The Tunnel by Eric Williams

Author:Eric Williams [Williams, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS027100, HISTORY / Military / World War II
ISBN: 9781783406944
Publisher: Pen and Sword Books
Published: 2007-10-06T05:00:00+00:00

Back in his own mess he found that the others had returned from their dinner parties and were sitting round the table drinking cocoa. ‘You are just in time,’ Otto said. ‘We have a cup for you.’ He poured the cocoa from the tall metal jug.

‘It’ll make you sleep,’ Loveday said. ‘I’ve just been telling these individuals to get to sleep. They need all the sleep they can get. The most important thing about …’

‘What sort of party did you have?’ John asked.

‘I never knew I knew so little,’ Peter said. ‘I’ve made a date for you to go along and tell ’em all about the Middle East.’

‘That’s OK,’ John said. ‘We had a lecture on it the day before I was captured. I’ve got myself into an amateur dramatic society.’

‘I’ve got myself into a rugger match – played on concrete,’ Peter said.

‘We were wrong about that adjutant, Pete.’ John came and sat beside him on the bunk.

‘Which adjutant?’

‘The permanent staff chap at Dulag.’

‘In what way?’

‘The chaps in the other mess were telling me. It’s hush-hush, so don’t spread it around, but he’s working for us. He lets the Germans think he’s a deadbeat and ready to work for them, and all the time he’s getting information which he sends back to England.’

‘How does he send it back?’

‘God knows, but he does. But what a rotten sort of job to have.’

‘You certainly need guts for a job like that,’ Peter said.

‘All the new chaps have got to parade for a short-arm inspection in the morning,’ Saunders said. He was standing half undressed, by the side of his bunk.

‘What on earth for?’ Hugo, already in bed, looked down at him in astonishment.

‘Chaps in the other mess told me.’

‘They pull the leg, I think,’ Otto said.

The lights flickered on and off twice.

‘Five minutes,’ Loveday said. ‘In five minutes the lights go out, for the night.’

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