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Upon Mme. Belmont-Gobert, poor, aged woman of Bertry Village, France, the British King-Emperor bestowed last week a title: "Dame of the Order of the British Empire...
...German field guns rumbled and infantry tramped through Bertry Village, watched from behind drawn shutters by Mme. Belmont-Gobert and many another. Soon a fist knocked at her door, and 16 German soldiers were billeted in her house. Only the living-room was left to Mme. Belmont-Gobert. Then, after the soldiers had clumped out to forage for dinner, a light tap came at her back door. With fearful, hungry eyes, a British trooper, Patrick Fowler, asked Mme. Belmont-Gobert to hide and succor...
...Germans because she admitted using her Red Cross prerogatives to shelter and further the escape of some 200 Allied soldiers, prisoners of the Germans. The revelation prompted a search for more hidden Allied soldiers. One day a German captain came to search the house of Mme. Belmont-Gobert...
Thoroughgoing, he and his men sounded the walls and floors for secret hiding places, uttered awful threats. Mme. Belmont-Gobert only sat passive in her sitting room. At last the captain wrenched open the right-hand door of her large black armoire (wardrobe), snorted to see it divided into small shelves incapable of holding a rabbit, banged the right-hand door shut without opening the left-hand door, strode away...
...lean, starvation War years passed, Mme. Belmont-Gobert was obliged to take her French neighbors into the secret of who hid behind her left-hand wardrobe door. Loyal, they did not betray her to the Germans, who paid well for such secrets. Instead the French villagers sent food from their own meagre rations to le soldat Anglais...