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choir. “Had the shell struck the church
only a few yards higher up the main vault
would have fallen in and the whole fabric
would have crumbled like a pack of cards
and buried them all.”
“Or one of those big wooden rafters might
have caught fire and burnt them alive,”
suggested Adalbert. “Anyhow it is not
bad as it is at ten miles range,” said he,
examining the broken vault through his
monocle. “I am sure those old walls are
over two mètres thick. They talk the whole
time at the top of their voices of their famous
’75’s, but they are nothing but toy pistols
compared to our long range guns! When
I was at Potsdam . . .” He stopped
short as he noticed the Doctor’s eye upon
him.
In a futile attempt to be polite he continued
in French, turning to the Doctor:
“I was just saying to my comrade how
lucky it was that the shell struck so low.
Reading about it in a newspaper nobody
would believe in such luck—a twelve-inch
shell making a hole as big as a transport
waggon, smashing the high-altar and
passing clean through the nave out of the rose
window over the porch, without doing any
damage. It is very interesting. When I
was at Potsdam . . .”
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