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Updated: June 13, 2025
The wounded begged to be taken out on their stretchers and laid at the foot of the altar in order that "they might receive the blessing of the good God" before starting on the long journey to the hospital behind the lines. Outside the prison-camp of Cannantre stood a circle of French soldiers learning the bugle calls for the French Army.
Under any other circumstances they would have been very uncomfortable; but their satisfaction at the escape from a prison or prison-camp in the near future was the uppermost thought in their minds, and for a time it banished the annoyance of wet and cold. "If we whirl round like this it will make us dizzy," said the sergeant as a mild joke. "What makes the boat do so?"
We had no books or papers; even the "Continental Times" was denied us! We got the same food as they had in the prison-camp, and we had a mattress to sleep on, and two blankets.
Would we sign a paper he asked us then to show this? And we said we would. So the paper was produced and we signed it, after the interpreter had read and explained it to us. In the cells the food was just the same as we had had before, in the regular prison-camp. They seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of that soup. We wondered if there was a flowing well of it somewhere in the bog.
I knew I looked like a valentine, but my stony British stare did the trick in spite of all handicaps, and he turned abruptly and went out. The first week of June, I was considered able to go back to the regular prison-camp. A German guard came for me, and I stepped out in my pajamas to the outer room where our uniforms were kept.
A number of them had been drilled for service in case of need, but fortunately there had been no occasion for their services. Through his sister Dorcas, Kate Belthorpe sent her regards to Deck, and he had something to think of as he sat in his tent. Among the major's letters was one which had been forwarded from his brother Titus, then in a prison-camp in the North.
He was handcuffed and walked wearily, with downcast eyes It was George Clerque! It was September 25th that we left the prison-camp and came to Rossbach eighteen miles south on the railway.
The following night after midnight we reached Giessen, and were unloaded and marched through dark streets to the prison-camp, which is on the outskirts of the city. We were put into a dimly lighted hut, stale and foul-smelling, too, and when we put up the windows, some of our own Sergeants objected on account of the cold, and shut them down.
She told me when her boys enlisted in the Home Guard, a Secessionist body, that it broke her heart to have her sons fight with the enemies of her country, but that she could be even willing to have them sacrificed on the right side." "Do you know where Uncle Titus is now, father?" asked Deck. "He is in a prison-camp, the name of which I have in my valise in one of the wagons.
"I know you escaped from the Holzminden prison-camp in Germany; that you were inhumanly treated there by the Boche; that you entered the United States Intelligence Service; and that, whatever may be your business here, I am to help further it at your request."
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