OUTSIDE CAMP.

The hospital accommodation at the camp was very poor, and a lieutenant
was sent out to a hospital in the town to have his little finger
amputated. Mr. O'Rorke asked for permission to visit him. The Adjutant
at once agreed. "It was not long before I presented myself at the office
for my escort. I expected a couple of armed soldiers at the least,
remembering our reception at the hands of the populace. Instead, my
escort consisted of Herr Kost--the friendly censor and interpreter--and
a soldier. 'Are you going to run away?' asked Herr Kost. I smiled at the
futility of such an idea. 'Then we won't take a soldier.' My journey of
half an hour to the hospital, my reception there, and my return to the
prison were unmarred by any unpleasant incident whatever. The hospital
was of the latest and best. Lieut. George had nothing but words of
gratitude about the doctors and nurses."

The Chaplain was allowed to visit the "reprisal prisoners," those put in
solitary confinement owing to the infliction of this penalty on the
officers and men of two German submarines. He found them well treated.
"The privacy of this little room," said the Hon. Ivan Hay "is preferable
to the liberty and Babel of the Burg dormitories." The prisoners were
specially selected from families of distinction.

PRISONERS AND POPULACE.

The other Burg prisoners were afterwards removed to Mainz. "The German
Commandant took pity on my loneliness and offered me the privilege of
going into the town where and when I liked if I would give my word of
honour that I would make no attempt to escape. I agreed to the proposal.
We shook hands over it, put it down in writing, and he presented me with
a passport for the period of a week." Mr. O'Rorke, dressed in khaki, was
soon the centre of a crowd of about twenty-five boys and girls. But, and
this is really worth our noting, "they behaved extraordinarily well, and
made no offensive remark." His followers increased, and he made things
worse by giving them sweets! He called upon the German Pastor in order
to get rid of them, but even this failed. A long stop at a cafe did not
tire the vigilance of his escort. When he again came out, there they
were. "We exchanged smiles and off we started." A bookseller, whose shop
Mr. O'Rorke visited, came to his rescue and dispersed most of the
little crowd, but another one gathered later, though again it showed no
impoliteness or unfriendliness.

MS. RETURNED.

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