_ to cheer
him up against the time he should discover that I was well on my way
to Scotland.

And I remained there until I received notice that my regimental bones
had been officially exhumed; after which I had no difficulty in
getting my back pay and three months' furlough for Canada and home!

AUTHOR'S NOTE.--An amusing and at the same time gratifying
sequel to this story developed immediately upon the heels of its
publication in a considerably smaller form in the _Saturday
Evening Post_. Sergeant Edwards, who had not previously been
consulted by the authorities, was at once offered his choice
between doing "duty" in Canada or taking a discharge from the
army, instead of going overseas again. He chose the discharge.

An interesting fact in connection with Brumley, the man who was
the first to be recaptured on the second attempt to escape, is
that according to a post card received from him by his wife, he
has since made two other unsuccessful attempts at escape.
Scarfe, who was exchanged to Switzerland, reports that he has
married a Swiss girl there. Stamper, another Patricia who was
captured at the same time as Edwards, has recently been
exchanged and is now in England. Scott, who was captured with
the men of an English regiment, was exchanged to Switzerland
and recently returned to Toronto and has been in hospital, in a
serious condition, ever since. The fate of the others is
unknown.

THE EVIDENCE IN THE CASE

In order to remove any vestige of doubt in the reader's mind as to the
authenticity of Corporal Edwards' tale, it has been deemed advisable
to present reproductions of certain newspaper articles and
correspondence which bear directly on some of the points touched upon
in the story.

It will be noticed that quite aside from the major fact of the escape
itself having been brought out here, there is the equally important
one of the bringing out of a great number of lesser points which tally
to a hair with such references to them as are made in the story, such
for instance as the references to the delay in England, the references
in their post cards of those fellow-prisoners who remain in Germany
and other facts of a similar nature.

The following are exact reproductions in every case, except for the
explanatory note which prefaces each item.

_Extract from Toronto Daily Star, May 30, 1915._

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