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Meanwhile, at nine o'clock in the evening a party of German officers betook themselves to the hamlet of Poteau a village north of Senlis where M. Odent had been kept under guard since the afternoon. Six other hostages were produced, and they were all marched off to a field near Chamant at the edge of a wood. Here the Maire was called up and interrogated.
The officer himself presently took him outside the town, and left him under guard, at the little village of Poteau, at the edge of a wood." What had happened? Unluckily for Senlis and M. Odent, some of the French rear-guard infantry stragglers, and a small party of Senegalese troops were still in the southern quarter of the town when the Germans entered.
Smith, starting above that city at the mouth of the Poteau river, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, January 12th, 1882, for a four hundred mile run to Pine Bluff. The weather was cold and the chill of Rocky Mountain snow was in the river. The course was rather lonely, winding amid bleak hills and for long stretches there would be small signs of life.
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