Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark corridor, a single candle glows. Only the candle keeps you from walking straight into the wall where it is held by a clumsy piece of wire, for here the corridor turns in a sharp L. Around the corner, you find yourself blindly stumbling over people's feet, and hear voices whispering. A voice hoarse with age or cold: "From Greifswald you come? Last night?" A woman's voice, dull and flat: "Not much, about 60 marks left." A man's voice, strong with impatience: "How long must we wait? Do they think we are cattle...
...tiny office at the end of the dark corridor, they are greeted by Helmuth Rosenow-a tall, thin man in his late 303. In Nazi days he was a courier in the Socialist underground, traveling regularly between Prague and Berlin...
Time and again Panayiota traveled to the Shatis home, begging for the return of Blue Eyes in exchange for the dark boy. But Mrs. Shatis insisted Blue Eyes was hers-she wanted no part of the dark little tyke who looked like all the other children on Cyprus...
...preparing to take her bonnie, blue-eyed lad to Scotland to live with John Gow's parents. In her village on Cyprus, mother Shatis had resigned herself to her loss. She had even grown to love the other child, she said, and father Shatis hoped that the dark boy, too, would bring him luck...
...been locking the same gates in the same way year after year; only a blizzard or a fire interfered with their duty. And year after year students quietly walked four blocks out of their way every time they wanted to pass through the south margin of the Yard after dark. The great circle route became a habit; it was well on its way toward tradition...