Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-18
SYNOPSIS.

OOVyhshL lsiS, by PAI Aiva O'Bnsn
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SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I-Introductory. Pat O'Brien
tells OF his purpose In wriltng the story
OF his adventures.
CHAPTER II-Tells Of his enlistment In
the Royal Flying IOrps. his training In
Canaaa and his transfer TO France for 40
tive duty.
CHAPTER III-Describes fights In which
be brought down Two German airplanes
and his finnl ilght In which he was
brought down wounded within the Ger
man lines and NaA made 4 prisoner OF
war.
CHAPTER Iv-Dlscovers that German
hospital SIAN bnrbdrously neglected the
fatally wounded and devoted their ener-
gies 10 restoring those VINO might be
returned 20 the firing lines. Witnesses
death In fight Of his best chum. Lieut..
taul Rainey.
CHAPTER Vile Is taken TO the Of
ncers prison camp at Courtral. There he
began. planning his escape. BY great sac.
rifice he manages to save and hide away
two daily rutlons OF bread.
CHAPTER VILE confiscates map OF
Germany and Just half an hour later IL
put on q train bound for O prison camp
In Germany. He leaps through window
while the train is travelling NJ q rate OF "
miles an hour.
CHAPTER VII-For nine days he
NTawis through Germany, hiding during
stars and subsisting on raw vegetables
lie. covers 70 miles before reaching Lux
emburg.
CHAPTER vIII-For nine days more he
struggles on IN a weakened condition
through Luxemburg In the direction OF
Belgium.
CHAPTER IX-He endures terrible
hmrdsh.ps, sHims rivers while delirious
from hunger, living like q hunted animal
and ON the eighteenth day after jumping
from the train he crosses Into belgium.
CHAPTER X-when we'll on his way
through Belgium he Is befriended one
night by a Flemish peasant. who teeds
him and directs him TO u man IN bel
giRn city who will holp him TO get pass
"a.
CHAPTER XI-By mlngling with Bel
glan peasants he manages to eiude Ger
ninn soldiers and reaches the Belgian city
where he finds the home or the man from
whom he expects help.
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II want to reioin my squadron as
soon as I possibly can,"'I told him,
''but 1 realize that 1t will take GER
tin length Of time for you to make the
necessary arrangements, and will be
as patient rs / can"
The first thing to do, HuyIlger told
me. was to prepare passport. He had
q blank one and II was comparatively
simple matter to f1ll in the spaces, us
ing genuine passport which Huyllger
possessed as sample of the hand
writing Of the passport clerk. My oc-
cupation was entered as that df
sailor. My birthplace we gave as
Spain, and we put my age ut thirty.
As q matter Of fact. at that time l
could ensily have passed for thirty
five. but we figured that with proper
food and a decent place to sleep ut
night, 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
paratlvely easy matter, but that did
not begin to all the bill. Every genu.
'ine passport bore an official rubber
stamp, something like an elaborate
pOstmark. and was at loss TO know
how to get over that difficulty.
Fortunately. however, Huyllger had
half Of rubbrsstamp 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 sklllful with a
penknIfe, and although he spolh q
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 sangulne
expectations. Indeed, after we had
pared It over here and there, and re.
moved whatever imperfectiOns our re-
peated test disclosed, we had stamp
which made an impression so closely
resembling the original that without a
magnlfying glass, we were sure, It
would. have been impossible TO tell
that It was O counterfeit. 2.
Huyliger procured q camera and
took a photograph Of me to paste on
the passport In the place provided for
that purpose, and We then had pass
port which was entirely satisfactory
to both Of Us and would. we hoped,
prove equally 90 to our friends the
Huns.
It 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 I could remain in safety
until he told me II was advisable for
me 70 proceed to the frontier.
This was. quite agreeable to me, aS
had had misglVings as 10 the kind
Of priest would make and II seemed
to me 70 be safer TO remain alOOf from
everyone In q deserted house than to
have to mingls with people or. come In
contact With them. even with the best
Of dIagulseS Z
That night I accompanied Huyliger