Notes

I couldn't see the four fires, but I could smell them, the scent of burning paraffin and wood coming thickly in waves of smoke across the field. My heart stated thumping again. Surely if we could smell the fires, others could as well. A German patrol would smell them for sure! Then I was aware fo a large shape looming up in the nght sky, its wings wide. It was the biggest thing I had ever seen. There were no lights showing on it. Down, down, down it came, lower andlower. I couldhear the sound of its engine slowing and I thought with alarm, "If it goes any slower it will crash in the field, and what will we do then?"