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Garibaldi, the Italian Liberator, had offered his sword to France, soon after the fall of the Second Empire. On October 8 that is, a day before Gambetta he arrived at Tours, to arrange for a command, like that of Cambriels, in the east of France. The little Army of the Vosges, which was eventually constituted under his orders, was made up of very heterogeneous elements.
"Now, sir," Ralph said, "I will answer the question. The general upon whose staff my brother and myself served was General Cambriels." The officer shrugged his shoulders. "Since that time," Ralph said, more sternly than he had yet spoken, "my brother and myself have had the offer of posts upon the staffs of General Trochu, General Ducrot, and General Vinoy."
After the check in the Vosges, General Cambriels found it impossible to restore sufficient order, among the Mobiles, to enable him to show face again to the enemy. He was, besides, in want of many articles of urgent necessity.
I mentioned them, in the dispatches I sent to you, as having done immense service by going down, in disguise, into the midst of the Germans. In fact, at Saverne they saved the corps from destruction. They are two young English lads, named Barclay." "I remember distinctly," General Cambriels said. "They speak French fluently, I suppose, as well as German?"
"You are not franc tireurs?" he asked, for the light was still insufficient to enable him to distinguish uniforms. "We are officers of the army, upon General Cambriels' staff. This man is an orderly. "Here are our swords. We surrender, as prisoners of war." The German officer bowed. "Keep your swords, for the present, gentlemen. I am not in command." At this moment, another officer came up.
The next morning Captain Barclay went down with them to the town, and purchased a couple of capital horses which, by great good fortune, were on sale. Upon the morning of the fourth day of their visit, the boys took leave of their father and mother, and left to join the headquarters of General Cambriels. The parting was far less trying than it had been, the first time they went away.
A dispatch had just come in from Paris, grumbling at receiving no news from the country; and Gambetta was lamenting over the impossibility of arranging for simultaneous movements, owing to the breakdown of the pigeons, and the failure of the messengers; when I said: "'There were two young English fellows with us, in the Vosges they were on Cambriels' staff last, and are now prisoners who if they were here would, I believe, get in if anyone could.
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