The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-05-22

,ciLdent besides that which happened to
the Jap, and that was a poor devil that
undertook to 60 over in one OF these
nsvfangled airships. He certainly
rot his tire punctured all right, ana
came down mighty sudden" the SOL
der stopped for a moment and heaveo
= long sigh, and then concluded IN .
softer voice: ." was awfully sorry
for that fellow. He want no spy nor
nothing like that, but just a young
newspaper chap doing the pest No
knew how to get the goods. He was
done for when the boys picked him up.
The colonel felt about as sorry as any
body else, and got special permission
from the Canadian government to 9
a squad back with him as a guard OF
honor"
BY this time Hitler had donned the
dry garments that had been provided
and stood awaiting the further instruc-
lions of his captor. "Well, what am !
to do" he inquired, seeing tina the
man stood motionless.
"Oh, you can go back across the
line, or if you want to one of the boys
will find a place for you to bunk till
morning. You see. you're kind OF q
distinguished guest. We all had or
ders to treat you nicely, and the colo
mel will have a machine here to take
you back wherever you want to go to-
morrow"
Bafaed by vigilance and overcome
by courtesy the secretary, after bid
ding his captor good-by, retired for b
night to a camp cot in the quarters OF
q lieutenant of infantry. 1t was long be
fore he succumbed to a sleep of utter
exhaustion. He was awakened by a
bugle call in the morning, and found
his host shaving himself before a.
small mirror suspended from the tent
pole.
''Good morning, MI. Hitler" the
officer said. "Not quite as pleasant
quarters as the secretary of the Brit
ish embassy is entitled to, and not
many conveniences; but you're vel
come to my razor if you'll wait q min
ute"
Hitler sat up, rubbing his eyes.
Neatly stretched out on a camp stool
before him were his shabby clothes.
improved by washing, not only dry but
pressed. He stared at them in sur
prise, while the officer laughingly con-
tinued:
eyes, we did the best we could for
them; but I don't think you made a
friend of my orderly, IS he swears he
has worked on them all night long,
and has requested a days leave on
the strength of it"
Thanking the officer for his hospi-
tally, Hitler slowly CARRIED himself
and stepped through the tent fly. Be-
low him and stretching away as far as
the eye could discern we're gray.
brown entertainments, one line within
The other, and excavated with military
precision.
"Intrenchments," came a voice be.
hind him, observing his curious in
spection. "We have to keep the boys
busy, and besides the government
didn't want to take any chances. Those
pits stretch across this continent
now, and there won't be any trouble
for a good many years to come for
people to tell just where the border is
located. Like 'em?" he concluded,
whimsically.
"No, 1 can't say that 1 do" Hitler
responded with equal good nature;
"but they look business like"
"Oh, they're the goods sure enough"
his informant continued; "but that
isn't all. See that little mound over
there?" and he pointed a bare brown
arm over his guests shoulder. Hill
lier nodded assent and looked inquir.
ingly at his companion. Behind that
there's a brace of Calling guns. Got
them too every little ways. Never
had to fire 'em yet, and hope we never
will. But you never can tell. Same
works been done along the Mexican
border line; but it's easier to guard.
This war certainly has educated a
lot of fellows; so that when it's Owe
there'll be plenty of men can show
%callouses that were never decorated
with 'em before. This country's bot
tied up nov as tight as if the Lord
Almighty had set a can over It," and
he laughed at his own joke.
The motor a was placed at Hill.
lier's disposal as promised, and be.
fore night fell he found himself back
In his room at the hotel no worse and
no better for his experience. For ten
days thereafter he made useless at.
tempts to forward his message by
every means that his ingenuity could
suggest. Once he allowed it out of his
hands, intrusting it through extremity
to the care of a fisherman, and on the
the following day, with seals un-
broken, Il was returned to him by a
polite officer of the United States
army IN civilian dress. Were It not
for the gravity of his task he would
have come to regard it as a joke, a
boys game of prisoners base or tag,
in which he vas always ct"
And then, as If to reproach him for
his failure. there came from the clear.
ness of the sky a swift and terrible
t~hunderbolt. It was a message from
England reporting the disappearance
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