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Show 98 'l‘lIlC l).\ RIC lt‘OlIICS'l‘ TIII‘] INVISIBLE BATTLE 99 write is the truth as far as I, from the outsid e, have seen it. If it. is not true. this book has no value whatever. "'e were warned by the soldier who guarded us not to walk in a group and we stole now. beneath a eardeirwal l white under the moon, in a long.r line. I eould hear Trenehard behind me stumbling over the stones and ruts, walle ing: as he always did with little jerks, as though his lees were beyond his control. \Ve eame then on to the high road. whieh was so white and elear in the moonlight that it seemed as though the whole Austrian army must instantly whisper to themselves: "All, there they are!" and tire. The diteh to our right, as tar as I could see, was lined with soldiers, hidden by the hedge behind them, their ritles just, printing: on to the white surface of the land. Our guide asked them their division and was answered in a whisper. The soldiers were ghosts: there was no one, save ourselves, alive in the whole world. . . Then a little ineident oeeurred. I was walking in the rear of our wagons that, I might see that all were there. I felt a toueh on my arm and found Andrey \rasxsilieviteh standing- in the middle of the road. lIis taee. staring at: me as though I were a stranger, expressed desperate determina» tion. "Come on." I said. "\Ve've no time to waste." you've been brave enough all day. There's no danger. I tell you. See how quiet everythingr is. You musk " "I eau‘t. . . . It's nothiue' . . . nothing to do with me. . . . It‘s awful all (laye-antl now this!" I thought. of Marie Ivauovna early in the morning. I looked down the road and saw that the wagons were slowly moving into the distant shadows. "You mus-l eome," l repeated. "\Ve ean‘t leave you here. Ilonit think of yourself. .\ud nothing: ean toueh youfi nothing. I tell you." "I‘ll go baek. I must. I ean't 2‘0 on." "(In luu-lJ llow enn you? "here to? You ean't go Iw'k to the Il‘t‘llt‘lt. \\'e shan't know where to find you." .\ t'uriotts‘ :tttut‘t‘ >l‘l/4‘Il me: I eziue'ht his arm. "I‘ll leave you. it. you like. Th» re are other things more important." I mote anav tront him. He looked down the lttllg' road. "Uh. l [ant . . . l emit." be repeated. "\\‘:..;t tlttl you. m-zw to "I. l whispered furiously. '. oi. desperate determination "be :t tl-",T' \\llI) extu'els‘ to be h t |.. n o: e of. the supreme [noI "I'm not coming," he whispered back. 1.x hint «It'tte‘ele to wom- IIis voiee was ..'. wrlll. his terror. breathless as though he had been running. "Nonsense," I answered roughly, and I put my hand on his arm. His body trembled in jerks and starts. "It's madness . . . this road . . . the moon. . . . (II course they'll fire. . . . We'll all be killed. flint it isn‘t . . . it isn't . . . I 'an't move. . . ." "You must move. . . . Come, Andrey "What ear was? . . . \Vell, good bye, do as you Vassilievitt'll: l"or it to gu-b . L"~'-It|t‘l' with his ml lo wotld run into tln: lt tlwt't‘, IIIt‘ll \Iltltll'lll‘y vl."tl:‘, with his own I. 311,! lll‘ "|||I‘_"ll, look- "1‘ to Ill" h'IiI. muons. Soon, at some |