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his ar exasperation on Sara Lee's part

"Are you going on or not?"

"Then I pretended to be one of them, mademoiselle I speak German as

French I pretended not to be hurt, but to be on a reconnoissance And

I got into the trench and we had a talk in the darkness It was ht they would have seen that

I ounded"

By bits, not that day, but after ot the story In the

next trench he slipped a sling over the wounded arot back

"I had some trouble," he confessed one day "Now and then one would

offer to go back with me And I did not care for assistance!"

But so to that

part of it He had got behind the lines by that time, and he knew that

in some way suspicion had been roused He eak by that tio far He had lain hidden, for a day and part of a night,

without water, in a destroyed barn, and then had escaped

He got into the Belgian costu

for his wounded arht

hand into his pocket, and for two days heon But fever had developed, and on the third night,

half delirious, when he was spoken to by an officer he had replied, of

all tongues, in English