Show CHUMS WITH NEW YORKER HAS NARROW ESCAPE correspondent tells of thrilling adventure gotham man t had in france KNOW HIS FRIEND saw him taken out by the troops and then heard the volley of musketry that ended his life chicago herbert corey writing to the dally daily news from london tells tella the follow following I 1 ng remarkable story harry martin saw him first in the streets of Ain amiens tens lie he says he be be mistaken you know me said martin 1 I got enough french to get through to soissons poissons Pois sons on any table chote bill I 1 spend more time in france looking for some one who can talk the language than I 1 do in look ing at cathedrals cathedral 1 f l D because e ae ua 0 0 t r e wa ar all 16 t the regular alar waiters wak erp have I 1 av 0 left I 1 0 ft the hotel du rhin the fek aar ia waiters talk english martin iga saw a young man who look precisely like a frenchman 1 so ac he hailed him ile he talked U S said regular new york ile he told roo me that for four years he waited on table in the old martin place at twenty sixth street knew a lot of the people I 1 know by sight said he be used to be diamond jim bradys al ectal walter waiter I 1 dont know its only what he told m me e so the ex watter waiter at alp martins atins interpreted for the young new york man who in times of peace does a nice business in french perfumes and mustache stiffeners eners martin says that if ho he had had good sense lie he would have quit france when the trouble first started dut but he had always had a hankering for adventure that could riot not be satisfied in the perfume trade so he began prospecting along the line of hostilities hoping to see aeo some real fighting this ex waiter gave me a lot of good dope said martin ile he and I 1 picked kicked around together for a day or two he said he was a frenchman I 1 dont know its only what he told me ex walter waiter falls to appear one day the ex walter waiter did not appear the next day martin moved on for three weeks he managed to get along seeing a good many things ills his papers were of the best quality they had been secured for him by friends in the perfume line in paris then I 1 was picked up lip by aber french hussars hussary hus sars said martin 1 I mind I 1 had been arrested so often that I 1 felt sort of peevish it I 1 pinched occasionally the frenchmen always turned trio me loose a good sort martin was taken into the best r room corn of a little cottage near amiens akiens just outside was an orchard tho the scent of the fruit rotting on the ground filled the air A sentry in brilliant red pants stood at the door of the cottage filling tho the immature mind of the young son of tho the cottage with marvelous tales of war martin will never forget the round eyes of tho the youth as lie he gazed on the red panted hero the perfume salesman was turned over to a young lieutenant who spoke good english have to wait until the colonel tal its as with you eaid the lieutenant but do not fear I 1 will make it all right martin Mart fil fear lie ho know that there was any reason for fear there he was Ni martin artin a salesman of irreproachable ant antecedents debits and he be had been arrested so often oft enthat that here he re carded arrest as a part of the days routine ile he sat eat down and watched with interest what was going on french officers are arc busy maybe there were a dozen french officers there said bald hei he all smoking cigarettes and talking I 1 never did hear so much talk they all talked at once but it looked as though they were gettling getting things done at that sol diers would come in and report to tile the colonel and talk to all the other officers and all the other officers would talk to the them in by and by they got their orders and went out I 1 dont know anything about soldiering but I 1 could see that that old cottage was being run right martin had cigars so lie he and the lieutenant sat in a corner and smoked them the lieutenant said eald he anxious to bring martin to the attention of the colonel until the cigars were gone no one paid any attention to them there was vas no iio suggestion of anything serious in the air all at once this ex walter waiter from Alar martins tins came in said martin 1 I soldier had him by each elbow lie he saluted the colonel ile he had bad never told are that he had been a soldier martin planned to hall him when he got the chance but an instinct of caution strained restrained re him evidently this thia ex walter waiter was in bad the boffl officers were regarding him silently by and by they began to talk again first the soldiers who held the ex walter waiter told a story and passed a packet of papers over 0 to o the colonel 1 17 r colonel asks sa questions aes ues t lons afi the caione asked him some questions said i barlin ian and then other officers talked to aifili they all seemed friendly enough no M she on 6 made any fuss ile he answered some questions and some he by and by he asked for a cigarette and the lieutenant who had me handed him one they bowed and smiled to each other the other officers talked to each other evidently they were nut talking about the ex walter waiter the colonel sat pulling at his thumb size goatee Alar martins tins lieutenant took another of martins cigars and complimented him on them the ex walter waiter looked around the room for the first time martin caught his eye and grinned the ex walter waiter looked him in the eye and turned away well said martin to himself a dickens of a note the colonel took another cigarette from his dwindling case the officers sat with their elbows on their knees and looked silently at the ex walt waiter er the colonel said something the t two wo soldiers saluted and turned on their heels tile the ex walter waiter whipped ills his hand stiffly to ills his forehead stood at attention and turned on his heel the officers relaxed somewhat and again began talking As the ex walter waiter went out he smiled in martins direction not to him a queer wistful sort of smile it sort of got me going tor for a minute said martin through the open doors of the cottage they heard tile tho staccato commands of a drill sergeant A squad shuffled quickly by they heard beard the clicking of gunlocks gunlicks gun locks martin turned to his lieutenant listen said the lieutenant holding up kip one hand the colonel and the other officers were sitting quietly in attitudes of attention there was the report of musketry the sound of talk within tho the room rose again tho the colb colonel nelbe be gan to paw over his innumerably ro re ports the lieutenant stoke spoke to him and came back to martin with the word that he must leavo leave the country at once tho the lieutenant bald it was dangerous for him tho the peas peasants ants might not understand him A martin artin said lie he would nut but say said lie he to his friend tile the lieutenant what was this ing just now did you not comprehend compie cOMPle hend liend asked the lieutenant it was a spy |