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Updated: June 5, 2025
I was delayed in Paris on my way to Italy, and my friend Captain Millet arranged for a visit to the French front at Soissons and put me in charge of Lieutenant de Tessin, whom I had met in England studying British social questions long before this war.
Scrope made no response whatever, but of a sudden Captain Tessin banged his fist upon the table. "January 6th two years ago. Why," and he leaned forward across the table towards Scrope, "Knightley fell in the sortie that morning, and his body was never recovered. The corporal said this fugitive was an Englishman. What if " Major Shackleton shook his head and interrupted.
"And since that's the truth, why, he had best hear the story nakedly from me." "From you?" exclaimed Tessin. "Another duel, then. Have you counted the cost?" "Why, yes," replied Scrope quietly. "Two years of the bastinado," said the Major. "That was what he said. He comes back to Tangier to find who knows? a worse torture here.
The princesses, also, conversed unceremoniously with the ladies near them. A cloud darkened the usually clear brow of the Princess Amelia, and she seemed to be in a nervous and highly excited state. At this moment the master of ceremonies, Pollnitz, drew near, with Count Tessin, the Swedish ambassador.
"You shall decide between Count Tessin and myself. Will you accept my sister as umpire, count?" "Without doubt," said the count. "I should be greatly honored if the princess will be so gracious. Perhaps I may be more fortunate on this occasion."
Afterwards Lieutenant de Tessin took me to the great hotel it still proclaims "Restaurant" in big black letters on the garden wall which shelters the General Headquarters of France, and here I was able to see and talk to Generals Pelle and Castelnau as well as to General Joffre. They are three very remarkable and very different men.
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