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Updated: June 11, 2025
"There has already been fighting here a short time ago," said the last-maker in a low voice; and he added, after a pause, "We are getting near." The unpaving had left holes, of which we had to be careful. We strode, and sometimes jumped, from paving-stone to paving-stone.
A man's voice, firm and sonorous, suddenly issued out of the darkness, and shouted to us, "Who goes there?" "Ah, there they are!" said the last-maker, and he uttered a peculiar whistle. "Come on," resumed the voice. It was another barricade.
On the peaks of the high dismantled gables could be seen a flickering red glow, doubtless the reflection of the bivouac-fires of the soldiers encamped in the markets and in the neighborhood of Saint Eustache. This reflection lighted our way. The last-maker, however, narrowly escaped falling into a deep hole, which was no less than the cellar of a demolished house.
"Oh," she said, "do not be afraid, I have nothing to fear; as for me, I am an ambulance. I am taking care of the wounded. I shall even relight my candle when you are gone. What troubles me is that my poor husband has not yet come back!" We crossed the shop on tiptoe. The last-maker gently opened the door and glanced out into the street.
"That comes from over there," cried the soldiers, "They are over there!" and all starting off at once in the direction from which the shot had been fired, they left the barricade and ran down the street at the top of their speed. The last-maker and myself got up. "They are no longer there," whispered he. "Quick! let us be off." "But this poor woman," said I. "Are we going to leave her here?"
As he has survived the events of the night of the 4th, and as he since escaped the denunciations, it can be understood that we will not mention his name here, and that we shall confine ourselves to terming him throughout the course of this story by his trade, calling him the "last-maker." "What do you want to say to me?" I asked him.
"Let us go to the third place," said the last-maker, and he explained to me that they had settled among them three successive meeting-places, in case of need, so as to be always sure of finding each other if, perchance, the police discovered the first or even the second meeting-place, a precaution which for our part we adopted as much as possible with regard to our meetings of the Left end of the Committee.
So that it is possible the Killingworth brakesman, afterwards the inventor of the safety lamp and the originator of the railway system, and John Morrison, the last-maker, afterwards the translator of the Scriptures into the Chinese language, may have confronted each other in solemn contemplation over the successful last, which won the verdict coveted by its maker.
A ray of light issuing from between the planks fell on the opposite wall, and lighted up an old torn placard, on which could be read, "Asnières. Water tournaments. Grand ball." "Have you another gun?" asked the last-maker of the taller of the two workmen. "If we had three guns we should be three men," answered the workman. The little one added, "Do you think that the good will is wanting?
It was in reality one of the workmen who had thrown down his gun when going away; the gun in falling had struck the paling of the ambulance. We heard the rapid steps of the two combatants, as they ran off. Almost at the same moment a tumult of voices, and of butt ends of muskets striking the paving-stones, filled the barricade. "It is taken," said the last-maker, and he blew out the candle.
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