The Underground Dance

We had a leave, another girl and I, and we went to Douville, that was a rest centre, you know during the war for the troops, and we went down to Douville, and we stayed at this hotel, but I mean none of the furnishings were there, it was a beautiful hotel, and so we were down for like a weekend and a couple of the boys, officers that we met, one of them said, "How would you like to go to a big party tonight? The head of the underground for this area is coming to town tonight and they're having a big party." Well I admired the underground more than you could ever believe. "Oh, gee," I said, "that would be perfect, I'd love that."

So, Pearl and I went, and so we went and we had to go in sort of a speak-easy way, and we got in there and there was one light bulb hanging from the, and all these fellas were sitting around and we were still with our, a couple of the officers, and these were all the underground and everything was fine, lovely and we had a drink, and then they started to dance, and the hero of the night, asked me to dance, and I thought, "Oh Lord, I wonder what's going on now? " But I don't know what hit me, something in my head, and I said to this chap that I was with, I said, "Now don't you get up and dance, you just keep an eye on me all the time. I don't know what's going on." "Okay." So we waltzed around and then somebody came up and tapped him, you know, to cut in? Well, you don't do that to the hero of the night and out came the guns and they shot the light out. Fortunately, that night, he was quite near me and he said, "Come on, we're getting out of here". I thought that was exciting.


I just think of the real fun, exciting things, but I think they're interesting. That I often talk to Pearl, she's out in Vancouver now and we phone and we have these crazy chats about you know the fun things, so that's, you know, you can only talk to the people that were there, they understand.