CHAPTER FOURTEEN - The Blue Sweater
Summary
For the next several days, a gray mist and a white pall hung over the camp. Corrie was so lonely for Betsie that she did a desperate thing: Mien had told her a way to get into the hospital without passing the guard post. She found a window there and dropped into a room where to her horror lay a dozen naked corpses. She was unable to move for a moment, but eventually, she found her way to Betsie. Her sister was much better just from having had the opportunity to lie down and rest. Three days later, she returned to Barracks 28. She was given permanent assignment, because of her illness, to the knitting room, which gave her most of the day to minister to others. Betsie later told Corrie that she had discovered why the guards had never come into their barracks: they were afraid of the fleas. So, by thanking God even for the fleas, Betsie had made it possible for the prayer services to continue.
December became a time when survival truly was reserved for the fittest, and many died. One day, Corrie and Betsie witnessed a feeble-minded girl soil herself which made one of the guards whip her viciously with the leather crop. Corrie felt so badly for the girl that she asked Betsie if, after the war, they couldn't make a home for them. Betsie replied that she prayed every day for the same thing, the chance to show them that love was greater. It was only later that Corrie realized that Betsie was referring to the guard, not the feeble-minded girl.
Several days later, Corrie was sent into the hospital for a medical
inspection that would have sent her to transportation to a munitions factory.
Her fear was palpable as she knew she could not leave Betsie. When she
was asked to read a sight chart, she pretended that she could........
Notes
This chapter is a very poignant one as Corrie struggles to understand
and accept the evil and cruelty that exists.........
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