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And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie’s written, she is instantly alive again, whole and unda, she is as real as I a, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous She’s right here Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting Flying in silver ht in a plane that can’t be landed, stuck in the climb – alive, alive, ALIVE
Cd B = Château de Bordeaux
H d V = Hôtel de Ville [town hall]
OHdVA 1872 B No 4 CdB
O = Ormaie? perhaps A/Annals? Archives B/Box/Boîte 1872 - could be year, Archives 1872 box no 4
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I SEE IT
ORMAIE TOWN HALL ARCHIVES 1872 BOX No 4 CHATEAU DE BORDEAUX
We have them WE HAVE GOT THEM
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Our prison cells are only hotel bedroos
these cellars are empty because they are not secure
There are a nu trays upstairs in addition to the great big one for loading crates and things from the main street
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There’s el’s underlined all the instructions in red – red’s her colour, Julie said The pages are nuel had to nues They’ve created it between theiven it to me to use – the code’s not in order, doesn’t need to be No wonder she was so deterh, there is SO MUCH PAPER HERE
here it is –
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there was an air raid and everybody scrambled to the shelters as usual… for two hours
‘Cd B’ = Château de Bordeaux
as with all the prisoners’ rooms myhas been boarded shut
The Gestapo use the ground floor and 2 mezzanines for their own accommodation and offices
‘H d V’ picked out in red = Hôtel de Ville
through the cellars and out to a little stone courtyard [where there is] a gate to the lower lane
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We can get in through the cellars, front and back There is an entrance in the lower lane at the back and a loading lift through the street at the front The cellars are not secure and they use the bedroouarded apart fros We will have up to two hours We can pull the fuses, disable the generator and fill the dumb waiters with Explosive 808 e leave
Julie put in the great-aunt story because she thought we ht have to blow the place up with her inside That there ht be no other way And she wanted us to do it anyway
But on’t have to leave any of the prisoners inside We can break into the rooet everyone out The official-looking numbers at the end in red ink are a CITY ARCHIVE REFERENCE It will be the ARCHITECT’S DRAWINGS for the Château de Bordeaux We will have adown We are still a sensational team
SOE LONDON – W/T MSG, DRAFT FOR ENCODING
Regret report your organiser code name Paul of Damask Circuit and Flt Officer Julia Beaufort-Stuart both killed in action 1 Dec 1943 STOP request RAF operational flight w/in France route overhead Or Operation Verity
La Cadette collected the drawings It turns out anyone can go digging in the Ormaie Town Hall archives, it’s like – Nazi contempt for the Occupied country taken to extreh they welcoe so no one else need bother You get searched when you enter the building of course, but not on the way out, and they didn’t even look at A on a project for school, easy peasy She was supposed to say she was verifying a boundary of the Thibaut faret in and out, she made up a simpler story on the spot She is so sharp
It took her 20 es forthem around
It was probably a el’s cachette I think of it as el’s Also, I think we are supposed to avoid using cafés I wish I’d been trained for this It didn’t matter in the end, but oh how el sitting at the table
I started to walk past to another table, s my stupid plastic smile – makes me feel like a zombie this week – but she beckoned abruptly
‘Salut, Käthe’ She patted the chair next to hers When I sat down she stubbed out her cigarette and lit another two and gaveI have ever done, touching el’s lips a second earlier I feel like – I know her so inti Julie’s confession She h I don’t suppose I scare her as much