EStBURY, ENGLAND, KIRPAL SINGOOD    first ood on to t see but wcch arms up and swaying.

        to t o teness of to the hill.

        No signalled . to t    out in t Sings scuffing te che slope.

        Miss Morden, becopped te above t s sebooks.

        “ you hear me?” he asked.

        “Yes, it’s fine.” So    and adjusted o tand, as Singo t see.

        Sing t Englis of ime    in a barracks at oolo a question in teen, but versations ed only tences.

        son o t brotor, a broter t radition in    all t    a monteered o a unit of engi    up to deal ion and unex-ploded bombs. ty of t ted by A.R.P. o ve dumps, e t    until    t took over responsibility for bomb disposal, and turn,    over to ty-five bomb disposal units    up. ted ools. ts.

        A bomb is a bination of ts:

        A tainer or bomb case.

        . Afuze.

        . An initiating charge, aine.

        . A main charge of high explosive.

        . Superstrualfittings—fins, lifting lugs, ks, etc.

        Eig of bombs dropped by airplanes over Britain o a tan.”    Singer long days of training, s still iil hen he was suddenly awake.

        a target, tance caused a trembler to activate and ig in te explosion o te o deto off turn caused tNt, amatol and aluminized poo explode. trembler to explosion lasted a microsed.

        t dangerous bombs itudes, ivated until ties and fields and remained dormant until trembler tacts urbed—by a farmer’s stick, a car    they would explode.

        Sio tment in oole in bomb disposal units ate of siege, it got worse.

        By August tz o be dealt h.

        Roads ories deserted. By September t up, but till no uanding of an ts en weeks.

        “t led to taking of fantastic risks.... It s remained obscure, siions    from ty. It o publiss t migo estimate ty to deal o estbury, Sing in front s s    niger over t sidelig te t anotoric location— in tomac o the rolling chalk hills in

        Sly after t, all ts pegged do to protect top them being obvious landmarks for bombing raids land.

        From t Lord Suffolk cted about tion of robins from tory of bomb disposal, Devon cream. rodug toms of England to t ly discovered culture. In spite of being Lord Suffolk il    udy of Lorna Doone and ic torically and geograp ers    puttering around ties t Exmoor ion for bomb-disposal training. ts from various units, sappers and engineers, and Sing of t Riced around t on o Ex-moor, raining duri during    back door... s rigo her shoulder.

        Splendid s, actually, to to Sing sounded like a familiar Indian fable.

        Lord Suffolk’s closest friend in tor y but loved Lord Suffolk. t sing togettage in tisbury on a cliff t overlooked tol Cs exotica described by Lord Suffolk. “t place to buy blackticks.” As if Singepping into tudor er store in urban to c casually    es. Lord Suffolk    of ter told isbury a, called y years old, married but essentially bacer, o visit or friend. o fix tubs and plumbing geors and cooking spits run by a eror, colleformation on ts of badgers.

        to t estbury e and information. Even in ime    place to stop for tea.    into Pamela’s tea Room,    ton, and sary, ctee to allo up al bomb disposal outfit no one    ions ions t. odidact, and ives and spirit beion. ely ied t s, o be stored easily by a w sapper.

        tea and ed for ses, discussing tu defusing of bombs.

        “I trust you, Mr. Sing, don’t you?” “Yes, sir.” Sing real gentleman    in England.

        “You knorust you to do as o take notes. Mr. s    or more strengtle and    advise but ands perfectly. If    do somet means ake    you otal auty on te. ol. ticated no you never kno t ing a delayed-a fuze by pulling out    ting t of troduced a ne.

        Kirpal Sing it. So far, ime during taken pla tream of tepped out of England and planned o step out of tisbury ohe war ended.

        Singanced from y-one years old.    no o soldiers. So t eers al bomb squad, even t in a ake trol, and ter cy or an individual.

        s, and Lord Suffolk e. Fifteen of to a library and asked by tary to . S t names, ervieest.

        o a ared at a barometer,    to touc but pulled back, just putting o it. Very Dry to Fair to Stormy. tered to ion. “ery dry. Very dry.”    t tary. Sly. An Indian boy. ooue point    o a volume called Raymond, or Life ah by Sir Oliver hodge.

        itle. Pierre, or ties. urned and caug as guilty as if    t. Surban before. t you to fig    talk to you. Singies.

        t a very y Lord Suffolk during lu, and laug every attempt at a joke by ts. In ternoe exam in    back toget any prior information of     t of time iing ots t could be made from ts. ted easily if it    for ry raits. Cars royed. Parts of ted into a se of a Ford was reupered and became a sofa.

        Most people in o carry a spanner or scre parts tered a grandfation pulley or tidotes to mecer     by scooping up g it around t    of parts t i of India going for two hundred years.

        s selected by Lord Suffolk. t even spoken to    laug joked)    ary turned out to be Miss Morden, and sled in ray t    drink,” took to ulations, your exam ook it.” “Miss Morden is a splendid judge of cer. Ser.” “Cer, sir?” “Yes. It is not really necessary, of course, but o be ogeted you.” “I found it quite a strain being uo    you, Mr. Singo the window.

        “I t, as    o begin till t o    to knoo a family, after a year abroad, as if urned, offered a c table, embraced ions.

        It    dark o Devon on tal road overlooking tol Cs turned do lighree miles long.

        Apart from trinity of Suffolk, Morden and s, t. totage over trix for turday-nig told Singo fly overland to India. Removed from ion. til it toucisbury and Area. Mapped by R. Fones. Drawn by desire of Mr. James halliday.

        “Drawn by desire

        ..” o love the English.

        tent ing as Lord Suffolk attempted to disma. It also killed Mr. Fred s and Miss Morden and four sappers Lord Suffolk raining.

        May

        Sing for a year.    day enant Blackler, clearing t and Castle area of a Satan bomb. toget defusing ted. ing in ion and    . It probably meant t er ten at nigired. ting for urned back to work.

        an o save time and o one of t first urned aing to leave.

        “Yes. ?” took    enant Blackler    enant Blackler put his hands on Singh’s shoulders and gripped him.

        o Erit tating about asking     to tell er all. It meant ty, probably to find out w had gone wrong.

        ed to do tenant Blackler ay in London. t t of t, and it    meao do togeto be a base of logic. You o share and promise decisions.

        everytions during t drive. to keep ill o be alive. Miss Morden drinking one large and stiff o to drink more slo of t drink, Mr. Sing if you did, you’d do w I do.

        One full o meet in ill drinking, and Lord Suffolk ill nibbling at his Kipling cakes.

        t looked like t by rote. tered sometrick, ttle dest, and taug to t of ts. t a neage now.

        ook no one    o remember eacep. t    ed    till t m, but o do it nooo on. If teration to knoired, but ed pr just two jeeps.

        . In daylig day, it    it on top of s ill alive in his mind. Exam.

        it ligal jumped into precise focus. No distrust. Lord Suffolk    c seventeen, even teen,    a grand master. But you ever    bridge player at t age. Bridge depends on cer. Your cer and ter of your oppos. You must sider ter of your enemy. true of bomb disposal. It is times for my exam I make t, a mec you o sider t somebody made it.

        torn open in its fall to earterial inside.    co decide or of traption. tificial lig it from every ao remove to open t past ttoned ced off te at t t    tell yet. t    knered. , glad raigur or turn rig t t. But ired, and till anger in him.

        knooo long. s,    t, and lifted it ao shake.

        it out. tially    ts tangled fringe of    in t.

        arted t toruck, fifty yards a of t along, a ter of a mile a up, making even ts seem subtle and human.

        An officer gave , and urned aloo t. he drink.

        take off    unless it co    at t of impact    die. the bomb.

        o reestabliso its inal pattern. o t of t drink. turned and sat do    oy in the m.

        c looked at it    of moon over and peered at t of otc a clamp might have made.

        Nothing.

        Later ras. Later, s and moments in    to o burn or bury everyt of t of him.

        tal set and its loud band music er, a tarpaulin to he rain of real life away from him.

        But noion of ligs and Morden and Suffolk    names. o the fuze box.

        o turur al again.    to it so t tle clicks. It came apart in sileenderly ed tions from t t tube and peered doo it again.    to lay it on tated and broug back up to t.    iced anyt for t. And    about t if    looking for ten or look. ilted tube carefully, and t slipped doo o foil any attempt at defusing.

        toor    out a beside ts on t back to the jeep.

        “ttered. “I o pull out t a call in to ers and find out if t up a loose bencs to be trained on it.    dos and placed t apart along t benc a featane soldiers ill emptying out te does and ion for to an officer.    fully uand it, of course, but tion.

        enters a room s of information. But    everyt Singo all bombs of ty across ty of London. y, somet Lord Suffolk carried er at all times. It    later created to blouc ed in t unfortable in tions.    capable only of reaissance, of log a solution. y of to o and reenlisted into troopsoalian campaign.    just for bombs but for building bridges, clearing debris, setting up tracks for armoured rail ve of t. In a year t ten, Lieutenant Blackler being to rise in talent.

        But t nig Leained, more ted to be the replag vision.

        ill standing at truck    meant turning off ts. ity seds metallic ligruck. Anots could be doused y petrol    fag ts er ts.

        g, ing for to click. t, fifty yards aer, could order anyt of sand, a fruit pie for    cross an uncroo speak y rao    of clot     like it. omed to y. In England o prefer t.

        ter    just by alian campaign. It    of t up defences of cer against all t, trusting only t t nigtaco    influenced all around    alent.

        A feer o Italy, eaco a knapsack, t t on    leave during Cmas. Lord Suffolk and Miss Morden o take o an Englised Peter Pan, and t o a screami oaly.

        Revealing    or qualities of er ure. Just as urn and inquire of    deepest motive caused tit fe Englising at table d laugo tage, returning to teacoo.

        In t darkness of Eritop s of sand.    in t so o tig mecill timing trying to he German bombers above him.

        t ing for er exactly one imer tripped and the percussion cap exploded.

        Removing triker t activated t    to explode sixty minutes later—long after a sapper would normally he bomb was safely defused.

        tion of Allied bomb disposal. From noion bomb    of a sed gai o deactivate a bomb by simply removing to be ralized act. Somes, and in    of trap. In te-green flase. o to make sure.” t t poured into    testing te delay proved to be sistent.

        of t nigo find    remember being driven back.    to a table and began to sketators, to ttack to defuse it. Every arroly, text ten out clear taught.

        before rue. o defuse sucu    just blo up. e out everyt s. At ttom e: Dra Lieutenant Kirpal Singh,    May

        -out, crazily, after Suffolk’s deatering fast, ec’s Park enant Blackler and ts, ions, blueprinting eac came in.

        In t torate of Stific Researcirely.

        Ig principle,    . t    ternative    tract t. t be solved by embrag it. t enant Blackler’s line. “If you are in a room    talk to it.” An offoement from anot touc all.” O, someoion in a eam sterilizer. One could cut a o tion of steam and drained a solved t for time being. But by to Italy.

        “ticed t? Just as to our bodies wyard.

        “treet into t into tyard as ed. e or cleared or rejected our bodies ruments, explored our necks h his hands.

        tongs slid out of Dettol and picked up parts of our skin.

        “ted filled up tyard. ts ten onto our skin er, in ter a brief interviees tied around our necks. Our , standard of educatioal dition and     suited for.

        “I did not feel insulted by to t, and ure    scate and mock. You uand, of course, I     t I ed frontation. It didn’t stop me doing o. Quite early on I o t life. I didn’t argue    cycle over a certain bridge or te in t—I just stood till, until I    t. Like a er. You uand? t is tles taught me.

        “But to me my brotream of atus as firebrand. I nessed ion t came after eacest, o respond to t or t laion of our family and refused, in spite of being t broto join to agree to any situation heir jails.

        In tral Prison. Later tnagar jail. Lying ba    at niger, broken by o protect o st to escape. In jail    insulted , no loo be a doctor,    laug a message to be careful. o    me or    I rick of survival, of being able to    places.” ting on ter in tcalking    on ,    tient s to see you, boyo.” “Okay, boyo.” ter,    slipping over into the false elsh of Caravaggio.

        “My fat I t    beside ial to    as a pair of spectacles lass of er during a meal. In t ering     to ill alive?” “O ters for some time. And it is likely t my brotill in jail.”    e    on te dust of it si for t time s ty yards above aking notes on che glasses.

        lifts, ttles oraption, so o blo off tinually to see tails. It is    in tunic. ting ing s beo . All ts fill ts across . ired, citively. op er not, Miss Morden.” “Of course I .” tons on    pockets and lays a cloto te s o ts of a small bottle of eau de cologne and passes it to    to refresakes it tentatively and at ion dabs s. Sea. S strips of Kipling cake.

        So be in no o go back up to safety. And it o remind    surn. Salks about td t t at least totaco. Sory about    Lord Suffolk. Not a    tinually rereads trying to find a e betences. S of tex of tc surns to ion on t above tbury     see clearly enougo    of eau de cologne.    once as a to his body.
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