Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-09-27
"Outwitting the Hun"
By LIEUTENANT PAT OBRIEN
by oBnen


postmark, and was at loss to know
how to get over that difficulty.
Fortunately, however, Huyliger had
half of a rubber stamp which had evil
IDENTIFY been thrown away by the Ger
mans, and he planned to construct the
other half out of the cork from wine
bottle, He was very skillful with
penknife, and although he spoflt a
score or more of corks before he sue
ceeded in getting anything like the
result he was after, the finished article
was far better than our most sanguinP
expectations. Indeed, after we had
pared it over here and there, and re-
moved whatever imperfections our re-
peated test disclosed, we had a stamp
which made an impression so closely
resembling the original that without a
magnifying glass, we were sure, it
would have been impossible to tell
that 1t was a counterfeit.
Huyliger procured a camera and
took a photograph of me to paste on
the passport in the place provided for
that purpose, and we then had a pass
port which was entirely satisfactory
to both of us and would, we hoped,
prove equally so to our friends the
Huns.
1t had taken two days to fix up the
passport. In the meanwhile Huyliger
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 it was advisable for
me to proceed to the frontier.
This was quite agreeable to me, as
had had misgivings as to the kind
of priest would make and it seemed
to me to be safer to remain aloof from
everyone in a deserted house than to
have to mingle with people or come in
contact with them, even with the best
of DISCUSSES.
That night l 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 be a four
story structure of brick. Huyliger told
me that it had been occupied by a
wealthy Belgian before the war, but
since 1914 it had been uninhabited save
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.
I explored the place from top to bot
tom as well as l could without lights.
The house was deliberately furnished,
but, of course, the dust lay a quarter
of an inch thick everywhere. 1t was a
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 it and / was curious
enough to want to know just what the
| house contained.
| OOWu III lle UdSeLueuI LueIe WAS q
huge pantry but it was absolutely bare
except of dust and dirt. A door which
evidently led to a sub-basement at
tracted my attention and thought il
might be a good idea to know just
where it led to in case it became neces
sary for me to elude searchers.
In that cellar / found case after case
of choice wine-Huyliger subsequently
told me that there were 1900 bottles o.
It'll I was so happy at the turn m.
affairs had taken and in the rosy pros
poets which l now entertained that
was half inclined to indulge in a LITTLE
celebration then and there. On seconC
thought, however, l remembered tn,
old warning of the folly of shouting
before you are well out of the woods
and decided that it would be just a
well to postpone the festivities for {
while and 20 to bed instead.
In such an elaborately furnishe,
house had naturally conjured Vi
ideas of a wonderfully large bee
with thick hair mattress, down,
quilts and big soft pillows. Indeed,
debated for a while which particula