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the
the time the enemy had re and we occupied the captured
TEA,
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where
had gone away, dissergeant over the crest ot the appearing the of Claude hill, conscript leaving as a small upon Latapie outpost where he was sheltered eminence, by walls of a shot-shattered the broken
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a proceeding apparently groan Startled from a spot close by by. his shook olt Claude op the sound, more his weapon grasped pression, ear alert and with peered firmly, the He gloom. anxiously through of his comrades himself
he
his protection sleeping under membered that their safety depended himself him, and he reproached upon for his weakness. it The cry was repeated. Clearly of the ruined came from the interior entered Claude by the cottage. a match, and be door, struck open amid the debris held lying in a corner human a form. He the fallen roof, of he found the which upon lit a candle floor,
approached
one
The butt
sentinel
end
"He
off
that!" or
!
get.
To
obliged
to
the
of this
lips
I that the place
Claude do you shall be
these with before
familiar in France
was
by
soiled
!" beer-drinker man understood
he
for
said this
of
none
think suck
injured
words.,
French, having lived out. the war broke Upon hearing Claude's of disgust he expression a turned aside his head for moment,, but his terrible thirst speedily mas
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his first Forgetting entirely and anxious to return to repugnance, he unfastened his duty, the strap to the was which flask and' attached,
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he
left the cottage. done, before him stood four armed while another fell him upon men, and he could: disarmed, him before give the alarm. A were of soldiers large number with footsteps muffled advancing, by the snow. The company halted. Its. a .Bavarian commander, captain, ordered the prisoner to be taken into, the ruined house. There the captain questioned Claude in French. He could get out of him. nothing " to loose I shall find the way threatened the cap your tongue," " tain we shall see these what do are can Where bayonets your posts, your main body, your encamp
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Still
soldier flask.
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Fremantle,
Street,
the end of
gave
and
his.
cottage.
run
CASH
to
rose
resume
or to look after the suffering stranger to shelter himself for a moment from the Claude re-entered the blast, icy
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Claude
out
watch.
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entreated:
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who had been left company, From his lips he learned how compassionate the prisoner had been to him. his for
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of
ruuim
muttered choked
will !"
grasp.
own
;
ground.
A
PERTH.
at
light
flickering that it was
wounded
his
"None Hands
tered
re
of his taper By one of the enemy, he saw had been struck who by a beam his chest. Claude, which lay across brandished his first impulse, obeying but the poor his bayonet menacingly, look shamed wild imploring fellow's was a foe indeed, but a This him. the
there
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man.
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the beguiled the country-side. dark the clouds The sky was more more and thickly. gathered to be seen, a star was and Scarcely mournshrill howled with the wind bare branches. The fulness in the sentinel's mind heavy and grew frost. Soon his in the deathly torpid no back wandered longer thoughts he of home old hearth to the dear of the weighty even lost consciousness that was his.. responsibility broken was Suddenly the silence tales
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Perth
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darkening twilight threw eerie objects strange, ing soldier's and the shadows, young at heart within him sank finding himself all alone in the midst of this scene. His superstidreary winter's these
at
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on.
the
fast
Retail
and
of
at
(gratis), Parcels
Office
cottage.
drawing
PARTAKE
and
lips
Claude propped his gun against the over wall the and, leaning removed the wounded beam man, was he which him. Then crushing at kneeled the German's side and held the flask to his lips. The other to stretched out his hands take it
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own
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all,
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Monitor.) i.
Night
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his
parade the first
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