| Show IG THI HUN lieutenant PAT 4 toll if by 14 I 1 IL garton SYNOPSIS 1 introductory I pet pat 0 brien tell tells ot of his hi purpose in writing the lory story ot of his advent adventure urs II 11 11 tell tells or of his hi enlistment in the etoal flying core lorin his hi training in la 1 iada and lue tits ti tia Jimer to k trance rance for or a til alve s duty C APTER 11 1 t tac ribes 1 tights in be brought down own two permam emd I 1 a final fins light tight in which he w wa a s brought dow down wounded within the O 0 e r nen man line lines a tand n d wa was made nad A tir of ww war IV that german hospital tart staff adl neglected tt lla totally roundel it at J devoted their ner oner gies to lo 10 restoring tl it arts OR who might be b turned to the tile fillig line lines Wl nii death in antii ot of his bl best beat chum aleut out Z aff P BV CHAP Thic vho V ho tie is 11 ra tc to cerr prison camp at t courtsal Court Cour ral trai anem tv u N began on i lanning his lit escape by great sac ac W 1 I 1 in uin wane wanel iii l to save mul hill ear V u r radon of 0 lidid VI vilie ile conr cony deates cate a map or germany and jut just half an hour later la Is put t oa a trul train bound or a prison app in germany ite lie lera ergo dik it window while the train Is tra ut U a rate vt of BO do mil an hour hr CHAPTER ali for nine day days h ho 4 rawl ra as through I 1 liling iding during t tir beday day tra veUne at n ai k by tir tan and sub stating on raw vegetable egre cc veri 76 75 defors be lor reaching lux V R VIII for fornin mine day days more nor he h struggles on in a weakened condition lp burx in the direction ot of fyhen I 1 escaped from ue he train trains 1 enn anti had the Bi varlan cap ot of bright rw in my po eket und anti wore it fur for many nights but I 1 took great care that no one saw it it aho also had proven ery very useful when riven rivers for I 1 carried my map uail and a few other be longings in it und I 1 had fully made tip uy my mind to brint bring it home an a souvenir Bouren lr but the farther I 1 went the heavier my extra clothing became so I 1 we was to discard even the cap I 1 knew that lat it would be a tell talo into mark if I 1 imply threw it away so one night alter after a river I 1 dug duc a holema the oft soft mud on the bank and burled buried it too with con Ider older ably irae less ceremony cerr mony then my flying mittens had perhaps so that was the end ot of my bavarian but hat my experience nt at the bouse wh wilt tied my appetite fur for more wore food and I 1 figured gurel fl that had been done once route could be done again sooner or latar I 1 I 1 would mould probably ap approach poach a belgian end and find at german ler nian lust tad but in duch such a contingency tin gency I 1 atas de tir mined to measure my strength against the tile if necessary to effect ray my escape As it u ae nit however moat of ho the bet ginne glans ta to whom I 1 applied for food gaite gu it to me we rea readily tilly enough and if sonn of 0 then refused me it wun am only because e they feared I 1 might be a spy or that the ler mand would them if f their action were subsequently found cut out about the hutli day lifter after I 1 had en I 1 aas the tiny asu gual in a clunis 0 of buches luh cn when I 1 dieci in the dl di tance glance nant hat it reared it t be thine hanging on it n jine all day lay long I 1 strained my M trying to diddle lint it could be anti arguing alth ith myat lf that it might bt something that I 1 could add to my in adequate nor or drobe but the as so great that I 1 not idt ratify it I 1 had a great fear that bufore night caine it would probably be removed As soon ns as darkness fell liou however etter I 1 crawled out of ny my dildine pad end worked up to the line and cot a pair 0 11 tor my industry lit pair of ov overalls ralls ana util th first bit of call civilian clothes I 1 had find thus far licked up alth ith the tile ot of a civilian cup cap which I 1 had found at the tile prison and 1 attic aled on an my tind chich I 1 still bud bad ilie overage emalls were rather small and very rt but I 1 put them on I 1 found that they hung donn flon tar far enough to cover iny my breeches altas it was pr hape three dia li later that I 1 planned t td search another boti houie re for or clothes further clothed Litt littering cring hofses at tight 1 Is anthlny but a it info proposition their are largo large antl 1 sometimes as baay sten or tight in it lii Kit room rha tile born barn Is 1 u usually mally with tho the house and there aai alws the dinger of pome some dunia animal cren even if it the of tho couo were colp no abou e I 1 I 1 I 1 took a chance ot of a buck back jurd at night in the hoe hone of finding food foci deraps but my lucress in that direction uns so slight that I 1 toon soon thit it jsn t worth Nort lt the risk and I 1 continued to live on raw vegetables vegetable a that I 1 could pick with niety lafety in the fluids fields an and 1 I the occasional meal that I 1 was able V to get froin ron the belgian peasant peasants la in the daytime nevertheless I 1 was mas determined to get more in the tiny ny of clothing and anti when come I 1 picked out a house that looked oa us though it might furnoh me with hai wanted it was ins a moonlight night inight an tin I 1 if I 1 could get in the barn 1 would have a faIrch fair hunce nce of f finding my way ay around by tho the moonlight which would enter tho the windows t the barn adjoined the main part of the house but I 1 groped around very carefully und and soon I 1 touched some thera on in a raz I 1 know what it wai ma but I 1 confiscated it it and curried it out into the field abero la in the moonlight I 1 examined exum lood my booty tied found that it was vias an old col coat t it was uns too short for an tin overcoat con t ant boil too long for or an ordinary font cont but I 1 madl anad u use 49 ot of IL it it had probably beon been in nn overcoat overcast for the dellaa vho cho had worn worm it some home daa later I 1 got a dcarr fron V r peasant and with this equipment I 1 was as able to conceal my uniform entirely later on however hc wever I 1 decided that it an us too dangerous danger ons to keep the uniform on and anti when night came I 1 flug a n hole and burled buried it it I 1 never realized until I 1 had ta to part with it just how much I 1 thought cf al I 1 that hat uniform it had been with m t through rough hard trial and I 1 felt as it I 1 were a friend when I 1 parted alth it I 1 was tempted to keep he the wings ot oft the tunic but thought that would be a dyn gero concen concession slon to sentiment in the event that I 1 was max ever captured it 1 waa ax the only distinction I 1 had lett jett its I 1 had hail given the royal flying corps badge and I 1 tip ie pears of my frnk to llie the german lying flying officers ni a souvenirs but I 1 felt that it pas safer to discard it As it finally turned out through all my experiences IN in sape would never have ben jeopardized hid had I 1 kept my uniform but of 0 course I 1 had no idea iden what was la in store tor for roe me there uns one thing which I l me int ery much na m I 1 journeyed bigia Ilet aluni and that was wits the rear city nt of dog apparently moat of 0 tham bid hut hein 1 li III the get taini and anti what are left are beasts of burden wh h anre loi too cirul nt tit allt to bark or bother intruder intruders this was mss a mighty rood good thing for me for I 1 would If have them up in pausing through linck backyards yards aa as I 1 sometimes did when hen I 1 was making a chort cut one night as I 1 came out of a ard it waa as so pitch da daik k that I 1 could not see ten feet ahead of roe me atrat I 1 wae as right in the back of a little village although 1 I did 1141 not knowlt I 1 crawled along fearing I 1 might come to a crossroads at which there would ta in all probability be a german sentry sly precaution amed sered roe me in good stead for had ind I 1 come out in the main street of the billart and within twenty feet of roe me sitting on gomo some bricks where they were building dInK a little etore store I 1 could see the dim outline of a helmet 1 I 1 not raws the street and the only thing to do to was to back track it meant making a long detour and losing two hours of precious time find effort but thre atas oo 00 help for it eo so I 1 plodded wearily back curs cursing the liana lions at eary every step the next night while hile crowing some fit idi I 1 cunie came to a road it was as one of the knain roads of belgium and was wn paved with cobble stones et ones on the these je rouda you can hear a wagon agon or horse about a trillo ml or two away I 1 listened intently before I 1 moved ahead IRR ani I 1 heiring eiring li nothing concluded that the way was as clear As I 1 enier emerged gett from the op field and got my first glimpse of the road I 1 got the shock t f my iny life I 1 in eitler r direction I 1 46 r 14 41 p t 4 W SE 36 f il 0 ka t f tr 4 IC al I 1 I 1 f 1 I TAI i V V k J J diagram showing how obrien lost by swimming a fa riv er and later finding that he was on the wrong side and nd had to swim back as far for as I 1 could sie the read mad was lined with german soldiers t ant ahat they mero eri doing in that part of lel bel clurn I 1 did not know hut but ou can be mighty sure I 1 dian didn t spend any tiny time trying to find out again it was to change my iny course anti loso a girtain amount of ground but by this time tittle I 1 had become fairly lull util recon clid to nl nol liy did not depross me as liach its they did lid at first at this thin it of my ray adi i iture it if a n day or night pas ed without its thrill I 1 began to feil feti almost hut but euh vre V re rather ditre one evening ni I 1 haq about to swim a 1 I canal about two hundred feet wide tile imil I 1 I 1 it lit it iticia about on one hundred uras imay u canal boat moored to the file it wbk as at a sort of i ut of th thew the v w a place find I 1 bondred won bond dred red what the canal boat had stopp stopped for I 1 cratt crawled led up to see As I 1 beird the boat five men were nero leming leining it nd ind I 1 notley tham cro cam over into the tile fitl 14 1 at a life distame dist unee I 1 follow t d them an ani I 1 they had not gine gme viry fur bufore I 1 saw what they were after they wre more comra committing lt the common lint but heinous crime of stealing stefi linc lill potatoes pota tots tat without the tile bitans to cook them po tatos 4 interest me a bit and I 1 thought that tit tin i hoat knelt would probably mi me more lhnn the potato mich knowing the canal hands handi would probably anle their time in the fields I 1 climbed up the stem ot of he boat leisurely and without any tiny particular plans to conceal just as my head appeared above th estern of tha mat fin or to t the tile the dread outline of a it german spiked halmet ix almet ani allt alil k chill ran down dovin my apine as I 1 dropped to the bank of the canal and munk away the sentry had not peari me or if he I 1 id aid he had ably fagund that I 1 vins one 0 of the ho foraging rasing fo party but I 1 realized that it it pay in future to take any thine for granted neit nett week |
