nd he showed him a long cicatrix on his
other arm.

"'Knife, I think?' said the Governor.

"'You are right, Monsieur: Spanish knife!--Can you read
this?'--and opening his bosom, he showed a raw and bloody wound on
his breast.

"'Oh, the Devil!' cried the General.

"The wounded man put his coat on again, and stood erect and
haughty and silent.

"The General eyed him, and saw his great spirit shining through
this man. The more he looked, the less could the scarecrow veil
the hero from his practised eye.

"'There has been some mistake, or else I dote--and can't tell a
soldier from a'--

"'Don't say the word, old man, or your heart will bleed!'

"'Humph! I must go into this matter at once. Be seated, Captain,
if you please, and tell me what have you been doing all these
years?'

"'Suffering!'

"'What, all the time?'

"'Without intermission.'

"'But what? suffering what?'

"'Cold, hunger, darkness, wounds, solitude, sickness, despair,
prison,--all that man can suffer.'

"'Impossible! a man would be dead at that rate before this.'

"'I should have died a dozen times, but for one thing.'

"'Ay! what was that?'

"'I had promised to live.'

"There was a pause. Then the old man said, calmly,--

"'To the facts, young man: I listen.'"

And high time, be it said; since it begins to read very much like
one of Artemas Ward's burlesques. The upshot of which listening
was, that the man left for Paris directly in the demanded
regimentals, and wrapt about with the Governor's furred cloak to
boot; that he would not delay in the metropolis one moment, even
to put on the epaulets they gave him, but saved them for his
sweetheart to make him a colonel with, and, though weary and torn
with pain, galloped away to the Chateau de Beaurepaire, to find
that sweetheart another man's wife.

"He turned his back quickly on her. 'To the army!' he cried,
hoarsely. He drew himself haughtily up in marching-attitude. He
took three strides, erect and fiery and bold. At the fourth the
great heart snapped, and the worn body it had held up so long
rolled like a dead log upon the ground, with a tremendous fall."

Which scene must be followed by its pendant, taking place during the
siege of a Prussian town, when, from the enemy's bastion, Long Tom, out
of range of