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CHAPTER XVIII (Continued) "Yes, mother, I haven’t had any for a long time.” "We might almost have known you were coming,” laugh my sister, ‘‘there is just your favorite dish, potato-cakes, and even whortleberries to go with them too.” 'And it U Saturday,” I added. "81t here beside me.” says my moth*. Bhe looEs at me. Her hands are white and sickly and frail compared with mine. We say very little, and I am thankful that she asks nothing. What ought I to say? Everything I could have wished for has happened. I have come out of It safely and it here beside her. And In the kitchen stands my sister making the evening bread and singing. "Dear boy,” says my mother softly. We were never demonstrative In our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so. It Is not their way to protest what they already know. When my mother says to me “dear boy,” it means much more than when another uses it. I know well enough that the jar of whortleberries is the only one they have had for months, and that she has kept it for me; and the somewhat stale cakes that she gives me, too. She has taken a favorable opportunity of getting a few and has put them all by for me. I sit by her bed, and through the window the chestnut trees in the beer garden opposite glow in brown and gold. I breathe deeply and say over to myself: "You are at home, you are at home.” But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I can find nothing of myself in all these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogany piano—but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us. I go and fetch my pack to the bedside and turn out the things I have brought—a whole Edam cheese, that Kat provided me with, two loaves of army bread, threequarters of a pound of butter, two j tins of live-sausage, a pound of dripping and a little bag of rice. "I suppose you can make some use of that ” They nod. "It is ’ etty bad for food here?” I inquire. “Yes, there's not much. Do you get enough out there?” I smile and point to the things I have brought. “Not always quite so much as that, of course, but we fare reasonably well.” Ema goes out to bring In the j food. Suddenly my mother seizes hold of my hand and ask faltering- I

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| ly: ‘ Was It very bad out there, j Paul?” Mother, what should I answer to that? You would not understand, and never realize it. And you never should realize it. Was it bad, you ask You, mother, I shake my head and say: “No, mother, not so very. There are always a lot of us together, so it Isn’t so bad.” "Yes, but Heinrich Bredemeyer was here just lately and he said it w-as terrible out there now, with the gas and all the rest of it.” It is my mother who says that. She says: “With the gas and all the rest of it.” She does not know what she is saying, she merely is anxious for me. Should I tell her how we once found three enemy trenches with their garrison all stiff as though/stricken with apoplexy? Against the parapet, in the dug--1 outs, just w r here they were, the men stood and lay about, with blue faces, dead. “No, mother, that's only talk,” I answer, "there’s not very much in what Bredemeyer says. You see for j instance, I’m well and fit—” Before my mother’s tremulous anxiety I recover my composure. Now I can walk about and talk and answer questions without fear of having suddenly to lean against the wall because the world turns soft as rubber and my veins become brimstone. I go for a while to my sister in the kitchen. “What is the matter with her?” I ask. She shrugs her shoulders: “She has been in bed two months now, but we did not want to write and tell you. Several doctors have been to see her. One of them said it is probably cancer again.” I go to the district commandant to report myself. Slowly I wander through the streets. Occasionally someone speaks to me. I do not delay long for I have little inclination to talk. On my way back from the barracks a loud voice calls but to me. Still lost in thought I turn round and find myself confronted by a major. “Can’t you salute?” he blusters “Sorry, Major,” I say in embarrassment. “I didn't notice you.” “Don’t you know how to speak i properly?” he roars. I would like to hit him in the j face, but control myself, for my i leave depends on it. I click my : heels and say: “I did not see you, Herr Major.” “Then keep your eyes open,” he i snorts. “What is your name?” I| give it. His fat. red face is furious. “What | regiment?” I give him full particulars. Even j

yet he has not had enough. “Where are they?” But I had had more than enough and say: "Between Langemark and Bixschoote.” “Eh?” he asks, a bit stupefied. I explain to him that I arrived on leave only an hour or two since, thinking that he would then trot along. But not at all. He gets even more furious: “You think you can bring your front-line manners here, what? Well, we don’t stand that sort of thing. Thank God, we have discipline here!” “Twenty paces backward, doublemarch!” he commands. I am mad with rage. But I can not say anything to him: he could put me under arrest if he liked. So I double back, and then march up to him. 3ix paces from him I spring to a stiff salute and maintain it until I am six paced beyond him. He calls me back again and affably gives me to understand that for once he is pleased to put mercy before justice. I pretend to be duly grateful. "Now, dismis|!” he says. I turn about smartly and march off. That ruins the evening for me. I go back home and throw my uniform into a corner; I ought to have done that before. Then I take out my civilian clothes from the wardrobe and put them on. I feel awkward. The suit rather tight and short, I have grown in the arm. Collar and tie give me some trouble. In the end my sister ties the bow for me. But how light the suit is, it feels as though I had nothing on but a shirt and underpants. I look at myself in the glass. It is a strange sight. A sunburnt, overgrown candidate for confirmation gazes at me in astonishment. My mother is pleased to see me wearing civilian clothes; it makes me less strange to her. But my father would rather I kept my uniform on, so that he could take me to visit his acquaintances. But I refuse. CHAPTER XIX IT is pleasant to sit quietly somewnere, in the beer-garden for example, under the chestnuts by the

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