The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-01

sailor. My birthplace we gave as
Spain, and we put my age at thirty.
As a matter of fact, at that time |
could easily have passed for thirty
five, but we figured that with proper
food and a decent place to sleep at
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 / have said. com
parativety easy matter, but that did
not begin to fill the bill Every genu-
inc 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, Huyliger had
half of 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 a wine
bottle, He was very skillful with
penknife. and although he spoilt
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 sanguine
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
mugnifying glass. we were sure, it
would have been impossible to tell
that 1t was a eountelfeit.
Huyliger procured camera and
took n 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 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 II seemed
! to me te be safer to remain aioof from
| everyone in deserted house than TO
| have to mingle with people or come In
contact with them, even with The hes
of DISCUSSES.
That night | accompanied Hgyligc.
TO fashionable section of the city.
where the house in which l was to be
concealed was located.
This house turned out to be Il four
story structure of brick. HuYlIser toia
me that il had been occupied by y
wealthy Belgian before The war but
since 1914 1t had been unahahited save
! for The occasional habitation Of some
refugee whom Huyllger was befriend
ing.
HLyliger had key and let me in
but he did not enter the house with
me, stating that he would visit me in
| the morning.
explored the place from top to bot
tom as well as / could without lights
The house was deliberately furnished
but, of course, the dust lay a quarter
| of an inch thick everywhere. 1t was q
large house, containing some twenty
rooms. There were two rooms in the
! basement four on the first floor, four
| on tho cocapd fiva On tao third op6 Il va
on the top. In the days that were to
i come | was to have plenty of oppor-
! tunity to familiarize myself with the
contents Of that house but at that time
l did not know 1t and ! was curious
enough to want to know just what the
house contained.
Down in the basement there was Il
huge pantry but it was absolutely bare
except of dust and dirt. A door which
| evidently led to q endorsement Mt
tracted my attention and / thought it
might be 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 We're ] 800 bottles Of
| 1t! l 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 yoa are well out of the woods,
and / decided that it would be just as
well to postpone the festivities for a
while and 90 to bed instead.
Ia such an deliberately furnished
house l had naturally conjured up
ideas Of a wonderfully large bed,
with thick hair mattress, downy
quilts and big soft pillows. Indeed,
debated for while which particular
| bedroom | should honor with my pres
ence that night Judge of my disap-
| polntment, therefore, when after Wis
| fting bedroom after bedroom, / discoy-