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Updated: June 20, 2025
They searched the cellar and the loft; they looked in the stable and barn, and even in the dog-house. Their mother was nowhere to be found! "I know where she must be," cried Jan, at last. "You know Mynheer Pastoor said, if anything happened, we should hide in the church." Led by this hope, the two children sped, hand in hand, toward the village.
From the front door, which opened on the road; they could see the long gray line sweeping across the fields toward Malines. "The storm has passed," cried Marie, sobbing with grief, "just as Mynheer Pastoor said it would! Mother! Mother, where are you?" They ran from kitchen to bedroom and back again, their terror increasing at every step, as no voice answered their call.
"Oh, Mynheer Pastoor," she said to the priest, "what shall we do? There is no place to go to we have no refuge!" "God is our refuge and strength, my children," said the priest, lifting his eyes to heaven. "We have no other! You must stay here, and if the terrible Germans come, hide yourselves away as best you can, until they have passed by. Do not anger them by resisting.
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