The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
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What assurance have [ that you VIII keep your word if succeed ?' I asked. all the while crowding back the ideas. the plans. that were teening in my brain I was panic stricken lest some one might read my thoughts. S ao overwrought were my nerves.
 You must take my word for that, 7 hd replied quickly, And besides you know what4Hi happen if you refuse z and he shrugged his shoulders. By de cliaing knew, of course, we were lost. \ Bx agreeing there was always the fighting chance
 Am free to return to my own work are we both. free if my mission is sue cessfulIy accornplis he'd ?'' asked. He laughed unpIeasantly. Well. hardly that Don't you think you would be better satisfied to return and learn personally what happens to Fra zer2 He Is very Ill. Then. quickly changing his tone. he said: Tf you have played fair you and Captain Fra ger will be sent blindfolded out of our lines and proper precaution taken that you get through to your own You have saved his life. He will marry you No one will ever suspect yon1- you the daughter of peer of England.
 seTo return you will leave there in the morning, go to where the line breaks. pass your own patrol.'s' He must have seen my look of amazement, for he added at once: .sIt is a thing that is done every day, to say nothing of dispatch riders who go through even under fire. Disguised as pretty peas ant it will be easy. They are very lax with the natives. Once safe from the sentry you have nothing to fear, as our patrols on your return will be watch --.u-a will be challenged. You have only to answer in German and give the coun-t tersign.
 Here interrupted with: :sIsut the countersign is changed every day. It win be three days
 ..The one I give you will be good ur- ti1 the evening of the third day. It is Deutschland Ubef Alles.
 think it most hazardous task, r I saids land one in which the chances are hundred to one I shall fail, how ever earnestly I try, but accept. Be- fore go I want tO8say that know Captain Frazer is not spy, though appearances may be against him, but [ know, too, that for less men have been shot. The falsity of the aecusa ton can be proved, but it takes tiIne.v
 4ssAnd dme," he broke in, ttis what we none of us have just now.''
 Itook up the orange petticoat, went 10 my room and twenty minutes later was en route. begged to see Captain ] Frazer, but permission either to talk to or write him was denied, and I was bl1ndfolded and led to the waiting mo- tor. After we had gone an hour whether in a straight line or in circle I was unable to decide-We suddenly halted, and the officer with me, remoy- Ing the bandage from my eyes, jumped dekTn and said:.
 sFraulein, your way is straight ahead to where you see that windmill dimly outlined on the horizon. Goodby and good luck z He held out his hand As took 1t he added, ssThis is not to my taste, fraulein.''
 As horrifyfng as. itxan was, I was glad to be free. For while never mo tested. still had been prisoner, with always the sense of oppression. the feeling of being watched With the fresh, sweet smell of the country air, the faint chirp of the birds, forgot E 1 was hurryinE onward, perhaps to death. said this to myself, but my emotions refused to be aroused could not feel glfmmer of fear. I knew all would and must go well. In the gen erals ofhce had decided on a course of action. True, the plan, if carried out, might cost my life and more- much more--the life of Ian! It came to me suddenly was thinking of him as Ian.) But we were soldiers, and :. that was chance we must take After all, as Colonel - had once said to me, .tvho lives if what we stand for perish from off the earth 7''