THE CENTRE REPORTER, UENTRE HALL. PA. Copyright, 1918, by Pat Alva O'Brien CHAPTER XVIi—Continued. son] Jone Kite the kept, From the ‘hen directly into were wilk COW- two | COWS before, is gtm®:-tion of the poore: I co pointed ot uld not mal nothing 1 hn 0 ad At that true today, pe wool | coul pe don kind land. accous told tical people woode is ons naturally Germans % "ea 1 very | poldiers were quartered out of tion for for food directi imity of h oll the ue in that eye ead l pielon and 1 gion that the was to live on could steal from the flelds at I had previously done, That night 1 survey of the barrier in that vicinity, but it looked just as hopeless as {t had the J safest thing I could stables wo n raw veg ehh ght as 1 made another ! i i | a I spent the night wandering north, | served me so faithfully Ih all my trav- | eling. Every mile or two I would make my way carefully to the barrier to see if were better, but it conditions any p vd ur iber or fallen trees one. If something which react the air it matter h i a would be to simple spi 1at point over ihe ¢ lectric re = } Dd rungs 1d climbed perhaj I av ny ladder when an unlooked for difficult he ladder was slippi I took t} slipped, cat and the curr ns 1 next ne with ed we in the live wire, iy. here was a blue hoid on the ladd heavi Of course, g ) weelved fal FH ny wr relaxed an (ell lous, the vould ro mo- to n guard and we to me if 1 didn’t get enled at once he would f ately for me, round UNnConse for a few to Just in time coming, rtun k night. r out of his path vn flat on the ground not away from his feet. close that I could have ladder out and tripped assed so unhed im up. It occurred to me that I could have climbed back under the barbed wire fence and waited far the sentry to re turn and then felled him with a blow on the head, as he had no idea, of course, that there was anyone in the vicinity, 1 wouldn't have hesitated i I the h only wasted my time there. 4 ns g as he didn't bother me | waps the safest thing to do was not | to bother him, but to continue my ef- that lon forts during his periodic absence, His beat at this point was apparent- fairly allowed me more to han I had hoped for, 'r had con- in that way | hock that I i me and I particu- ad fared 1d hope ir mis- | if making | the idea ly and cou simi r hold and I gave up right and front of this studied it I ing by. If 1 the | in ns two | ind and, of course, wns only mut my plan was and then crawl 1 ground. dig with, and fortu- ry hard, very bh {to ] me to pull 1 a little After a nt nd the in ny reach, Finally 1 figured I had en ce to crawl through and still les {f inches between wire, that a couple of the live Before 1 my under that wire I no 1 wont ticed that the lace which Ww on me as a souvenir 1 and lest mi e¢ the Innocer trocuting me by touching the | I took it out, rolled it up and threw | over the harrier first, Then I lay down on my stomach and + he : iL Ineans re with my feet first, of my closely as wire and i ht i like there a wasn't snake, any questlor earth igging mother possible been to touch the wire above me with my back meant instant death. % as I was to get on the other as Anxion feared that there mi detail that I had overlooked and I ex- ercised the greatest possible care In under, taking nothing for granted. When I finally got through and straightened up, there were still sev. oral feet of Belgium between me and liberty, represented by the six feet which separated the electric barrier from the last barbed wire fence, but before I went another step going pecially for this last achievement, which seemed to me to be about all that was necessary to bring me free dom. Then I crawled under the barbed wire fence and breathed the free air of Holland. I had no clear idea just where I was and I didn’t care much. I was out of the power of the Germans and I had per when men walked I re- that was enough. ps a hundred yards, bered the | the barrier, ized the mined to ated necessit gian soll again it seemed a to leave the lace there, and by ex 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 my ear to the ground and listened for the sentry. 1 heard him Cf lay prone on the ground he had passed. The fact that he might observe the hole grount , but cising a ming and i til in the there, and it seemed lik fore he finally marched shot. Thea 1 went under the wire again, retrieved the lace Dut out barbed and once again made to chi terri- tory. It does not events my way take long to describe the but the consumed several the hole must referred to, inci dents elves hours than two hours ntly to hide ive me more a ar 17. wh wa Heard the German Guard Coming. leap from the train on Altogether, therefore, had elapsed Ir 1 live te expect ensy nother sgov- two days so crammed full of in- cident and hazard and lucky escape. CHAPTER XVIIL Experiences in Holland. But I was not quite out of the o | I now knew that I was in Holland, j&t where I had no idea. I walked thirty minutes and came to right, and I had t but a few hundred in front of me a the one I had {| for about { a path lea y the | Saceden slong } i f¢ yards whet for Cre "Tr ¢ exactly ed. his is funny,” I said to myself. “1 i didn't know the Dutch had a fence, | ton.” 1 advanced to the fence and examined it closely, and judge of my astonighment when I saw beyond it a foot fence apparently holding live wires exactly like the one which { had nearly been the death of mel I had very little time to conjecture what it all meant, for just then 1 heard a guard coming. He was walk- ing so fast that I was sure it was a Duteh sentry, as the Huns walk much slower, I wns so bewildered, however, that I decided to take no chances, and as the road was fairly good I wandered down it and away from that mysteri- ous fence. About half a mile down I nine could see the light of sentry sts and I thought I would go there and tell my story to the sentries, real- that as I was unarmed it perfectly safe for me to announce to the Dutch authorities 1 be interned I entered d under arms, approached ava three 1 a tion izing myself could if Hollar As 1 only in Dute h ie Geriatr and I had ns and too color tio Jumping I had ’ ir feud 1CK 103 Just turne 0 arly arin: man commana: “Hait! Halt!" He didn't need to I heard another man and there but wil Holla evident: other side Finall v oe ining up. ¢ te 1irt KIN ermans or of the I heard Ww J pe the landsca way of a For once mj) North Star, had fai pitch black in the heavens, at about three mil turned out to be guide friend ' ariel i8 ana stance, be a brits ]O0US and once I troubles would Knew my nerhan aps three hours to and the of the commotl it re €3¢ rine Some the about, while Dutch wus atch good Ord ail ed been embarrass ' ¢ » compartment th wil the vi a mile of st that i to my thy. fa 3 bright 1 Rat u must arently There three men engaged in making wooden shoes, It wasn't necess for me to ex- plain to them that I wa refugee, even if I had been able to speak the i with d Just wor ting quit were and two ary f 8 A was caked mud ersand 1 sup; must have recorded som periences I had gone memorable night, “l want the British cons em. Apparently they didn’t understand, but one of them volunteered to con- duct me to the village. They seemed to be only too anxious to do all they could for me; evidently they realized I was a British soldier, it was very late when my compan- fon finally escorted me into the vil lage, but he aroused some people he knew from their beds and they dressed and came down to feed me. The family consisted of an old lady and her husband and®a son, who was a soldier in the Dutch army. The cold shivers ran down my back while he sat beside me, because every now and again I caught a glimpse of his gray language. fa to my shoul se my ¢ of the ex- through that vel 19% ull I told t! consul-—Brit consul--French © ping that if he didn’t under d one he might recogn an- ” ms “ne jon and mo- drove off. I vas taking me, '® ride he » British so glad He eyed me wi ; ioned in wd no idea where ut after a quarter of an up in front wo $ ¢* me to get yu tt of u . 1 gE CONTINUED.) When a Prisoner ls Exchanged. Ivan Rossiter, captured by the Ger exchanged, says in the i “Then 1 lay down, but to think. 1 thought when I enlisted in Canada, home, the training camps, the trip overseas England, the training in England, going across the channel to Flanders, the terrific fight. ing at Ypres, of the many friends who of leaving to o wag wounded and capiured, the Inhtu- man treatment 1 received at the hands of the German surgeons, who had four husky Germans hold me down while they cut five bones out of my wrist and amputated fy middie finger at the gecond joint when 1 was wounded in the palm of the hand, the kicks and the cuffs from prison guards and the terrible stuff the Germans called food in the prison camps.” W————— el Enough matches to light all its con tents are attached to a recensly ie | vented cigarette bok
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