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he found another piss-a-bed and quar-tered him with tjaden, one in the bunk above the other. the next night they were changed over and the lower one put on top so that he could retaliate.

with the thought of himmelstoss coming to the front, haie westhus smiles and rubs his hands together. he remembers our final day at the training camp.

haie, kropp, tjaden, and myself had sworn to square accounts with himmelstoss. we knew which pub he visited every evening.

returning to the barracks he had to go along a dark, uninhabited road.

we waited for him behind a pile of stones.

we leaped out with a bed-cover I had brought and threw it over his head from behind and pulled it round him so that he stood there unable to raise his arms.

the matter ended with one of them sleeping on the floor, where he frequently caught cold.

this accom-plished noth-ing. anyone who looked at their sallow skin could see that.

it was our finest day in the army.

alone?

alone.