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Updated: May 1, 2025
Here, on the forward frayed edge of the battle line, the men who had that day played their part in battle occasionally spoke of other things. I recall there was a discussion between Captain von Theobald, of the Artillery, and Major Humplmayer, of the Automobile Corps, on the merits of a painting that filled one of the panels in the big, handsome, overdecorated hall.
A desire to know a few details beset me. Humplmayer, the scholarly art dealer, was at my side. He had it too the Iron Cross of the first class. "You won that lately?" I began, touching the ribbon. "Yes," he said; "only the other day I received it." "And for what, might I ask?" said I, pressing my advantage. "Oh," he said, "I've been out quite a bit in the night air lately.
You know we Germans are desperately afraid of night air." Later I learned though not from Humplmayer that he had for a period of weeks done scout work in an automobile in hostile territory; which meant that he rode in the darkness over the strange roads of an alien country, exposed every minute to the chances of ambuscade and barbed-wire mantraps and the like. I judge he earned his bauble.
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