Part 6 (2/2)
”Me, too,” Dave nodded ”I don't mean that I'm sure the food's okay
That's the point It's swell! I bet the troops don't get this kind of food Look, Freddy! I've got a hunch he wants to et us to talk about the French and British military unitsyesterday You know, they're always after inforive them a line on what's in front of the !” Freddy snorted in disgust
”Check and double check for both of us!” Dave agreed ”But here's what I mean I think we'd be wise not to eat all of this Let's save soht need it later, and bad”
”You're right, Dave!” Freddy said, realizing instantly what his American friend had in mind ”When we do escape fro And I think that's e'll have to do
escape somehow”
Dave nodded but didn't speak There was a queer feeling inside of hile a little That was a sure sign with him that there was trouble ahead And it had proven to be truelife No, the Ger hience officer, but Dave felt pretty sure he didn't really believe they were spies Yet, you never could tell One thing seemed certain, however The German hoped to pu to keep them prisoners until he was satisfied And perhaps he would keep the worked tays
Would the Intelligence officer let the full well they'd tell the authorities what they'd seen on the German side?
No, that wasn't at all likely, and Dave suddenly didn't feel very hungry He got up and walked over to the rearThe sill came only to his chin for he was close to six feet tall, so he could see out without any trouble That is, after he had wiped away soht no joy to his heart Thelooked out on a tree studded hill that blocked out everything beyond Another fine day ell on its way and as Dave screwed his head around so that he could look high up into the blue sky he saw cluster after cluster of planes in line and in V for swiftly ard By straining his ears he could just barely catch the throbbing beat of Gerines Even as their sound came to him he heard louder and more thunderous sounds farther to the west He did not need two guesses to know that Ger their loads of death and destruction upon the soldiers and civilians of the countries Adolf Hitler desired to crush under his iron heel
He turned fro at all Yesterday he had reached seventeen years of age But today? Today he somehow felt a dozen years older than that What he had seen since leaving Paris had added years to his way of thinking, if not to his body A fierce anger at the injustices wrought had sprung up within hi about it What, he did not know But today there had been born in hi desire to do what he could to spare Europe, and perhaps the whole world, froions
”What are you thinking of, Dave?”
Freddy's quiet voice at his elbow jerked hiht trance He turned and stared into the clear blue eyes of his new found friend and ally in the face of danger
”A lot of things, Freddy,” he said ”Maybe I' better than the chance to do soet back at these Germans for what I've seen theh to enlist, Freddy, but there _ we can do to help And, believe me, I sure want to do it Listen, Freddy, have you any idea where we are? I've never been in Belgiuium, isn't it?”
”Yes, I could tell fros, and solish youth said ”But what town this is, I haven't the faintest idea IWait!”
”What's the matter?” Dave asked
”That map in the colonel's office downstairs!” Freddy whispered excitedly ”Did you see it, and see hoas s?”
”Sure, I saw it,” Dave said with a nod ”But I didn't pay much attention to it”
”Nor I,” Freddy said ”But I'll bet you soence headquarters, and I'll bet those little pins and flags mark the points of advance by the Gerood look at that et away frolish youth stopped He was shaking too ripped hiht, Freddy!” he whispered ”It ht help a lot if we could tell the Allied commanders where some of the Ger for Let et another look at that map?”
”We could pound on the door,” Freddy said, ”and tell hio He'd probably take us down to his office to hear e have to say”
”Maybe,” Dave said with a frown ”But I think it's a little too soon toin And, besides, heto just check on us and then let us go”
”Let us go back and tell e've seen behind the German lines?”
Freddy scoffed ”Not a bit of it, Dave You must be off your topper!”