1933-06-15 — Page 11

THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933.

P. & 0.-British India Apcar and

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TWO FRIENDS

M. Sauvage caught the first Expressionless, they stood with gudgeon. Morissot hooked the closed lips. second; and every time they put The Prussian, consistently calm, theft lines in the water the floats went under, and they were landing a wriggling silver fish. It was miraculous catch..

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The officer gave the order to fire. The soldiers shot as one man. M. Sauvage fell on his nose. pointed at the river. Imagine that Morissot, heavier, seemed to hesit-Į in five minutes' time you will be at ate, before turning round, and fail- the bottom. In five minutes!ing across the body of his friend, ; Haven't you any relations?"

with his face to the sky, and with They lovingly put the fish in a Moat-Valérian persistently thun-blood escaping from a hole in the net-bag with a small mesh, which (dered,

breast of his tunic. they kept under-water. And they Standing upright, the two anglers | The German gave a new order. lenjoyed an ecstasy of happiness, an were silent. The officer gave orders The men dispersed, then returned ecstasy which possesses you when fin. German. Then be significantly with cords and stones, attaching you appreciate something of which took the chair further away from these last to the feet of the bodies. you have long been deprived. the prisoners; and twelve soldiers This done, they carried them to the:

The kind sun enveloped them, with guns formed up at à distance bank of the river. warming their shoulders. They of twenty feet.

Mont-Valérian still thundered. beard nothing. They thought of "I will give you one minute," Its-summit was crowned with a nothing. The world away from said the officer. "Not one second mountain of smoke. them ceased to exist. They flabed. more."

Two soldiers took Morissot by But suddenly, unexpectedly, STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, heavy noise, which seemed to come approaching the two. Frenchmen seized M. Sauvage in much the same Then he brusquely got up, and the feet and the head; two others from under the earth, made every-jtook. Morisset by the arm, and led fashion. After balancing the bodies, thing tremble. Cannon were being him aside.

!they threw them as far as they) fired.

"Quickly, the pass-word," he said, could. After making a curve, the Turning his head, Morissot saw in a whisper. "Your friend won't bodies, up-right, plunged into the above the further bank on the left know. I'll give him the impression river, the stones taking them down

feel first. the grand silhouette of Mont- I've relented." Valérian, wearing, just now, a whitej Morissot did not reply. Ituft, the smoke of gunpowder which

explosively spat.

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The water spouted, boiled, The Prussian took H. Sauvage trembled, and sent tiny waves to the aside, in the hope of obtaining the bank before calming down. Very soon another tuft of smoke, pass-word from him. appeared on the fortress; some M. Sauvage did not reply, seconds later a further explosion{ roared.

The fishermen found themselves jalde by side.

A little blood came to the surface. The officer, still self-possessed,| said, as though to himself:

"Now the fish will get their own back.”.

He turned to the house.

A soldier, wearing a white apron, appeared.

And the Prussian threw him the fish the two dead Frenchmen had caught.

Other explosions followed, until The officer shouted an order. The the mountain threw every moment firing squad raised their guns. its death-dealing messages, sending Then quite by chance Morissot And he suddenly saw the net full its milky vapours slowly into the caught sight of the net sky, and made a cloud overhead.

full of of gudgeon on the grass. He took gudgeon lying on the grass a few it ups examined it, smiled, and then "Now they're off," remarked M. feet away.

called: “William.” Sauvage, shrugging his shoulders. The sunlight silvered the scales, Morissot, who had been eagerly of the still living fish. A lump watching the repeated disappear came into his throat. In spite of ance of his float, was suddenly vocal. himself, his eyes filled with tears.

"Isn't it fatheadedness to kill each "Good-bye, Monsieur Sauvage," other like this?" he exclaimed he faltered.

"Fry them at once-while they're angrily.

"Good-bye, Monsieur Morissot," still living." he ordered," "Then "We are worse than the animals," replied his friend.

bring them to me. They should be Trembling from head to feet, they delicious." And Morissot, who had fast hook-warmly shook bands.

Then he lighted his pipe. ed a dace, remarked-"Ang they say 7th Oct. Bombay, Beilles Havre, London, that as long as we hav

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Morissot Interrupted his friend. "If we have kings, it. meana foreign wars. With a Republic, it means war at home."

And then they calmly discussed, unravelled, big political problems, Con-this with the sound common sense

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And behind the house that had seemed deserted, they saw twenty German soldiers.

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