CONTENTS

PAGE
War![7]
Getting Ready[10]
How the Uhlans came[16]
Anything for Bread[23]
Fiction v. Fact[25]
The “Terrible” French[28]
Spies Ahoy[31]
Threatened with Death[34]
To Leave or not to Leave[41]
What the Uhlans think[45]
The Sign of the Red Cross[50]
On the Road[55]
Rushing the Mails through[61]
A Teuton Feast[67]
Coals of Fire[72]
In Danger[75]
Maps and Mines[78]
In the Bar[80]
In the Woods[82]
Prisoners of War[86]
A Disturbed Night[94]
The Plot Thickens[97]
The March Past[100]
Arrested![104]
“It’s a long, long way——”[109]
Homeward Bound[120]

An Englishwoman’s Adventures in the German Lines

WAR!

“Albert has gone.”

I jump down from the little vicinal (light railway) train, which always stops so obligingly in Manhay Street opposite the inn, and press Madame Job’s hand in silent sympathy.

“To Liège?” I ask after a pause.

“He is in the forts, Mademoiselle,” she answers tearfully.

So Madame’s son Albert, the baker, is a soldier too. Well, he will do his duty like all these Belgians. But who will bake for the countryside?