Transcriber’s Notes: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end. * * * * * A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE * * * * * +-----------------------+ | _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ | +-----------------------+ | | | BALLADS OF BATTLE | | | | WORK-A-DAY WARRIORS | | | | Each 3_s._ 6_d._ net. | +-----------------------+ * * * * * [Illustration: A CORNER OF CARLSRUHE CAMP] A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE AND OTHER GERMAN PRISON CAMPS BY JOSEPH LEE WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR “Now you shall have no worse prison than my chamber, nor jailer than myself” LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY. MCMXX * * * * * WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES, ENGLAND * * * * * TO ALL MY FELLOWS IN MISFORTUNE OF MY OWN KIN AND OF THE ALLIED COUNTRIES WHOSE VARIED COMPANIONSHIP HELPED TO LIGHTEN MY MANY DAYS OF CAPTIVITY CONTENTS PART I CAUDRY--LE CATEAU--CARLSRUHE I PAGE The first day--The search--Letters of divorcement--A reading of the Pickwickians--Fellows in misfortune--A sculptor--A Sappho--The bell for the dead--Sedan--The vulture 15 II Carlsruhe camp--Crumbs from the rich man’s table--Tea with Colonel Turano--Shamrock for dinner!--First letters and parcels--A Nazarite--Christmas at Carlsruhe--Sketching the Commandant 29 III Funeral of a prisoner of war at Carlsruhe--First freedom for a year--In the streets--A wreath from the Grand Duchess of Baden--The Rev. Mr. Flad--A lecture on Abyssinia--A black mood 45 IV Entertainment in exile--The camp theatre--“Asile de Nuit”--Scene-painter, scene-shifter, poster-artist, actor, prompter, “noises-off,” and playwright--“A Chelsea Christmas Eve”--“A Venetian Vignette”--A nightingale “off”--“How he Lied to her Husband”--“The Rising of the Moon”--“The Homeland” 59 V Victims of the cruiser _Wolf_--Suicide of a Japanese captain--“In the dark and among the ice”--A bottle message--Clinging to office--The Debating Society--The vines and vineyards of France--“Happy in all things--saving these bonds!”--A straining of the Entente--A “stirring time”--A voluntary fast! 80 VI