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Show tub rzamizn ht In the hope that the officer tn charge might possibly come to the conclusion that he bad arrived at the bouse too lute that the bird hod flown. My ah elaborate dwelling bouse Ofte the one In which I was. concealed to yield. Later 1 heard that the Germans hava taken practically every oudce of brass, copper and wool they could lay their hands on In Belgium. Even the brass ( feat of his llTe anJ tTHT countryiS full anyone except whenthey come lo tall of spies, as Belgium certainly was, he your order for something to drink. la not going just anyone that While there Is no admission, patrons comet along seeking aid. One of the are expected to eat or drink while enGermans most successful ways of trap- joying too pictures." A day or two later, while wslktng ping the Belgians has been to pose as English or French prisoner who has the streets at night In search for food, escaped, appeal to them for aid, Impl- I had passed this place and was very icate as many as possible and then much temptedJo go In and spend a turn the whole German police force few hours, particularly aa It would loose on them. As I look back on perhaps give me an opportunity ta those days I think It remarkable that buy something to eat, although I was I received as much help aa I did, but at a loss to know how 1 was going to when people are starving under the ask for what I wanted. conditions now forced upon those unWhile trying to mako up my mind fortunate people. It is n great ten whether it waa safe for mo to go In I to surrender these escaped pris- walked half a block toe place, and oners to German authorities apd re- when I turned back past and reached again ceive the handsome ' rewards offered the entrance with my mind made for them or for alien spies, as I was that I would take the chance I ran foil classed at that rime.-tilt Into a German offleer who waa Just The passport which I had described homing out me as a Spanish sailor, but I was nettled all my hankerings for That eery dubious" about Its value. If 1 moving pictures that night. Where could have spoken Spanish fluently It you came from, my friend," 1 figured, might have been worth something te "there must be more Uka you I I guess me, bnt the few words I knew of the It Is a good night for walking.-language would not have carried .ms " The next however. In recalling very far if I had been confronted with the Incident day, of the evening before. It a Spanish Interpreter. 1 decided to I had been rather ' nse the passport-onlas a last resort, Seemed, to me that needed more than foolish. I What preferring to net the part of a deaf time alee that at wys confianything aa and dumb Belgian peasant far as dence. Before could to the fronI get it wonld carry me. wonld hava to confront German I tier 1 Before I finally left the house had many times, because there a remarkable experience Which I shall Soldiers were more of them between. this city, remember as long ns I live. and Holland than In any section of ths t country through which I bad so far ' CHAPTER XIV. ' ! traveled. Safety In tbess contingencies would depend largely upon the A Night af Dissipation. calmness I displayed. It wouldnt da During the first two daya I spent to get an excited at the mere sight of with Huyllger after 1 had first arrived a spiked helmet "The Belgians, 1 had In .the big city, be bad told me, among noticed, while careful to obey the other things, of a moving picture show orders of the Huns, showed no particIn town which he said I might have a ular fear of them, and It seemed to chance to Sea while" there. me the sooner I cultivated the same It Is free every night In the week feeling of Indifference toe better I except Saturdays pod Sundays," he would be pbte to carry off the part I said, and once yon are inside you Elrlnc. v.onbi tut bs cri s hgtherrfl. Lr. do be continued next Issue.) to-hel- position In that wine cellar Vns out f anything but a comfortable-one.-Raand mice werp scurrying across the moved, ths serloofl damage done to floor and the smashing and crushing valuable property by toe removal of going on overhead was anything but only an Insignificant proportion of promising. Evidently those soldiers metal never being taken Into considImagined that I ought to be hiding in eration. I learned, too, that all dogs the walls, for It sounded as though over fourteen Inches' high had been seised by the Germans. This furnished they were tearing off the wainscotting, the picture molding and. In fact, lots of speculation among ths Belgians everything that they could tear or pull as to what nse ths Germans were putting toe snlmals to, the general Imapart. ,. . Before very long they would finish pression apparently being that they their search upstairs and would come were being used for food! down to the basement. What they This, however, seemed much lees .would, do when . they 'disco v ered the - likely to me than that they were being wine I had no Idea. Perhaps they employed aa jlapatch doge In to would let themselves loose on It and trenches, the same aa we use them on give me my chance. With a bottle of oar aids of the line. They might poswine In each hand I figured lcould put sibly kill the dogs and nse their skins Was' guarSTnfcTOTJr Urff'SegHny'orf&SSi irws about T oclock In to evenup n good fight In the dark, especially for leather and their carcasses for taling. I wt expecting Huyllger at 8, - flies, for I always weakened and the as I was becoming more and more ac- low, bnt I feel quite sure that toe bnt I hadnt the allghteet hope that he flies never did suffer from my Inst for customed to It and fould begin to dis- Huns are by no means so short of food lronld bring me food, aa he had told amosesMBt things here and there, a here-u- s that they have to eat dogs yet awhile. The hones' eras we& supplied with tinguish "me that he wouldnt take the risk of when they entered the pitchy darkIndeed, I want to repeat here what having food In hla possession when book la fact, sae of the choicest U- ness of ' the cellar, they would be aa I have mentioned before ; if anyone hat calling on me, I was standing at the brutes I think I ever sow but they' blind aa bata In the sun. . , the idea that this bar can be won bf window In such a way 'that I could were all srriUea jlther la Flemish or was be starving the Huna, he hasnt toe slightminutes It twenty Perhaps A street no Franck. In the I ceald read Flemish and fore I heard what sounded like my est Idea how well provided the Ger see what was going on without being observed by those who t very little Franck, I might have made to me; the soldiers were mans are In that respect. They have 1 passed by; when I noticed my friend, j a little headway with the latter, bnt coming down the - cellar - steps considered their food needs tn Connecthe cat, coming down the steps of the I the books all seemed too deep for. . ,me -- clutched a wine bottle In each hand tion with their resources for several 1 opposite house with something in his and waited with bated breath. years to come and they have gone at reread mouth. Without considering the risks ttoughthat It In such n methodical, Vystemaflc Tramp I Tramp! Tramp! In a beginning to end; that was I ran, I opened the front door, ran would be In the cellar way, taking Into consideration every they down the stepfe and across the street, Hver?L Ch BHU5t haT Vper. I could almost hear my heart possible contingency, that provided time war waa and pounced on that cat before It could rived just about heating. The mice scurried across the there Is not an absolute crop failure, rcd . . things la this In- fowr by the scores, get away with Its supper, for that, as frightened no there Isnt the slightest doubt tn my I had seen wrested me, and particularly .thf base- - doubt by the vibration' and I had imagined, wa whatout noise made mind that they can last for years, and to be a ball scores, which ' 1 "studied with a i by the In Its mouth It turned soldiers. Some of the worst of It Is they are very cockdescending much care as a real fan (osslbty could the creatures ran across me where 1 sure about It themselves, . piece of stewed rabbit, which I confis( cated eagerly and look; back with me an seorAM couldn't refrain stood between two wine cases, but I Is true that the German soldiers It --house.nor ; was too mnch Interested In bigger want peace. from laughing when I cams to an to the As I watched them ' Perhaps I felt a little sorry for the count of Zimmerman (of the Cubs) game to pay any attention to mice, through the keyhole in the door I being benched for some spat with the rat, but I certainly bad so Qualms Tlaltr Tramp! Agnin thought how unfavorably they comTramp! about eating the animals dinner. I umpire,' and, it afforded me Just as an order was given In German, and pared with our men. They marched "was much too hungry to dwell upon Interest three years, after It had though I did not understand It 1 um along the street without laughter, withniceties, and n piece of stewed rabbit happened perhaps more than some w filing to bless every word of It, be- - out Joking, without singing. It was .T7Trnrv!!vwwmwwwrmiwcTfvww!WTwnrTWH!W!Trr!' e was certainly too good for a cat to eat current Item of interest cause It resulted In the soldiers turn- quite apparent that the w ar is telling when n man was starving. I ate and had at that timet , . f u ing right about face, marching up the on them. I dont believe saw a slnrl. ; I " I rummaged the house many times stairs again, through the hall and out German soldier who didnt enjoyed It and the Incident suggested look as it which I might possibly from cellar to garret In my search for of the front door and away! to me a wayln I he had lost his best and Ifriend obtain food again when all other ave something to at, bnt the harvest of I could hardly believe my ears. It mprobably had. . I am the Love Story of tfia Great War sometimes three years of war had made any suc- seemed almost too good to be true that nueg failed. At the same time there Is n big difFrom my place of concealment I fre cess along that line Impossible. I was they could have given search ference certainly a difference of sevcalled VThe Sweetest Levs' Story Ever Toll 1 2m upihe qently saw huge carts being pushed like the man out In the ocean in a boat Just as they were about to come upon eral years between wishing the war the brainchild of the greatest pfayright of stage or and thirsty with water everywhere but their quarry, but unless my ears de- was over and through the streets gathering potatc giving up, and I dont slmlla of and refuse not a drop to drink. cabbage peelings, Wc CRlFFITH-- his ceived mo that wits what they had bciieye. the Gorman rabk and file any screen-- D. grc&st triumph his ' food remnants, which. In America, an I was tempted while In the city to tbme. more than their leaders have the slightmost sensational achievement. I was horn on the considered garbage and destroyed. If go to chureh one Sunday, but my better The possibility that the whole thing est idea at this time of giving up at France wheie your brothers, sweet battlefields Belgium they were using' this gai judgment told me It would be a useless might be a German ruse did not escApe all. their bread out of, an risk. Of course, someone would surely me, and I remained In toe cellar for base" But to return to nay hearts and sons ate fighting ths bottles of HUMANITY whU- - the Idea may sound revolting say something to me and I didnt ucuily uu hour after they had appar- while concealed la the house. Alter, but I have been called a vlzualiziaoi .LA ns, tfie fact la that the Germans 1m know bow many Germans would be ently departed before I ventured to the visit of the soldiers, .which left or brought these things down to such so what I meanmove, happen, gave mlgt, the house In a wretched condition, 1 jhere listening Intently in the am WARr (every' passion but ono), f science that the trrvnd they ft while for the slightest sound which decid.d that I would continue up that Idea. Jour- -' my I knam but I eat. also, dont forget that ether, The Sweetest way Is really Very good to During nil the time I waa concealed would reveal toe presence of a sentry ncy towards the frontier, particularly -It would hate been. like cake to n7' in this house I saw but one automobile upstairs. Love Story Ever as I had gotten all I could out of be here Sunday evenwhen I was In need of food; Indeed and that was a German staff officer's. Not hearing a sound I began to feel rather- - he- - had gotten ait lio ' - June 23. . ing . would have eaten , the garbage.c . That spme afternoon I had one of the that they had Indeed given up the bunt, was going to get out of me. 'r rect, let alone the bread. Sam HEARTS OF THE WORLD." . f for I did not believe that a German frights of my young life. During my concealment in the house said, I suffered Although, as bfld wt of keyhole officer would be sb considerate of his 1 had made vurious sorties into the I come here direct from triumphant engagements in New greatly from hunger while occupying I down men as to try to trap me rather than city at night, and I was beginning to B(mal wheQ j heard Mmla 8 h0U8e- - 'there .were one- or two York, (2 theatres at ones), Chicago, Boston, Pbiiadel treet tte measured tread of carry the cellar by force If they had feel more comfortable even when GerI observed through toe keyhole man soldlere It didnt sound like very tofe slightest Idea that I was there. man soldiers were about.. Through phia, Los Angeles and San Diego, where I have been . or from the windows which made mo wag M d(mbt but ftere took off iny shoes and crept softly the keyhole I - had studied very I mJ - acclaimed ths greatest of ail sensations, I come to laugh, and some of the Incidents tlmt f mlnd German soldiers - were end slowly to the Cellar steps and then closely the gait of the Belgians, the occurred during my voluntary lmpris-- J went toe street I teach and to urge. marching down step by step, placing my weight down slovenly droop that characterised most . were really fanny. ' ' j stairs and peeked through too window so as to prevent the steps o(,them, and their general appearance, gradually i I Inam for From the keyhole I could see, of German a from creaking, ilxlimbedito the top. and I felt that in my own dirty and unam ,Qd enougll a shop window on the ouK-.fantnr was coming down the street The sight that met my eyes as I shaven Condition I must have looked D. W. GRIFFITHS SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT. side of toe street several houses down a .military motor glanced into the kitchen told me the es much like toe average poor Belgian accompanied by ' ' ' the block. All day long German sol- truck. I hadnt toe slightest idea that whole The water faucets had as n tnan could. - The only thing that - .HEARTS OF THE WORLD." story. of the be would dlers passing in front Uie, were coming after me, but still been ripped from the sinks, the water was against me s as my height, I was .bouse and I noticed that practically of Nation gave pipes bavelng been torn off, and several Inches tailor than even the every one oWbera would stop Intront me moM of lega j.consid. gas fixtures,-- , cooking utensils' and tallest Belgians. I had often thought j tols store window and look In. ered how I could make my escape If everything else which contained even that red hair would have gone good a soldier on duty bent would by chance X was toe man they wire the smallest proportion df toe metals with my name, but now, of course, 1 r w hurry past but I think nine out of ten after. , The idea of hiding In toe wine the Gerfnans so badly needed balheeu was. A X7 notrso Of then! were sufficiently Interested to JL JL H A V v to me aa toe most taken from toe kitchen. J walked cellar endowed, for are appealed, Belgians 1 spend at least a minute, and some of now with, more confidence, feel- about as rare as German charity, there must.' have '.been them three or four minutes 'gaslng at 1 practical;, toe toe assured of that soldiers wine There who" among no ing keg tolerably will places doubt," fre many, whatever was being exhibited In that plenty cage8 vbeM a maa wnid conceal hadnt been after me at all, but bad wonder why I did not help j window,, although I noticed that U hlm8elf( but M a matter of fact, I did been merely collecting' metal and than I did at this time.get morq Is easily It faill to attract the, Belgians. , - J not brieve that any such contingency nthgt cater la in hourly .eaaefiqd answpwvt I have a considerable streak of curl-.0314 arisewon-J oslfyjn me, andTepuldnt help soldiers came nearer, The during-wha- t It could be In that window 1 1 couldmarching hear them at the next house. moment ( would.see them pass 22 which I was took- keyhole through . ,, V failed to. hold the Belgians, and after , , conjuring my brains for a while on the ' 7 problem 1 came to the conclusion that ""Haiti" command shouted by of word At the toe shop must have been a p and the window contained German a Junior officer toe sqnad came to atIn front of the house I . xnngazlne which, naturally enough, tention right 1 no waited - would be of the greatest Interest to longer.. Running down the stairs I flew Into toe wine cellar and "the Germans but of none to toe Belalthough it was almost pitch Mark ", gians At any rate I resolved that as soon as too only light coming from a grating night came ) would go out and In- which led to toe backyard I soon in vestigate the window. When I got the found a. satisfactory hiding placehad Answer I laughed so loud that I was the extreme rear of the cellar. I nfrnld for the moment I must have at- had toe presence of mind to leave the tracted the attention of the neighbors, door of the wine cellar ajar; figuring but I couldnt help It ' The window that if toe soldiers fonnd a closed door was filled with huge quantities of they wonld be more apt to search for door wwagel The store was a butcher a fugitive behind it than if the were , open. shop and one of the principal things My decision to get away from that they sold apparently was mage. Ths display they made, although It con- front door had been made and carried sisted merely of sausages piled In the out none too soon, for I had only just located myself between two big wine window, certainly had plenty of pulling power. It pulled", nine Ger- cases when I heard the tramp of sob fliers feet marching up the front stoop, mans ont at ten ont of their course. ; Indirectly pulled" me right across Vue a crash at toe front door, k few hasty street! The Idea of those Germans be- wprds of command which I did not uning so Interested in that window dls- - derstand, and then the noise of scurrying feet from room to room and such play g to stand Is front of toe win-IVg , dow for two, three or four minutes al a banging and 'hammering and smashcould not make I that and - time, however, certainly ' 'seemed crashing ing t . funny to me, and when I got back to oqt whst.waa relrxcn. "the house I sat at the keyhole again If Huyllger Had revealed my hiding One- nntL found Just as much Interest place to the Huns, as I was now conbefore in watching ths Germans stop fident he had, I felt that there was litIff their tracks when they reached tbs tle prospect of their overlooking me. window, even though I was, now. aware They wonld search the house from top v what the attraction was.. race It te One of my chief occupations during to bottom and. If necessary, wonld these days was catching flies. I would the ground before they froi& give up toe bonne ealch a fly, put him In a spiders web toe' search. To escape the Iron through the backyard through were plenty of them In the old which' I had no doubt I could j grating, house), and sit down for the spider to come down and get him. But always I force, seemed to be too logical thing to do, but the chances were that the pictured myself In the same predican cordon around the ment and rescued the fly Just as the Huns had thrown the squad was sent block before entire Plder was about to grab him. Several Germans do hene The to the bouse. . times when. things were dull I was ttt an efficient manner alway things tempted to see the tragedy through, ; but perhaps toe same Providence that They take nothing for granted. . My one chance seemed to be to stand milled ma safely .through all .crll - ta .pta-tio- n 't -- n -- ; -, y death-kne- ll 1 -- . - - mo-Ito- m T d-- ., - . - -- te-h- I world-wid- AM COMING! f erpej-lcnce-- ot - e ! -- if MAR--zSflLUIS- . 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