Is it night or day? She tried to focus her eyes. Their victims were groggy, unprepared-like Corrie felt now. How much longer could their secret last before the dreaded Gestapo bashed on their door? The Gestapo struck at night like vipers. They never had less than seven fugitives living with them these desperate days. The ten Booms had been hiding Jews and Dutch boys in their house for two years. The worst of all the Germans were the slithery Gestapo, the secret police of the Nazis. Holland had been infested by German soldiers for four years. It seemed everyone in Holland must know the ten Booms were hiding fugitives in their house. Jesus had been in her heart for a very long time, and she hoped her fear was just momentary, just another unpleasant symptom of the flu.īut everything has gone wrong lately, she muttered. Her prayer was a plea for many things to pass. But more than age caught up with her today. It seemed as if until today she had never stopped long enough in all her fifty-two years to let age catch up with her. Aches shadowed every movement of her body.Ĭorrie ten Boom felt her years. The vapor settled over Corrie ten Boom, who clutched a blanket over herself on a bed. The vaporizer on the small alcohol stove spewed a fog of camphor and water into the air of the dark bedroom.
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