A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author . ure having proved so successful so far,it be not financially possible to carry it intoanother day. We decide that if we go fastingduring the morrow—a proceeding famiharitywith which has rendered not too fearful—we shaU have purses sufficient to pay for abed in the hotel, and our return fares toBeeskow. We have been sitting meanwhile amid acheerless concourse. The people enter, taketheir refreshment without any appearance ofrefreshing, and so depart. See, says aRussian, just released from Ruhleben,
A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author . ure having proved so successful so far,it be not financially possible to carry it intoanother day. We decide that if we go fastingduring the morrow—a proceeding famiharitywith which has rendered not too fearful—we shaU have purses sufficient to pay for abed in the hotel, and our return fares toBeeskow. We have been sitting meanwhile amid acheerless concourse. The people enter, taketheir refreshment without any appearance ofrefreshing, and so depart. See, says aRussian, just released from Ruhleben, whohas entered into conversation, how they aredazed; how they are dreaming ! All ofGermany is as a great empty building ! The streets are crowded, and there is muchexcitement in the air. Outside the Friedrich-strasse Station we make purchase of a seriesof severe caricatures of the Kaiser, watchedby quite a crowd who seem to recognize the MINE EASE AT MINE INN 213 irony of the situation. We have no difficultyin getting into a hotel, and we make no delayin getting into a very inviting A OARIOATURE OF THE in the streets of Berlin. 214 A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE Captivity de Luxe !Behold next morning two British Gefan-genen in the capital of Germanj^, pillowedluxuriously in bed, puUing the beU-ropeinsistently, and, a waiter appearing, makingdemands for an immediate serving of only so, but having search made in theGerman Bradshaw for the hour of departureof the train which was to convey us back toprison, and the time at which we could attenda celebration of Mass. St. Hedewick is a great circular cathe-dral, not without a certain impressiveness,particularly when crowded as it was on ourarrival. The service was in progress, andfrom the great organ came a sound hke arushing mighty wind. When we emergedit was raining, and we decided to caU as in-vited on our Russian friend of made our way to the address circuitouslyand laboriously, receiving
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