Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-12

| cies long unused. aud his nerves were
tingling strangely hut he cluns to his
perch until the period of weakness
pa ssed and then planned what he had
better do. Inside of an hour every
policeman in Sarajevo would be warned
| by Herr Wndt to look out for man
with a beard. wearing a sleeping suit
and a blue woolen wrapper. The obvious
thing therefore was TO avoid SaraievO
or else find a means to change his cos
tune. But Il he begged, borrowed. or
stole an OUTFIT of native CloIhing-What
then? Where should he turn? ne had
no money. for that, of course. had been
taken by the rutfiaus who had carried
his body into the woods and stripped
purposes he had been born agan--had
come into the world anew. naked save
for. the unsightlY Mapping things, in
which he was wrapped His English
clothes were al the inn in the Bistrick
quarter where he had left them. but to
seek them now meant immediate cap
ture. And If he wore English clothes
in the street" of town full Of men
in uniform he would he conspicuous
as though in sleeping suit and wrapper.
\ native costume was the thing-and a
fez WHICH would hide the plaster on his
head. But how to get il? lie heard
voices, and two men passed below him
weaving in and out among the trees;
hdten him climb. He would have known
Wiudt. He was not one of them.
They were men from the hospital. out
of breath with running. and the phrases
they exchanged gave Reuwick comfort
ing notion that they We're already wear
lily impressed with the hOpelesSneSS of
their task. \ while they waited. and
then he saw them go out on the fur
ther side of the Corse as though glad
to be we'll away from 50 melancholy
spot. Indeed. the gray turban-Carved
tombstones were eloquent to Renwick
and a newly made grave not far away
was unpleasantly suggestive of the fate
that had so nearly been his. 1t was
starlight now, but dark, and the. owls
were already hooting muurnfuly a.
though the souls of those who lay IN the
sod beneath had come again to visit
by night their last resting places. 1t
was not the most cheerful SPOT for
man who had Just come out of bout
with death. and RenwiCk had no mind
10 stay there. So when the men who
had been searching for HIM had gone
their ways, he Clamhcred StlfiIN down.
He fingered by the newly mare grave.
obsessed by the rather morbid notion Of
digging up the cstimable Moslem VINO
reposed there and exchanging his own
hospital wrapper fOr the much to be
desired native costume, but desperate rs
was his need the idea was too unple as
ant He would rob, II necessary. but
not the dead
As he wandered among the. trees in
the direction of the nearest lights. he
felt pair of scissors IN the pocket "'
gers closed upon them POW. \ weapon
Better than that. \ plan had come to
him which he proceeded Immediately to
put into practice. Taking off his wrap
per he seated himself upon a tombstone
and began cutting it into pieces, shaping
a short sleeveless jacket he cut the
sleeves of the wrapper lengthwiSe and
made a turban
thing left over. He puzzled for while
over the remnant OF cloth left 10 him,
thinking Of his legs, but at last discard-
hl1 "A hDTinISlV ha q
his mustache and beard. 1t was slow
work without light or mirror, but he
1persevered until TO the touch of his nm
|gers the merest bristle remained, a stub
BILE sucn a man would have who had
gone a few days without shaving. Then,
satisfied that under cover of the dark
unnoticed. he slipped the scissors into the
coat of his sleeping suit and sailed
forth.
At least he was rid OF the flowing
marked man. Fortunately the night was
hot and sultry and so far he suffered
no inconvenIences, but he knew that
this disguise was only makeshift and
come into the possession of some soft of
costume in which he could face the light
of day. In the road, he passed farmer
returning from the bazaar. and the
careless greeting of the man reassured
him. A polyglot costume surely-but
this was a city Of polyglots. The dis
gulse Wouid uu-al ieast loi b,la hlsne'
But the appearance of Windt had serr
ously alarmed him. 1t meant, il he
was taken, that he would surely he in
termed. or worse. perhaps that he might
be accused of compicity in the murder
of SZarvas. Windt's own man. In the
back of his head a plan had been form
ing. which meant if not active help in
escaping from the city, at least a short
refuge from pursuit, and perhaps some.
thing more.
Instead of going into the city by the
nearest way. which would have led him
in a few moments into the European