bout five minutes. When she came out there was nobody in
sight, and after wandering round she went back to the doorway and closed
the door.

There were stairs behind her, and when the counter attack came she ran
up the stairs. She knew then that she was in the church tower, but she
didn't dare to come down. When the firing stopped in the streets a
soldier ran down the stairs and almost touched her. A moment later she
heard him coming back, so she climbed up ahead and got out on a balcony
above the clock. But he started to come out on the balcony, and just as
she was prepared to be shot her hand touched a rope ladder and she went
up it like a shot.

"It was dark, Tish," she said with a shudder, "and I couldn't look down.
But when morning came I was up beside the weather vane, and a sniper
from our lines must have thought I didn't belong there, for he fired at
me every now and then."

Well, it seems she hung there all day, and nobody noticed her. Luckily
the wind mostly kept her from the German side, and the sentry couldn't
see her from the balcony. Then at last, the next evening, she heard him
going down, and she would have made her escape, but he had cut the rope
ladder below. She couldn't imagine why.

Tish looked at me steadily.

"It is very strange," she said. "But who can account for the instinct of
destruction in the Hun mind?"

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