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Aber jetzt war dieser Kohlenzug auf ein Nebengleis gestellt worden, und Felix glaubte sterben zu müssen. Die Wagen wurden nämlich von einem kräftigen Polizisten in einem Pelzmantel bewacht. Er sollte die Bauern davon abhalten, Kohlen für ihre Öfen zu stehlen.
But the coal train had been shunted onto a siding, and Feliks thought he might be dying. There was a guard, a burly policeman in a fur coat, who was there to stop peasants from taking coal for their fires… As that thought occurred to him, Feliks realized he was having a lucid moment, and that it might be his last.
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