The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-07
(EPzsoDE NO. 2.)

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 Cavalry did not play any Important part in the Great War, yet three times altogether, while performing my work es Kings Messenger, have l had to trust 50 the charger which has cut so f1ne a figure in the"pages O romance.
 One such experience was in tho sarly days, when 1t was necessary that should get a despatch through to Headuuarters, and the high roads and villages between me and my des- tinat,on were already full of Uhlans.
 It Is not possible for me to tell you exactly how the necessity for this Journey arose. Suffice 1t to say that my despatch was urgent. and had not n little to do with the famous di- vision which was to play so noble part at Ypres. had got out of Rrus- sels by the skin of my teeth-a Bel gian lending mo a hjgh-powered Pope car for the purpose, and many friends giving me good counsel for the Journey.
 was to take D. devious route, south for a while upon the famous high way which runs through the Forest of Suignes to Waterloo, the2/bv Eng hien, Grammont, and Cour trai to TurcOing, whence I should be able to get safely to my destination By such means 1t was hoped I would evade the scattered groups of Uhlans, and, as the railways were already broken, had no alternative but to make the venture
 It was dark when we set out-a hot and st5ll night of the early au- 4unn- My driver was young Bel gia-1 aristocrat, tho son of a banker of large means, and himself as head strong and daring a fellow as have met during the war. He insisted up- on going for a. while with his head lights in full blast; but as we drew near the forest more than one warn ing was shouted after us, and pres ently at the crossroads of a little village, we were stopped by a picket, and a sergeant told us very plainly that there were UhIans in the wood we now had to traverse.
 Indeed, he exhorted us to go back, and spoke with great warmth of the danger which confronted us; but, needless to say, no such convenient course was possible to me. The de- spatch was ore of the greatest ur- gency, and the late of an army might depend upon it. I therefore merely thanked the man for his good en- deavor, and ordering the young Bel gian to put out his lights. bade him push on.
 A Very Near Thing.
 From this point the Journey began to be hazardous. The night had turned as black as ink, and there was no moon. We came presently to a broken bridge across a deep dyke, and I knew that my man was in diff 1culIes.
 He stopped the car. and I discov- cred by the aid of my pocket torch that blanks had been laid to form rude bridge across a Ceep and fast flowing stream, and that one of our hind wheels was already clinging to the boards by the very margin of it's tire, Another three-quarters of an inch, and the car would have plunged head-Iong into twenty feet of water with what chance for me, cooped up inside the carriage, 1t is easy to per ceive.
 lit 11p the roadway with tho torch and so enabled the driver to get the car off the dangerous bridge. A Bel gian doctor passing by in his coupe, heard ray story, and told me that a detour was possible, by which a good part Of tho forest might be avoided. He sad that it would be quite safe to liSht, our amps for the time being; and we followed him gratefully through some dark and winding lanes, and SC ultimately to a villase the name of which I did not in quiTe.
 Here he left us with the intima- ton that the road was now quite straight, and would bring us in 8 quarter of an hour to the heart of the forest, I thanked him, and promised that if I got into France safely I would let him know. Alas, poor man, he was shot as a spy at Ghent not mSny weeks latRr.
 We entered the forest without lights, and found the road much as the doctor had described 1t. It was quite stEaighi, wath silver birches close to the footway. Cross roads showed that 1t had been much used by the motorists of BrussieS-fer there were automobile signals upon every SigRDoSt,
 Wa had our light out here, and our engine thrOttled down; and it was well that we did so, for we had not