Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

after seven.
We saunteerel down the Boule-
ward SebastopoI admiring the
sights, Of which there were lots
just going to work and finally wan
dered down across the Place Bas-
tile to the Lyons station about
eleven. We didn't know exactly
what was in store for us. The
worst we could get we understood
would be the next tain out Of
town.
We handed in our travelling or
ders at the A. ?. Ms booth and
received a stony stare and a com
mand to stand back with the rest.
Looking around we discovered the
rest to number about forty. They
were in the same fix as ourselves;
they would probably have the
same excuses 50 we set about to
think up one that the Provost
Marshall hadn't heard.
The forty and eight or so were
soon all accumulated and swept in
to the subway and we were off.
After one of those whtzzing sub
way rides we got off at the Palais
Royale station and were marched
up the Avenue de POpera till a
little street wandered off to the
right and then we wandered up
that. That street was the Rue Ste.
Anne, Military Police Headquar
ters were in the old Hotel St. Anne.
Pretty soon the old dump hove
in sight with it's big SIGN on the
side near the top and in we went.
We were ranged up in front Of the
provost marshall and he gave us
the stony stare once over and then
fell to our papers. Around us like
vultures stood the hardboiled pro-
vost marshall sergeants fairly wa
tering at the mouth as such a
grand haul SO carly in the morning.
Then came our excuses; they we're
all the same. Even if they varied
little it did no good; you were
STOPPED before you had acquired
proper speed to convince him or
had hammered home the glazing
truths Of how you were lost in a
large city and got to the wrong
depot at the right time and all that
stuff, he halted you with a with
ering look that dried tie sources Of
inspiration like a blast from the
Sahara.
Finally we all became mute and
he showed our papers over to one
side and with a bored gesture
swept us into the drooling mouths
of the waiting lions. All we heard
was Sergeant take these men
down to the kitchen and see that
they work 1t was better than we
expected.
Silently as the forty thieves we
stole down the winding stairs kit
chenWards. There we worked. We
peeled spuds from then on till after
three in the afternoon. The gummy
dried up old tubers popped sod
denly into the G. |. cans half full
Of water; one wondered that there
were SO many potatoes in the A. Z.
f.; who ate EN-? and all that stuff.
Finally when we were fast getting
the peclers cramp one ray of sun
shine called us up stairs again.
There was a fresh batch Of down
at-the-mouths. 1t was explained to
us that as we had papers to prove
that we had right to be on pass
that we were to be allowed to pro-
ceed on our journey but if we let
the dust fall in our footsteps any
later than nine that night when the
leave train left for the South, it
would be either the Bastille or Pr
son Farm Number Two for us.
We saluted and backed out of
the room, hurried down the stairs
and out into the sunshine. We felt
like Daniel when he came out of
the lions den undigested or the
four Hebrew children when they
came out of the fiery furnace I'M
baked.
Needless to say nine o'clock
found us tucked into a first class
compartment with the doors tied
shut on the inside. The chef-de-
care scratched on our door and
whined ticket, ticket in vain. We
never opened the door till we cot
Is Dillon the nax+ ,,ornino,