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The Forged
Passport.
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whole
annot say that the
ine t
ag 10
herous rr
ho
moments
W tray
sit mun
n't supp
my
cont
al. It consisted
th
of
real coffee, not
ral-—several
potatoes and a
of th
me
and Huyl
he bed and watched
out
me
is were
y to the
wns to be
pris and
ine
and
the
ome
«1 out,
ter in
upon to spe
I would be gi
money to bribe the German
nt the Duteh mtier, and he
dd me that everything would work
acrording to schedule,
yrs #4 not the first case, oO Brien,
we have handled succeasfully,” he de-
clared. “Only three weeks ago I heard
from an English merchant who had
i fi
Hiflicult, he poin
inevitable dis
was called ak.
wkd ven suf-
fre
DEsure
ot
“yr
A
F Hill
ver
vel,
Huylig
than te
in
* COme
city,
was to be
»”
*ompanie
1 Huylig
if th
mn {
in which I
ated.
wl out
. Of brick
to be a four-
Huyliger told
wd been occupied by a
Kian before the war, but
d heen uninhabited save
abitation of some
h
liger was befriend-
iger w
sional
refugee whom Huy
ing.
Huyliger
but he
in,
hot
visit me in
wed the pl co fro
well as 1 could
h ise WN q labor
the dust
m tap to bot.
without lights,
tely furnished,
ny a quarter
here, Ut was a
containing some twenty
o rooms in the
first floor, four
third and five
tom
The
but,
as
of course
house
There were ty
the
thie
donys
rooms,
in
on the second fly
on the top In the that were to
I was to have plenty of oppor.
tunity to familiarize myself with the
contents of that house but at that time
1 did not it and I was curious
enough to want to know just what the
hon ained,
Down in the basement there was a
huge pantry but it was absolutely bare,
except of dust and dirt, A door which
evidently led to a sub-basement nt
tracted my attention and I thought
might be a good idea to know just
where it led to in case it became neces.
gary for me to elude searchers,
Ia that cellar I found case after case
on
Know
se cont
of cholee wine—Huyliger subsequently
told me that there were 1,800 hottles of
it! I was so happy at the turn my
affairs had taken and In the rosy pros-
pects which I now entertained that I
was half inclined to indulge in a little
celebration then and there, On second
thought, however, I remembered the
old of the folly of shouting
before you are well out of the woods,
and I decided that It would be just as
well to postpone the festivities for
while and go to bed instead.
In such elaborately
I had naturally I
of a wonderfully re bed,
thick hair
and big soft
bated for
hedroom 1
ence that
pointmen
warning
0
an
conjur }
muatire downy
pillows, Inde
while which pp
ild honor with my
that sonable.”
nt — pounds,” he re
d a figure that staggered
d been Lord Kitchener
is re
plied,
in
ir man,” I sai
perhaps
really me
he
an tha
» threatened, “I inten
Outlining the Plans He Had Made
My Escape.
every cent 1 have asked,
going to help me get it"
He pulled out an order calling for
the payment to him of the amount he
1d mente and demanded that 1
sign it,
I waved It aside.
“Huyliger,” 1 said, “you have helped
me out so far and perhaps you have
the power to help me further, 1 appre
ciate what you have done for me, al
though now, I think, I see what your
motive was, but I certainly don't In
and you
h
hed
ight now that 1 won't stand for it"
“Yery well,” he sald, “it is just as
you say, but before you make up your
mind so obstinately I would advise
you to think it ever. I'll be back this
evening.”
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UEN 1 RE HALL, PA.
My first Impulse, after the man had
left, was to get out of that house just
08 soon as I could. I had the passport
he had prepared for me, and 1 figured
that even without further help I could
now get to the border without very
much difficulty, and when I got there
I would have to use my own ingenuity
to get through.
It was evident,
Hger still had an
my ind
he had demanded, and 1
that would be fooll to
he paid me a second
that
that I
regard
however, Huy-
night |
the
de
idea
change with to
pay
cided
vihing
wnt
h do
iy
ng of my deal
turned
ove
have
it any danger
but the idea of
i to be bef
» to 1
but I
ance
what is
me at
other
which
or two
fat
to
ind
ue
ing mj
iz him
those
thoritie
the pas
tell the
everyth
Huylig no lights
t standing
and
Pratt oF
roug
We had
but we were
ling at the time
streaming th
window,
in turned on his
go down the st
“Mind sou,” I called after him,
t for you till the city
and if you don't
e papers by that time, the |
1 will see me
the
as h a
Ars, {
"l]
clock |
show
up ‘with tho
next time ye
confront me
is when you |
the German au-|
sperate man, Huy- |
before
I am a de
liger, and 1 mean every word 1 say.”
He let himself out of the door and 1}
sat on the top stair and wondered just
what he ld do. Would he try to
steal a march on me and get in a first
word to the authorit that my
would be when 1
put it to them? !
Of course, my threat to give myself |
up to the Huns was a pure bluff. While :
I had no to lose the papers |
which Husliger had and which in-|
cluded the map and the last resting
place of my poor chum Raney, I cer
tainly had no intention of cutting off
my nose to spite my face by surren-|
dering to the Germans, I would have
been shot, as sure as fate, for after all
I had been able to observe behind the
German lines I would be regarded as
a spy and treated as such,
At the same time I thought I de-
tected a yellow streak in Huyliger, and |
I figured that he would pot want to
take the risk of my carrying out my
threat even though he believed there
was but a small chance of my doing so
If I did, he would undoubtedly share
my fate, and the pictures and papers |
he had of mine were really of no use
to him, and 1 have never been able to
ascertalin why it was he wished to re-
tain then unless they contained some
thing—some information about me-—
which accounted for his complete
of attitude towards me in the
first place, and he wanted the papers
as evidence to account to his supe
riors for his conduct towards me,
When he first told me that the plan
of placing me in a convent disguised
us a priest had been abandoned he ex-
plained it by saying that the cardinal
had Issued orders to the priests to
help no more fugitives, and I have
since wondered whether there was
anything In my papers which had
turned him against me and led him to
forsake me after all he had promised
to do for me,
For perhaps two hours 1 sat on that
Ww
ies 80
discredited
desire
change
staircase musing about the peculiar
turn In my affairs, when the front door
opened and Huyliger ascended the
stairs
“1 have brought you such of your he-
longings as I still had, O'Brien,” he
suid softly. “The , us I told you, I
cannot give you, They are no longer
in my possession.”
I looked through the little bunch he
handed me, It included my identifi-
cation disk, most of the papers I val
ued, and perhaps haf of the photo
rest
graphs,
“I don’t know what your ob}
ft of my pi«
“Lut
“Your Lives Won't Be Worth a Damn.”
her pinh to
ify
se, | he in
' {11
think will
arrange that when
2 go?’
t
here
yor
yO
pected
the
dt
see the
was sometl
but 1
of myself
proposit
Care
on,
ake
thing
ivliger would not
to the autho
that I had
h would be
88 my
ngly I R!
with
¥
ana
ne vit
ne 5
he fact
tell
his de a
the
11
well own.
Accord]
hi
Was re he su
£0 the nes evening.
I pointed out to him th
tirely without food and
ther he conld not arrange
or send m something to eat
remained in ¢ hou
" rry, O'Brien,” he repli
I'm afraid you will have to
you can. When I bros
breakfast this
gO wh
grested that
xt
at I was
asked him
o
th o,
ns
as best
If 1
covered by one of the (
this house
n, I would not only have pal
alty myself, but you would have
discovered, too,
od in
the pe
been
ous a proposition. Why
yourself and buy your food at
the stores? That would you con-
fidence and you'll need plenty of it
when you continue your journey to the
border.”
There was a good deal «
what he said and I really
give
uth
could
to take any
chances to help me in view of the rela-
tions between us
“Very well,” I said; “I've gone with.
out food for many hours at a time be.
do so again. I shall look for you to
morrow evening.”
The next evening he eame and I ae
companied him to another house not
very far from the one in which I had
been staying and not unlike it in
pearance. It, too,
dwelling house which had been unten
anted since the beginning save perhaps
for such occasional visits as Huyliger
and hig associates made to it.
Huyliger let himself in and con
ducted me to a room on the second
floor, where he Introduced me to two
men. One, I could readily see by the
resemblance, was his own brother,
The other was a stranger.
Very briefly they explained to me
that they had procured another pass
port for me—s genuine one-—which
would prove far more effective in help
inz to get me to the frontier than the
counterfeit one they had manufac
tured for me.
1 think I saw through their game
right at the start, but I listened pus
tiently to what they had to say.
“Of course, you will have to return
to us the passport we gave you before
we can you the real sald
Huyliger's brother,
“I haven't the slighte
replied, “if the new passport is all
claim for it, Will you let me ses
There was le hesita
the part of i
er
give one,”
it ober
iderable
Huyliger's
at
t1
COn
Why, 1 don’t th
Il, Mr. O'Brien
I di
were endeavoring to mal
them for he In all coun-
n good,
«uffered so
vonder
lost their
referred to
Ne =
and in a country which
much as poor Belgium it
if some of the survivors |
sense of moral perspect
1 know that the average pox
ant in Belgium would divide his =
rations ith a needy fug
than a wealthy I
out a from his «
well-stocked larder. Perhaps the poor
have less to lose than the rich if their
generosity or charity is discovered by
the Huns.
There have been many Be
ave
ive,
peas
anty
sooner
would dole
omparatively
ww tive
tolginn
wrigian
morsel
1ginne shot
fugitives, and it is not to be wondered
at that they are willing to take as few
A man with a
family, especially, does not feel jus
tified in helping a stranger when he
knows that he and his whole family
may be shot or sent to prison for their
pains,
Although I suffered much from the
attitude of Huyliger and his associates,
I suppose I ought to hold no grudge
against them in view of the uneanviable
predicanvent in which they are io
themselves,
ro BE CONTINUED)
We Supoose This Is So.
In place of most of our tronbees we
might easily have much worse ones.
Albany Journah .