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Updated: May 14, 2025
"I should like nothing better than to have her settle in France permanently as a resident of our beautiful Auvergne, but I suppose that is too much to hope for. You have America in your blood." "Yes," laughed Frank. "France is beautiful and great, but America is to me above all." "I should think less of you if it were not so," answered Colonel Pavet. "Au revoir, then.
"Yes," replied the newcomer, "Colonel Pavet, alive and well, thanks to you. Ah, I shall never forget the night when I lay wounded on the battlefield and you climbed out of the trench and made your way through a storm of bullets and shells to my side and carried me back to safety. It was the deed of a hero, a modern d'Artagnan! How glad I am to see you again!"
The French had been holding a section of the line at the right of the Americans and their uniform was a familiar sight, so that the boys only gave the group a passing glance. But Frank's eyes lighted with pleasure when the colonel detached himself from the others and came over with extended hand. Frank wrung the hand heartily. "Why, Colonel Pavet!" he exclaimed. "This is a great pleasure!
"There's not much to tell," replied Frank. "I'm well and have been lucky enough so far not to have stopped a bullet." The colonel's eyes twinkled. "Not much to tell," he repeated. "No, not if Monsieur Sheldon does the telling. But there are others who speak more freely. Your captain, for instance." Frank flushed uncomfortably and Colonel Pavet laughed outright.
And all their spare time that morning was spent in reading and rereading the precious missives from their friends so many thousand miles away. Frank was poring over a letter from his mother for the tenth time when he heard his name spoken and looked up to see Colonel Pavet, who was passing along in the company of another officer.
"Why that's the name of the butler who used to be in my mother's family!" cried Frank. "Colonel Pavet was telling me that he had been captured, and had died in prison. I was hoping that he was mistaken in that, for the colonel said he had information that might help my mother to get her property." "The colonel is right about the man's dying," replied Tom, "for I was with him when he died."
Frank had the good luck to hear encouraging news about his mother's property from a French colonel whose life he had saved under a rain of fire when the officer, Colonel Pavet, was lying wounded on the battlefield.
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