LIEUTENANT O'BRIEN NEARLY
STARVES AS HE CRAWLS i
Synopsis.—Pat O'Brien, a residen
in the American Flying corps
val Flying corps in
France,
He engages in
victor
service
ins the British RR
12 period
service «
flyers, from
German flyers, O'Brien is shot down,
death by a to find 1
in hi
Ww in ois
J
It is sent to
the fro
which he
mn it.
energes io
miracle, awakes
a bullet hole
s sent to a prison camp
upon a train bound
chun
whil
hospital,
hospital,
lesperate
t of Momence, Ill, after seeing
on the Mexican border in 1916,
Canada, and after a brief train
several hot fights with German
Finally, in a fight with four
He falls 8,000 feet and, escaping
German
the
stay
in Germany.
throu
thirty
in a
days in
short
iimself a
at Courtral. After a
CHAPTER VIL
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Crawling Through Germany.
hich 1 ma
to learn how
ow much long
I drage
waded north
» and h
tht came
ned 1}
of
consisted
tw
SRINDGH,
sofks and a
vallet
o shirts, n
be heavy
wool Cael
containing seve
in paper mo
oF I also
had
perty
pre :
ae
had
stolen one
room at
here onal ef
foots t from prison
fornday or two I had carried ¢
it as T had nothing to «
it I discarded it
I traveled
vificalties,
wack
my |
swam an of |
ght, covering in all per!
haps ten miles before daylight. Then
[ locuted 1m somé low bushes, lying
there nll day in my wet clothes and
finishing my sausage for food. That |
ne the Taw* of my rations,
considering
couple
canals that nd
LIEN
ingry and
i over,
still
Myself Richt in a German
Back Yard”
either from
swimming
leep 1
mighty fortunnt it
not a smoker, mehow
never used tobaceo in any f
repaid for
Ime
I have
I was
Wm,
now fully vhatever
in that partic
sufferings would cers
a result of habits
ular, heen use
tainly have been intensified now if,
addition to lack of food and
had had to endure a craving
bacco.
About
my
ny
the sixth nizht T was so
to sleep
much tempted
night, I knew,
wns
very
the
and 1
wearily
wouldn't in
give
and al
1 perhaps
n to rest for
of wh
lugged along
3
miles, I sat dow
on brush
le
nn were
shock
i
from driz
BOM
rh t
when
in
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CHAPTER VIIL
ret
Nine Days in Luxembourg.
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nn would be wise enouglt
vould not, because
brushes the task
8 from the troak
is feeling of se-
! i
4 3
ng really nothing else 1
but it fal
3
id ) i and see whai o
ad in store for me. I lay there wate
top of the for more than
r. 1 id time again 1 saw {it
tree
thie
ime nt
and 1 k
layed me a tric
in
new tl
ing on
Kk, nie
a
tiently
in
tree was going
came a loud or
of the tree fall
posite to the place where I lay!
guessed right.
Later I heard some children's volees
end sgaln peering through the under
brush I saw that they had brought the
realize hhomy
the top
almost op
I had
s ool
BCE
Ww atsel
Ll ana
ay
I felt to gee them
near at hand, and know that,
hungry as 1 was, I could have none of
it. 1 was getting tempted to go boldly
enting
S80 to
ghare, but I did not know |
were Germans or not, and |
much to
I swall
il
gone through too
food.
liberty even for
hunger instead.
top |
when
darkne
my
04
i
f the k
|
:
r two
r. but
izh the
not
10 brush
or
with
trees wie
dense, and
I
it
or someone
haopen on to me,
© very near to t
and heard volees of men
in a wagon, but I couldn't
just what they were, and
instinct told me I had better not come
out of the o 1
4
ot
woods, s turned back.
had been dug,
might adled a weary fugitive,
but now they, too, were filled
water, Once I singled out a good big
tree and large beanches and thought 1
might elimb in*o it and go to sleep,
but the fonger ¥ looked at it
1 realized that it would require more
irs I had in my present weak
1 I condition, so didn’t at-
have er
with
energy tl
I chose a spot that looked a
the rest, concluded to
§ people that could not st
I was | chose to do so.
throughout |
carcely
nap.
into a col
off for a
led by sop
wt len
ZO
Map Showing
Made in Passing
Belgium
Line 8S
of His Jou
into
waited on t}
dawn and then
pla
where I might
gust, s
ng some
with a view to findl
magine my «i
x he
» exact
nd discou ment, (OO, 8 nan
hour or so later ytne upon th
place where | ent the ds
and I realizes yat all night |
is I was try- |
OR
een circling the very woo
way from. I thi
11 of a quarter «
fn ©
ngtoget an
ne
i
CHAPTER IX.
| Enter Belgium.
1 wants to 14 it wa
would be
fi comp
1ke w
have been a Godsend to me.
With a name as Irish as mine,
only natur
a
ss 41
jo 3
OR ¢
are ver
fow the
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portunit
than the cows them
are housed in b
homes and val
their fortunate ©
that I might nd a
some place in the fields, but
| travels 1 never saw a goat or a |
! and only a few cows, Several times |
gearched nests for eggs, but & bods
| always had beaten me to it, as
{ even found so much as a Cg.
There was no chance of getting awn)
with any “bullying” stuff in Luxem
bourg. 1 knew, because the young men
have not been forced into the army
and are still at home, and as they ar
decidedly pro-German,
1h
i
in ti
for m
cow
wor
O'Brien reaches Belgium and,
facing starvation, he risks cap-
ture by going boldly to a Belgian
home and asking for aid. With
an rovised weapon in his
hand, he is prepared to go to
any extreme in order to get food,
Read about this exploit in the
next instaliment,
mm
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I never | Im
nest
° (TO BE CONTINUED.)
A Canon's Daughter, Probably.
From an English story: “Come and
have some tea,” she cordially hoomed
i Tt was not like taking things away
as she passed.~Moston Transcript
from old men and women or robbing