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Bonaparte visited Etaples, Ambleteuse, Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Furnes, Niewport, Ostend, and the Isle of Walcheren. He collected at the different ports all the necessary information with that intelligence and tact for which he was so eminently distinguished. He questioned the sailors, smugglers, and fishermen, and listened attentively to the answers he received.
His first steps, therefore, aimed at satisfying them, and at detaching the Archduke Philip from his father Maximilian; all of which objects were rapidly accomplished, England obtaining the renewal of the treaty of Etaples, with additional undertakings in the matter of harbouring rebels.
Lefevre of Etaples, who was the most of all in sympathy with Calvin, was seventy-nine years old, and had made up his mind to pass his last days in peace.
At the commencement of 1805, a flotilla of two thousand small vessels, manned by sixteen thousand sailors, carrying an army of one hundred and sixty thousand men, nine thousand horses, and a numerous artillery, had assembled in the ports of Boulogne, Etaples, Wimereux, Ambleteuse. and Calais.
"There seemed to be echoes," he admitted. "I noticed it more this afternoon." "The whole of the rooms downstairs were fitted up as a small hospital during the last year of the war," she explained. "It was after I had a slight breakdown and was sent back from Étaples. Some of our patients stayed on for months afterwards, and we have never had the place put to rights yet.
For a few moments she looked at him as if undecided, and then suddenly she seemed to make up her mind. "All right," she said with a smile. "I'll come, I want to deal with this jaundice of yours. One must live up to a professional reputation." A hospital is much the same anywhere, and number 13 General at Etaples was no exception.
"Since Étaples? Yes! Somehow or other, I was always able to keep cheerful there because there was always so much real misery around, and one felt that one was doing good in the world. Here I seem to be such a useless person, no good to anybody." "If you say things like that, I shall forget how far we have to travel," he declared. "I need your friendship.
I was filled with apprehension every time when the end of their pull turned their faces skyward, and it was to draw their attention away from the storm-drift that I asked them what the lights were which had begun to twinkle through the dusk both to the right and to the left of us. 'That's Boulogne to the north, and Etaples upon the south, said one of the seamen civilly. Boulogne! Etaples!
The train for Etaples leaving at an unearthly hour in the morning, Barry went to take farewell of the V. A. D. the night before. "That is an awfully early hour," she said, "and, oh, such a wretched train." There was in her voice an almost maternal solicitude for his comfort. "That's nothing," said Barry. "When I see you here at your unending work, it makes me feel more and more like a slacker."
He found that the V. A. D. had departed for England, but just where no one seemed to know. In her last letter to him, received before the last tour in the trenches, she had mentioned the possibility of a visit to London, and had promised him further information before her departure, but no further word had he received. His inquiry at Etaples was equally unproductive of result.
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