New Ulm weekly review., 1886-01-13
.eIsn't that worthy Of Plutarch, Bri-

scourt??''' ~
And then the pain in my arm was
50 great that ! tainted away again, and
heard nothing more.
rs You know what followed. / have
often told yo u how they hacked about
my shoulder, and how | lay in the am
balances for two months with fever
and delirium. And in my restless;
wakeful hours, was always wonder
ing what / ought to do apout Thirsty.
Ought to denounce him? thought
4 ought. But then, what proofs
had | to show? And after
all, if he was a scoundrel, he was a
brave soldier. He had killed Captain
Gentle, but he had taken a flag from
the enemyl Icould not make up my
mind what to do. When at length
began to get better, | learned that,
as a reward for his brilliant conduct,
Thirsty had been promoted into the
regiment of Zouaves of the Guard, and
that they had given him the cross OF
the Legion Of Honor. For the first
moment it made meieel disgusted with
my own cross, that the colonel had
brought me in the hospital. And yet
after all, Thirsty deserved his as we'll
as did mine; but he deserved, too,
that his ribbon should serve as q tar
get for file Of men told off to shoot
him. All that happened long ago, and
[ have never seen the sergeant since,
he is still in the service, while / have
turned civilian. But justnow looking
at that tunic which its bullet-hole-
and God knows how it ever got there!
hanging there in the shop, with the
barracks where the murderer is quar-
tered only few yards off, I remem-
bered that crime that had gone unpun-
ished, and itseemed as if the ecaptain's S
ghost cried out for justice.
1quieted Pere Vidal as best could,
for his story had put him in a great
state OF excitement. l assured him
that he acted for the best, and that
the heroic conduct OF the sergeant of
Zouaves had fully balanced his crime.
But a few days after, when I went to
the office, Vidal handed me newspa-
per, folded so that l could only see
one paragraph, and remarked, sol.
emily:
"What did / tell yon?"
| took the newspaper, and this is
what l read:
ANOTHER VICTIM OF INTEMPERANcE.-
Yesterday afternoon, on the Boulevard de
Grenelle, man named Mallet, commonly
called Thirsty, a sergeant in heZouaves OF
the Imperial Guard, who had been drink
ing deeply in all the public houses OF the
neighborhood. with two OF his companions
was suddenly seized with an attack OF de-
liriu1n treinens, while he was looking at
some old uniforms hanging in the window
OF q secondhand clothes shop. He ran
down the street, blandishing his sword and
spreading terror before him. The two
soldiers who accompanied him had the
greatest difficulty in mastering the mad
man, who kept shouting with fury: II am
not a murderer! l took flag from the
Austrians at Melegnano!" We are inform
ed that Mallet really was decorated for the
gallant act, and that nothing but his in
veterate drunkenness has prevented his
being promoted to the rank Of an officer
Mallet Was taken to the military hospital,
the Gros- -Caillou, whence he will shortly be
removed to Charenton, as it is doubtful If
the unfortunate man will ever recover his
reason"
AS I gave back the newspaper to
Vidal, he looked earnestly at me and
added:
"Captain Gentle was a Corsican.
He has taken his revenge!!" !!"-Trans-
lated from the French for the Ar
gonaut.