A.
WALTER
Barracks.
The
Pioneer
of
down
.
: The had told the truth. soldiers at The evening the alarm of before, off to the Baudard had hurried fire, The burnine" alarm had building. not been sounded at and help once, was was a little late. The building
\
in
enveloped directed jacent
all
and
the
efforts
to
flames, their
.
.
,
the he
While
thus
my
!
The There there, death little
crowd
the
"
air,
my child
in
!
looked
!"
And
when
.
"
voice cried,
A ladder
in
!
despair.
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said,
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1900.
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gruff blue-eyed, golden-haired John he was on his knee, as happy as a To buy the baby a cake, or prince. a had been known to deny toy, Peyrin himself and many a glass of absinthe, he frequently passed hours recounting
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fresh
for
How the and wind
...
back
to
?" country When the sergeant called the next he was day at the hospital told that Baudard was no more. He Jacques asked permission to see him, and be fore that face so still and calm in death as he had not knelt, Peyrin knelt for a long time, almost since the .
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.
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tolling
.
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.
.
field
.
good
.
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the and
you
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!
singing Peyrin,
Peyrin," have I done
chapel in the seminary, incense and the scent of
with
heavy :l
he would
alone,
me "
say.
,
or
learned of the sergeant had threatened his little danger a trembling seized him. He darling, who hurried off to the neighbour had to his sister, and, catch given shelter him over ing up the baby, embraced " You little and over, repeatedly. dear child to think you darling you in a and I not were s.uch danger, !
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the
which
as pious as you leave you now,' to-morrow."
That day Baudard did not recog heart the sergeant. The latter, overcome with broken, remorse, seated himself and bed, by the man who was watched the young so much, and. who, from suffering, time to time, in his delirium, babbled name. the sergeant's "
little
the stories to. child, impossible to the clumsiness him explaining the " awkward squad."
again
-
the
BROTHERS'
CHRISTIAN
—
,
held
must
nise
in
soldier
I
call
I'll
become
may
called three days Peyrin regu on the sufferer, and each day larly seemed higher. One morn the fever " a of told ing he was complication and the doctor diseases had set in, of saving him." despairs
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the ser and this irritated husband, who was to look on geant, disposed she the bright side of life. Besides, was inclined to lecture him at.times .mode his careless of for somewhat did not and that life, agree wih him at all. Whereas the baby had noth ing for him but a succession of happy and sunny smiles. cooings'
!
—
her heeding the crowd,
Sergeant Peyrin his nephew. Of course, this world— or less affection for his he had more but she had an sister, unpleasant over her habit of dead weeping
smiled, and fixing on the with fever, I knew who he was."
bright
Yes, I sup you knew? heard of him. have me speak you But you will pardon me, Baudard, I am to will blame for the you not ? not I I am have treated way you bad at heart, but it amused, me to
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J.
MONSTER
arms, and, without or the applause thanks the night. Vanished into
one
own
ray
were
torment
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but
he
if
;
black appeared, Suddenly the man the ened by smpke, bearing child in
had
as
Baudard
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perished. had passed since minutes the man had entered the building, during was to be heard which but nothing of the flames. The the crackling was voice of the crowd hushed, all on the drama attention being reverted which was before it. being enacted
!
me
What
/Five
When,
to
pose
doubtless,
the
dear
sergeant,
had leav
of
recover."
not
now to and I am too overcome tell you what I want to say. Perhaps, if my nephew, you had known he was would not have saved him, eh ?" you
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mother, unfortunately, gone out to see the processions, In the mean ing her child asleep. the fire broke out, her little while had, savings were gone, and her child
When
"and
child,
...
his
very
had'
a
as
WORK.
was
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DURABLE.
DRAUGHT.
STRONG.
TESTED.
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a brought, man, while a mounted it, soldier, hastily followed him with their the spectators cries of terror and admiration, and her features the distracted mother, dilated with agony, her hands wrung it
said high fever," the ser answered wehave graye fears that a
who
;
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a
Suddenly
inquire
dear he said, Well, fellow," my and voice choked with emotion, hand of the young the burning taking " I how are have come man, you ? to ask your pardon, pardon for an old soldier who is a trifle rough, but is all me at Between heart. right you and and death it is a matter of life you have saved from death a baby who is
!
hesitate.
ladder
to
"
My child
'
a
all make about
to
was
move
was
no There was reply. Peyrin and at his strange heart, pressure bedside when he reached the sufferer's he had never trembled as he trembled since the first day he was under fire.
on, awe-stricken. were of men brave plenty certain but- to go to almost without any hope of saving the the one flames made the "fr.oni
bravest
he moustache, child down.
hospital,
has
may
might
a
ad-
woman's
a
engaged,
suddenly.rent child Save
the
put
he
had roiled
made
them.
cry
his
Sister
geant,
hope, of saying
in the
buildings,
M
firemen the
which
into
"He
m
PHBfc
so
tears
obliged next His haste to the Baudard.
Binder.
—
then,
the
to
Concluded.
that
And
wipe away
WOOD,
the
it."
.
the
At
know
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