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Updated: October 1, 2025
"That is now fifty years ago," said he, "and more but I remember it as if it had happened yesterday. "I was just going with two others from the Karreehof, and suddenly we heard a scream come from the corridor I can not describe at all how it sounded when a tiger or other wild beast breaks loose from his cage and throws himself on some one, then, I think, one would hear something like it.
"It was so horrible that we three let our arms drop and stood there quite paralyzed. And not only we, but everything in the Karreehof stopped and suddenly grew quiet. And then everything that had two legs to run with kept rushing up at full speed toward the corridor, so that it fairly swarmed and thickened black around the corridor. I, naturally, with the rest and what I saw there
"When the cadets came down at recreation time those who were good friends together met and would go walking arm in arm around the 'Karreehof and toward the court where the trees stood, and so it was always until the trumpet sounded for return to work.
"On this particular afternoon, as ill-luck would have it, Long K, as he was about to pass through with his two chums from the Karreehof to the other court, met the two brothers at the corridor, and they, deep in their thoughts, had forgotten to let go of one another.
Now grass grows in the court; in my time it was not so, for the drills took place there and the cadets went walking there during the hours of recreation. After that comes the great main building that encloses a square court, which is called the 'Karreehof, and there, too, the cadets used to walk. Passing by from the outside, you can't see into the court." I nodded again in confirmation.
And there the two went, then, arm in arm, always around about the Karreehof and across the court with the trees in it, one as well as the other with head bent to the ground, so that one scarcely saw that they ever spoke a word." Again there came a pause in the narrative, again I had to fill the empty glass of the colonel, who smoked his cigar faster and faster.
"To get from the Karreehof to the other court where the trees were, one had to pass under one of the wings of the main building, and it was a rule that the cadets must not pass through arm in arm, so as not to obstruct the passageway.
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