Show threat to burn bed when WP we convinced him that unless we got wood quickly the provost marshals beil bed was going goin to lie ile sacrificed he changed his hig wind mind about the difficulty and nid that lint perhaps for five francs it might be that someone lad had some wood tu to sell ile he got the five francs anil and two hours bourg later reappeared with mith ohve of 1190 fagons fagots tS explaining 1 lii let del ax 1 v si ying that on the M way ay lie hr hd stripped to milk three cows we got goi the fire started and quickly saw that at the rate the fagots fagons burned we to wore were soon going to lie ile cold again we explained to the man of the house that tie e must have big pieces of wood ile he I 1 i lied that only the cure hall had such wood and that it was impossible able to buy wood from the cure and besides it was sunday the protest ot mar marshal hat gane gae blin ten francs frane sand and told him to bring the wood and he be did I 1 was sorry corry I 1 go along to see how he got the trad from the cure on oil sunday hut the main point was wag that lie he got it the provost marshal has doni dominion hilon only over tilt the misbehavior of americans and so it was wag none of our affair liow how the man got the wood but when nihon it comes to americans tilt tills marshal is a very different man he is a young first lieutenant and lit his hoine a Is iq in ill new york city ile he has told me that after the war lie he Is going to get out of the army ile he sald said what lie he is going to do but I 1 think lie he is training to be a rival of one william J T burne tie ile has to do some very nice detective work the american soldiers generally like a lot it of college boys in their moment of relaxation hut but it is not to be supposed that they dont break loose a bit at times and because they do the marshal has his hands hand full and sometimes the lockup As college hoys boys do the soldiers make it us as difficult ros as possible for the provost guard to obtain material for conviction of violators of army rules it waz was eight in fit the morning the provost marshal ava was sleep in lug soundly haeng got to bed at one after his hia last round of the village streets which lie found deserted of the regiments comedians ns its the trouble makers are called there was a loud rapping at his door and the Y man entered to say that early in the morning the Y M C A hut had been entered and one box of cigars oil and one babe baseball ball taken and that the damage was 35 francs ile he asked that it would not happen again the lieutenant thanked him for the information and sent for a corporal corporal of the alie military police and put him on oil the case stolen bottle botje of wine ten minutes later a largo large french woman came with the information that u bottle of vin ordin aire hall had disappeared from her aud that sho aab |