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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 06, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page pour. Off the record Winnipeg free press wednesday july 6, by de Reed thirty beating your if you la Tell me How 7-5 Post i la suspend sentence you did swipe a is Only a baby his pwwm3e would be just a joke butkins caboose 1 Vyff nuts him to map and to v please the Kins of Cus Poonia or hell think it Over ver majesty do a get married not the mortal storm by Phyllis Bottome i chapter 24 beneath Freya the tiny Ligh bobbed and glimmered the Iron rungs she slipped Down one by one. Seemed interminable there was air enough to breathe though it had a heavy Earth smell. When Freya reached the ground she found that by clinging to Hans with one hand she Coul just shuffle along Bent double be tween the Tunnel wills. The Surfac of the ground was uneven after few moments they began to climb the space contracted until the could Only Progress on their hand and Knees. At last they came a against a Blank Wall. Hans held u. His Flash lamp and searched i steadily passing his hands Over Al the bricks in turn until he satisfied himself that one was of a slightly different texture to the other yielding to Brick uncovered a Spring and a Section o had seemed solid Wall swung open in front of them was the Livi night air. Hans switched off the lamp now there is nothing but he whispered. I am used to in it. Keep hold of my Road is near. There Wil be Light enough there seemed nothing but his hand Between Freya and dissolution. The ground was a trap for her feet the Trees she slipped be tween dragged at her like spiteful enemies. Sometimes beneath their feet a Twig snapped with the report of a pistol. There was no sound but their breathing but Freya thought anyone could have heart that Miles away. A faint glow broke up the curtain of the night. Freya saw that they were near the Edge of a Little Wood Only a few Trees and a Broad ditch separated them from the open Road. Hans stopped withdrew his hand from Freya s. Let himself Down into the ditch and held out his arms. I am just As Freya thought slipping into them As if i were Safe and we were doing this for the Road was empty Hans held her close and kissed her As if he were leaving his life behind him on her lips. Two huge headlights sent their Long shafts Down the Road As if feeling for them. Hans signalled to the lorry with his Flash lamp it heaved Over to them like a toppling wave jerking itself to a noisy standstill. Seppel s head peered out from its covered Back. Hans lifted Freya toward him and sprang in after her. The lorry moved on As if it had never paused. Freya had not even seen who sat in front to drive it. Once More she was in the dark pressed close be tween huge sacks out of which came a Stuffy sour smell of flour almost choking them. Freya slowly grew used to the heavy Dusty smell she Felt Hans draw her gently against his breast his heart beat close to her ears very strongly and slowly but soon whether it was his heart or the heave and throb of the lorry engine or the Waves of a troubled could not have she had fallen fast asleep. Freya gazed at the retreating lorry with a desire to punish some thing or some one for the extreme inconvenience of her sensations. She Felt dishevelled and pinched by the Dawn wind. No one was to blame for it but herself and yet if you have a Lover surely he should Man age better than to stand beside you in your extremity looking like a half Frozen Bird ruffling out its feathers and without a word of commiseration or self reproach Hans Flaxen hair dusted White stood up in fantastic clumps All Over his head his face was smeared and streaked with flour his eyelashes thickened and White As an Albino s. Worse than what Hans looked like to her was what Freya knew that she must look like to him and yet he had the insane tactless Ness to sex at her Between the stiff floured rows of his if you Only knew what you looked Freya turned her Back on him and stared resentfully at the Wetterstein. Towering above them grim and unspectacular As a prison door. On the other Side of the Road a Sodden Haystack was afloat upon a flooded Field Short uneasy Trees stood knee deep in the water Shiv ering a Little As the Dawn wind Drew a claw Over its steely surface. Hans stood Stock still with his hands in his pockets As if they were waiting for something. He did not seem Able to carry off the situation of having absconded a willing girl pursued by enemies. It was As if he expected to be reassured when he should himself have been reassuring. Freya swallowed nervously she could t very Well say to Hans if you la Admire me i can still be Brave but if you Aren t going to Admire me i Shan t even want to after a moment or two of Blank discomfort die ceased to desire to impress Hans and longed instead for her warm Little room at clean and of the thickest of Daffodil a soft Pillow to Burrow cof fee on the table downstairs sending up its tempting water turned Mother within Calli How terrible she began to think for her poor Mother if she were to see Freya standing alone in this wild Dull Dawn with six thousand feet Between her and shelter alone with Hans slowly and very unwillingly Freya began to smile for it was t any use trying to turn Hans into a dragon nor would her Mother be the least uneasy at the thought of him on the contrary she would have been considerably More in easy had she envisaged Freya with out him. We shall get warm Hans murmured timidly As if a guessed even with her Back turned that Freya had begun to yield to of common sense. He turned toward his old accomplice the Wetterstein with unruffled composure for Hans was accustomed to the dead hour of the Dawn and in spite of his Lupish appear Ance unconcerned by discomfort. Freya followed him although her heart still bristled with resentful feelings. She was cramped and Felt sick. Flour tickled her nose and inflamed her eyes. I m not at All she told herself that i won t 50 soon As i lose sight of flans among the could Easly slip Back into the Road and walk o St. Johann and take the train Back besides hell be safer with but me. I was made to come with the Trees soon swallowed them 3oth the Wood was not Only with out color it was nearly without ight. Pine stems reared up round hem hostile and motionless As a frieze of lifted Spears. A thin White Mist Clung to the Trees and seemed o move with them. They had in ered a ghost world without life or found. Hans strode some Way ahead As f he realized that Freya did not Lesire his company. The path through the Wood turned and twist a lifting itself gradually toward the foot of the Mountain. Soon the clarity of the air began to free prey from the choking flour and her heart began to lift with a new courage. She heard the faint tinkle if a Little invisible Stream whisper no to itself and when she reached t she poured the ice cold water Iver her face and hands till every leave in her tingled and Felt re rushed. It would have been easy o turn Back now. But All desire to urn Back had mysteriously Van shed. The Snow peaks of the Wetter Tein stood higher than the Sun. They Hung ice White and solitary n a Blue clarity of air but the Snow had already melted from their Ower slopes into a dazzling Green. All Down the Mountainside the Tream ran Gayer than a child with in cups splintering the Hillside in Broad Golden cracks. Hans Freya cried seizing his Arm Vith grateful it seemed to her As if she owed it to ians that for one splendid instant Snow peaks and the King cups filled the Ould i have known it would be like Hans looked at Freya with eyes 0 full of Joy that Freya Felt her in sparkling to meet them. Why id you he whispered mowing Well the answer. The Sun that had at first spread Only a thin Golden veil across the Mountain grew slowly deeper and More powerful until it reached heir bodies and warmed the very cockles of their hearts. Frau Bauer slipped something nto my Rucksack last Hans Aid. I did t have time to ask that it let s might e they found a Sun warmed Stone a rounded by King cups close to he Stream and Hans opening the Rucksack discovered sausages Rolls utter and cheese. Why it s a wedding Reya cried laughing. Fell upon it too hungry to Alk but every now and then Paus no to laugh into each other s eyes. The Sun had Flung itself full Pon them by now and every Bud 1 the King cups had opened wide to Gold. They ate All they wanted and Ark out of hands hollowed into ups. Slowly into their laughter rept Little silences it was As if heir hearts spoke a deeper Lan Guage behind screen of their piety. No other life than theirs was in ight. The Pine Woods Lay far be of them a Mere dark fringe to be Valley floor. The Foothills hid he villages and the Valley itself looked a Hundred Miles away. Birds began to Call to each other Lort sleepy warning notes. A Squirrel a tree above her. An Over a dozen Pine tops with fantastic leaps and she go Down Pine Cone at her feet with do a Edget in Rabda. To pieces worry worry trouble trouble. Fake this Daisy and see f Millie loves vol or not w she , it she loves me she loves me 7 she me not v. She to u s Okay mama she so that s the was you want to play he h aint had Noh Haven to Brick Bradford i sentence you to 1 attend Traff traffic school Donald Duck Home of us Ever get Hurt the grab a. Shoots All our us x to Wmk that would be mu04 full. Of bad. Mucus and Skeeter ant crash As if he wanted to make Freya look up at him and see what a Fine fellow he was. A moment on a Broad Bough look ing Down at her with Bright eyes and chattering fiercely half threat and half inviting the her attention Hullo you re alive and i m the Nebbs ening flattery you re made too big but i Don t know that that matters since you can t it Bright Golden red and when he unfurled his Long Tail hurling him self in his patterned rushes from Branch to Branch he looked almost winged. While Freya watched him he unwound the tight Hia and swung off again. His a Lively paws were As sure and Swift on the branches As a great pianist s fingers on the keys of a piano. Prey would have liked to draw Hans attention to the Squirrel. The Wall of her grossness had grown As thin As the dark. Hans was not far ahead of her she could hear him kicking Pine Cones off the narrow path but could one end so terrible a thing As a desire a Lover by drawing his attention to tics of a Squirrel the Little Stream broke out close beside her from the sheltering Trees noisy and Clear close to a Waterfall. King cups curled their Gold into hard knobbly buds stretching against their Green sheaths their stems wading in and out of the Stream their shiny Green leaves fluttering the water into Little Waves. The mosses on the path grew a faint Green and the Black Pine stems suddenly turned Pink. To be continued Bates chosen head of unit w. Bates was elected president of the British Imperial comrades association Coronation Branch at a special meeting thursday night a committee was appointed to far Ter View the provincial single men s Relief commission with regard to medical and dental condition of Imperial and Canadian veterans. Other officers elected Are t. A Gover vice president t. O. Dent treasurer and Pat Mckeown Secre Transf Sush. A 6ht Well get i at it 1 Are you All a waiting the mans cd no. I yous ahem Vou see Tok blood w of Ahu usual Type Cotte unusual in fact vie a find it impossible in locate any blood of the proper time to yeah hmm five always we what kind of Cert attly i mean its top its Only a Long Chance a Gamble to save a Gambler Little orphan Annie he wont be Able to move with his wrist to his now Lac got to get to a phone and get two Cater of police now to search him. For Haf revolver and my right Dan Dunn ;