"Herr Mahoney, good-bye! I trust you will not think our treatment in the camp has been unduly severe!" "I shall certainly not speak well of it," I retorted somewhat cynically. "I shall never forget my experiences and I shall not omit to relate it to others. But there! I think my looks are sufficient. I must have lost three stone in weight during the past two months!" "Well, I trust you will make allowances," he went on unctuously. "You must remember the times; that we are at war, and that our arrangements have not been organised for adequate accommodation!" He extended his hand. Shaking my head in a manner which he could not misunderstand I refused to take it. He shrugged his shoulders and resumed his work. I left his office without another word. Two minutes later I was striding rapidly towards the station, accompanied by another prisoner, a schoolmaster named E----, who had also been released on a "pass" and whom I have to thank for much assistance subsequently offered. At last I was free from the torment and brutality of Sennelager Camp. But as I watched the incoming train on that morning of September 16th, 1914, I could not refrain from dwelling upon the lot of the many hapless friends I had left behind, the agonies, miseries, the hopelessness of their position, and their condemnation to unremitting brutal travail which would doubtless continue until the clash of arms had died away. As Sennelager vanished from sight my companion and I gave deep sighs of relief. We felt that we had left Hell behind. PRISON THREE--KLINGELPUTZ CHAPTER XVI FREE ON "PASS" IN COLOGNE It was two o'clock in the afternoon when I saw the last of Sennelager Camp as the train swung round a curve which blotted the Avernus over which Major Bach reigned supreme from sight if not from memory. The train in which we were travelling, of course, was wholly occupied by Germans. I found it impossible to secure a seat owing to the crowded character of the carriages, and as misfortune would have it I was compelled to stand until I reached my destination.