Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-11-30

children" said PheEppeal on he saw the advance guard of th> ming party run up with their ladders, ''Wait until they are in the ditch, and then we shall have them like rats in a trap"
 Nothing could surpass the bravery of those devoted grenadiers. Though they were falling like ninepins, they went down into the ditch and made frantic efforts to get up to the breach, though the ladders did not reach the opening of the tower by ten or twelve feet. Then they planted them on the bodies of their dead comrades and tried again.
 At this moment the Maugrabin gun ners, for some ineXplicable reason (there is no accounting for panics), bolted from the rampant, but, being met by Djezzar, pistol in hand, turned back, and recommended firing with such effect | | the achievements which were c @ up to the support of the forlorn ] were compelled to re- treat. Two rench generals were killed, and the grenadiers left more than half their number, dead and dying, at the bottom of the ditch.
 After this check the French engineers began to sink mines, with the idea of filling up the ditch and blowing up the tower. PheGppeaux countermined, and Djezzar made sally after sally, and, though always driven back, he kept the enemy on the alert and did them an in finity of damage. In one of these sal lies we captured post, carried off a number of intrenching tools, and took prisoner an officer and several men, whose heads the Maugrabins and AL banians, in accordance with their usual practice, were very anxious to cut off With some difficulty I saved the pris- oners' lives. The officer was my old friend, Capt. Lacluse, who, however (my face being blackened with powder and dust), did not recognize me until we were inside the Qualifications.
 "You here, M. Royl' he exclaimed, in answer to my inquiry after his health.
 "Why not? You also are here.'
 ''It is true. wish I wasn't. Iwould much rather be in Paris. say, mon ami, you did me very bad turn by go- ing away so unceremoniously from Boulogne."
 -"It is well for you that I did. If had not escaped from Boulogne I should probably not have come to Acre; and if I had not come to Acre your body would have been left out there and your head brought in on the point of scimetar."
 "You are right. My head is a great deal better where 1t is; and thank you 8 thousand times for keeping it there. I hope I shall have an oppor- tunity of reciprocating the favor"
 "You are very good, though cannot say that share in the hope. should be sorry for my head to be in such peril as yours was little while ago. How ever, think we may almost consider ourselves quits owed you some amends for getting v~' i.> such 8 scrape. Was Bonapar 2"
 "Angry? He was el hear 8 word of expla.
 under arrest, and disn
 post as aid-de-camp.
 cruelest blow of all.
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 legere-nothing nor,
 slow to forgive, and 1 shall ever win back his fa
 "Why not? At the worst, your of- fense was merely slight error of Judg- ment- The escape of a naval officer of inierlor rank IS no great matter"
 "Ah, but you were not an ordinary; prisoner. Bonaparte said you deceived him. that you virtually accepted a com mission in the French navy. and that you repaid with base ingratitude the benefits which he proposed to confer upon you"
 "1t Is not true that accepted com mission in the French navy. He pressed me to accept one, and it was agreed that should think about it and give him my answer on his return to Paris. It may be that I acted wrongly, that I ought to have refused his offer there and then. My excuse is that had done to should probably have been sent back eosprison and ]. was dying to regain my
 T don't think you acted wrongly.