The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-15

Outlining the Plans ne Hdo maQe TOT
 My Escape.
 five. but We figured that with proper food and Il decent place to sleep at night, l could soon regain my normal appearance, and the passport would have to serve me, perhaps, for several weeks to come.
 Filling in the blank spaces on the passport was, as I have said, n com parnlivrly easy matter, but that did not begin tn fill the bill. Every gcnu- inc passport bore an official rubber stamp, something like an elaborate postmarl;, and I was at a loss to know how to get oy,r that difficulty.
 Fortunately, however, iIuyligor had half uf il rubber stamp which had evil dcntly been thrown away hy tue Ger mans. and he planned to construct the other half out of the cork from q wine bottle. He was very skillfu with Il ppukuIfe, and although h" SpoIlt n score or more of COrkS before he sue ceedcd in getting anything like the result he was after, the finished article was far better than our most sanguine expectations. Indeed, after we had pared 1t over here and there, and re- moved whatever imperfeCtions our re- pcated test disclosed, we had q stamp which made an impression so closely resembling the original that without Il magnifying glass, We were sure, it would have been Impossible to tell that 1t was a counterfeit
 IIuylger procured camera and took a photograph of me to paste on the passport in the place provided for that purpose, and we then had n pass port which was entirely satisfactory to both of Us and would, we hoped. prove equally so to our friends the Huns.
 IL had taken two days to fix up the passport. In the meanwhile liuyiger informed me that he had changed his plans about the convent and that in- stead he would take me to an empty house, where could remain in safety until he told me 1t was advisable for me to proceed to the frontier.
 This was quite agreeable to me. as ! had had miS@ivinGs as to the kind uf priest would make and il seemed to me to h, safer to remain "loor from everyone in n deserted house than to have to mingle with people or come in contact with them, eTen with the best of disguiSeS
 That night I accompanied Huyliger to a fashionable section of the city. where the house in which l was to be concealed was located.
 This house turned out to he a four story structure of brick. Huyliger told me that il had been occupied by wealthy Belgian before the wmr but since 1914 1t had been uninhabited say" for the occasional habitatIon of some refugee whom Huyliger was befriend- ing.
 Huyliger had key and let me in, but he did not enter the house with me, stating that he would visit me in the morning.
 explored the place from top to bot tom as well as l could without lights The house was elaborately furnished but, of course, the dust lay quarter of an inch thick everywhere. It was Il | large house, containing some twenty rooms. There were two rooms In the basement four on the first floor. four on the second five on the third and five on the top. In the days that were to come 1 was to have plenty of oppor- tunity to familiariZe myself with the contents of that house but at that time l did not know 1t and I was curious enough to want to know just what the house contained.
 Down in the basement there was huge pantry but 1t was absolutely bare, except of dust and dirt. A door which evidently led to q sub-basement at tracted my attention and l thought IL might be n good idea to know just where 1t led to in case 1t became neces- snry for me to elude searchers.
 In that cellar found case after case of choice wine-Huyliger subsequently told me that there were 1900 bottles of itl was so happy at the turn my affairs had taken and in the rosy pros poets which I now entertained that was half inclined to indulge In little celebration then and there. On second thought. however. l remembered the