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SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—Introductory. Pat O'Brien
tells of his purpose In writing tho story
of his ail ventures.
CHAPTER 11—Tells of his enlistment In
the Royal Flying corps, ids training in
Canada and his transfer to France for ac
tive duly.
CHAPTER III —Describes fights In which
he brought down two German airplanes
and his final fight in which ho was
brought down wounded within the Ger
man lines and was made a prisoner of
war.
CHAPTER IV—Discovers that German
hospital staff barbarously neglected tho
fatally wounded and de.oted their ener
gies to restoring those who might bo
returned to the firing lines. Witnesses
death In fight of his best chum. Lieut.
Paul Rainey.
CHAPTER V—Ho Is taken to the of
ficers' prison camp at Courtrai. There ho
began planning Ilfs escape. By great sa< -
rltlce lie manages to save and tilde away
two dully rations of bread.
CHAPTER VI—H«* confiscates a map of
Germany and ,‘ust half an hour later is
put on a train bound for a prison camp
In Germany. Ho leaps through a window
while the train is traveling at a rate of 30
miles an hour.
CHAPTER VII—For nine days he
crawls through Germany, hiding during
the day, traveling at night, guided by the
stars and subsisting on raw vegetables.
He covers 73 miles before reaching Lux
emburg.
UfArruK VIII-For nine days more ho
•truggl^a on In a weakened condition
Btrough Luxemburg In tli« direction of
elgluin
CHAPTER IX—He endures terrible j
hardships, swims rivers while delirious j
from hunger, living like a hunted animal
and on the eighteenth day after Jumping
from the train crosses into Belgium.
CHAPTER A—When well on his way |
night by a Flemish peasiuu, who feed*
him and directs him oo & men la a Hel
Klan city who will help him to get a pass
port.
CHAPTER XI- By mingling with Bel
gian peasants he manages to elude Ger
man soldiers and readies the Belgian city
where he bruin the home of the man from
whom he expects help.
CHAPTER XII -Huyllger forge© a pa.n-s
Krt for O'Brien and promises to assist
m in getting Into Holland. IaUer Huy
liger and his associates demand an ex
orbitant sum for their services and
O’Brien breaks with them.
CHAPTER XIII—He spends five days
and nights In an unoccupied house with
out food except for the scraps he picks up
In night forays
CHAPTER XIV—To gatw confidence for'
the adventures to come in his attempt to
get into Holland, he ventures one night!
into a moving picture theater patronized
by German soldiers.
CHAPTER XV' — Some observations in a
Belgian city.
CHAPTER XVI He leaves the city In
the daytime and after some hair-raising
adventures reaches the frontier of Hol
land.
CHAPTER XVII -Jle passes the elec
trically charged wire harrier that sepa
rates Belgium from Holland by dlgg-ng
under the wire Seventy-two days after
he hn-l leaped from the train ho breathes
the air of freedom.
I kept the ladder In the woods nil
day imd could hardly wait until dark
to make the supreme test. If It proved
successful my troubles were over;
within n few hours I would be In a
neutral country out of all danger. If
1 failed—I dismissed the idea sum
marily. There was no list* worrying
about failure; the thing to do wus to
succeed.
The few hours that were to pass
before night enme on seemed endless,
but I utilized them to re-enforce my
ladder, tying the rungs more securely
with long grass which I picked In the
woods.
At last night came, and with my
ladder In hand 1 made for the barrier.
In front of It there was a cleared
space of about one hundred yards,
which had been prepared to make the
work of the guards easier In watch
ing It
I waited In the neighborhood until I
heard the sentry pass the spot where I
was In hiding and then I hurried
across the clearing, shoved my ladder
under the Imrlied wire anti endeav
ored to follow it. My clothing caught
In the wire, hut I wrenched myself
clear anti crawled to the electric har
rier.
My plan was to place the ladder
against one of the posts, climb up to
the top mid then Jump. There would
be u full of nine or ten feet, and 1
might possibly sprain an ankle or
break my leg, but If that was all that
stood between me and freedom I
wasn't going to stop to consider it.
1 put my ear to the ground to listen
for the coming of tin* sentry. 'I here
was not a sound. Kagerly but care
fully I placed the ladder against the
post and started up. Only a few feet
separated me from liberty, and my
heart heat fast.
1 had climbed perhaps three rungs
of my ladder when 1 became aware
of an unlooked for difficulty.
The ladder was slipping.
Just as I took the next rung, the
ladder slipped, came in contact with
the live wire, and the current passed
through the wet sticks and Into my
body. There was u blue flush, my
hold on the bidder relaxed and I fell
heavily to the ground unconscious.
Of course, I had not received the
full force of the current or I would
not now be here. I must have re
mained unconscious for u few mo
ments. but I came to Just In time to
hear the Herman guard coming, and
the thought mine to me If I didn't get
that ladder coneealed at once he would
see If even though, fortunately for me,
it wa* an unusually dark night.
I pulled the ladder out of his path
and lay down flat on the ground not
seven feet away from Ids feet, lie
parsed so close that I could have
pushed the ladder out and tripped
him lip.
It occurred to me that I could have
dlmhed hack under the harhed wire
fence and waited for the sentry to re
turn and then felled him with a Idow
on the head, as he had no idea, of
course, that there was anyone in the
vicinity. I wouldn't have hesitated
to take life, herause my only thougnt
was to get Into Holland, hut I thought
that as long as he didn’t bother me
perhaps the safest thing to do was not
to bother him, hut to continue my ef
forts during his periodic absence.
His heat at fills point was apparent
ly fairly long and allowed jne more
time to work than I had hoped for.
My mishap with the ladder had con
vinced me that my escape In that way
was not feasible. The shock that I
hud received had unnerved me and 1
was afraid to risk It again, particu
larly as I realized that I had fared
more fortunately than I could hope
to again if I met with a similar mis
hap. There was no way of making
that ladder hold and I gave up the Idea
of using It.
i was rmw right in trout or tins
electric barrier and as I studied it i
saw another way of getting by. If 1
couldn't get over it, whut was the
matter with getting under it?
The bottom wire was only two
inches from the ground and, of course,
I couldn’t touch it, but my plan was
to dig underneath it and then crawl
through the hole in the ground.
I had only my bands to dig with,
hut I went at It with a will and fortu
nately the ground was not very hard.
When I bad dug about six Inches,
making a distance in all of eight
Inches from the lowest electric wire, i
I came to an underground wire. I
knew enough about electricity to real
ize that this wire could not be charged,
as it was in contact with the ground,
but still there was not room between
the live wire and this underground ■
wire fnr me to crawl through, and I
ether had to go hack or dig deep
enough under this wire to crawl under j
It or else pull It up.
This underground wire was about
as Mg around as a lead pencil and
there was no chance of breaking It.
The Jack-knife I had had at the start
of my travels I had long since lost
and even if I had had something to
hammer with, the noise would have
made tho method impracticable.
I went on digging. When the total
distance between the live wire and the
bottom of the hole I had dug was
thirty inches, I took hold of the ground
wire and pulled on it with ull my
strength.
It wouldn’t budge. It was stretched
taut across the narrow ditch I had :
dug—about fourteen Inches wide—
and all the tugging didn't serve to
loosen it.
I was Just about to give up In de
spair when a staple gave way in the
nearest post. That enabled me to pull
the wire through the ground a little
and I renewed my efforts. After a
moment or two of pulling as I had
never pulled In my life before, a
staple on the next post gave way,
und my work became easier. I hail
more leeway now and pulled and
pulled again until In all eight staples
had given way.
Kvery time a staple gave way. It
sounded in my ears like the report of
a gun, although I suppose it didn’t
really make very much noise. Never
theless, each time I would put ruy ear
to the ground to listen for the guard.
If I heard him I would stop working
and lie perfectly still in the dark till
he had gone hy.
Hy pulling on the wire, I was now
able to drag it through the ground
enough to place it hack from the
fence and go on digging.
The deeper I went the harder be
came the work, because hy this time
was nervous—afraid every moment
that I would touch the charged wire.
I kept at It. however, with my mind
constantly on the hole I was digging
and the liberty which was almost with
in my reach.
Finally I figured that 1 had enough
space to crawl through and still leave
n couple of Inches between my hack
and the live wire.
Before I went under that wire I no
ticed that the lare which the Belgian
woman had glvon mo us a souvenir
made my pocket bulge, and lest It
might tie the innocent means of elec
trocuting me by touching the live wire,
I took it out. rolled It up and threw It
over the barrier first.
Then I lay down on my stomach and
crawled or rather writhed under the
wire like a snake, with my feet first,
and there wasn’t any question of my
hugging mother earth ns closely as
possible because I realized that even
to touch the wire above me with my
Imck meant instant death.
Anxious ns I was to get on the other
side, 1 didn’t hurry this operation. I
feared that there might he some little
detail that 1 had overlooked and I ex
ercised the greatest possible cure In
going under, taking nothing for
granted.
When I finally got through and
straightened up, there were still sev
eral feet of Belgium between me and
liberty, represented by the six feet
which separated the electric barrier
from the lust barbed wire fence, but
before I went another step I went
down on my knees and thanked Uod
for my long series of escapes and es
pecially for this last achievement,
which seemed to me to be about all
that ws 8 necessury to bring me tree
| ilom.
Then I crawled wider (he harheil
wire fet ce and hrcallic.l the free ulrof
Hollmrij, I hail m i clear idea Just
where I was and I didn't cure much.
I was O' It of the power of the Hermans
and that was eao mb. I had walked
per hap* a hundred yards, when I re
memhdt fd the laee I had thrown oxer
the hap ier, and dangerous us I real
ized thi Undertaking In he, I deter
mined to walk hack and get It. This
necessitated my going hack onto ltel- j
glun soil again, hut ll seemed a shame [
to leave the luce there, and hy exer
cising a little care I figured I could
get it easily enough.
When I came to the spot at which I
had made my way under the barbed
wire, I put lay ear to the ground and
listened for the sentry. I heard him
coming and lay prone on the ground
till he had passed. The fact that he
might observe the hole In the ground
or the ladder oceurred to me ns I lay
there, and It seemed like an age be
fore he tlnnlly marched out of ear
shot. Then I went under the harheil
wire again, retrieved the lace and once
again made my way to Dutch tt rrl- 1
tory.
It does not take long to describe the
events Just referred to, hut tile Inci
dents themselves consumed several
hours In all. To dig the hole must
have taken me more than two hours
and I had to stop frequently to hide
while the sentry passed. Many times,
Indeed, I thought I heard him coming
and stopped my work and then dls- j
covered that It was only my Imagina
tion. I certainly suffered enough that
night to last nte a lifetime. With a
Herman guard on one side, death from
electrocution on the other, and starvu- j
tion staring me in the face, my plight i
was anything hut a comfortable one.
It was on the lilt it of November, j
1917. when I got through the wire. I
had made my leap from the train on 1
September 9th. Altogether, therefore,
Just seventy-two days hud elapsed
since I escaped from the Iluns. If I
live to be as old as Methusaleh, I never
expect to live through another sev
enty-two days so crammed full of In
cident and hazard and lucky escape.
(To be Continued) i
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