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THE CHINA MAIL-
TWO FRIENDS
M. Sauvage caught the first || Expressionless, they stood with gudgeon" Morissot hooked the closed lips.
(Continued from page 7.)
The officer gave the order to fire. The soldiers shot as one ma.. second; and every time they put The Prussian, consistently calm, M. Sauvage fell on his nose. their Ines in the water the floats pointed at the river. Imagine that Morissot, heavier, seemed to hesit went under, and they were landing in five minutes time you will be state, before turning round, and fall- a wriggling silver fish. It was a the bottam. In five minutes! ing across the body of his friend, miraculous catch
Haven't you any relations?"
with his face to the sky, and with They lovingly put the fish in a Mont-Valérian persistently thun-blood escaping from a hole in the net-big with a small mesh, which dered.
bfeast of his tunic. they kept under-water. "And they Standing upright, the two anglers The German gave a new order. enjoyed an ecstasy of happiness, an were silent. The officer gave orders The men dispersed, then returned ecstasy which possesses you when in German Thèn be significantly with cords and stones, attaching you appreciate something of which took the chair further away from these last to the feet of the bodies. you have long been deprived. the prisoners; and twelve soldiers This done, they carried them to the
The kind sun enveloped them, with guns formed up at a distance bank of the river. warming their shoulders. They of twenty feet.
Mont-Valérian still thundered. ¡heard nothing. They thought of "I will give you one minute," Its summit was crowned with
nothing. The world away from said the officer. "Not one second mountain of smoke. them ceased to exist. They fished. more.”
Two soldiers took Morisset by But suddenly, unexpectedly, Then be brusquely got up, and the feet and the head; two others; heavy noise, which seemed to come approaching the two Frenchmen seized M. Saurage in much the same from under the earth, made every-took Morissot by the arm, and led fashion. After balancing, the bodies, thing tremble. Cannon were being him aside.
they threw them as far as they fired.
"Quickly, the pass-word," he said, could. After making "a curve, the Turning his head, Morissot saw in a whisper. "Your friend won't bodies, ap-right, plunged into the above the further bank on the left know. I'll give him the impression river, the stones taking them down.
feet first. the grand silhouette of Mont-'I've relented."
a
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY Valérian, wearing, just now, a white
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6,500 24th June 12,000 1st July 17,000 18th July
6,600 20th July 6,800 22nd July 17.000 29th July 17,000 12 Aug.
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tuft, the smoke of gunpowder which explosively spat,
Very soon another tuft of smoke appeared on the fortress; some seconds later a further explosion roared.
Other explosions followed, until the mountain threw every moment Its death-dealing messages, sending its milky vapours slowly into the sky, and made a cloud overhead.
Morissot did not reply. The Prussian took M. Sauvage aside, in the hope of obtaining the pass-word from him.
M. Sauvage did not reply.
The fishermen found themselves side by side.
The officer shouted an order. The ring squad raised their guns.
The water spouted, boiled, trembled, and sent tiny waves to the bank before calming down,
A little blood came to the surface. The officer, still self-possessed, said, as though to himself:
"Now the fish will get their own back."
He turned to the house.
A soldier, wearing a white apron, appeared.
Then quite by chance Morissot And he suddenly saw the net full caught sight of the net full of of gudgeon on the grass. He took. gudgeon lying on the grass a few it up, examined it, smiled, and then "Now they're off," remarked M.Jeet away.
called: "William." Sauvage, shrugging his shoulders. The sunlight silvered the scales Morissot, who had been eagerly of the still living fish. A lamp watching the repeated disappear came into his throat. In spite of jance of his float, was suddenly vocal himself, his eyes filled with tears.
"Isn't it fatheadedness to kill eachi "Good-bye, Monsieur Sauvage,” | caught, other like this?" he exclaimed he faltered. angrily.
And the Prussian threw him the fish the two dead Frenchmen had
"Fry them at once-while they're "Good-bye, Monsieur Morissot," still living. he ordered. “Then "We are worse than the animals," replied his friend.
bring them to me. They should be replied M. Sauvage.
Trembling from bead to feet, they delicious." And Morissot, who had just hook-warmly shook hands.
Then be lighted his pipe. ed a dace, remarked-"And they say
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ments, we shall have war!"
"The Republic shouldn't have de- Clared war," said M. Sauvage. "That"
Morissot interrupted his friend. "If we have kings, it means foreign wara. With a Republic, it means war at home."
And then they calmly discussed, unravelled, big political problems, this with the sound common sense of kindly, narrow men, not too well Informed. At least, they agreed in deciding that mankind would never be free from war. And Mont- Valérian, thundering without ceas- ing, destroyed with its cannon French homes, smashing the roads, wiping out human beings, putting an end to their castles in the air, expected happiness, shining hopes, and inflicting endless sufferings in the hearts of women, the hearts of} girls, the hearts of mothers in al neighbouring country.
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··· And behind the house that had seemed deserted, they saw twenty German soldiers.
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