Eagle & Spider

Not unused to seeing the scars of War are employes at the U. S. Pension Bureau. But last week they looked, and looked at a face such as few of them had ever seen. Across the forehead was branded a huge double eagle, the wing tips reaching to the temples, the tail running half way down the nose. Beneath the branded eagle, faintly discernible, was the outline of a huge spider.

The face belonged to one Albert Nye Roughton, 54, U. S. citizen. Worn, wrinkled, penniless, he had tramped from Ottumwa, Iowa, to Washington to tell his story. He had served aboard the U. S. S. Dixie during the Spanish War, was thus entitled to a pension. The brand on his brow he got from the Turks in 1915. Aboard a British Merchantman running the Turkish blockade into Asia Minor, he had been captured, mistaken for a spy. The Turks had marked his forehead with their own Spider of Death and Germany's Double Eagle. Then they imprisoned him in the desolate Blue Mountains. With a young English girl named Ada Allen Mace whom he later married, he escaped, stole a camel, reached the British lines.

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