&é ——— _ Fr— Synopsis.~Pat O'Brien, ing period is sent to France. He service on the front, death by a miracle, hospltal, with a bullet hole in there he is placed upon a train bi His throug hour, wounds crawls h « sleeping by day on gardens, He is driven almost Belgium, he risks detection by go home had taste reopened ormany and .: ] , living I in 18 days. is assigned to a squadron in active hot fights with German Finally, in a ficht with four ind, os f pri in a German After a few davs in the After a short stay 1 prison camp in Germany, He le Nino eing “er yin or aping elf i mouth. t Courtral. ioner through miles an Htecally night and stolen from by hunger and, reac hing 1 to the wd he ips trav 0 O'Brien almost traveling at © ond the fall, raw vegetables peration of the nigh first ie t cooked fi CHAPTER X.—Continued. — —— The knack of making fire with of dry woo ad often read never put it to a test reasons I Ve two pieces 1 u concel for d matches me to es that IY tomatoes or nee nevi of the it that after, away pea all ipparently ar for fruit, as F ahile to re peat it, and ponds that fish of differer i either in the early I turned In for light nights when clear in spots ieed simple matter to rig itch fish, cans of cooking them ie%8 to fish for the sake nd some of it. hi took cotintr iginm my ate st { une must have covered twelve miles during the night, without passing gle farm or field, My stock turnips liad picked the night be fore was gone and 1 piano urs to carry through day. The north Star was shining brightly that night znd there was absolutely nothis; to prevent my steering an ab- toluteyy cirect course for Holland and libergy, “st my path seemed to le through ana pastures, ar to of : PF $ % y rr GY EF iy OF €O Sts €RONENR sw LO the we “You Can Hear and Talk If You With ~-Am | Not Right?” a Baeian peasant, about fifty years of He ked me in Flemish what 1 wanted, but 1 my head and pointing to ears and mouth intl { mated that I was deaf and dumb, and | then I opened and closed my mouth several times to show him that 1 wanted food, He showed me inside and sat me at the table. He apparently lived alone, for his i-furnished room had but one chalr, and the plate and knife and fork he put before me seemed to be all he had. Me brought me some cold uge, 1 $ SHooK my and several slices of stale bread, and he warmed me some milk on a small oll stove. I ate ravenously and all the time I ing me closely. Jefore I was half through he came over to me, touching me on the shoul- touched he English, hman—1 know it and talk if you wish was almost br ken my ear, said In “You are an Eng- and you can hear smile on his There a i | that replied : he could “You an me instinctively trusted, and I wd right—only I am not an Englishman.” He looked at me pityingly and filled cup warm milk, Mis "in can, with again kinds | like he wwered felt cquUence Huns discs me, hod to escape into wl warning him of the would suffer if the he had befriended Con been shot for help Holland, and might happen to 1 old Samaritan If 1 Hun he he had helped an « this ever aped int that as finis as I of the ex tnguage could periences ind I outlined CHAPTER XI. Encounter German Soldiers. Belgian told me al need of ¢ 18s Dor » me fire Suppose 1 should sentry before 1 the can run in HUCK 3 il : ae and which 1 fear of identifying so there who befriended with the had discarded and had obtained had not been quite as careful as I was at first. While I had done ms eling at night. I had not gone into hiding irly In the morning as before I had sometimes started again it was quite dark, utmost precat my civiinn clothes, trav S80 €F and before would prob- ably be mistaken for a Belgian on his way to or from work, as the be. From now on, I resolved, however, would take no more chances, That evening I eam4 to a river per seventy-five yards wide and 1 getting ready to swim it when 1 thought 1 would walk a little way to case I i to the river from the bank. I had not thah a few It was the ret time I 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 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 the map and I had no idea where it might lead we, Very reluc tantly, therefore, 1 had to abandon the boat 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 through the bushes a heavy thick wood only a short distance away. I decided that I would start earlier than usual, hurry fo i in the daytime and galn just so much time. Traveling through the wood would be comparatively safe. There golng through the wood, but I did not figure that that would make it any the less safe. About three o'clock that afternoon, place and hurried into the wood. After proceeding for half a mile or 80 I came to the rallrond. I took a sharp look in both directions and ing no signs of trains or soldiers, 1 walked boldly over the continued my way. I soon upon a clearing and knew that someone must be living in Be tracks and on cane glve away mv national would be af As I marched alone 1 fol I couldn’t of the ne used to sing Ypres, In this happy frame of mind I coy- tolerulily help WwW Di WwW pa ¢ rdroiae hour and village, then came to another little My usual course 11d have been around it—through field back yards, woods or whatever elge lay in my way-—-but I had gained much tirne by going through the last villuge Instead around it and my appearance seemed to be so Wie to go of detouring same stunt again, I stopped humming and much on the alert, but that, I walked boldly main street vithout alarm. I bad proceeded along the mal ahead of me three standing at the curb. Agnin my heart started to beat faust I must confess, but I was not nearly 0 seared as 1 had been an hour or 50 before. I walked ahead, determined to fol- low my previous procedure in every kept apart through feeling Very from the ¢ any ol perhaps a treet when 1 German As I turned a group of trees 1 saw small house and in an old man working in I decided to enter the and ask for food, figuring the wornman would probably be old and would match for hostile. The old woman to the door in r« nse to knock older than I expected. If wasn't clo to a hundred, I miss gues Sh wil a garden, who came po my was 8 very much, e could not sg not ak } rtheless | ak English mish, of mind maage and 1 could "1 but stand that I war neve under to } her ited something $ ne out of the d he 1 door loed for her hu band In a shrill that would have done or mes have to three, 1 de try my in the vill luck through next a i X Dé sy i ho Ww were nro i I was afrald to mis it impo to them and it Ouse suspicion ight be treacherous 0 deliver me to the Germans reward be might be I that ovening i e right belgi ~]1 knew it from its red lights—and side of the street m soldiers in against a bicycle, "a8 Aa ms a problem which called decision ; of the soldiers womnld int icion } ntly aroused and If 1 crossed they might be equally sus- I decided to march Dravely the Huns, bluff my way through howe yer, I gines, comfortable as approached these My | heart beat so loud I was afraid they Every step I took | uch nearer to what i It was a nerveracking ordeal. | I was now within a few feet of them. Another step and— They didn't turn a hair! 1 passed heard what they were saying, although, of course, 1 didn’t | understand it, and went right on. I; can't say I didn't walk a litte faster | as I left them behind, but I tried to | maintain an gait so a8 not to give them any idea of the inward ex- ultation I was experiencing. No words can explain, however, how relleved 1 really felt—to know that I had sue cessfully passed through the first of fn geries of similar tests which I real- Ized were In store for me-although I did not know then how soon 1 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 appearance at any rate to attract the attention of the German soldiers, Apparently I looked like a Belgian peasant, and it could only work things so that I would never eyen i ! i i i particular, I had ge the stepped shouted 3 “Halt 1" My heart stopped beating moment, I believe, it stopped beating ther! I can't att to »t to about fifteen feet oldliers when the away one of them sidewalk and { . irom Onto a myst de- i i J Taken of Lieutenant O'Brien Before His Capture. With Him Is His Chum, Lieutenant Raney. He f self be ] takes , Com stood Ihad a and a piece as the Hun held the 4 the he ¢ It occurs fo ne that “frisk” me—that iz, feel th weapons, l and march me off to I had not the bottle of water in o ad in t} fo 1¢ « oe of 1 HE oun Arms or « me under arrest the guardhou est idea but I was ean lidn't to be mucl resisting, unarmed as 1 was a: two other German soldiers few feet of us. ash it suddenly dawn r. that for all this soldier iid have known I was only a Bel- t and that his object in gian peasant or Sr, that scem within Like a f1 me, howeve om searching me, was to committed smuggling The Belgians were allowed ouly certain amount of potatoes, and it is against the laws laid by the Huns to deal in vegetables of any Kind except under the rigid rv sion of the authorities. Nevertheless, yf the principal vox re In Belgian to buy i country from geile them into them 1 dn a0 the common “crime” of potatoes, down SUPE su § One « ations » 1 the igh price affic in potatoes, re in the habit 8 to being held no other rm I might be a destinely To stop 12 Gorman soldie the search, and X this for that he thought smuggler! 03 inns wns soldier He felt of my outside clothes snd pockets, and finding no potatoes seemed to be quite satisfied, Fad he but known who I was he could have earned an fron cross! Or, perhaps, in view of the fact that ! had a heavy water bottle Im my uplifted hand, it might have turned out to be a wooden cross! He sald 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 bad sald: “It's all izht, you may go on” or he may have been talking to the others in Flemish, but any rate, observing that he was more interested in the he was in me at the mo-~ t} my pocket at the bottle in 'w steps, 1 took a backward and noticed who had searched me re. ginnece oldier ¥ fn i . Lo suothier and Pp fellow who then I di had « in ne ippeared the darkne I cannot that left frame of say the adventure outcome of Is ame mind th followed one, I I had out of it all righ u ould LIBS i i helg rot U thinking it a rribly « tioned ving 28 anc worked Crman led. It foo ance that it we his suspici her Investigatio ig A od clothing w thing lished my ming of nothing, It I knew 8 then well « it attempt to find wa ock and or ta ce in the to do the given street » get there, ns closely. ets for about an hour, © upon one of the narks my friend had described to me and ten minutes afterwards I was knocking at the « if the man whe was to make it possible for we to reach Holland--and liberty! At least. that was what I hoped. 1.2 wouiaq he to lo elgian had given me and ha good descr d directed d his After walki half | 2 Fy a1 anal Or « in to re. prospect of O'Brien is promised help getting across the rrontier Holland, but just as he is Jjoicing over the early freedom, is rudely awakened from his dream. Read about it in the next instail- men he (TO B CONTINUED) Wood Grapple Saves Work, The bandling of logs by means of a is not only more spectacular than the saving in labor and has made it pos. sible to pile logs to a great height. 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