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To Dard's delight the surgeon pronounced him curable. For all that, he was three days insensible, and after that unfit for duty. So they sent him home invalided, with a hundred francs out of the poor colonel's purse. Raynal reported the evacuation of the place, and that Colonel Dujardin was buried under the bastion, and soon after rode out of the camp.
"You thought I was in Egypt," said Raynal with grim significance that caught Dujardin's attention, though he did not know quite how to interpret it. He answered mechanically, "Yes, I did." "I am sent here by General Bonaparte to take a command," explained Raynal. "You are welcome. What command?" "Yours." "Mine?" cried Dujardin, his forehead flushing with mortification and anger.
Madame Dujardin helped them take off their things in the pleasant hallway, where an open fire was burning, and later, when they were washed and ready, she led the way to a cheerful dining room, where there was a pretty table set for four. There were flowers on the table, and they had chicken for supper, and, after that, ice cream!
"Don't stain your mouth with the captain, my little lady. He is a traitor." "How do you know?" "Marcellus! mademoiselle asks us how we know Captain Dujardin to be a traitor. Speak."
"She said she would surely find us even if she had to swim the sea," added Jan. And now comes the most wonderful part of the story! Madame Dujardin prepared a bath and said to Marie: "You may have the first turn in the tub because you're a girl. In America the girls have the best of everything", she laughed at Jan, as she spoke. "I will help you undress.
Then, turning to Rose, he begged her very ceremoniously to reconsider that determination. "What determination?" "To sacrifice me to this Colonel Dujardin." Still politely, only a little grimly. Rose opened her eyes. "Are you mad?" inquired she with quiet hauteur. "Neither mad nor a fool," was the reply.
"Oh, thank you my whole life shall prove my gratitude for this preference." Rose beckoned Jacintha, and sent her with an excuse to Colonel Dujardin. She then turned with an air of mock submission to Edouard. "I am at monsieur's ORDERS." Then this unhappy novice, being naturally good-natured, thanked her again and again for her condescension in setting his heart at rest.
In a word, when you left Beaurepaire, had your conscience nothing to reproach you with?" Dujardin still hesitated. He scarcely knew what to think or what to say. But he thought to himself, "Who has told him? does he know all?" "Colonel Dujardin, I am the husband of Josephine, the son of Madame de Beaurepaire, and the brother of Rose. You know very well what brings me here. Your answer?"
"Gentlemen," said Dujardin, with an imperceptible sneer, "the general means to say this: the operation is so glorious that he could hardly without partiality assign the command to either of us four claimants. Well, then, let us cast lots." The proposal was received by acclamation. "The general will mark a black cross on one lot, and he who draws it wins the command."
"Oh, no!" was the cheerful reply; "but all the rest have." Presently the malicious thing gave a sudden start. "Oh! such a piece of news; you remember Colonel Dujardin, the obnoxious colonel?" No answer. "Transferred his attentions. Fancy!" "Who to?" "To Josephine and mamma. But such are the military. "Oh, yes!" "We will go and look for my deserter.
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