Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-08-22
"OvTWITT''s!'SS
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LIEUTENANT
PAT O'BRIEN
SYNOPSIS.
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Copyright, i9lS, by Pat Alya OBrieu

CHAPTER I-Introductory. Pat O'Brlen
tells OF his purpose in writing the story
OF hiE adventures.
CHAPTER II-TelIs of his enlistment in
the Royal Flying corps, his training in
Canada and his transfer 10 france Tor ac-
tive duty.
CHAPTER III-Describes fights in which
he brought down two German arpLaHCS
brought down wounded within the Ger
man lines and was made a prisoner OK
war.
CHAPTER IV-Discovers that German
hospital staff barbarOusIy neglected the
fatally wounded and devoted their ener-
gies to restoring those VINO might DC
returned to the firing lines. Witnesses
death in fight of his best. chum, Lieut..
Paul Ralney.
CHAPTER Vile is taken to the Of
fcers prison camp at Cortrai There he
began planning his escape. By great sac
riice he manages to save and hide away
two daily rations OF bread.
CHAPTER Vile confscates a map of
Germany and just half an hour later 5
put on a train bound for prison camp
In Germany. He leaps through a window
while the train is travelling al rate Oh -
miles an hour.
CHAPTER VII-For nine days he
crawls through Germany, hiding during
the day, travelling at night, guided BY the
stars and subsisting on raw vegetables.
He covers 70 miles before reaching Lux
emburg.
CHAPTER VIII-For nine days more he
struggles on in a weakened condition
through Luxembourg in the direction OF
Belgium.
CHAPTER IX-He endures terrible
hardships, swlms rivers while de.IriOES
from hunger, living like hunted animal
and on the eighteenth day aIJer Jumping
train he into Belgium.
CHAPTER X-When well on his way
through Belgium he is befriUnded one
night by a Flemish peasant, who ieces
him and directs him TO a man ia Be-
gian city who will help him TO get pass
port
CHAPTER XI-By mingling with Bel
gian peasants he manages TO eluCe Ger
man soldiers and reaches the Belgian city
where he nnds the home OF the man trON
whom he expects help.
CHAPTER XII-HuyIiger FORCES a pass
port for O'Brien and promises 90 assist
him in getting into Holland. Later Huy-
Tiger and his associates. demand an eN,
orbitant sum for their services and
O'Brien breaks with them
CHAPTER XIII-He spends five days
and nights in an unocCupied house witn-s
out food except for the scraps he picks uIt
in night forays.
CHAPTER XIv-To gain confidence for
the adventures to come in his attempt to
get into Holland, he ventures U.1 night
into moving picture theater pa,ronized
by German soldiers.
CHAPTER XV-Some observations in q
Belgian city.
CHAPTER XVI-He leaves the city in
the daytime and after some haiT-Taisina
adventures reaches the frontier of Hol-
land.
CHAPTER XVII-He passes the cleo
trically charged wire barrier that sepa-
rates Belgium from Holland by digging
under the wire. Seventy-two days after
he had leaped from the train he breathes
the air of freedom.
CHAPTER XVIII-Assisted by the Brit
ish consul at Rotterdam he finally reaches
England and gets a summons from the
king.
CHAPTER XIX-He Is presented to the
king who listens with deep interest to the
story of his adventures.
CHAPTER XX-Arrives safely in his
home town of Momence, Ill.