E-text prepared by Brown University Library and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/accountofourarre00evan AN ACCOUNT OF OUR ARRESTING EXPERIENCES by CONWAY EVANS [Illustration] Privately Printed 1914 [One Hundred Copies printed] D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston TO MY TWO PLUCKY LITTLE FELLOW PRISONERS AN ACCOUNT OF OUR ARRESTING EXPERIENCES We had been travelling for many weeks,--Lyra Nickerson, Katherine Schermerhorn, and I,--and after a beautiful tour through Germany, we arrived at Berlin on the evening of July 29, 1914. We had planned to spend a few days there preparatory to embarking at Hamburg in the Viktoria Luise for a northern cruise, and were looking forward to a short stay in the splendid capital. When we had secured our rooms at the Hotel Adlon, we found to our dismay that Kitty's box had not come through from Dresden, our last stopping-place. I went downstairs and interviewed the porter. He explained that, owing to the talk of war, many people were leaving their summer quarters, so that traffic was considerably congested. In this wise did the little cloud appear upon our horizon. The following morning (Thursday) we went sightseeing, and in the afternoon--as Lyra was not feeling well--Kitty and I each went our own way. At five o'clock we met in the hall of the Adlon, where we had tea with her cousin, Mr. Gear, and his friend, Mr. Cluett. Later she and I went to a superb concert at the Frederichshain and heard Thornberg, the violinist. On Friday morning a little German friend whom I had not seen for many years came to visit me. I asked her if war were likely. She replied: "Certainly not. All danger is now over." This was encouraging, for I thought she knew what she was talking about.