Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-11

had half or a rubber stamp winch
had evidently been thrown away by
the Germans, and he planned to con-
struct the other half out of the cork
from a wine bottle. He was very
skillfuI with a penknife, and, al
though he spoilt a score or more OF
corks before he succeeded in getting
anything like the result he was after,
the finished artis'c was far better
than our most sanguine expectations.
Indeed, after we had pared it over
here and there, and removed what
ever imperfections our repeated test
disclosed, we had a stamp which
made an impression so closely re-
sembling the original that without a
magnifying glass, We were sure, 1t
would have been impossible to tell
that il was a counterfeit.
Photographed for Passport
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
passport which was entirely Salts
factory to both of US and would, we
hoped, prove equally so to our
friend 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 instead 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.
IN
as | had had some misgivings as to
the kind of a priest / would make,
and il seemed to me to be safer to
remain aloOf from every one in a de-
serted house than to have to mingle
with people or come in contact with
them, even with the best of DISCUSSES.
That night / accompanied Huyliger
to a fashionable section of the ciE,
where the house in which l was to
be concealed was located.
This house turned out to be 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 unin-
habited save for the occasional habi-
tation of some refugee whom Huyli-
ger was befriending.
Huyliger had a 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
bottom as well as l could without
lights. The house was deliberately
furnished, but, of course, the dust lay
/ a quarter of an inch thick every
Z nh l.
tanning 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 the
time l did not know it, and 1 was
curious enough to want to know Just
| what the house contained.
Down in the basement there was a
/ huge pantry, but il was absolutely
bare. except of dust and dirt. A door
which evidently led to a sub-base-
ment attracted my attention and 1
| thought it might be a good idea to
/ know just where it led in case it
became necessary for me to elude
/ searchers.
In the cellar I found case after
case of choice wine-Huyliger subse-
quently told me that there were
/ $500 bottles OF it! l was so happy
at the turn my affairs had taken and
/ in the rosy prospects which | now
entertained that l was half inclined
TO indulge in a little celebration then
and there. On second thought, how
1 ever, l remembered the old warning
/ of the folly of shouting before you
are well out of the woods, and l de-
+ cided that ii would be just as we'll to
/ postpone the festivities for a while
and go to bed instead.
In such an deliberately furnished
house I had naturally conjured up
ideas of a wonderfully large bed
with thick hair mattresses, downy
quilts and big soft pillows. Indeed,
I debated for a while which particu-
lar bedroom I should honor with my
presence that night.
4 Judge of my disappointment,
therefore, when after visiting bed
room after bedroom I discovered
that there wasn't bed in any one of
them that was in condition to sleep
in. All the mattresses had been re-
moved and the rooms were absolute
" bare of everything in the way OF
wool. silk or cotton fabrics. The
Germans had apparently swept the
house clean.
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