"Outwitting
By Lieutenant Pat O'Brien
. (Copyright, 1S1. by Pat Alv* O'Brien.)
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Stilts Would Be Easy
V 1 Another plan that
seemed half way
A reasonable was to
<•] build a pair of stilts
' j fourteen feet high
; *3 and- walk over the
1 **^1 harrlers one l ' y one
j had acquired con
> siderable skill in
have no doubt that
with the proper
equipment it would have been quite
feasible to have walked out of Bel
gium as possible in that way, but
whether or not I was going to have
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FRIDAY EVENING,
a chance to construct the necessary
stilts remained to be seen.
There were a good many bicycles j
in use by the German soldiers in:
Belgium and it had often occurred
to me that if I couid have stolen one. j
the tires would have made excellent i
glove* and insulated coverings for i
my feet in case it was necessaiy- for
me to attempt to climb over the elec
tric fence bodily. But as X had never
been able to steal a bicycle this ave
nue of escape was closed to me.
I decided to wait until I arrived at
the barrier and then make, up my
mind how to proceed.
To find a decent place to sleep
that night, I crawled under a barbed
wire fence, thinking- it led into some
field. As I passed under, one of the j
barbs caught in my coat and in try- '
ing to pull myself free I shook the |
fence for several yards.
Commanded to "Halt!"
Instantly there came out of the!
night the nerve-racking c6mmand. 1
"Halt!"
Again I feared I was done for. I
crouched close down on the ground
in the darkness, not knowing,
whether to take to my legs and trust i
to the Hun missing me in the dark
ness if he fired or stay where I was. i
It was foggy us well as dark, and!
although I know the sentry was only i
a few feet away from me, I decided I
to stand, or rather .lie pat. 1 think j
my heart made almost as much r.oise
as the rattling of the wire In the
first place, and it was a tenso few
moments to me.
I heard the German Bay a few
words to himself, but didn't under
stand tliem, of course, and then he
made a sound as if to call a dog. and
I realized that his theory of the
noise he had heard was that a dog
had made its way through the fence.
For perhaps five minutes I didn't
stir, and then figuring that the Ger
man had probably continued on his
beat, I crept quietly under the wire
again. this time being mighty care
ful To" hug the ground so close that
I wouldn't touch the wire, and made
off in a different direction. Evi
dently the barbed wire fence had
been thrown around an ammunition
depot or something of the kind, and
It was not a field at all that 1 had
tried to get into.
I figured that other sentries were
probably in the neighborhood, and I
proceeded very gingerly.
A Belgian I>ady's Gift
After I had got about a mile away
from this spot I came to an humble
Belgian house and I knocked at the
door and applied for food in my
usual way. pointing to my mouth to
indicate I was hungry and to my ears
and mouth to imply that I was deaf
and dumb. The Belgian woman
who lived in the house brought me
a piece of gread and two cold pota
toes and as I sat there eating them
she eyed me keenly.
I haven't the slightest doubt that
she realized that I was a fugitive.
She lived so near the border that
it was for that reason I appreciated
more fully the extent of the risk
she ran. for no doubt the Germans
were constantly watching the con-'
duct of these Belgians who lived!
near the line.
My theory that she realized that
I was not a Belgian at all, but prob
ably some English fugitive, was con-!
firmed a moment later, when, as I
made ready tc go. she touched n*
on the arm and indicated that I was!
to wait a moment. She weDt *o a
bureau and brought out two pieces;
of fancy Belgian lace which she in- j
sisted upon my taking away, a'- i
though at that particular moment!
I had as much use for Belgian lace'
as an elephant for a safety razor, 1
but I was touched with her thought-)
fulness and pressed her hand to show!
my gratitude. She would not ac- i
cept the money I offered her.
Kept 1 /flee For nis Mother
I carried that lace through my j
subsequent experiences, feeling that i
it would be a fine souvenir for my j
mother, although as a mater of;
fact if I had known that it was go- i
ing to delay my final escape for even;
a single moment, as it did, I am quite j
sure she would rather I had never i
seen it.
On one piece of lace was the Flem-1
ish word "Charite," and on the other j
the word "Esperuge." At the time,
I took these words to mean "Char-;
ity" and "Experience." and all 11
hoped for was that 1 would get as \
much of the one as I was getting of!
the other before I finally got j
through. I learned subsequently that
what the words really stood for were
"Charity" and "Hope," and then I
was sure that my kind Belgian
friend had indeed realized my plight
and that her thoughtful souvenir
was intended to encourage me in the
trials she must have known were
before me.
I didn't let the old Belgian lady
know, because I did not want to
alarm her unnecessarily, but that
night I slept in her back yard, leav
ing early in the morning before it
became light.
Later in the day I applied at an
other house for food. It was oc
cupied by a father and mother and I
ten children. I hesitated to ask them I
for food without offering to pay fori
it. as I realized what a task it must
have been for them to support them
selves without having to feed a hun
gry man. Accordingly I gave the
man a mark and then indicated that
I wanted something to eat.
Shares a Family Meal
They were just about to eat them
selves, apparently and they let me
partake of their meal, which con
sisted of a huge bowl of some kind
of soup which I was unable to idea-;
tify and which they served in ordi-1
nary wash basins. I don't know
that they ever used the basins to
tpash in as well but whether they did
or not did not worry me very much.
The soup was good and I enjoyed it
very much.
All the time I was there I could
see the father and the eldest son, a
boy about seventeen were extremely
nervous. I had indicated to them
that I was deaf and dumb, but if they
believed me ii didn't seem to make
them any more comfortable.
I lingered at the house for about
an hour after the meal and during
that time a young man came to call
on the eldest daughter, a young
woman of perhaps eighteen. The
cal'.er eyed me very suspiciously, al
though I must have resembled any
thing but a British officer. They
spoke in Flemish and I did not un
derstand a word they said, but I
think they were discussing my prob
able identity. During their conver
sation, I had a chance to look around
the rooms. There were three alto
gether, two fairly large and one
somewhat smaller, about fourteen
feet long and six deep. In this small
er room there were two double
decked beds, which were apparently
intended to house the whole family,
although how the whole twelve of
them could sleep i that one room
will ever remain a mystery to me.
From the kitchen you could walk
directly into the cow barn, where
two cows were kept, and this, as I
have pointed out before, is the usual
construction of the poorer Belgian
houses.
Caller's Suspicion Aroused
I could not make out why the
caller seemed to be so antagonistic
to me, and yet I am sure he was ar
guing with the family against me.
Perhaps the fact that I wasn't wear
ing wooden shoes—l doubt whether
I could have obtained a pair big
enough for me—had convinced him
that I was not really a Belgian, be
cause there was nothing about me
otherwise which could have given
him that idea.
At that time, and I suppose it Is
true to-day, about ninety per cent, of
the people in Belgium were wearing
wooden shoes. Among the peasants
I don't believe I ever saw any other
kind of footwear and they are more
common there than they are in Hol
land. The Dutch wear them more as
a matter of lack of leather. I was
told that during the coming year
practically all the peasants and
poorer people in Germany, too, will
adopt wooden shoes for farm work,
as that is one direction in which
wood can. be substituted for leather
without much loss.
When the young man left I left
shortly afterward, as I was not at
all comfortable about what his in
tentions were regarding me. For all
I knew he might have gone to notify
the German authorities that there
was a strange man in the vicinity—
more perhaps to protect his friends
from suspicion of having aided me
than to injure me. *
At any rate, I was not going to
take any chances and I got out of
that neighborhood as rapidly as I
could.
That night found me right on the
frontier of Holland.
(To Be Continued)
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who can fight well and hard Men who are fearless; who come through cheering because
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are fighting for honor and justice and we can help in many ways and always stand ready
with willing hands and heart.
We at home can help decide the battles five thousand miles away
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