The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-22

him The next instant the men at tackled my finance. One stuck his tayonet in Dicks thigh, while the officer brought the butt of his pistol on Dicks head, and he sank uncon- scious to the floor.
 Then, turning to the soldiers, he told them to bind Dick, and after this was done they lifted him, and put ting him on O stretcher, they carried the pair of us out into the darkness. After what seemed an eternity we came to what in the gloom looked like a mansion, and were carried down some steps and flung upon the floor of an evil-smelling cellar, where, helpless and unable to move, we were left for some hours
 Then the sound of tramPng down the stairs reached our ears. and soon six brutal looking Prussian soldiers entered Four lifted the stretcher bed on which I lay and two laid hold of Dick. who tottered in their grasp, and forced him roughly towards the stairs. When we arrived at the top we found ourselves in a spacious room still beautifully decorated. although most of the furnishings bore the un- nlistakable marlr5 of war.
 At one end of a table sat the brutal ' ober-lieutenant- He could scarcely keep his seat. so drunk was he, and he leered evilly at me as I was de- posted on the floor near him. Four other officers in various stages of drunkenness made up ths court. ] was compelled to live there helpless while the officers, after a travesty Of a trial, ordered my lover to be sho. at dawn for "attemping to murder an officer of His Imperial Majesty the German Emperor
 My Lover Shot Before My Eyes.
 For a time I lost consciousness. and when I recovered the grey rays of dawn were beginning to filter through the windows. and I prayed for insensibility once more, so that 1 might not hear the sounds which would announce to me the doom of my sweetheart.
 But it was not to be. for just as the streaks of light made vision pos sible four soldiers entered, and, lift ing me, bore me to the window I saw Dick standing alone before broken wall, and in front of him the German soldiers and an officer. The officer gave a glance op at the win dow where I was and then as he dropped the point of his drawn sword and gave a sharp command 3 volley rang out, and Dick collapsed to his knees. The officer ran forward and, placing a pistol to Dicks head fired.
 must have swooned, then, for the next I remembered was being carried at a rapid rate through the darkness the falling rain blowing in torrents as we went After what seemed . long time, my bearers entere" = trench, and conveyed me into a sumptously- furnished dug-out. was lifted on to a camp bed, and left alone. Some time elapsed, then my evil genius entered in the shape of the ober-Heutenant, accompanied by several other officers, who crowded round me.
 The lieutant seemed to be explain my being there, when an orderly en- tered and repeated something very hurriedly, and was just going out when another rushed in and shouted something which seemed to create a panic amongst the officers, who rush. ed Dell mell from the dug-out.
 British Sergeant to the Rescue.
 The sounds of heavy gun-flring or shell explosions crept nearer, and surmised the British were attacking Mex. came aRvoice, and a rushing of feet down the entrance to the dug out. then the ober-lieutenant, blood stained and wild-eyed, rushod In, closely by a British sergeant .Put yer hands up, damn yel shoutsd tho ssresant, For snswe1
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