The Peak of the Load the Waiting Months On the Hilltop From the Entrance of the
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" But that idea did not disturb them. They had been accustomed to so much worse. And sure enough, we had hardly got into bed, when, at about twenty minutes past eleven, the guns began to fire from the forts, and for an hour and a quarter the noise was infernal. I was up early this morning, but, as I wanted to keep the house quiet, in order that [ 201 ] THE PEAK OF THE LOAD my tired guests might sleep, I came upstairs to write to you. The news is bad the Germans are in Soissons again, and the Al...lied army is still retreating south and west. Poor Soissons! This makes the third time its people have had to get out. I remember so well that day in the end of August the twenty-ninth, I think in 1914, when the British lost it the first time. But a fortnight later people were returning, though they did not stay long, as the following January the Germans began bombarding it, and it was not until March, 1917, that the town was again safe for civilians, and now, for the third time, these poor people are wanderers again.
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