The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-08
ARefugee
By EUJNICE BLAKE

| would mention something that ! was
thinking about. or perhaps il was
who would mention something thar
Rose was thinking about. For a long
while we considered this thinking
about the same thing at the same time
simply due to coincidence, but at last
we came to wonder If it were not
| thought transference.
When this solution was first suggest
ed we both lau-hed ut the idea. but att
err a few more very pointed condolences
Of the kind we believed it to he true.
Our first separation occurred in the
spring of the breaking ont Of the war
/ between the triple alliance and the
| triple entente Rose found an opDorll.
nifty to go abroad with II party OF
friends. who took her along as their
guest With much reluctance at Ieav-
ing me she accepted the invitation and
sailed when the annual summer hegira
Of Americans commenced During the
month of July |, who needed rest in.
stead of the excitement of travel. Went
into the country as far as ! could get
from n railroad and where the only
newspaper was weekly journal with
no news in it except what was of in
terest to the surrounding farmers
One night | dreamed that | WAS In
foreign city. | say | dreamed it. for
my consciousness was more like Il
dream than any other sensation.
was in IA hotel situated on n square.
looked out through Il window on the
square below. thronged with people MI
in n state of intense excitement Some
of them were throwing up their caps
and shouting. others were hnrrying IN
and out of the houses. while cab driv.
ers were guiding their horses or auto
cars We're endeavOring to get through
the crowds without running persons
down
Then without being conscious Of any
transition | was on a railway train.
Every town it passed through WAS
filed with soldiers. and everybody
seemed to be bent on doing something
In the least possible time. In the fields
women We're gathering in the harvest.
not man being there to help, Mules
were dragging great cannon along
roads. and locomotives were drawing
other munitions of war on platform
cars. Everybody and everything was
moving in the direction our train was
moving
BY and by we passed into another
country There were long drawn
breaths OF relief by my fellow pas
sengers. We were in Il valley on one
side OF which doomed Notifications into
which soldiers were hurrying There
were two lines of these works. and they /
extended about Il city. almost encircing |
It, These two lines were so TILED with
like myriads of insects
Our train entered the city. and l. with |
others. was hurried to another train |
Soon was again flying across the
country. Now the people instead OF
hurrying in the direction | was going |
were marching in great mnltitudes on
the road. and presently ! saw some
hearing the English flag. There seemed
to be less worry on the part OF all OF
us. our only course of anxiety being
to catch n steamer. which was to sail
from coast we were approaching
The next phase of this sensation was
running through fog on the ocean
without lights and without sound to
Indicate our presence. None of MS
slept and most of us were In the cabin
grouped in terror Stewards were go
ing from room to room stuting pillows
against the portfolios or hanging cur
tainS over them to conceal from with
out every ray of light.
My dream. my vision or whatever II
may be called faded away In the
! nwoke feeling rs II | had
been tiayed. In dreams we never see
anything we have not seen while
awake | had seen sights that were
absolutely new to me. could not IN
derstand it, Naturally | connected II
with something that had happened to
Rose abroad
So impressed with this was that
determined to go to the city. | was
driven twenty miles to a station Along
The route the country people were pnr-
suing their daily vocations. some OF
them getting in hay. others moving
leiSurely over the roads When ar
rived mt the station | saw man
on the platform reading 4
I saw in big black letters
across the page:
THE RelCians Still Hold the Forts at
Liege"
] asked him what ii meant. and ~
told me that all Europe had suddenly
burst into war fame. I bought p
newspaper and read an announcement
" the arrival Of a ship AT New York
rom Antwerp bringing American pas
sengers from Europe some Of whom
lad left Germany on the last train thar
vas allowed to come through. | won.
Tered IL Rose had not made her escape
rom Munich. where she was when | {
lad last heard from her. and come out l
m that train
| reached home in the evening. Ash
wont nm tho stems tho fr,,nt d,or ,,-,.