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Chapter 49

           Islanders?Buttheyhardlyeverusedthecentralridgeinsummer;andneveratthattimeofnight.InanycaseIsuddenlyrealizedwhattheywere.Theyweresoldiers.Icouldjustseetheindistinctoutlinesofguns,thedullsheenofahelmet.TherehadbeenGreekarmymaneuversonthemainlandamonthbefore,andacomingandgoingoflandingcraftinthestrait.Thesemenmustbeonsomesimilarcommando-typeexercise.ButIdidn’tmove.Oneofthementurnedback,andtheothersfollowed.IthoughtIknewwhathadhappened.TheyhadcomealongthecentralridgeandovershotthetransversepaththatleddowntoBouraniandMoutsa.Asiftoconfirmmyguesstherewasadistantpop,likeaflrework.Isaw,fromsomewherewestofBourani,ashimmeringVerylighthanginginthesky.Itwasoneofthestarshellvarietyandfellinaslowparabola.Ihadfireddozensmyself,onnightexercises.Thesixwereevidentlyontheirwayto"attack"somepointontheothersideofMoutsa.Forallthat,Ilookedround.Twentyyardsawaytherewasagroupofrockswithenoughsmallshrubstogivecover.Iransilentlyunderthetreesand,forgettingmycleantrousersandshirt,droppeddowninanaturaltroughbetweentwooftherocks.Theywerestillwarmfromthesun.Iwatchedthe,cleftintheskylinedownwhichthepathlay.InafewsecondsapalemovementtoldmeIwasright.Themenwerecomingdown.TheywereprobablyjustagroupoffriendlyladsfromtheEpirusorsomewhere.ButIpressedmyselfasflatasIcould.

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