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"We Are Not Alone
FROM THE NOVEL BY JAMES HILTON
THE hill heaped behind, with the dark shape of the Knoll farther still behind, the gradient spinning them into shadows of cold air under trees, and then into the bright glassy moonlight of the level. And after miles of
this, keeping a good rate, David began to whistle în pure. enjoyment. He often did
so as he went about the country-side at night, and if people heard a whistling cyclist they sometimes said: "But that's the little doctor."
So now he went on whistling till the beginning of Crooms. bury Hill made him save his breath, and a few yards higher forced him off his machine al- together.
tobacco
This is a steep one," he said, affectionately, to the earth and sky, and then paused in the middle of the road, feeling in his pocket for pipe and
and matches. "But we're doing Ane-we'll easily catch the ten to twelve. Are you tired?" No, little.'
but it hurts my knee a
"It's not far now-jusi through Lissington village and over the next hill I know all the country around here. You must have been a baby when I first put up
miles plate. Hundreds of my away in some German village I've never heard of, you grew up all
unknown to me, all those you to fall over one night and
I
you
your wrist in Calderbone that
hadn't come here, and
I'd never have known you at
That's a
funnier
funny thing. And it's still to think that
shouldn't have
I
ave missed knowing you
Some German village,
it? Tell me about it,"
wasn't
was a elly, really--Konigs- berg. My partats both died when I was young and I was sent to school the school I ran away From
A
"We're at the top of the hill now. Better
jump on again. We can go on talking.". But at the foot of the hill there was a bad patch of road and crossing it too fast and with the added weight the back tike suddenly deflated. "We'll just have to push on and walk ..** David mud. He took the machine
ough a gate into a neld
and hid it in a hedgerow. Leni was limping and the function lights seemest far away He put bis arm around her so that she might lean some of her weight on him. Just matter of stepping out " he Brid, but when still a long way off they heard the train they had almod for puffing out of the station.
They had six hours to
to walt-no
bly hardship on a summer night. Hair a mile farther on he knew that the Nde of the road, heaped into a dry bed of bracken. There was a big eln growing there. So when they were tired of
they lay down on the ture an
bracken. There are some moments
that are hung in memory like lamp; they shine and awing gently and one can look back on them when all els; has faded into dis- tance and darkness,
MAN
Dawn came the dawn' “of-
* the first day of war. He got up leaving her still sleeping, and walked a few yards to the "algnpost."""""Stamford Magna,
2 miles,
how
"Under arrest for the murder of mywife?”
"They're killing uɛmbui we are not alone!!*
on the wheatfields, wakening the birds. He roused her and they passed on together. It was ten to six when they approached the entrance to the ticket office. knew that the train would take. them as far as Charlham, where they could buy the ticket and pick up an express for London. They. Grrived at Charlham at nine-thirty and had breakfast at the Railway Arms. The morning papers had come in, and everyone in the coffee room was talicing and prophecying, Most of the way to London Leni alept again, but this time the train was crowded and she leaned her head against his shoulder while be talked with the other people in the compartment. He sometimes stole a glance at the head so limp against his arm; it had been a long way to the Junction for her-poor child. let her sleep. But once she half-
sudden soft glow of the electric light her eyes melted to his glance. "Du kiciner Doktor." she mur- mured, dreamily. "Where are we going tot Where are you taking me?"
met. Then, she remembered something he had told her she must not speak during the journey in case anyone should hear her foreign accent.
дз
They reached London in the middle of the afternoon, and they walked with the crowd on the platform by the sides of the train, two men sprang forward, and gripped each of them by the arm.
The little doctor watched the autumn sunlight move over the floor, and when the last yellow bar disappeared he knew it was late afternoon
heard the Cathedral chiming five, and i warder entered with, ted and bread and butter for himself and for the two other warders. who had to stay all the time...
When David heard on Thursday morning: that Leniwas to be. brought to see him that same afternoon his heart overdowed with anticipation. They let her come in ordinary clothes, the same that she and known whilst balancing on the back of David's bicycle along the Marsland Road. But her face was different
from then; she had the little crushed alle that ho hud
of all when he had. seen first of all
มด bandaged her wrist at the Th
Theate Royal She came forward, stumbl Ing. a little, leaning at last into his arms, as he stood. "Du kleiner Doktor Oh, du kleiner Dokter
-
." She began to cry, and all at once it seemed to him that the whole world was crying, crying for lost, impossible love.
Her first words were: "David, whatever you did, I love you, David. I told you that once. be- ford, but you took no notice." "When did you tell me?" **The day I danced for you."
"Yes, I remember that, I try to remember everything-I ́ try and I try--but I can't think what really happened." And then suddenly he said: "Lent-did you--you didn't you didn't do anything-did you?" She looked at him gravely for moment and then answered: "No. Did you?"
"I didn't either. Did you think I did?" "I wondered." "I wondered, too." Then he smiled. "Forgive me. How could such a suspicion-"
"But. If it's - really true that rielther of then who?"
According to prison rules. he was never loft alone, day or night; but the warders were kindly fellows and tried to efface themselves as much as possible: They played cards or read newspapers or yarned together for hours, not worry. ing the doctor by their pre- .sence, though they were affable enough if he chose to join them for a game. They would not let him wear booting to kill laces, or braces, or anything he might possibly hang him- self with; because, of course; they intended to hang him themselves.
The request that David “hàd Inode, more than once, was to see Leai. She was lodged in the jail at Manchester, twenty inlles away, where there was more up-to-date provision for women prisoners. He had not seen her since the trial, a month before, and when he tried to remember that last glance he had he could only see the court- room, dark at the close of autumn afternoon, grey figures moving restlessly and meaningless ly as reeds in a stream, and some= where, lost amongst them, her strange eager face seeking, his in a bewildered stare. Wi
What had it all
been, about?
an
And he didn't know the whole
ques-
Yes, that's the trouble. That's why they won't believe, us. They have to and some answer. And it'% so easy to prove things by evidence. She put up her hand and touched his face as a blind percen memorizes. They are go- us, David, though we haven't done any wrong at all."
"I know." And he added, seeing beyond her, hundred of miles, be- yond her: "We are not alone.”
"What do you mean?"
These things are
always
bap- pening. Don't be afraid of death. It isn't the worst we have to face......... only the last No, no, we should fear birth much more if we could look ahead of it. If there's a next world I'll try to find you i in it I found you in this
"Oh, David-David! Why does
it have to happen like this?
Presently a stranger entered the room and pinioned his arms with a leather strap: he submitted to without word or murmur. Then
he
the
and
this
the
Bow the Governor Chaplain standing by. "Good morn ing," he sak! and smiled them. They crossed gravel walk in the chilly morning sir. He stood on a little platform. A white hood was put over his head.
The
100se
Honing of arrest; police slipped over it and he suddenly re-
Jess
grand Jury
prison,
all were shadows of a shape- fate. They let him read pe- he ports of the trial, and by these now.guve
membered Lent, and her little. crushed smile, and that she 100, the
ht
"Come with me, go with me, half-Incredulous berun moment in Manchester i don't know where, but there are tiny. He could not really under- stand. Then he turned to the few of us, we make a good com- pany already, we carry love in our current papers. and read -news that was dart with huger
hearts, we are not alone," REL fantasy
(To be continued-to-mariaw) nearly over. Presently he-Mons,, the Marne, the Aisne
wakened, roused by the crash of and that another day was
the train in a tunnel, and in the
BRITAIN SEES IT
on Britain have shown how coolly the people are facing danger.
THROUGH
Many small incidents, dur-toid operation on a woman when Hundreds of people, watched a people waiting in a public shelter
Some during morald, duh "night" attack on Croydon. ing the sustained air attacks a bomb fell close at hand.
IgG stood on the top deck, ofi am om- Anti-aircraft, guns answered. All nibus. Soldiers cheered ... every A woman having her hair waved round, the holae became deafening; time a falder fell. Children who, in a Hominy saloon: refused the but among the confusion, with, had bean driving with their mother proprietar's, bivitation to...: také fighting overhead, the surgeon and left their car, lay down in a field, cover, arid asked him to continue. his assistants continued their work and had a good view of the batterier NA DRE The stories and by no
and ended the operation: success. That night people in south-At the time of the first London means all are chronicled fully. The woman is recovering castcoast town cheered them fald warning on Friday the band lustrate British imperturbabi-pang puterate
anti-air of the Irish Guards/was playing selves hoarse when lity courage, presence of A British pilot who was shot craft gun scored a direct hit on a on juwer, Hill. When the band. announced, that all who mind, and good humour.
down and rescued during one of Messerschmitt 100 and sent it flar-más
to take shelter Should do ing into the sea, Arl the battles over the Channel im
people moyed; the crowd mediately telephoned his babe from 4.
on, Bill and the
They increase in number, dally. Here are a few of them, taken from the events of one week
ERA & steepening and
During the heaviest rald so far on one section of the north-east coast miners climbed to the sum: mitgóf 'n slag-héap do watch the fighting.
They stood there, cheering and wen vingthals "caps"-as-u⠀ @ British fighter; chased an escaping bomber. Lout to sea, engaged it, and shot it
down
a police station. ahall be back. At an
an Overseas Club party. for: this afternoon," he said urgently.bers of the Dominions fighte "Don't forget to have a plane
ready
N
When Dornier raiders appeared over Portland and Weymouth like
thek a swarm of bees In the windows of a chapel in which children's service: Was baing hali were blown out.
The forty, children
for Hitler and Mu
ained Vacant.
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shouted
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