Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-03-08

prison from the outside. | constantly and
closely guarded. All day long was vigorously
constrained to keep my room save that from
10 a. m. till noon and from 215 till Alb was
suffered to walk about the interior Of the fort
and talk to my felow-prisoners while for
an hour morning and evening officer took
me for walk the rampant to enjoy the
fresh air blowing the height.
Well l was barred, and | wrote to this eff
feet TO my people who communicated with my
excellent friends. Never shall I forget the
warm thrill | had when | got the first com
munication telling me that my friends were
busy on my behalf.
The surveillance was very strict. All my
letters were opened and read those | received
we'll as those | wrote. My books and news
papers were likewise opened and anything Of
seditious nature taken away. Often
when my luncheon or dinner arrived found
the rolls had been cut into slices in case they
might contain a file. and on some occasions
even the fruit was sectioned by way Of pre-
caution
MY friends had therefore to communicate
with me In secret and this they accomplished
by the old trick of invisible ink. I used to
nave my letters handed to me with the seal of
the envelope open, and the letters themselves
con tanned nothing calculated to arouse alarm.
( But as soon as my warden had left me !
veope and hold the inner side to the bars Of
the great white-tiled stove standing in the
room. Then the paper cracked and con-
tracted a line or two of writing would appear
telling me how the plan progressed and what
my part was to be.
, AZ too was able to communicate with my
friends in this way, but how | managed 1t Is
still secret let them know that what |
must have above all things else was money
H.. Dhr a1o
I had noted as being likely to impede my prog
ress when the moment of my escape arrived
Once out of my cell. should have to open two
locked doors and then get through a window
protected by stout iron bar soldy wedged
in masonry.
Prom the window there drop which
was not too dangerous to jump, perhaps, but
the noise I should have made in aghting on
the tagged courtyard beneath would certainly
have been heard by the sentries. so | had to
have material to make q rope ladder.
"All these observations | passed to my
devoted friends, very discreetIy and at rare
intervals,
Every day | received from Paris a large
parcel Of newspapers and magazines. These
were opened in the governors quarters and
then sent in to me after they had been rough
Nv tied up again with the cord fastening them.
1t was this cord which attracted my attention.
1t was not the ordinary scrap or END or string
with which such rolls Of newspapers are gen
orally fastened, but nice, new string, evidently
taken off a fresh ball | examined it carefully
and my heart gave a great leap. The cord
was waXed!
Every day brought its packet of papers or
reviews wound up with the same strong Irvine.
and one day | found under the flap of an en-
velore bill just line to this effect. 'Gardez
ficeiie! (Keep stringD
The next indication | had the word
sReure' (binding). which had been written in
Invisible ink in the envelope of letter from
home Ever since my arrival at Glatz I had
received parcels of books from Paris
twice a week, and this single word at once
suggested to me what meant My books
were to bring me something. too.
One two three days passed, and the
fourth my warder brought me box of books.
There were several mathematical treatises. for
being in the engineers. mathematics have al
ways been strong roint with me. some yellow
paper bound novels, and two three ponderous
tones of history.
They were Frederic Masson's works
the great Napoleon. favorite hobby of mine,
There was Josephine Imperatrice ct Refine
and Josephine Repudiee and one or two 9TH
ars With my penknfe slit open the backs
of the paper-bound novels-nothing. Then
she mathematical books-same result, Mas