" Yes, me too, on both. After this week is over let's make sure we never spend another night apart." Deal. I've had a long day. I am going to sleep an...d dream of you. I love you. I will call you in the morning. Good night." I love you, good night," I said and hung up the phone.My phone rang almost immediately and I heard Mom say. "Your emergency services will no longer be required. You are fired." Oh no. Do I get severance pay?"After a short silence Mom said, "Yes you do. You will also get the. The trucks headed northeast to a small town called Arendtsville. To the soldiers’ surprise, Herr Youndt, owner of the farm, spoke excellent deutsch. The farmer laughed when the soldiers inquired how he knew such excellent deutsch. He replied that half the farmers in Adam County grew up speaking deutsch as their first language. They didn’t learn English until they were ready to start school.The POWs spent the next week picking apples for Herr Youndt on his nearly eighty acres of orchards. The. It made a tremendous noise, which Quinn realized was just the two leather straps slapping each other. But the side of the paddle Tina was using to actually hit Quinn was subtly padded. The paddle's bark was much, much worse than its bite. Quinn now understood what Tina had said. This was a show to impress and stoke the crowd. She was a marketing tool for charity. She smiled and cried out "Oooowww!! Ooooh! Mistress! I'll be good!" She winked at Tina to make sure she knew. Tina made a great. That was the moment the front doorbell rang and catapulted her into action. ________________________________________ Perhaps it was because he needed to talk with another person, or possibly the fact that his teeth were chattering as his fever balked at being out in the sub-zero temperature that made Paul ring the bell to the entrance to the Victorian home that served as a trio of apartments for young couples. He waited about a minute before ringing the bell a second time. He was about to ring.