Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-14

| knitting wool into the bushes. But she
| held onto one end of 1t until she knew
| the ball had fallen some distance away
This end she left to rest on bush she
| located. Then after she had been thor
/ oughly searched she went back to her
| bush and found the end Of her string
and hauled her report in.
| Other hiding places used for reports
were corsetS and skirt hens. in neck
| ties and in shoelaces, the handles OF
umbrellas, bags and brief cases, in false
bottoms of market bags and boxes OF
cake or fruit
So thoroughly was the Dutch border
patrolled that at one point there was
no way for the girls to pass except on
a dark night over deep canal.
| For these crossings Alice used a spe-
cially designed costume of knickers, a
waist and a skirt, all of material dark
in color but light in weight, for she was
an excellent swimmer
But Charlotte could not swim, and
had to depend on a large kneading
| trough for a raft, furnished her by a
| friendly baker This finicky craft, with
its passenger, Alice had to push as she
swan.
/ More than once in the stormy sea-
son chilly wines made it possible that
If the girls survived the crossing they
would yet be in danger of pneumonia.
Their adventures with the German
military police kept their wits at work
without respite, for seldom did hazard
present itself twice in the same way
with as quick counter.
Once when they were on board a
train 1t was stopped between stations
for a search by German detectives.
The search began at the front end OF
the train. The two girls were in the
rear car. Slipping out from their COM
partment to the tracks, they crept un-
der the cars toward the front of the
train, taking the chance that at any
moment it might start and kill them.
Then at the front end of the train
they got out and stole into the first
car until the moving train told them
that once more they had been reprieved.
X X \ y
A T a certain inn in Client, where
Alice often stopped while carrying
reports, searches by the military were
nightly occurrences.
Precisely because of that danger Alice
chose the inn for her purpose. The
frequency of their visits made the police
more perfunctory in their examination
| At the first alarm of their coming
Alice slipped out of her bed. threw her
dark cloak over her, and, climbing out
of the window onto the roof of a shed
escaped. But her disarranged bed re-
manned, and her absence might have
told the police something.
But the landlady of the inn had her
two children expressly sleep in one bed
| in the room next to Alice'S The mo-
ment Alice was out of the window one
| of the children stole out of their bed,
and when the police came to AliceS
room her bed had an occupant.
| Bolder with each success grew Alice
until her spirits, which went on lark
at the slightest provOcation. took imp
ish delight in teasing danger.
One day she was trying to get out of
an area specially guarded because it was
the headquarters of Prince Rupprecht
of Bavaria. commander of that sector.
| She was carrying with her Sheaf of
reports to deliver to Maj Cameron,
and she had them--in her handbag.
Every time she opened it to show the
various sentries her permission to
| travel the reports showed. too. She
| had reached state of mind in which
only the finest line divided keenest
wisdom from utter folly.
A sentry looked at her permission to
travel"
mo good here" he said. You need
a special permission to travel through
this zone"
! She tried indignation. but he knew
his orders and was too stolid to be
| tricked. She dropped little purse in
which sounded the clink of gold. But
he was too substantial to be bribed.
| She tried wheedling, but stopped 1t
when he began to show signs of in
terest in her persistence. In despair
she was about to turn back when from
a mansion near the sentry parsonage
| of highest rank came out, attended by
several other officers.
She recognized him. 1t was Prince
Rupprecht
There flashed into her mind a day
In Baden-B Baden several years before.
| The German family with whom she
was governess told her of session at
| bridge they had with Prince Rup-
| precht in which he lost considerable
sum. Without hesitation she now
crossed the road and halted the prince.
Your highness. don't you remember
me?" she demanded, smiling Il beat
| you at bridge at the house of Contessa
Orlando in Baden-Baden several years
ago."
He did not recognize her. But he
remembered Baden-B Baden, the Con-
tessa, and his remarkably poor luck
at bridge. Men of a certain age be-
come sensitive about the keeness of
! their memory. He saluted genially.
ITO have won from me at bridge