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'May I ask, monsieur, whether you are going by this northern road? I asked. 'My orders are to patrol it as far as Arensdorf, said he. 'Then I will, with your permission, ride so far with you, said I. 'It is very clear that the longer way will be the faster.
A farmer with his cart was approaching us a matted-haired, downcast fellow, in a sheepskin jacket. 'What village is this? asked Duroc. 'It is Arensdorf, he answered, in his barbarous German dialect. 'Then here I am to stay the night, said my young companion. Then, turning to the farmer, he asked his eternal question, 'Can you tell me where the Baron Straubenthal lives?
Come, Monsieur Gerard, for I must see the men safely quartered before I can attend to this private matter. He spurred on his horse, and ten minutes later we were at the door of the inn of Arensdorf, where his men were to find their quarters for the night. Well, all this was no affair of mine, and I could not imagine what the meaning of it might be.
I saw the fir trees and the stars whirling round me, and I fell unconscious across the body of my comrade. It was some weeks before I came to myself in the post-house of Arensdorf, and longer still before I could be told all that had befallen me. It was Duroc, already able to go soldiering, who came to my bedside and gave me an account of it.
Still, Duroc and I were of the age when one can carry things off, and I dare swear that no woman at least would have quarrelled with the appearance of the two young hussars, one in blue and one in grey, who set out that night from the Arensdorf post-house.
From him, too, I learned how the Polish girl had run to Arensdorf, how she had roused our hussars, and how she had only just brought them back in time to save us from the spears of the Cossacks who had been summoned from their bivouac by that same black-bearded secretary whom we had seen galloping so swiftly over the snow.
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