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She watched the Doctor devourher biscuit and sausage, too much excited to eat
anything herself.
Andthe Exhibition was in full swing, though we managed to
avoid visiting it. Clearly the matter should be looked into. There he stopped
his horsesand sat still on his wagon seat, looking about at the snowfall.
I
never did see a man buy so much candy for his wife.
Youve got five boysat home
to do it for you. And then there happened astrange and moving thing.
That
afternoonmy wife and I went to see Kopp for the last time. I wish I could
convey to you the shocked alarm in his voice.
I think its good for five or six
years yet, maybe more, if youlltake the strain off it. Next morning my wife
slipped out of the hotel successfully. No, I guess my heart was always pretty
good. He knows Im glad to have him, John, any time. There wasanother train
early the following morning.
The matter was urgent; Kopp was due at the front
already. But the sure thing isyouve got to cut out farm work. He had driven in
just when the boys had come back from the barn andwere washing up for
breakfast.
I guess the only thing is fur me to git me a new one.
I have
recorded some of the outward events, but Icannot record the feeling they have
left me with.
Anton never lunched in town; he thought that extravagant,and
anyhow he didnt like the food. At last,however, the officer emerged, flushed,
but carrying a large official envelope. FewSpaniards possess the damnable
efficiency and consistency that a moderntotalitarian state needs.
Major Jorge
Kopp, who was on an urgent mission tothe front and had been arrested by
mistake. I aint much fur all dem slim women like what destyle is now. Das nice,
for young folks to have some style. The very firstnewspaper we saw announced
McNairs arrest for espionage.
So we slippedthrough the barrier, and after just
six months I was on French soil again.
Icould send your wife a nice loaf of nut
bread, if you only had one. I want to see you live a few years and enjoythem.
Polly got lots of spunk, an she got some style, too. Yes, it sounded as though
there might havebeen a mistake. He was exaggerating, but itshowed how Catalonia
was regarded. Major Jorge Kopp, who was on an urgent mission tothe front and
had been arrested by mistake.
For the first time in my life I took to
writingthings on walls. Polly got lots of spunk, an she got some style,
too.
They did not know what Kopp had been arrested for.
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