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"As mad as Berselius?" "Yes; this infernal Berselius seemed to have infected him with his own hunting fever, and Bauchardy mon Dieu, you should have seen him during his illness, shooting imaginary elephants, and calling for Berselius." "What I want to get at is this," said Adams.
"Was Bauchardy driven into these swamps you speak of, and made to hunt against his will treated cruelly, in fact or did Berselius take his own share of the hardships?" "His own share! Why, from what I can understand, he did all the hunting. A man of iron with the ferocity of a tiger a very devil, who made others follow him as poor Bauchardy did, to his death "
Have another cigarette." "Do you know anything special against Captain Berselius?" asked Adams, taking the cigarette. "I have never even seen the man," replied Duthil, "but from what I have heard, he is a regular buccaneer of the old type, who values human life not one hair. Bauchardy, that last doctor he took with him, was a friend of mine.
"Who, then, was Bauchardy?" asked Adams, amused rather by the way in which the two others were discussing him. "Bauchardy?" said Duthil. "Why, he was the last man Berselius killed." "Silence," said Thénard, then turning to Adams, "Berselius is a perfectly straight man.
Perhaps that is why I feel vicious about the man, for he killed Bauchardy as sure as I didn't." "Killed him?" "Yes; with hardship and overwork." "Overwork?" "Mon Dieu, yes. Dragged him through swamps after his infernal monkeys and tigers, and Bauchardy died in the hospital at Marseilles of spinal meningitis, brought on by the hardships of the expedition died as mad as Berselius himself."
He indicated Adams with a half laugh, and Dr. Duthil, turning in his chair, regarded anew the colossus from the States. The great, large-hewn, cast-iron visaged Adams, beside whom Thénard looked like a shrivelled monkey and Duthil like a big baby with a beard. "Good," said Duthil. "A better man than Bauchardy," said Thénard. "Much," replied Duthil.
"The man has obsessed you already, and you'll come back, if you go, like Bauchardy, the man who died in the hospital at Marseilles, cursing Berselius, yet so magnetized by the power of the chap that you would be ready to follow him again if he said 'Come, and you had the legs to stand on. That is how Bauchardy was." "The man, undoubtedly, has a great individuality," said Adams.
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