Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-10
Copyrighted,
International News Bureau.

when young. girl rushed in in great
excitement and threw her arms around
the wife OF the inns proprietor. shout
ing and crying: the Prussians. the
prussinns! They are In the village.
What will become of us. o God, o
God! What will become of u.s."
Never before in all my life did 1 see
such n transformation take place be-
fore my eyes. Suddenly the wounded
belgian officers turned to giantIike
beasts, beasts. The tore OF their bandages.
| dressed themselves like men who had
| just received fire call and revoIyers
IN hand, took their places before the
and commanded the road that turned
and curved to the heart OF the village
one or the officers shouted: Whose
| motor car is that" pointing at the ca
below. 1t was my car that had bcan
| waiting at the door OF the inn since
,no last nine or ten hours as a signal
| 10 guide the incoming Chlans TO the
place where the wounded Belgian Of
| ficcrs were.
GAINS ENTRANCE TO Inn
| AND LATER BI2TRAYS OWNER
IF the monsieur permits me. 1 shall
go down and take the motor car to the
back of the inn" did not wait for
his permission. I rushed down, entered
ne car and, after running it slowly as
II was going to turn IL to the back
but instead OF rushing ahead stalled
, ,nH Imac mn Looking up. ! screamed.
! DOW that could not move Il.
They did not suspect my original mo-
tive. ! rushed back to the door and
iound 1t Locked. The officer at the
house through the back door. ran
| TO the back door and had scarcely en-
| tered when heard the sounds Of the
! uhlhns' riding. They were at the house
| in another moment. brisk battle fol-
loved 1 must say this much for the
sspperheroes. and the Uhlans nearly
| thirty OF them. did not succeed in en-
isrinE the house until the desperate
| Eelgians had fred their very last shot
| twenty-five uhlans lay dead outside
the house out of the original thirty
that had made the attack.
But fnally'the superior numbers won
way INTO the house. But did the Bel
| Eian officers show any signs Of fear?
NO, hiti =. The Young girl who had
| proach to the village was clinEing TO
me In dire desperation. noticed that
the Uhian leader was without a scratch
| 10 remain behind.
F.; AS the GermaDs rushed Inside the
| house their leader made for the young
giri. At this moment one Of the Bel
Eian officers stepped between us and
inc uhian officer. with empty re-
yolver in his hand. and shouted "The
m mem ans can ight better AGAINST wo
| finished his sentence when one of the
uhians thrust his lance clean through
t4io cci'S- L HcIi lOilO"cU Il deadly Ecuff1P
between the unarmed BelGians and the
Ch!ans. and the Belgian girl Suddeniy
}nmped at the herr lieutenant of the
| Chlans with mad tigerlike fury and
| instantly fell back cursing, May your
women be slaves and your mothers be-
come bond slaves" The herr Iieuten-
In short time the Uhlans had sub
! JuSated the occupants Of the inn Then
the herr lieutenant ordered five of his
men to return TO the street and gather
the bodies OF his men, while he himself
began systematic search OF the
mouse: Then, turning to me. he said
with anger: "Fraulein. our expedition
has been costly. 1t cost US twenty
TWO good Germans TO kill four wound
ed Belgian dogs and a dirty woman.
This needs an explanation. II appears
That We were led into trap and some
one is responsible for this tragedy"
These words of the Uhlan lieutenant
| awakened in me that long dormant ORR
entail temper that had been hiding
With With thin veneer OF civilization. i
them within three or four inches OF
the ugly face OF that cowardly Uhlan
lieutenant. I screamed:
AN ORIENTAL FURY IS
AROUSED By OFFICER
You dirty coward of pig. There
VIII be an explanation. and that Will
nave TO come from you. You accuse
me OF betraying your nasty flock. Am
your unforgivable folly in charging a
house where there were hidden four
heroic Belgian officials. who would
have eNterminated YOU all had they
had enough bullets left. Am I respon-
slDlc Tor your cowardly murder of a
young woman? That woman whom you
shot dead was the one who rushed In
and warned the Belgian officers that
1 If We're approaching the village.
ter 90 otherwise had your enemies in
vaded your fatherland? Coward, RI
SPIT n on you Yiu I spat on the face of
me nerT lieutenant. and. stretching my
arms, dared him to shoot me as he
had shot that poor young girl
Fraulein. shall report these insult
ing words ,;i' to our commander;. will
superiors." replied the ugly-faced herr
lieutenant
He suddenly turned, with sickening
smile on his face in the direction Of
me stairway, down which three OF his
uhlans were bringing the proprietor of
we INN. ms wife and their daughter,
VINO was about twenty-five years OF
age:
II found shds the young, dame in a trunk
tenant" said one of the Uhians.
a PERI realizing what was about to
heart of brute But the Herr HI Lieu me
tenant was even below an ordinary
beamed with satisfaction and after
having looked her all over as IL she
was for sale in public market. he
eight and threatened to shoot every
one of them should they fail to bring
the best wine in the house to the table
"TO THE VICTOR
BELONG THE SPOILs-
"My dear Fraulein, you may go. TO
night l stay at this house TO the
victor belong the spoils" saying this
he sat down at the table in the side
room at the left OF the inn.
But Herr Lieutenant, you have not
even buried your own dead there is
work to be done, -"
Not tonight. not Tonight my dear
Fraulein: Tonight spend in this
Remember Herr Lieutenant there Ia
something even more dear than life.
You may never succeed" 1 warned
him.
You go, Fraulein Tomorrow return
to this house. Then l will go with
you wherever you wish me to, but to-
night l have an Important engage