. The literary digest. o{Proved Unifs - miwii njii •*?•. made with the commander at Belgrade,they should have reached Foth by thetime that Genevrier had crawled into thepark. But there was no sign of them—Hungarys war-time railways had provedinadequate to the task of getting themthere on time. Genevriers position wasbecoming embarrassing. Then he had a brilliant idea. Presentinghimself suddenly before the commander ofthe Hungarian guard placed over Macken-sen, Gene\Tier declared that he was aFrench officer sent ou a special mission toVacs, a \illage near Foth, and that hisautomobile had suffer

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. The literary digest. o{Proved Unifs - miwii njii •*?•. made with the commander at Belgrade,they should have reached Foth by thetime that Genevrier had crawled into thepark. But there was no sign of them—Hungarys war-time railways had provedinadequate to the task of getting themthere on time. Genevriers position wasbecoming embarrassing. Then he had a brilliant idea. Presentinghimself suddenly before the commander ofthe Hungarian guard placed over Macken-sen, Gene\Tier declared that he was aFrench officer sent ou a special mission toVacs, a \illage near Foth, and that hisautomobile had suffered an accident a shortdistance down the road. Would not theHungarian be so kind as t) send a fewmen to help the chauffeur fix it? The Hungarian was all s ; .pathy. Atonce he dispatched some of his mendown the road where Geceviiors chauflfeur—whom the lieutenant had apprized ofhis scheme—was lying flat under the carlooking for imaginary damage. While themen sought to help, the French lieu tenant,sticlcing close to the chateau, chattedaffably with

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