“At the table in Room Forty-eight, four men were playing skat. They had been playing for two days, stopping only for food and sleep. Three of the players kept changing off; the fourth played uninterruptedly. His name was Rummel and he had arrived on furlough three days before—just in time to bury his wife and daughter. ;He had identified his wife by a birthmark on her hip; she no longer-had a head. After the funeral he had come to the barracks and begun to play skat. He spoke to no one. He sat t...here impassively and played. He was winning. Graeber was sitting by the window. Next to him Lance Corporal Reuter reclined, with a bottle of beer in his hand and his bandaged right foot on the window seat. He was senior there and suffered from gout. Room Forty-eight was not only a haven for luckless men on leave; it was also the non-contagious sick ward. Behind them Engineer Feldman lay in bed. It was his ambition to make up in three weeks' time the missed sleep of three years of war.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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