Simple Faith (2014)
“They were all anxious to get going but understood that waiting for darkness was part of the plan. In the early afternoon, the man who ran the safe house—Pierre—sent Mikel to the barn to retrieve sturdy walking staffs, a box of shoes, and blue coveralls like those worn by workers who traveled back and forth across the border. They would need to wear the coveralls until they reached Spain. There, Pierre explained, someone would collect them and return them for use by the next group.
As he shrugge...d into the coveralls and sat down to change his shoes, Peter noticed that his American friends wore shoes that were worn through at the sole and lined with newspapers. His own shoes were the slick-bottomed wingtips that Gisele had provided. Still, the shoes Pierre pulled from the box did not look as if they could hold up to a climb through the mountains much better than what they were already wearing.
“Alpargatas—you may be more familiar with the term espadrilles,” Pierre explained in his perfect English as he fitted each of them with a pair.MoreLess
As he shrugge...d into the coveralls and sat down to change his shoes, Peter noticed that his American friends wore shoes that were worn through at the sole and lined with newspapers. His own shoes were the slick-bottomed wingtips that Gisele had provided. Still, the shoes Pierre pulled from the box did not look as if they could hold up to a climb through the mountains much better than what they were already wearing.
“Alpargatas—you may be more familiar with the term espadrilles,” Pierre explained in his perfect English as he fitted each of them with a pair.MoreLess
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