Meeting the Fugitives
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—Excuse me, your honour, I don't belong to these parts. I'm also one of the fugitives. I'm getting a little warmth.
It is one of the relief points of the Municipal Alliance.
A large white linen sign is hanging up.
—"Relief Point." "Tea for fugitives." "Boiled drinking water."
There are enormous saucepans for stewing beef and making cabbage soup.
Two peasant women are cutting up the beef into small pieces.
One big shed has many long tables for meals.
There are ten people having a meal there.
A two-storey shed with sleeping shelves to accommodate five hundred people, where it is not only warm but hot, thanks to the enormous iron pipes running the whole length of the shed.
