH IX- Ho endures terrlhlo
hardships, swims rivers while delirious
from I.unget. living 11h. a hunted animai
ind "ii t!'*' 'ighteeiitli day after jumping
from the tiain 1^ - crosses into Belgium.
CHAP r 1;it A Win n well on his way
t! i i * *'. u'11 l.elgium he is befriended on*
night by a l-d-uulsh peasant, who feeds
him ami dlreets him to a man In a Bel
gian «ity who will h* Ip him to get a pass
port..
CHAPTKH F Ky mingling with !: !
gian p san i • I •• i: un.ik’i1' t" . ! id' <. .
m in soldiets •.iid i i'll' Ill's the Belgian - . .
vv I. * • i e I,, finds ii." i une of tho man from
whom lie ex p* ■ ts lie ip
CHAPTKH Nil 11 ayliger forges a pass
port lor <» Bill a ami promises to assist
iilrn In getting into Holland. Later Huy
llger and Ids associates demand an ex
orbltant sum for their services and
U’Brien breaks with them.
CHAPTKH XIII He spends five? days
and nights In an um* copied house with
out food except for the scraps he picks up
in night forays.
CHAPTKH XIV—To gain confidence for
the udventur s to come in his attempt to
get into Holland, ho ventures one night
into a moving picture theater patronized
by German soldiers.
CHAPTKH XV Some observations In n
Belgian city.
CHAPTKH XVI Ho leaves the city In
the daytime and aft- r some hair-raising
adventures reaches the frontier of Hol
land.
Cl IA IT KH XVII—He passes tho elec
trically charged wlr. harrier that sepa
rates Belgium from Holland by digging
under tin wire. Seventy-two days after |
he had leaped from the train In- breathe*
tin- air of freedom.
At Kinhoffen two Dutch officers pit
into the compartment with me. They
iuoi.iMi m mi* who \rry muni insia\or,
not knowing, of course, that I wits a
Ilrl'l-h officer. My clothes were still
pr< tty riniclt In tin* condition they
were when I crossed the border, al
though 1 laid been able to scrape off
some of the ntud I bat] collected tin*
night before. I bad not shaved nor
trimmed my heard for many days,
and I must have presented a sorry
appearance. I could hardly blame
them for edging away from me.
Tin* trip from EinhotYeu to itotter
ilmu pn .seil without special incident.
At various stations passengers would
get in the compartment and, observ
ing my unusual appearance, would
endeavor to start a conversation with
me. None of them spoke English,
however, and they had to use Heir
own imagination as to my Identity.
When I arrived at Uotterdam I
asked a policeman who stood in front
of the station where I could find the
Ilritish consul, but I could not make
him understand. 1 next applied to a
taxicab driver.
“English consul—Ilritish consul—
American consul—French consul!" I
said, hoping that if hi* didn't under
stand one he might recognize an
other.
He eyed me with suspicion and mo
tioned me to get in and drove off. I
had no idea where he was taking me.
hut after n quarter of an hour's ride lie
brought up in front of the ilritish
consul. Never before was I so glad
to see the Union Jaekl
I beckoned to the chauffeur to go
with me up to the office, as I hail no
money with which to pay him, and
when he got to the consulate 1
told them that If they would pay the
taxi fare I would toll them who ]
was and how 1 happened to be there.
They knew at once that I was an
escaped prisoner and they readily
paid the chauffeur and invited me to
give some account of myself.
They treated me most cordially and
were intensely Interested in the brief
account I gave them of my adven
tures. Word was sent to the consul
general and he immediately sent for
me. When I went in In* shook hands
with me, greeting me very heartily
and offering me a chair.
He then sat down, screwed a won
nele on Ids eye and viewed me from
top to toe. I could sec that only goyd
breeding kept him from laughing at
the spectacle I in I'senti'il. I could si,
ho wanted to laugh In tin* worst way.
“Ho ale id and laugh!" I said. “You
can’t offend me the way I feel this
blessed day !’’ and he needed no second
Invitation. Incidentally it gave me a
‘liama* to laugh at him. for I was
about as much amused as he was.
After he had laughed himself about
sick he got up and slapped mo on the
hack and Invited me to toll him my
story.
“Lieutenant,’’ he said when I had
concluded, “you can have anything
von want. I think your experience
entitles you to it,”. —u. ,
"Well, consul, I replied, *‘I would
like a bath, a shave, a haircut and
some ^Kljj^.cd cMhes about ns badly
as a man ever m;c«T**d tfiem, I suppose,
but before that I would like toilet ft
cable off to America to my mother
telling her that I am safe and on my
way to England!”
The consul gave me the necessary
information and I had tin* sari-taction
of knowing before I left the office that
the cable, with its good tidings, was
on its way to America.
Then he sent for one of the naval
men who had been interned there
since the beginning of tin* war and
who was able to speak 1 Hitch and
told him to take good care of me.
After I had been bathed and shaved
and had a haircut I bought some new
clothes and had something to eat, and
I felt like a new mau.
As I walked through tin* streets of 1
Rotterdam breathing tin* air of free
dom again and realizing that there
was no longer any danger of being :
captured and taken hack to prison,
it was a wonderful sensation.
I don’t believe there will ever he a !
country that will appear in my eyes |
quite as good as Holland did then. 1
had to he somewhat careful, however,
because Holland was full of Herman
spies uml I knew they would he keeti
to learn all tln*y possibly could about
my escape and my adventures so that
the authorities in Relgium could mete!
out punishment to everyone who was I
In any respect to blame for It. As I was '
in Rotterdam only one day, they i
mull t nave very inueti opportunity to 11
learn anything from me.
The naval officer who accompanied
me and nrted an Interpreter for me
Introduced me to many other soldiers ,
and sailors who had escaped from Bel* | j
glum when the Germans took Ant-j
werp, and as they had arrived hi Hol
land In uniform and under arms, tho j
laws of neutrality compelled their In
ternment and they had been there ever
since.
The life nf a man who Is Interned
In a neutral county, I learned, Is any
thing lint satisiactory. He gets one
month u year to visit ids homo. If lie;
lives in England ttiat is not so bad,
but if he happens to live farther
away, the time lie lias to spend with
Ills foil;-; Is very short, as the month's
leave does not take Into consideration
tin* time consumed in traveling to and
from Holland. |
The possibility of escape from Hol
land is always there, hut the British
authorities have nil agreement with1
the Dutch government to send refu- |
gees hack Immediately. In this re
speet. therefore, the position of a man
who is interned is worse than that
of a prisoner who, if in* does succeed
in making his escape, is naturally re
ceived with open arms in his unlive
land. Apart from this restraint, how
ever, internment, with all Its draw
hacks, is a thousand times, yes, 11 mil
lion times, better than being u prisoner
of war in Germany.
It seems to me that when the war I
is over and the men who have teen j
imprisoned in Germany return home,
they should he given a bigger and
greater reception than the most vic
torious army that ever marched into
a cltv. for thev will have suffered
und gone through more than the world
will ever be able to understand.
No dould you will lind in the Ger
man prison camps one or two faint
hearted individuals with a pronounced
yellow streak who voluntarily gave
up the struggle und gave Up their lib
erty rather than risk their lives or
limbs. These sad eases, however, are,
I am sure, extremely few. Nine hun
dred and ninety-nine out of a thousand
of the men lighting In the allied lines
would rather he In the front trenches,
fighting every day, w ith all the horrors
und all the risks, than he n prisoner
of war in Germany, for the men In
France have a very keen realization
of what that means.
Hut to return to my day In Hotter
darn.
After I was fixed up I returned to |
the consulate and arrangements were j
made tor my transportation to king
land tit once. Fortunately there was
n boat leaving that very night and 1
was allowed to take passage on it. j
Inst as we were leaving Holterdam.
the boat I was on rammed our own
■ envoy, one of the destroyers, and In
jured It mi badly thul it had to put j
back' to port. It would liavo la i n tl J
strange climax I” my adventure if Ihe |
disaster Imd n tilled in the sinking j
of my host ami 1 had lost my life |
v. bile on my way to England after ,
la.ring sure, --.fully outwitted lb''!
Huns. I tut my luck was with me to!
tbe last, ami while the accident ri
sulted in some delay our boat was not
seriously daman- d und made' the trip
over In schedule time und without fur
ther Occident, another destroyer huv
mg been assigned to escort us through
the danger zone In place of the one i
VJ,en_I arrived in London, the re- 1
action from the strain I had been
under for nearly three tnoij^s itmue- j
dintciy became apparent. My fndTf-s
were In such n state that it was abso- j
iutely Impossible for rye ty cj^tss the
street without being in deadly fear ]
off,, •Ingruii over or trampled. I stood | 1
nt the curb, like an old woman from
the country on her lirst visit to the
eity, und I would not venture across
until some knowing policeman, recog
nizing my condition, came to my as
sistance and convoyed me across.
Indeed, there was a great number of
English olliei-rs at home at ail limes I j
"getting hack tln-ir nerves" after a :
long spell of active service at the j J
front, so that my condition was any- I t
thing hut novel to the London hob
bies.
It was not many days, however, lie
fore 1 regained control of myself and
felt in first-class shape.
Altlu ugh the Ilritish authorities In j
Holland had wired my mother from
Holland that I was safe and on my
way to England, the tlrst tiling I did
when we landed was to send her a i
cable myself.
(To be Continued)
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