n sentry boxes at each end. But as he looked the structure of the bridge was still spidery and fine in the mist that hung over the stream.
He saw the sentry now in his box as he stood, his back with the hanging blanket coat topped by the steel casque on his head showing as he leaned forward over the hole-punched petrol tin of the brazier, warming his hands. Robert Jordan heard the stream, far down in the rocks, and he saw a faint, thin smoke that rose from the sentry box.
He looked at his watch and thought, I wonder if Andr閟 got through to Golz If we are going to blow it I would like to breathe very slowly and slow up the time again and feel it. Do you think he made it Andr閟 And if he did would they call it off If they had time to call it off _Quva_. Do not worry. They will or they won''t. There are no more decisions and in a little while you will know. Suppose the attack is successful. Golz said it could be. That there was a possibility. With our tanks coming down that road, the people coming through from the right and down and past La Granja and the whole left of the mountains turned. Why don''t you ever think of how it is to win You''ve been on the defensive for so long that you can''t think of that. Sure. But that was before all that stuff went up this road. That was before all the planes came. Don''t be so na飀e. But remember this that as long as we can hold them here we keep the fascists tied up. They can''t attack any other country until they finish with us and they can never finish with us. If the French help at all, if only they leave the frontier open and if we get planes from America they can never finish with us. Never, if we get anything at all. These people will fight forever if they''re well armed.