GREAT READS → FREE FALL Issue 643 · January 11, 2017

Freefall: Chapter 37

The children arrive at the hotel and Annie realizes Artie has been traumatized by his experiences. In England, Mrs. Braun falls and injures herself,

Freefall:    Chapter    37

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hat is wrong with you?”

Moe almost dropped the string bag laden with food wrapped in newspaper. Could it be that she was speaking to him?

Since he’d come to Bletchley for six days a week — though the colonel did work on Saturdays he’d managed Moe’s time so he had Shabbos off another huge benefit of the posting — Moe had been dropping off kosher food packages for Rob Morgenstern. If they weren’t working the same hours he’d leave it near her chair; if they were on the same shift he’d hand it to her. She’d then give him a stiff nod and a dry “Thanks Yank.” That was the entirety of their relationship.

So why was she talking to him now? And what in the world was she talking about?

“Excuse me?”

One of the other codebreakers at the table looked up sternly. “Sssshhh.”

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