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CHAPTER XXVI (Continued) With one bound the lust to live flares up again and everything that has filled my thoughts goes down before it. Now, merely to avert any ill-luck, I babble mechanically: “I will fulfill everything, fulfill everything 1 have promised you—” but already I' know that I shall not do so Buddenly it occurs to me that my own comrades may fire on me as I creep up; they do not know I am coming. I will call out as soon as I can so that they will recognize roe. I will stay lying in front of the trench until they answer me. The first star. The front remains quiet. I breathe deeply and talk to myself in my excitement: "No foolishness now. Paul—quiet, Paul, quiet—then you will be saved, Paul.” When I use my Christian name, it works as though someone else spoke to me, it has more power. The darkness grows. My ’excitement subsides, I wait cautiously until the first rocket goes up. Then I crawl out of the shell-hole. I have forgotten the dead man. Before me lies the oncoming night and the pale gleaming field I fix my eye on a shell-hole; the moment the light dies I scurry over into it, grope farther, spring into the next, duck down, scramble onward. I come nearer. There, by the light of a rocket I see something move in the wire, then it stiffens and lies still. Next time I see it again, yes. they are men from our trench. But I am suspicious until I recognize our helmets. Then I call. And immediately an answer rings out, my name: “Paul —Paul ” I call again in answer. It is Kat and Albert who have come out with a stretcher to look for me. "Are you wounded?’’ "No, no ” We drop into the trench. I ask for something to eat and wolf it down. Muller gives me a cigaret. In a few words I tell what happened. There is nothing new about it; it happens quite often. The night attack is the only unusual feature of the business. In Russia, Kat once lay for two days behind the enemy lines before he could make his way back. I do not mention the dead printer. But the next morning I can keep it to myself no longer. I must tell Kat and Albert. They both try to calm me. "You can't do anything about, it. What else could you have done? That is what you are here for." I listen to them and feel comforted, reassured by their presence. It was mere driveling nonsense that I talked out there in the shellhole. “Look there for instance,” points Kat, On the first-step stand some snipers. They rest their rifles with telescopic sights on the parapet and watch the enemy front. Once and again a shot cracks out. Then we hear the cry: “That's found a billet!” "Did you see how he leapt in the air?” Sergeant Oellrich turns round proudly and scores his points. He heads the shooting list for today with three unquestionable hits.

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"What do you say to that?” ask:: Kat. I nod. "If he keeps that up he will get a little colored bird for his buttonhole by this evening," says Albert. “Or rather he will soon be made acting-sergeant-major,” says Kat. We look at one another. “I would not do it,” I say. “All the same,” says Kat, “it’s very good for you to see it just now.” Sergeant Oellrich returns to the fire-step. The muzzle of his rifle searches to and fro. “You don't need to lose any more sleep over your affair,” nods Albert. And now I hardly understand it myself any more. “It was only because I had to lie there with him so long,” I say. “After all, war is war.” Oellrich’s rifle cracks out, sharp and dry. We have dropped in for a good job. Eight of us have to guard a village that has been abandoned because it is being shelled too heavily. In particular we have to watch the supply dump as this is not yet empty. We are supposed to provision ourselves from the same store. We are Just the right people for that—Kat, Albert, Muller, Tjaden, Detering, our whole gang is there. Haie is dead, though. But we are mighty lucky all the same, all the other squads have had more casualties than we have. We select, as a dugout, a reinforced concrete cellar into which steps lead down from above. The entrance is protected by a separate concrete wall. Now we develop an immense industry. This is an opportunity not only to stretch ones legs, but to stretch one’s soul also. We make the best use od such opportunities. The war is too desperate to allow us to be sentimental for long. That is only possible so long as things are not going too badly. After all, we can not afford to be anything but matter-or-fact. So matter-of-fact, indeed, that I often shudder when a thought from the days before the war comes momentarily into my head. But it does not stay long. We have to take things as lightly as we can, so we make the most of every opportunity, and nonsense stands stark and immediate beside horror. It can not be otherwise, that is how we hearten ourselves. So we zealously set to work to create an idyll—an idyll of eating and sleeping, of course. The floor is first covered with mattresses which we haul in from the houses. Even a soldier likes to sit soft. Only in the middle of the floor is there any clear space. Then we furnish ourselves with blankets and eiderdowns, luxurious soft affairs. There is plenty of everything to be had in the town. Albert and I find a mahogany bed which can be taken to pieces, with a sky of blue silk and lace coverlet. We sweat like monkeys moving it in, but a man can not let a thing like that slip, and it would

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