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I seek not to pry into your affairs of State, and what I have heard Le Gallais hath heard also. I therefore make no scrutiny as touching the means to be employed; the end we will take thankfully according as promised. If the Parliament and the Lord General be so minded, I make no doubt but we shall return to our home.
Le Gallais looked about him for a friendly face, and presently saw sympathy on that of a fellow-countryman and brother officer. "Captain Bisson," he said, "you will speak to Mr. Elliot's friend." Elliot flung out of the house, followed by Querto and two or three Royalist officers, Le Gallais, and Bisson in the rear.
"Captain Le Gallais is newly arrived from our island," said Lempriere, "and I made bold to leave word that I was here, in case of his coming to my lodgings while I tarried with you. He brings me news of 'domus et placens uxor," added the speaker, taking with a sad smile the letter which Le Gallais handed him.
To his challenge, "Who goes there?" he received for answer a pistol-shot, which laid him low in the mire of the lane, with a great flesh wound in the right shoulder; but the soldiers hearing the report ran up from both sides. Le Gallais was overpowered and secured after a brief resistance. "Search him and take him to the governor," said the wounded sergeant, as he swooned from loss of blood.
Your M. le Gallais indeed! one would think it was you and M. de Maufant that wanted to marry him. As for me, I do not want to marry at all. Least of all does it import me to marry a man chosen by others. I prefer the ways of England." "Di va!" exclaimed her sister. "A good man is not bad because our friends like him. Marry this good Alain, and love him after."
Now, see here, Captain le Gallais, mayhap you know one Pierre Benoist that was then in limbo?" "Aye, do I, and what of him?" "Why, marry this; that he is at large, and hath a lure for your young Charlie there that will bring him from his perch on the rock yonder, and mew the tercel in London town.
The Boers looked from them to Le Gallais and from Le Gallais to them, but there was no more hope from one than the other, and at last they realised that there was nothing for it but to surrender, and surrender was agreed to. We could scarcely believe our good fortune. At Paardeberg we caught 4000, but we used 50,000, more or less, to do it, and we lost about 1500 doing it.
Le Gallais was Marguerite's acknowledged lover, the person who would benefit by the removal of a fascinating dog like Elliot a formidable rival, as he flattered himself such as he must be to a bumpkin officer of militia. How Le Gallais could have learned the fact of his having a wife in France might be a harder question, but it was one that was not material.
"In that case, sir," answered the governor, and his voice rose to a quarter-deck shout. "In that case it would be 'up with the red cross ensign and England for ever!" Le Gallais rose and in a gentler tone echoed the cry, sharing the generous impulse. "Now go," said the governor, more gently, "go to the buttery and get thyself refreshed. I know what a sailor's appetite can be.
He immediately took command of the two squadrons under Persse and Le Gallais, and ordered them to 'right about wheel' and charge. Thus headed by Broadwood himself, and with their British officers several horse-lengths in front, the Egyptians broke into a gallop and encountered the Baggara line, which numbered not fewer than 400 men but was in loose order, with firmness.
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