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The door opened and three peasants appeared, looking bewildered, but evidently well pleased. "We have just," said one of them, "found something curious." "What?" asked M. Galpin. "It looks very much like a case; but Pitard says it is the paper of a cartridge." Count Claudieuse raised himself on his pillows, and said eagerly, "Let me see!
He then confesses his obligations to his great master, John Pitard, and adds that all the experience that he has gained while operating, studying, and lecturing for many years on surgery will be made use of in order to enhance the value of the work. He hopes, however, to accomplish all this "briefly, quietly, and above all, charitably."
The permit that was used yesterday to see young Chupin was in the name of his mother's sister, a woman named Rose Pitard. A visiting card was given her more than a week ago, in compliance with a request indorsed by the commissary of police of her district." The magistrate's surprise was so intense that it imparted to his face an almost ludicrous expression.
Each barrel had a cartridge in it. Then he put the gun back in its place, and, pulling from his pocket the leaden cartridge-case which Pitard had found, he showed it to M. de Boiscoran, and asked him, "Do you recognize this?" "Perfectly!" replied the other. "It is a case of one of the cartridges which I have probably thrown away as useless."
One of his teachers at Paris had been his compatriot, Jean Pitard, the surgeon of Philippe le Bel, of whom he speaks as "most skilful and expert in the art of surgery," and it was doubtless to Pitard's friendship that he owed his appointment as one of the four surgeons and three physicians who accompanied the King into Flanders.
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