Show v w v j outwitting I 1 ift RUN by lieutenant PAT PAN OBRIEN EU la by pat alva V brien introductory I 1 pit pat 0 brien tell wells 0 ot I 1 hie him purpose in a writing tho the try story of cot his hi advent adventure ad ventur urva chaett it ir II tells ot of hia his enlistment in the royal biting hying corps his hi training in canada lada and it ti aneer to trance krance for careada Car uve duty y fletia Illa lits in which h be 0 brought down two a airplane r planes and I 1 11 Is final light in which h e w wa a 1 b brought down wounded within tit tir O 0 german e r lines and was made a prisoner moner of war CHAPTER IV that german lad neglected ue tte ait wounded and devoted their ener nor tic ell to restoring those who might be mzx red to the tiring firing fine lines bunei v VU nei bath teath ln in fight ot of his bt best chu chum aul 1 I C V VH la is to man deer core prison camp at tour ourt ral tint tawn r began hp lann ins I 1 to escape dy great sec d he a ILis niana nagIs xii to ave savo la ma bid bids if T fw ft ei 7 of 0 bread chalton vl VI he confiscates a it 11 IP p ot germany and just halt an hour later is I 1 on oil a train bound for or a ta prison camp rut germany lie ile leap leaps through a window while the tra train I 1 n atral trav travle LC at t a rate of fo 30 tn ile an hour VII for vor in ne no day days he crawl awin through cl ermany hiding biding during Us ahe day traveling trav eUnK at bigi night it guided by the and sAba latIng ua on raw vegetable vegetables itara is co cover v ere 76 miles before reach reaching inc lux or vili VIII for nine day days more he lie I 1 r r I 1 e on in a wakened weakened cond U n h r h los amburg la in the dire direction cUon of t IX H endures is wine riven risers whir whit da 11 r i 0 1 1 I 1 from r orn hunger oil a or I 1 ing ilk a hunted hun tad animal na t n t n nd on the day etter after of as from the train he croue crosses into X wll well on its wap wa through belgium he ie Is befriended on an by s I klemich peasant who feed eight lm in a and direct I 1 tm im to a aran in a hill 1 sin city who r i 4 help him to get a paix chapters Ert by mingling with bf bel 1 glon an peasants li nian axex to elude ur anan soldiers idler and reaches rah th SI belgian g J ali city elty whir where lie he and the horn home ot t the Z n f rom whom bom he hot bield CHAPTER XH XII tr forbes a passport tow ro ourien 0 brien and tu to 1 E mm lg 1 n in getting into it gofland OF land later 1 adf lluy lifer or and ills hi associates demand domand an ex um sum for their an 11 burten 0 brien break with them ile spends and give day days and nd night in on n unoccupied hour house alth out food exit for or the scrape he pick picks up la in night 1 XIV te to bain aln confidence tor for the 0 adventure adventures to rome come in hi his attempt ta to beet into i holland he lie venture ventures oil one nip all t fat into no a mo v ing picture theater by german sold old erg er i anu me the fi airi ri n ft i indr bawling taw ling on the bornt r viol ped nie tile anti to vae me my aty first Itu pulle of course une uns it to ausber hoe explain 11 laff ing alint I 1 could not but I 1 BOI topped pel in toy aa a I 1 fand my lit lund ad that I 1 waa was decat anil anti dumb 31 jr I 1 nl ehe she nodded and v bikol on cadt ants of that kind were not unusual un arild 1 I 1 in fear ear tent lie tile time would come coine bhea heu onie soule 1111 would encounter my me and not be so 0 o cnally there are re many things that I 1 aw pow in thie this city which for arlous rewo rea hoin nii it 1 Is for or nie me to relate until I 1 after the war la Is over bonie of thero I 1 think will create more surprise ur irle than the incident Inci dint I 1 ani am fret to meal no it uiel to amuse me tin I 1 went v ent alone along the streets of tills looking in the chop wandon with german bol 01 ol here diers ut fit my side looking at the tile mime shingi to think how lim close I 1 I 1 wan to them thein and they imd no 11 way a r of enoi ing I 1 wae man quite that tt it I 1 were disco discovered ered ni in fate have been death bemuse I 1 not on y had find the forged d on ine file but I 1 had been so man nani daye behind the gennan german binti after I 1 luul lind escaped lint that abi tiny y bouilin couldn t ra hafely MY let me tile hu the tion I 1 posse eel one t I 1 boldly a purk I 1 begird footstep q ni n rind turning round mt two gernian sol 0 dier 4 I 1 elonce up a trifle to let thein thrill set get attend of ine me it wn asp rather durk and I 1 got a chance beo ahat a won ion darful uniform the Q military hu haa ut the sol diers had hail not lone niora more that a n fw 1 feet of fit u wlm disna penna in tin tile d dir kniss like one of those telling on the tuoi holni iiii I 1 klure icren As I 1 fiand red th the lit streets I 1 glim led in lit tilt tufo anlu r dow aa its I 1 wd trivun tri Lri iun iian offit kollker erg mere usually dining but them the t conduct elat with tiny thing like tile lie lien artt drauss which chill the allitto offic officers in london find carls I 1 nias ither rather r eur sur tit t tills beatse in tills part of beig luin they wire tre much freer than they would line lite been in berlin A liere I 1 food Is combar ashely end and tho the restriction restrictions lire are ery strict ai I 1 lime haie said my own on condition in title tills city was nas in mome re respects norse than it had beta when I 1 iia its making my aay through ih the open country IN lille bile I 1 had a plat pluie e to and my clothes were no longer constantly t making aking oo my opportunities for getting food were ere considerably icis leis than they hati had bt ell barly marly all the tile time 1 I wu isms half famished and I 1 d L aided that I 1 would bet let out of there ut fit once since I 1 sus ih with ith Huy hulliger liger 11 mi condition was nas greatly lint ro ed d mille lille the luck lack of food ed itself on me I 1 had regained some of my strength my wound were healed aud and my ankle v at a st rouser hud and my knees were considerably I 1 felt it that A 51 I 1 wax in fn t V ir vr r j i A I 1 twit et fit any fine time inie in lit leap from the train unit I 1 was as ready if t gu go through whatever hat ever uns lu in tot torp for me CHAPTER XVI I 1 L dyve fer the frontier to tet apt out of 0 the tit it would be tu to pass two tao guardi this tills I 1 had hail learned in tit lie he course of my italis wulka at night bailog 1 frequent i tra traveled viled to hie tile alty fly limits with fill the tile lien of finding out jut ju t what lint conditions I 1 would have to mett lien the time came come for me to leave A german soldiers uniform however no longer worried me tile BS as it had nt at first I 1 had lint min mingled glei with fill the hung 80 in III tile city lly that I 1 be gan to feel that I 1 wu was at Belg belgian lark a and nil I 1 tile lie that the thel to eel feet I 1 decided therefore to walk alk out of tl ti e city in the latlief in time when ihen the tile een men tries would be less apt to be on the avritch 1 wil wolla a line I 1 uns not lidid up it Inow elit the Pen sentries tries i ol 01 it unity taking tile for it belgian pear ant on ills lit wicy fly to work fushir than I 1 lind had ever ver done before ian anc c ny my I 1 was boon out in the tile open country and tile th unfit first IM itin I 1 cume came to I 1 approached for food lie alte me tile linit t f ills loath und and we ie eat down on the side of the road it to eat it of bourst he lie tried to talk tu to file but I 1 used the old ruse of pretending I 1 wits wn kilt and dumb and he lie ani ai quite con convinced incle that it is wae as so laiq 11 alln q arlei j tf fortt to talk to me in but I 1 could not ninko out what he lie wae man getting at and I 1 think lie must hate haile concluded conclude d lint I 1 na not litile st artil ilant and dumb but looney in lit the ballain barti Uin mien lk iI lItt lit nine I 1 looked around for a place ili t rout rest I 1 bud decided to trai travel el in the da time an is 0 11 ne as night because I 1 stood that it aas as oni only y a few fei miles from the frontier and I 1 was uns natu naturally rallS anxious to get there at the eurll euril ft st possible moment althou although fh I 1 rell reu re ted u clit here there I 1 would encounter the most part of my af tu acet chreas th reas t e eav lly barbed wire site and electrically charged barrier was a problem that I 1 hated to think mink of 0 een eien although the hours I 1 pent endeavoring to devise rome way of outwitting the this huns hung is were ere man it had occupy k mh iu for instance lD tance abat it would not bt buch such a difficult matter to ault over the electric fence which won wa only nine fret feet high in collve I 1 knew kner a ten fit for t coult Is t conald rd n high hoy nent treat n ent but there were two tito crant dif CC irtle in the wa ma of solution U the fart pince it would be no tuy ruy mutter to bet a pole of the right length lent rth weight and slid strength to arje the purpose more particularly how ever the pole tault vault idea denied seemed to ino mo to be out nt of the q bellon stion of thi the fact that on oil either side aide of the electric fenie six ix lit feet et from it wa al ix L toot barbed anre wlm barati fer K to vault ait digier it nine foot electrically charged fed fence was one thing but to combine mith it a twelve foot broad vault wae isas a feat which even a R college athlete in the pink of condition agull be apt to flunk indeed I 1 don dont t believe lie it Is pos possibly another plan that seemed halfway reasonable wa ma to build a pair of stilts tilt about twelve or fourteen feet high and walk over oer the barrier barriers one by one As A a youngster youn gater I 1 had acquired considerable skill in n stilt walking Aal king find I 1 have no doubt that with the proper equip it would likio hh been quite feu ible title to hae milked out of belgium ne as kolh at possible in that way may but wh ellier or not I 1 wao ins going to have a chance to construct the necessary tilts remained to be een seen pro a good mana bici clea in U by the he germun vol 01 ol ller in lit belgium and anti it hat ha i often occurred to me that t f I 1 could hae etolin one the urea would have made excellent aloes and in elated tor for ni fit feet in tase it mas necessary necess ary for me to at nept to climb over the electric fence hut but ae as I 1 had neer neier liten able to meal a alicle this avenue of estape ans dosed to me iu I 1 to wait until I 1 arrived at the barrier find then make niale up my mina how hos to proceed to find it deceit dt place to that night I 1 crawled mier ln ter a barbed wire ire ft f nce till aking it led into topic field As its I 1 panted under tinder one of the barbs barbi aught in my coat cont and in trang to ing to I 1 lull ull from front it I 1 shook the tile fence tor for ise itral ards instantly time ume out of the night the none nerie baiting nuking command Il haiti attl again I 1 feared I 1 was sas done for I 1 crouched close down don on the ground in the not knowing whether to oke to in fit kgb and trust to the hurt 3 rn missing issing me in the dark negi if it he tired or nta bani where I 1 ains it was foggy as well nell as a dark and although I 1 knew the sentry was only a few feet away erfal arf id roe me I 1 decided to stand or rather lie ile pat I 1 rny my heart made almost ns as anuth unite ne its the rattling of the wire in the first place and it uns at tense few ino moments ments to me I 1 heard the Ger gernin sh u a few dordi to himself but didn dian t under understand th tit M in of course and then he lie made inside a fount noun ns it to call 11 a dh 1 l k and I 1 realized reull zed that his theory of the noise noble he had hal heard mas that a dog had made its way isay through the fenc lor i the me nil ultes I 1 stir clr anti then figuring that the german had probably continued on his beat I 1 crept quietly under the wire mire again thi this time being might cartful to bug hug the ground so cloe clo e that I 1 t touch the wire ire and iftode oft off in a EL dit tilt terent ferent direction I 1 vi dently the barbed wire fente bittl bien liten thrown thron around an n u or something of the lind und and anti it was vies nat a field geld at all that I 1 I 1 had tried tc get into I 1 but that ol oil 01 or wera were in lit the I 1 pr proved Kved very gin gingerly gedy after I 1 had got about a mile tulle abuy from thil this pilot I 1 came to an humble belgian house and I 1 knocked at the door i nd applied for food in my bual way ay pointing to nay my mouth to indicate I 1 was hungry and to my ears atilt ind mouth tu to imply that I 1 wn vas deaf and anti the tile belgian u cian who ilso la in the hoise brought rue me a pece piece of ad and two cold potatoes pota ind nd aa as I 1 out but there eating them she ah eed we very keenly I 1 the t duurt tint list site he realized I 1 mas a fugIt fugitte Je bhe bile biel no SO U mar ar the thai that it keks as inure wore tor for lint that reason I 1 appreciated more lull full the t extent of the rink ate ran for no doubt the herman german ere watching the tile conduct of these ld DO ailara win hied allu tl near the line lint aly theory that she realized that I 1 1118 us not a belgian lit tit all but ibby by bome was vials cin c n firmed brined a moment later when ihen aa as I 1 akdo remly really to go she lie touched tou clied me on oil the inn arm and indicated d that I 1 was isas to watt a n moment bhe bile went ent to a burkatt bur au and brought out two pieces of fancy belgian lace which ilitch hc he insisted upon my illy taking inking away ut that particular inocent I 1 had an as ue for belgian lace aa as an elephant tor a razor but I 1 was nas touched tou clied with her tier thoughtfulness and anti presed lier tier land to shew my gratitude abe would not accept the money I 1 offered her tier I 1 carried the lare hire through gl my subsequent nue tit experience experienc eq feeling that it would mould be a fine souvenir for mv mir in othar as a matter of fact if I 1 had hail known that it wan nias goptill oi iiii to de lay illy iu ill inal emi emaio alie for nan u kinle ini kiniment ment it did I 1 din un quite quit eure sure sin she would I 1 had not i seen een it on one on I 1 alece of lace wan the I 1 hemr lem lidi word charito Charl tr nud and on o 0 the othar the jorj ord at the he ehric I 1 took theve to M auau lau charity and all 11 I 1 vas that I 1 would gt g t as much of the one as I 1 was getting of the other bufore in fore I 1 finall rot got through I 1 learned subsequently that what the tile biordi really stood for ii werf ere charity prid I 1 hope I 1 and then I 1 wan inon sure thai that my kind bel glan friend had indeed realized ajr plight and that her thoughtful sou venir waa intended tu to encourage me tile in he the trial trill I 1 she site must liae linie known were iser before me I 1 let lot the old belgian lady know because I 1 did lid not want nant to ularm her but that night I 1 pleat in her backyard leibing IP nine early in the morning before it became light later in the day I 1 applied ut tit ali other house for food it w it oi cuple I 1 by fly a father anti nd mother and tan dilill lill dren I 1 hesitated to ask them for boi fina without offering to pay for it an I 1 realized what a task it must have been for them to support themselves alth w lilt out having to tp feed a hungry anin ac corling lv I 1 gave the man a mark ar at I 1 then indicated that I 1 wanted thing to eat 1 ahey hey to rm at 3 elvo and they let me partake of their local which consisted sted of a huge bol of some kind nt t soup which I 1 isar wo unable to idea city and which they nerved served in ordinary wash I 1 dont know knon that they fer vier aed the boons to wash in as well viell but whether they did or not did lid not liot worry vorry me cpr much ahe soup was wits good and I 1 enjoyed it all the time I 1 was there I 1 |