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Show 88 PRI.‘ ISS MARY‘S GIFT BOOK "I knew there was d ever. sir." reptied. A regiment oI‘ (Ir: '01;th \ wifi quartered at Rninev. 21nd from it two pri ates and a eorpornI were gn'en me for escort. In the company of these men I started hzn‘; Iw the longer road in the rear 01' our Iineu, And it wax :1. quarter to ten when I started. For I nv: reed the time of" :r r- I' in the (mnniunduntis qnnrterx. I shonId think that it. must have. taken Ihr e-qnnrters of an hour to 'eaeh FiIontIernieiI. I'or the snow was deep here and the mist very thiek. 3eyond Montf'crineiI. however. we came to higher ground: there "ere I'ewer drii'h of snow, and the night begun to e ‘ that we made hetter going. \\ (3 were in of eonrse. behind r I . and the 01in rixk we run was that :i mm (w pvwints um (I with rifle. from :1 ImttIefieId or :1 small Imnd ut‘ /'un<w-I‘i7‘t'm‘.s‘ nng‘ht he lurking on the chance ()1' pk in: 011' 3 str ‘ But that risk was not very great now that. H C were four of us I rode there- fnrc with an easier mind. .nd the tirxt thi r \rhieh entered niythnng‘hts \\‘zl§~\\'Ii:it do you thinI C II 3 uh" : azuit-wonmn'x (‘ElI)III with the broken n , Imr? Not a bit of it. o. it was M. ionnet‘s hhu-k ent. I'Ind M. ionnet's ('III' fire kittem‘! ()r was that intended to inform the peopIe in Paris I many emnpnnim of" rer-rnits I: 'I joined one of the French 31‘ ' : 'II in the iILI ':i_\'. (IeneruI Fuidherhe" Biipninne. end so to rep up thei. spi ts and prolong the siege. I was stiII pi Iing over this; prohIem \rh n in a most .s itary phiee I (‘IHI'IC snddent upon a (-I itenn with Iighted Windows. This was the Chateau ViIIetzn'iense. I re‘ ed in n 3 horse and stopped. My em-ort halted hehind ie. It was. :it‘t'r :iII, :in astonishing,r sight. 'I‘hm‘C were in. ehz‘itt-nnx uhont J .. then. as there are now. but not one that I h er emne {terms was inhzihited by more than :1 The owne s had tong sinee fled. Breached .XVQIIS. trznaned gaping root» md sin-nee 21nd deertioiw tI at i»; What we meet 1 we sp. 'n ‘hzi Ilutl‘ Paris in those days. fra But here was one with lighted windows on the first and second stories staring out enIme on the snow as thong 1 new '41 I'rnssizin oh ' had erosxed the Rhine. A thiek chimp of t s sheltered it behind, and it hit-ed the eastern side of the. hang ridge oI' Mont (Iniehet. along the foot of which I rode- the side l'ztrthest from Park. From the. spot where. I and my escort with. W.tud\tIiIIIIII |