“J’invite le Colonel.” Playbill 73 One of our Orchestra 79 Engineer of the “Hitachi Maru” 80 Captain of the “Tarantella” 84 A Serbian Officer Prisoner 86 A Rehearsal 88 Twice Wounded 95 Orderly Hanet, “Le Père Noël” 96 Funeral of Two British Aviators 100 Captain Teixeira 104 Orderly Toulon, Chasseur Alpini 110 The two Serbian Colonels take the Sun 112 Lt. Bertolotti 113 Lt. Caruso 116 Lt. Visco 119 Lt. Lazarri 121 Maggiore Tuzzi 125 The “Altes Amt,” Beeskow Lager 130 The Outer Walls of Beeskow Lager 131 The Prison Camp at Beeskow: An Audience with the Commandant 135 The Old Tower, Beeskow 138 Herr Solomon, the Kantine Keeper 141 “Only One Book!” 142 The Stork Tower, Beeskow 147 Prisoners All 149 The Prison Gateway 152 The Marienkirche, Beeskow 156 The Late Lieut. Robinson, V.C. 159 Caricature of the Camp Commandant 165 Narrow Alley, Beeskow 169 Service for the Dead 175 Old Inn at Beeskow, now burned down 179 “In since Mons!” 183 Kirchestrasse, Beeskow 184 The Oldest House in Beeskow 196 Murillo’s “Immaculate Conception of the Virgin.” (_Painted by a French officer, prisoner of war, on the outer wall of the camp_) 200 Captain Tim Sugrue 202 A Caricature of the Kaiser. (_Bought in the streets of Berlin during the Revolution_) 213 * * * * * PART I CAUDRY--LE CATEAU--CARLSRUHE * * * * * A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE [Illustration: Cap improvized from an aviator’s boot. A modern Icarus. Chausseur à pied. FELLOWS IN MISFORTUNE.] I THE FIRST DAY As we limped and stumbled into Caudry in the dusk we presented a very disturbing spectacle. Two young French women stood at a cottage door, and, when our doleful procession passed, one of them flung herself into her sister’s arms in a paroxysm of grief. The good folk of the town would have slipped bread into our hands, but our German guards pressed them back with their rifles. Bayonets and rifle butts could not prevent them, however, from flinging us words of cheer and encouragement. “_Courage! Bonne chance! Bonne nuit!_”