The Six Escapes - Finding Lost Civilizations

her for her kindness and understanding. Ibelieve she knew from where we had justcome, but she never asked us. Early nextmorning, she made a breakfast for us andsandwiches for our journey to the town ofLeibnitz, some 40 kilometers away. Ithanked the 'Grand Lady,' she wished usgood luck, and then we were on the waybarefoot across the fields and forest.Avoiding the villages and people, bysundown we arrived to Leibnitz railwaystation. Inside the station there was apoliceman reading a local newspaper. Wasit his routine? Or was he waiting for us? Iwas sure the Grand Lady didn't report us,but perhaps somebody else? We bought anewspaper and pretended to read whilewaiting for the policeman's move. Myfriend, who didn't speak any German, wasthe problem and concern. I told him,"Should the policeman give us any trouble,we'll make a run along the railway trackstowards the city of Graz (Austria)." I wassure we could outrun the fat policeman whowas over 50 years old and reach ourintended destination.After a while the policeman disappeared.We walked in and while I was buying thetickets, the policeman returned, asking myfriend, "Where are you going?" My friendkept quiet. I turned around and said to thepoliceman, "My friend doesn't hear well andwe're going home to Salzburg (Austria)."Then he asked for the documents. We tookoff with lightning speed toward the railroadtracks and ran along them. The policemanfollowed us for about a kilometer, and thenhe stopped, realizing he was no match. But