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Camille's portrait appeared in the shop-windows; the illustrated journals depicted him before the redoubt, carried upon the shoulders of two men, his sword pointed towards the enemy, encouraging his soldiers by his voice, gesture, and look, his forehead bound with a handkerchief, and his face bleeding. Mons. Sauvallier could not go out of doors without seeing his son's presentment.
"See, grandfather, here he is!" she said, and led into the room Captain Sauvallier. Auguste and his wife followed the pair. Mons. Sauvallier, taken completely by surprise, rose quickly from his chair, then stood motionless, overcome by his emotion.
This brilliant feat of arms will enable me to enter Lang-Son tomorrow. Upon reading these words, Mons. Sauvallier felt a strange emotion, in which anguish mingled with joy. For a moment he was silent; then he said to his son, "You think that it is he? He is, then, a captain?" He read the despatch again, then murmured softly: "The cross! Condition hopeless!" And a tear rolled down his cheek.
Two hours later the family received a formal intimation of Camille's deed and state from the Minister of War, and on the following day all the journals were praising Captain Sauvallier, son of the respected founder, of Grenelle. And now they gave details. Camille, it appeared, had been nominated captain a few months back.
But the child soon observed the sadness of her parents and her dear grandfather, and she looked with earnest, inquiring gaze from one to the other, trying to discover what was amiss. She saw her father lay down his pocket-book, she watched her mother place upon the table her bracelets, necklaces, ear-rings, and rings, while Mons. Sauvallier thanked them with tears in his eyes.
I am indebted to M. Goron, Chief of the Detective Department in Paris, and other colleagues for some of the specimens here reproduced by me. The Family Name. From the French of HENRI MALIN One afternoon, Mons. Sauvallier received from his younger son a lieutenant in garrison at Versailles the following letter: "Versailles, May 25, 1883.
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