The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-07

, gone a quarter of a mile when I saw a light flash down a cross road upon our right hand, and soon 1t was pos- Sible to make out 0 blur of figures and moving shapes. whose meaning could not be disguised. We had run full tilt upon an Uhlan outpost. The men had lighted a, fire to warm their soup, and by it's ruddy glow we made 1 out their uniforms.
 We Let Her Rdp. From their point of view, ugthing | Q fire was not the foolish proceeding l 1t might have seemed. They must have known that there were no Brit l fsh, French, or Belgian troops any, where in the vicinity, and they were i merely out to terrify the civilians in the villages. I will not say that they terrified me, but certainly they gave me as bad a five minutes as I have l ever known.
 The question was whether to go on ! or to go back. if they caught me, there probably wcuId be a summar,- | execution; but that was the IessC
 thing. An exceedingly important doc
 ument would fall into thir hands, and 1 disaster probably result
 l On the other side wass the obvious
 reflection that to return to Br,. sels | might be an equally perllous l course; while vague wandering upon 1 unknown roads would almost inev- l itably lead to delay and danger. This decided me; and I told the driver to
 opo0 up 1is engine for all that it was
 worth, and to make a dash for it. It was neck or nothing, clearly
 that had my revolver in my hand, | a d P l-Nv-ra a-rxrr- l side Speed being essential, we feared 1 no longer to make a noise, but, as the boys say, we let the old girl rip. The engine was q very fine one, and was into its stride in g. few yards. l watched the fire beside which the Uhlans were squatting, and it's light plainly showed me that no man had moved. Perhaps they were all too much taken by surprise. I can Imagine them pric1Iing their ears. | and asking each other, what is th1s?' A motor car approached, but
 it might very well belong to a, sta if | officer. For an instant they stood and listened. It was enough for us, and we were up to and over the cross road in a flash.
 l shall never forget that picture
 the wild forest, the slim trunks of the O@@'S MI NHOSos A1IO SlO"lIlS HTe, the
 figures of three mounted men halted
 in the very cenAHe by the byway. For a moment not a man of them stirred. They must have been, as it were, para1ysed by our terrific rush.
 and when at last they did realize
 that a Belgian car had gone by 1t is easy to imagine their fury. Rifles were fired and loud cries raised. I saw the mounted men put spurs to
 their horses and come gaIEoping after
 us, heard bullets ring on the steel | chassis of the motor, and knew that 1t was touched, and go with us. But neither the man nor I was hit, and distatning further concealment, he l switched the headlights full on, and 1 we raced through the forest regard | less of all consequences.
 Mistaken For Huns.
 Soon we were out of the wood and | going more steadily across an open, | down-like country.
 Far away upon the horizon I saw a l glow of blvouae fires, and knew that | Germans were encamped there; but 1 they were too distant to alarm us | and our next meeting with UhIans 1 was comic rather than tragic Two i of them we met at & turn of the road, and surprise and darkness
 must have led them into the belief | that the car was that of a. German | staff officer. They attempted to sa- 1 luts, but the horse of one took fright 1 at the car, and bodily Ieaped the | dyke at the roadside, to the riders | great discomfort.
 | What became of the other fellow | do not know, but we saw neither 1 of them again, and forgot all about | them when, some seven kilometres | further down the road, real accf- 1 dent overlook US. and it instantly I became evident that the ear would | take me no further.
 ! We broke a wheel against the | abuttment of a. bridge, and although
 we had a spare with us, the front
 axle was So badly bent that our
 standby could not be put on. I
 could not blame the driver. The road
 was black, dark, and tortuous, and 1 we dared no longer use our head ! lights. In addition. ground mist had
 come up, and what with the difficuI- | best, pilot in the country might nave
 made a mistake.
 For me 1t was tragic, and I do not ! remember having been in q more un- ! pleasant situation in my fife. There
 we were in an unfamiliar lornlity.
 Germans all about us, the car hope
 less. the time about one of the morn
 ing, the prospects of swiftly resuning
 cur journey practically nil.
 \ What to do I simply did not know.
 but, like the Irlshmsn. did 1t. There ] was pethtns for tt but to tramp on