:34:40
Jules' country had lost,
Jim's had won
:34:43
But the real victory was
they were alive
:34:46
They made contact via
a neutral country and began writing
:34:50
Catherine and Jules
lived near the Rhine
:34:53
Sabine had been born.
Jim wrote to Jules:
:34:56
''Should l too get married
and have children?''
:35:00
Jules replied:
:35:01
''Come judge for yourself''
:35:03
Catherine asked him also
:35:05
Jim left but delayed the event
of his arrival
:35:08
He visited several towns
on the Rhine
:35:11
A Paris paper published his articles
on postwar Germany
:35:16
He wanted to see
his own major battlefields
:35:21
ln some spots the fields...
:35:23
contained so much iron from
the shellin that they were untillable
:35:28
Jim looked for the names
of his lost comrades...
:35:31
in the cemeteries that already
the schoolchildren were visiting
:35:50
Catherine was...
:35:51
at the station with her daughter
:35:53
and a look of restrained audacity
and whim