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 `` *Onkel Henri*?'' The little girl tugged at the trouser legs of Herr Henri Abeln. He was a tall man, one with a very imposing moustache, and at their first meeting she had been afraid he was going to eat her when her parents were not looking. Henri remembered all this with sadness as he looked down at Emunah Esther Luz. 
 
 `` Now, Emunah, I asked you to hide away. The soldiers are coming for tea, remember, and they must n't know you are here.'' She had grown on him, but he had to be stern with her in these situations. Emunah was heady and impulsive, and worked up due to the length of time she had needed to stay indoors. 
 
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 Herr Abeln was, at one time, a three star lieutenant in the Imperial German Army. It had been a position he held with pride, until the day the army was disbanded in the wake of the Great War. Until a month ago, it was a position he would gladly have held again; he hated the Treaty of Versailles, and all it had taken away from their great country. He had wished to fight again, wished just as Herr Hitler to unify the European nations under a great vision of prosperity and genetically perfect descendants. 
 
 It was a position he would have held despite knowing that six years ago, his brother Oskar had taken a Jew for his bride. They were in love, there was no dissuading them despite the hostile nature of the *Völkisch* movement. It had been forty-three days since Oskar and his wife had left for Great Britain, fearful for their safety as rumors spread of Hitler mobilizing his troops. 
 
 `` We must leave Emunah with you, Henri. There is no other choice. We do n't yet have the money for her passage. It will come, but we can not stay here.'' 
 
 Henri had sighed, and took up the five-year-old girl in her arm. Emunah fussed, worried that he would eat her when her parents were not looking. `` I will take care of her if I must, Oskar. You must be quick about making the arrangements.'' 
 
 `` I will be. I promise, brother.'' 
 
 `` Off with you, then.'' Henri took his niece's luggage with his free hand. `` You must be off before the shipyard closes.'' 
 
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 Now Emunah tugged harder. `` But Onkel, the monkey is being mean again. Please make him go away.'' 
 
 The monkey had belonged to Henri's wife. She had been an odd soul, preferring the company of books and the small capuchin to the life of social gatherings to which her husband was privy. She, too, had not agreed with many of Hitler's policies, and thus was not known as the life of the party when she went out. She was gone now, but the monkey remained, and made a decent playmate for Henri's niece the majority of the time. 
 
 `` Enunah! Now is not the time.'' He could see his two guests coming up the walkway now. `` Into the bedroom with you. I need you to stay safe.'' 
 
 **To be continued** 
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