As military regulations state that it is the duty of every prisoner of war to make immediate1 and strenuous2 effort to escape, and as every man is at heart an adventurer, it is not surprising that our languid community was from time to time regaled by the rumours4 of impending5 sorties.
No one has ever yet managed to escape from Mainz, and even if the war had lasted for another twenty years, I believe it would have retained its impregnability. For the citadel6 had been constructed so as to resist the old-fashioned frontal assault, in which infantry8 without the aid of a barrage9 endeavoured to demolish10 vertical11 walls. Round the buildings ran stone battlements{153} usually fifty feet high. At any point where it would be possible to jump down was stationed a sentry12, and between these battlements and the buildings were two distinct chains of wire netting, that were continually patrolled. At an early date I decided13 that, in my personal case, the possible chances of escape in no way counteracted14 the enormous inconvenience to which an attempt would inevitably15 put me. And if I did get away, it would result in the probable loss of the greater part of my library, and of all my MSS. All things considered, it hardly seemed worth while.
But for other and more daring spirits personal inconvenience was a thing of trifling16 importance. They would talk of their duty, of their hatred17 of the Hun, of their desire to be in the thick of things again. But the chief allurement18 was the love of réclame: every man is at heart a novelist; and they would picture to themselves the days of “What did you do in the great war, Daddy?” and the proud answer, “I escaped{154} from Mainz,” and there was also the glory of standing19 in the centre of the stage. They liked to be talked about in undertones, to hear a whisper of “Don’t tell any one, but that fellow’s going to try and beat it to-morrow.” They hankered after excitement, and in consequence when their schemes began to ripen20 to maturity21, they enveloped22 their actions in all the theatrical23 paraphernalia24 of Arsène Lupin. It was wonderful what they made themselves believe. Spies were lurking25 everywhere, and in consequence their every action had to be most carefully concealed26. One officer, who thought he was being hoodwinked, disguised himself by shaving off his moustache, and wearing a cap all day to hide the thinness of his hair. Of course to those who really took the business seriously every credit is due. They spent hours preparing maps, and ropes, and many marks in bribing27 sentries28. But to the majority an escape consisted chiefly in a bid not for liberty but for fame. For it was only with the most deep and carefully{155} laid plans that any one could have hoped to get away.
It is unnecessary to say that in the machinery29 of these enthusiasms our old friend Colonel Westcott played his heroic part. When he amalgamated30 into his Pitt League such existing organisations as the Future Career Society, he considered that he had taken under his wing all the imperial activities of the camp; and so one branch, and a very select branch, of his scheme included those desirous of freedom. It was quite a harmless affair, this little society, and in no way jeopardised the chances of escape. All that the Colonel wanted was to feel that he had a share in every sphere of the life of which he was the central embodiment. He liked to have these young fellows sitting round him discussing their plans; he liked to be able to drop here and there the necessary words of advice; it was an understood thing that no one was to attempt to escape without first submitting his ideas to the Colonel; and within a brief time this{156} amiable31 gentleman had led himself to believe that he was the fount from which all these alarums and excursions flowed.
The first attempt did not take place till we had been prisoners a little over four months, but its preliminaries began a good deal earlier. One of the accomplices32 was in the same room as myself, and for weeks he used to carry about with him an air of mystery. In a far corner of the room he would be observed tracing maps of the various roads to the frontier, and from time to time he would take me quietly aside.
“Don’t tell any one,” he said, “but I’m going to clear soon, and I’m getting the maps. I tell you, of course, because—oh, well, you’re in my room, and all that. But keep it dark.”
He spoke33 like that to nearly all of his acquaintances. It is all very well to talk of breaking laws just for the fun of the thing, but one does want the rest of the world to know what a devil of a fellow one is.{157}
I remember one Sunday afternoon, at school, how I cut the cord of the weight on the chapel34 organ, with the result that that evening the music suddenly stopped and the choir35 wrecked36. It was a noble piece of work, which I surveyed with a justifiable37 pride. But I was not really satisfied till I had told the whole house about it; naturally, of course, swearing each individual to secrecy38.
“Don’t tell a soul, of course, old man. I should get in a hell of a row if it was found out.”
Suave39, mari magno.... When one is perfectly40 safe, it is delightful41 to imagine all the punishments that might have been visited on one, if the Fates had been less kind; we always hunger for sensation; from the security of a warm fire the imagination gloats over the ardours of warfare42 and the splendours and agonies of adventure. We like to feel that danger overhangs us; we shiver with apprehensive43 delight beneath the sword of Damocles. We like to be told that there will be a social upheaval44 within{158} our lifetime. Perhaps it will come in five years’ time. Perhaps to-morrow. At any rate, to-day we are secure. And it was in this spirit that the glamorous45 web was woven round that first escape.
The efforts that were made to avoid suspicion were superb. The conspirators47 felt that anything might give away their secret. Had not Sergeant48 Cuff49 found at one end of a chain of evidence a murderer and at the other a spot of ink on a green baize tablecloth50? and so they left nothing to chance. A loose board beneath the stove served as an admirable hiding-place for maps and plans. And in consequence our room was used as a sort of general dump.
It was a great nuisance; they would do the mystery stunt51 so very thoroughly52; and it was such a noisy business. To open their underground cupboard a few nails had to be abstracted, and a few wedges applied53. The resultant noise would have woken not the least suspicion in even the most distrustful Teuton, and would have played a{159} very insignificant54 part amid all the accumulated turmoil55 of the day. But no risks must be run. And so while the cupboard was being prized open, an operation that would sometimes take over ten minutes, one of us had to be detailed56 to go outside and break up wood so as to disguise the noise. It was a deafening57 business, that occurred two or three times each week; and it did not seem as if the contents of this cupboard demanded such strict secrecy. I once asked what they kept there.
“Only a few papers,” was the answer, “a compass and provisions for the journey.”
That a compass, being contraband58, should be carefully concealed, I could well understand. But the papers consisted of a field officer’s diary and a few maps abstracted from the backs of a German Grammar; while the bag of provisions contained only those delicacies59 that we received in parcels, of which chocolate formed the greater part. And a more unhealthy place to store it, it would be hard to find.{160}
“Look here,” I said one day, “what’s the idea of keeping that chocolate there?”
“To escape with, of course. Splendid stuff for giving staying power.”
“But why can’t the fellow keep it in his room?”
I was immediately fixed60 with that sort of look that seems to say, “Good Lord, do such fools really exist!”
“My good man,” he said, “how could he keep it there? It would give the whole show away at once. What would you think, if you were a German officer, and found a big store of chocolate in one of the cupboards? What would you think of it?”
There was only one answer to that.
“That the ass7 didn’t like it, I suppose.”
But my remonstrance61 was useless, and soon I began to regard these noises and secrecies62 as part of the inevitable63 machinery of prison life.{161}
§ 2
The first attempt savoured, it must be confessed, very strongly of the ludicrous. The protagonists64 were three colonels who had managed to provide themselves with German money and with suits of civilian65 clothes, made, so it was reported, out of dishcloths. They chose as their headquarters a room situated66 directly above the main gate. It was a drop of some forty feet to the ground, and a sentry box was stationed immediately underneath67. The chances of getting away were in consequence very small, but there was, at any rate, no need for preliminary man?uvres among the meshes68 of wire netting. The gallant69 adventurers relied solely70 on the somnolence71 of the sentry. It was a cold, rainy night, and their experience of guards at dep?ts might well have led them to expect a certain lack of enterprise and enthusiasm on the part of their warder. Nor were they disappointed.
It began to rain heavily, and after a few{162} deprecatory glances at the heavens, the sentry sat down in his box, and within a few moments appeared to be unconscious of the external world. From the window of Block I a rope made out of a blanket was immediately lowered, and the colonel began his precarious72 descent.
And then the rain stopped.
The sentry, roused apparently73 by the sudden cessation of sound, blinked, rubbed his eyes, and cast them heavenwards, and saw midway between earth and sky a figure swinging from a rope. Well, he must have been something of a philosopher, that sentry: he was in no way perturbed74 by the apparition75. He rose languidly to his feet, blew his whistle to summon the guard, and waited patiently at the foot of the rope.
It must have been a very amusing spectacle. Very slowly and very gingerly, hand under hand the colonel descended76, and when he was within reaching distance the sentry helped him very gently to the ground and escorted him to the guardroom. The other
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conspirators, seeing the fate of their chief, hastened bedwards with all possible speed, and when the orderly officer came round they imitated with considerable ability the righteous indignation of a man who is woken up after a three hours’ sleep.
This attempt was the signal for frequent and repeated excursions. The lead once given, there were found many ready to follow it; and there was considerable comfort in the assurance that the sentries had orders not to fire unless they were charged. And so for the remainder of our captivity77 the camp buzzed with rumours.
No one ever got away. Occasionally the first strand78 of netting was penetrated79, but nothing more; and it must have been a poor form of amusement. For the desperadoes always chose a night of rain and wind in the hope that the sentries might have sought consolation80 within their huts, and it can have been no fun crawling on one’s stomach, over sodden81 gravel82, getting soaked and cold; and as the night of capture was always spent{164} in the guardroom, it was a sport that can have held out few inducements.
For the cowardly, however, it did add a spice and flavour to existence. On these nights of danger we used to lie awake patiently listening. The hours would drift by. Twelve o’clock, one o’clock, it looked as if they had got away after all; and then, sure enough, would come the alarm, two whistles would shriek83 loud above the drip of the rain, there would be a scurry84 of feet; and then a few minutes later we would see the unfortunate beings escorted to the cells.... We would do all we could for them; we would clamber on to the window sill and would shout our condolences; and these friendly wishes would on the next day as likely as not serve as an excuse for the General to place upon us some further restriction85, as punishment for what he considered an unmannerly exhibition of independence.
Of these bold bids for freedom none stood any very real chance of success, and towards the end they became somewhat discredited,{165} as they involved certain inconveniences on those who had resigned themselves to their fate. There would be additional roll-calls, and precautions. Whole rooms were searched and ransacked86, a most disagreeable proceeding87. And on one occasion the attempt was made from the theatre, which led to the closing of that hall of pleasure during an entire morning while the complete staging apparatus88 was overhauled89, and examined. This caused genuine annoyance90, especially as the ravages91 of the soldiery delayed for three days a performance that had been the centre of much curiosity and conjecture92. And this annoyance became almost indignation, when it transpired93 that this herald94 of defiance95 had provisioned himself for his long journey with nothing more substantial than a tin of skipper sardines96, two oxo cubes, and a tin of mustard. The general opinion was that if a man was “such a damned fool as to carry that sort of stuff about with him, he had no right to try to escape, upsetting arrangements and all.”{166}
And on this type of sally the theatre incident rang down the curtain. But under this category it is impossible to number the attempts of Colonel Wright. His methods were very different; they were not showy; he did not talk about what he was going to do. And as a result he very nearly succeeded.
The chief ingenuity97 of the Scarlet98 Pimpernel lay, as far as I can remember, in his grasp of the fact that it is the obvious that evades suspicion. Sentries are on the lookout99 for an escape by night, but by day they are off their guard. And working on this plan, both Colonel Wright’s attempts were made by daylight. Indeed they were both so simple that in cold blood they looked quite ridiculous. The first attempt failed completely, and but for his later achievement, one might have been tempted100 to wonder how the gallant colonel could have expected any different result.
Alone of the Pitt Escape League he literally101 did not progress a yard; not one foot did he{167} advance. In broad daylight he was arrested where he stood, or rather, where he sat, for it was in that position that he was discovered.
The plan was not elaborate. Once a week a cart from the laundry came to collect dirty linen102 from the camp and take it away to be cleaned. And to keep a check on the returns, a British orderly always went with it. Colonel Wright’s scheme was to impersonate the orderly, to get himself conducted safely outside the gates, and once there to rely on his own speed and ingenuity to effect an escape. It might have come off; there was an outside chance, remote certainly, but still a chance; however, he was given no opportunity of gauging103 his share of the two requisite104 abilities. It is true he got into the cart and sat quietly in a far corner; but before even the harness had begun to jingle105, he had been recognised and arrested. A grey business, but he was in no wise daunted106. And within a few weeks he had his hand to the wheel again.
His second scheme was considerably107 more{168} elaborate, but was none the less sufficiently108 obvious. Zero hour was fixed for half-past five, and at five o’clock in a far corner of the square preparations were begun for a boxing match. Towels and chairs were set out, sponges and bowls of water appeared, and two brawny109 Scotsmen shivered in greatcoats. There had been no previous notice of this engagement, but interest was speedily kindled110, and within a quarter of an hour quite a large crowd had assembled. The close of the opening round was the signal for a marked display of enthusiasm. And it was in the middle of the second round that Colonel Wright made his dash. No one noticed him. The sentries were absorbed in the boxing, and those whose attentions showed signs of wandering were engaged in conversation by two field officers who could speak German. And Colonel Wright, clad in a suit of civilian clothes, cut through the wire netting of the first entanglement111, and dashed across the open. In a few seconds he had swarmed112 over the second series and{169} was out of sight. It was a most daring and brilliant piece of work. All that remained for him now was to lie till nightfall in the shadow of the wall. Then when it was dark he could choose an auspicious113 moment and lower himself to the ground.
It was a plan that certainly deserved success, and as the hours passed we began to hope that some one had at last got clean away. There was some anxiety lest his absence should be spotted114 at roll-call, but when nine o’clock came and went, we felt that all was well. And then just before ten o’clock the two whistle blasts rang out. Colonel Wright had been retaken.
And if the story that we heard afterwards is true, chance was outrageously115 unkind. He had waited till it was quite dark, and had carefully watched for the moment when the beat of the outside sentry carried his warders out of earshot. He had then lowered himself from the wall; and it was here that his luck deserted116 him. For a couple of lovers had selected that particular part of the{170} battlements as a shelter for their amorous46 dalliance. And the point at which Colonel Wright would have landed was removed from them by scarcely a dozen yards. He was instantly detected. Yet, with a very little luck, things might still have turned out favourably117; for the man, who seemed sufficiently intrigued118 with his partner, gave him only a cursory119 glance and returned to the matter in hand; but the woman, with an eye to advertisement, characteristic of her sex, gave expression to her feelings in a series of piercing shrieks120. Colonel Wright was instantly arrested.
The sentries found on him a hundred marks of German money, and a railway ticket to Frankfurt. And if he could only have got clear of the camp, I believe he would have had little difficulty in getting to the frontier. For he spoke German excellently and had friends in that part of the country. He had also the nerve and ingenuity which alone could have rendered such a feat121 possible. This the authorities must{171} have realised; for a few days later he was moved to another camp. What he did there, we do not know. But rumour3 has it that on the journey he made three more attempts to break away. And doubtless in a camp with fewer natural defences he would sooner or later have succeeded in outwitting his captors.
But as regards Mainz the gloomy record of its impregnability still stands. At one time or another it has been the temporary home of Russians, French and English; all three have in their turn tried to escape, and all have failed. After four years of warfare Mainz is still the inviolable citadel.
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