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CHAPTER XXI (Continued) “I can sleep enough later,” she says. I sit up. “I don’t go straight back to the front, mother. I have to do lour weeks at the training camp. I may come over from there one Sunday, perhaps.” She is silent. Then she asks gently: “Are you very much afraid?” “No, mother.” •‘I would like to tell you to be on your guard against the women out in France. They are no good.” Ah! Mother, Mother! You still think I am a child—why can I not put my head in your lap and weep? Why have I always to be strong and self-controlled? I would like to weep and be comforted, too, indeed I am little more than a child: in the wardrobe still hang my short, boy’s trousers —it is such a little time ago, why is it over? ‘ Where we are there aren't any women, Mother,” I say as calmly as I can. “And be very careful at the front, Paul.” Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms, and die with you? What poor wretches we are! “Yes. Mother I will.” “I will pray for you every day, P Ah! Mother, Mother! Let us rise up and go out, back through the years, where the burden of all this misery lies on us no more, back to you and me alone, Mother! “Perhaps you can get a Job that is not so dangerous.” “Yes, Mother perhaps I can get Into the cookhouse. That easily can be done.” .. “You do It then and if the others say anything—” „ “That won't worry me, Mother— She sighs. Her face is a white gleam in the darkness. “Now you must go to sleep, Mother." She does not reply. I get up and wrap my cover round her shoulders. She supports herself on my arm, she is in pain. And so I take her to her room. I stay with her a little while. “And you must get well again. Mother, before I come back.” “Yes, yes, my child.” “You ought not to send your things to me, Mother. We have plenty to eat out there. You can make much better use of them here.” , , How destitute she lies there in her bed she that loves me more than all the world. As lam about to leave, she says hastily: “I have two pairs of underpants for you. They all wool. They will keep you warm. You must not forget to put them in your pack.” Ah! Mother! I know what these underpants have cost you in waiting, and walking, and begging! Ah! Mother, Mother! how can it be that I must part from you? Who else is there that has any claim on me but you? Here I sit and there you are lying, and we have so much to say, that we could never say it. “Good-night, mother.” “Good-night, my child.” The room is dark. I hear my mother’s breathing and the ticking of the clock. Outside the window the wind blows and the chestnut trees rustle. On the landing I stumble over my pack which lies there already made up, because I have to leave early in the morning. I bite into my pillow. I grasp the iron rods of my bed with my fists. I ought never to have come here. Out there I was indifferent and often hopeless; I never will be able to be so again. I was a soldier, and now I am nothing but an agony for myself, for my mother, for everything that is so comfortless and without end. I ought never to have come on leave. m * * I already know the camp on the moors. It was here that Himmelstoss gave Tjaden his education. But now I know hardly any one here; as ever, all is altered. There are only a few people that I havf occasionally met before. I go through the routine mechanically. In the evening I generally go to the Soldiers’ Home, where the newspapers are laid out, btu which I do not read; still, there

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is a piano there than I am glad enough to play on. Two girls are in attendance, one of them is young. The camp is surrounded with high barbed-wire fences. If we come back late from the Soldiers’ Home we have to show passes. But those who are on good terms with the guard can get through, of course. Between the Junipers and the birch trees 04 the moor we practice j company drill each day. It is bearable if one expects nothing better. We advance at a rim, fling ourselves down, and our panting breath moves | the stalks of the grasses and the flowers of the heather to and fro. Looked at so closely, one sees the fine sand is composed of millions | of the tiniest pebbles as clear as if : they had been made in a laboratory. 1 It is strangely inviting to dig one’s hands into it. But most beautiful are the woods with their line of birch trees. Their color changes with every minute. Now the stems gleam purest white, and between them, airy and silken hangs the pastel-green of the leaves; the next moment all changes to ari opalescent blue, as the shivering breezes pass down from the heights and touch the green lightly away; and again in one place it deepens almost to black as a cloud passes over the sun. And this shadow moves like a ghost through’the dim trunks and passes far out over the moor to the sky—then the birches stand out again like gay banners on white poles, with their red and gold patches of autumn-tinted leaves. I often become so lost in the play of soft light and transparent shadow that I almost fail to hear the commands. It is when one is alone that one begins to observe nature and to love her. And here I have not much companionship, and do not even desire it. We are too little acquainted with one another to do more than joke a bit and play poker or nap in the evenings. Alongside our camp is the big Russian prison camp. It is separated from us by a wire fence, but in spite of this the prisoners come across to us. They seem nervous and fearful, though most of them are big fellows with beards—they look like meek, scolded, St. Bernard dogs. They slink about our camp and pick ofer the garbage tins. One can imagine what they find there. With us food is pretty scarce and none too good at that—turnips cut into six pieces and boiled in water, and unwashed carrot tops; mouldy potatoes are tit-bits, and the chief luxury is a thin rice soup in which float little bits of beef-sinew, but these are cut up so small that they take a lot of finding. . Everything gets eaten, notwithstanding, and if ever any one is so well off as not to want all his share, there are a dozen others standing by ready to relieve him of it. Only the dregs that the ladle can not reach are tipped out and thrown in the garbage tins. Along with that sometimes go a few turnip peelings, mouldy bread crusts and all kinds of muck. This thin, miserable dirty garbage is the objective of the prisoners. They pick it out of the stinking tins greedily and go off with it under their blouses. It is strange to see these enemies of ours so close up. They have faces

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