I heard the bullet--it buzzed like a hornet.

So then I ran away and found my son here; and we came across the country, following the canals and avoiding the roads, which were filled with German troops.

When we had gone a mile we looked back and there was much thick smoke behind us--our houses were burning, I suppose.

So last night we slept in the woods and all day we walked, and to-night reached here, bringing with us nothing except the clothes on our backs.
"I have no wife--she has been dead for two years--but in Brussels I have two daughters at school.

Do you think I shall be permitted to enter Brussels and seek for my two daughters?
This morning they told me Brussels was burning; but that I do not believe." Then, also, he told us in quick, eager sentences, lowering his voice while he spoke, that a priest, with his hands tied behind his back, had been driven through a certain village ahead of the Germans, as a human shield for them; and that, in still another village, two aged women had been violated and murdered.