The Link, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Link, Vol. 5

The army teaches you to act quick. I reached for my automatic, which of course I didn't have, so I let drive with a rock. I missed but that figure turned round and let me have it with his auto: matic. In wet weather, I can feel that shoulder yet sometimes, but then I hard ly noticed it, I Was SO flabbergasted by something else. That man was Meade. I felt exactly the way Deep had. I knew I had seen him. He had seen me too and he had Shot at me!

Everybody came Swarming out of headquarters. Two motorcycle men grabbed their machines and found them out of commission. The chauffeur, they found, wasn't killed, only knocked out. They gave me first aid, though I told them I didn't need it. I went on afoot. I was almost back to our town anyway. Next day they found the general's, car, in a ditch about a hundred kilometers away - a complete wreck.

Our billet was on the first floor of a factory that somehow had escaped bomb ing, and when I got in, I walked down the line with my flashlight to Meade's cot. He was snoring, dead to the world. I went back to my own cot and lay down, a little lightheaded. That Shoulder must have been punctured worse than I thought. All the rest of the night, I had crazy dreams and I remember wonder ing, like Deep, whether I was going nuts.

I ought to have gone to the hospital next morning but the whole town was full of rumors and I didn't want to'-miss anything. I was there, when they brought in the prisoner. So was Meade, and I don't believe in the whole world there were ever two men looked more alike. Capt. Evans stood them up Side by Side. They looked at each other and at us. Meade swore in English. The other chap swore in German - anyhow it sounded like swearing. The rest of us stared goggle-eyed.

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