A blunder like that and I’d be ashamed in front of my colleagues. That’s how I catch people out and I turn out to be no cleverer myself.
One thing was certain and I hadn’t kept it from Dovid: Zusel had been to see me and told me Dovid’s plans and Shtadler witnessed it. Zusel took leave of me unharmed and under his own steam, as I had both casually and deliberately told Dovid and Malka behind her curtain.
I was walking through tall grass as I turned off immediately behind the vegetable patches.
All of a suddenly, I longed to take a nap. I was so tired.
I pulled off my boots, unwound my footcloths. Threw them aside, I wouldn’t say in anger but certainly with force. And plonked myself face down on the ground. I wanted to undo my belt to relax. Something was clenched up inside and wouldn’t
