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Show 1:14 THE DARK FOREST FIRST MOVE TO 'l‘lll". ENEMY "lt was there." he told me. "when l seareely knew what nus real and what was not. that l saw that for which l was searrhiue'. l notieed tirst the dark ereyhlue ot the trousers, then the white skull. There was a horrihle stench in the air. I ealled and the sanitars answered me. Then I looked at it. l had never seen a dead man before. This man had hwn dead for about a fortnight, l suppose. lts grey-blue trousers and thiek hoots were in exeellent condition and a tin spoon and SHIJlt‘ papers were showing: out ot the, top of one hoot. lts t'aee was a grinning skull and little hlaek animals like ants were elimhing in and out of the mouth and the ("‘VtLSHt‘lv't‘iS. lts jacket was in good eondition, its arms were thin: out heyoud its head. I felt sick and the whole plat-e was :40 damp and smelt so badly that it must have heell 145 ether unhappiness wt iehiu: upon me. hut l was. in some Hui >id wav. altogether unprepared tor what. I had seen. I l as I have told you, thought of death very ot'ten in my " lrut l had never thought ot‘ it like this. I did not now ti "at; eti death very (Kluil‘i‘V hut will". of the uselessness ot' tz'i '53: hear up against anything when that was all one V to in the end. I t‘elt my very houes eruinhle and nrv ‘. dear en urv l‘ed). as l >lH<ul there. 1 l'elt as though :d Halli. [M n eaunht at last alter a silly aimless llight it H.» I] ll l l;.'1tl lllt‘ :dl‘l‘llLLtll HI‘ t'l(‘\l‘l'llt""1 til I‘M'le‘ "it It e rte-«ire to tr\. 1 had heen nioehed with :I ltmhl‘lli'W‘i eel; 1o l.;1\e it taken than me tor in) 'r'wrie < 'iiw‘w u :u. [had a quite delinite eon-wroua «In n.\v.v l h-d ; < .1 lug lho'edxl. [\eu remenrher, lwrrihly unhealthy. The sanitars hogan to dig a grave. Those who were not working: smoked cigarettes, and they :r "e Aural new. a~ 1 moved thieuvxh the wood, I . , . . M .I'Iieudd ll.ill‘>1'llllt'.\ll‘ WW .1» he had ehlukad all stood in a group watching the body with a solemn and vl d.. \. diam-Uml.i:1in;:rl Serious interest. ()ne of thent made a little wooden enm‘ eut of some twigs. There was a, letter just beside the hudv which they brought, me. It hegan: ‘lilarline‘ llt‘llll‘lehfi' Your last letter was so eheertul that I have quite remx‘ered troni my depression. l t may not he so longr now hetore . and so on, like the other letters that I had read. it grinned at us there with a devilish sarcasm, hut its trousers and hOots were pitiful and human. The men finished the :‘I'arr ‘mwd until '1.‘ twwlher and twitehiinfi late in the at'terunon. ttll‘"t‘ t1 Ilw'lnt‘, ll ill‘H lliln « .I ll '1'!" lll 'tl ‘.‘\itltll l mil) tiwt ll llul rd, 2 nl' ill" ln‘v'tl HwH' l and then, with their feet, turned it. over. As it, rolled a flood of bright. yellow insects swarmed out of its jail-rt. and a grey liquid trickled out of the skull. The last 1 mm of it was the gleam of the tin Spoon above its hoot. 'lu Maven "leI' [1:1. ll'ltl‘llil'l" . ,t l. l "We searched after that," he. told me, "for several hour" and found three more bodies. They were Austrians. in the condition of the first. I walked in a dream of horror. 11 U Hm, was, 1 suppose, a bad day for me to have eonle \‘v‘llli "a" |