Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1918-10-18
'0utwitting the Hun "
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necessary arrangements. and viii be
as patient as I can"
The FIRST thing to do. Huyliger told
me. was to prepare passport. He had
blank one and Il was a comparatively
simple matter to all In the spaces. us.
ing genuine passport which Huyligef
possessed as q sample Of the hand
writing OF the passport clerk. My &C,
eupation was entered as that Of q
sailor. My birthplace we gave as
Spain. and we put my age at thirty.
AS matter OF fact. at that time
could easily have passed for thirty.
five. but we figured that with proper
food and q decent place to sleep at
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. com.
paratively easy matter. but that did
not begin to all the bill. Every genu.
Inc passport bore an official rubber
stamp. something like an elaborate
postmark, and I was at q loss 20 know
how to get over that dificulty.
Fortunately. however, Huyilger had
half Of a rubber stamp which had evi'
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 a
penknife. and although he spollt a
score or more Of corks before he sue
cseded in getting anything like the
result he was after. the finished article
was far better than our most sanguins
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 80 closely
resembling the original that without q
magnifying glass. we we're sure, II
would have been impossible to tell
that 1t was q 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 q pass
port which was entirely satisfactory
to both Of us and would. we hoped
prove equally 90 to our friends the
Huns.
1t had taken two days to nx up the
passport. In the meanwhile Huyligei
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 fos
me to proceed to the frontier.
This was quite agreeable to me, as
had had mlsgivlngs as to the kind
Of a priest would make and It seemed
to me to be safer to remain aloof from
everyone in a deserted house than te
have to mingle with people or come In
contact with them. even with the best
Of DISCUSSES.
That night accompanied Huyliger
to fashionable section Of the city.
where the house In which / was to be
concealed was located.
This house turned out to be q four
story structure Of brick. Huyliger told
me that 1t 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 I could without lights.
The house was elaborately furnished.
but, Of course, the dust lay q quarter
of.an inch thick everywhere. It 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 we're to
come I was to have plenty Of oppor-
tunity to famlliarize myself with the
contents Of that house but at that time
I did not know 1t and ! 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 a sub-basement at
tracted my attention and / thought 1t
might be a good idea to know just
where 1t led to In case 1t became peces-
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 Of
1t was so happy at the turn my
affairs had taken and in the rosy pros
poets which / now entertained that /
was half inclined to indulge in little
celebration then and there. On second
thought, however, remembered the
old warning Of the folly of shouting
before you are well out Of the woods,
and I decided that 1t would be Just as
well to postpone the festivities for q
while and on IN hed inataad