11/22 It was worse, in a way, than when they were going to shoot me in the parsonage garden. I'd been so sure I was safe--and then to hear that bugle call on your car!" "It is not right for you to run such risks," said Ivan. "I wish you were behind our lines! You are not even a Russian, and yet you have been near to death for us." "Don't you worry about me!" said Fred. "I don't suppose that I would have started this, but when I was pushed into it as I was, I feel like doing all I can. If the Germans had caught me when Boris hid me in the tunnel, they would have treated me like an enemy, so I thought I might as well give them a good excuse, since they were going to do it anyhow." "Here we are," said Ivan. |