Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, December 01, 1942, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextSERIAL STORY r, S COPYHIOHT, 1041. ' : BY WILLI AM WOODS' THE EDGE OF DARKNESS NEA (KRVICK, INC. THUNDER OP WAR CHAPTER XIX T)URING the night, the old man, Eixtus Andrescn died. No one was with him at the time. When Pastor Aalesen found his ' body in the gray light of dawn, half in bed, half on the floor, as If with his dry and withered limbs at the, last moment ho had tried to rise, a surge of pity swept up in him that after so long a life tho old man had had to do his dying all alone. "How terrible it must have been lor hira in the dark when ho called out and no body came." "The schoolmaster Is dead," peo plo told each other on the street. "So old Sixtus is really gone. I don't believe it." His lean old figure W8S as fa miliar as the village fountain, or the white fences in front of their ' houses. They began telling things they remembered about him. "How he was laughing when I saw him yesterday," the butcher Raid, and fell to musing, with his knife in mid-air. "I can't believe it. They say he would have been 80 in a couple of days. He told me a long story about a spider and n wasp." ' Aalesen went to the commandant for permission to hold a funeral Jn the church. Konig was in his office, examining the morning post, his face as black and angry as the pastor had ever seen it "What do you want?" the cap tain roared at Aalesen. The pas tor was staring at his violent, un natural face. "I came to request the funeral. It is for the old schoolmaster, Herr Kapitan. He has been in my house, and died last night It I might suggest he was very pop-, ular in the village, and ..." "So? What's that to me?" And suddenly the captain stormed out from behind his desk, shaking his fist at the pastor. "What busi ness have you with funerals?" he cried. "What do you know about dying? Have you read the Fuehrer's - speech? Have you heard what German troops are doing? Dying against those fiends in the Russian mud . . . for you ', . . for all Europe." W "Herr Kapitan," the pastor in terrupted. " -I "You talk," the captain shouted. "You make plots and speeches. You sneak about for those Russian murderers and the degenerate English." His voice screamed out louder and louder. "But we are pouring out German blood so that you can live. And we are invinci ble." He pounded his fist on the desk, smashing it down on every word. "Let them spend their bil lions. We have machines. Every hour of the day we have eighty million hours of German labor. Do you know what you can do in eighty million hours?" "Herr, Kapitan." "No.". With an effort Konig controlled himself and went back to his seat "I forbid it Orderly," he cried.' "I'll have any man shot who goes into that church today." Louder, "Orderly. As far as your school teacher is concerned, I threw him out of here once be- : fore . . . orderly, damn it," he cried at the top of his Jungs. 'Tor all of me you can throw him into the sea." QUTDOORS the spruce boughs clashed against the window. It must be bitter cold. No coats or blankets for those down in the village. Soon, when these troops stripped the town bare1 and went to join those who had gone before . . . across Sweden and Finland to fight the Soviets . . . there would be nothing left not even food. The soldiers grew louder, listen ing to news bulletins in the restau rant, tramping down from the upper hall. Determinedly Gerd got a ledger out of her desk draw er and began to work. . The first bell for supper sound ed. Outside, the radio was turned off, and she heard the babble of dozens of men's voices. More boots came down the stairs; the front door opened and then slammed shut again. She heard the second bell." It buzzed through all the rooms and corridors. There was a scraping of chairs, and the voices hushed. Tho captain's door opened, and scores of hobnailed boots clicked as the men saluted. An order snapped out The chairs scraped again, and the murmur of voices picked up, but in a lower key. Gerd went to the kitchen door on the far side of her office and or dered them to bring supper in to her on a tray. She ate alone, listening to the clatter of knives and forks in the next room. When she was done, the cook came and cleared her plate away. The radio played dance music in the next room, ; and it seemed to her that all her life had been like this night, lone ly and cut off. She got out her books and went seriously to work. Page after page . . , red and black lines and close-knit figures. . . . The wind blew harder at the house and started the doors and win dows rattling. It must have been about 10 . o'clock when the noise in the next room lapsed suddenly into silence, and lifting her head to listen, all Rt once she heard from out of doors a faint distant rumbling like thunder. A moment more it was still; then in the restaurant there was a quick commotion. A soldier cried out; chairs scraped back to a shuffling of boots. . - "No, to the left," somebody shouted. "Right between those . two trees." "Lights out for God's sake." A man pounded at the captain's door. ' "Quiet!" Others took up the order. "Quiet!" -QtRD went around to the front v of her desk and waited breath- 1 i ' iessiy. In ihe next room k was utterly still, but she thought she could hear, like some monstrous animal's breathing, the quick breathing of 50 men, and now and then a hushed whisper. "Wait Listen." "Ja, Ja," somebody cried. "That's ours." Gerd flung open the door. At first she could not sec in the dark ness, but then she had made out the black figures of the troops crowded over at tho window. She went to her alcove and stood with one hand on a wooden post. "At least 12 miles," a votes cried out. "Look!" "What is it?" she asked aloud. From somewhere the captain barked out "Lieutenant Lieu tenant A squad down to the north battery." "Zu Befehl." "What is it?" Gerd asked again. The corporal was next to her. . "Fraulcin." Joy and astonishment and relief all in that one word. "Sea battle off shore," he whis-, pered. "We can see the guns flashing." "Radio to Namsos for aircraft" the captain called again. "Zu Befehl." "Report also to the district com mandant in Namsos." "Zu Befehl." Gerd rushed back to her office, got a coat and ran out onto the porch. Someone was beside her. but she did not know who. At first looking over the snow-covered hillside and the town, out to the black sea, she could not make out a thing. "Just to the left of that tree," a voice said. Almost half a minute passed, and then she saw the quick little spurt of light that flared for an HOLD EVERYTHING! lip HI iwt ml m tvc. Wft T. M. wo. in. fT. MT. "Go right in, men just In time for a complete performance." Six New York state furniture manufacturers have signed con tracts to work on plywood pianos and gliders instead of their customary products. Planes hunting submarines must come down very low to spot the periscope and the dark shadow of the boat under water. 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