The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-03

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lnnccs that ratified in their saddle boots.
As HARDWOOD strained ms eyes INC mooa
moon, across whose pale disk the flying scud
Wbirled like shredded smoke.
4. cultural voice bcgan.in German:
Where are the sCOutR-ehF
Then in the moonlight HARDWOOD saw speyer
and Stauffer, clad in tho uniform of the carbi-
thin packet Of papers. The Mouse beside him
ITemblod Ike a terrier at a rat hole haTe"oou
There was a brief pSriey, a word OF caution.
then the Uhlans wheeled their horses and gal
loped back toward Paris. and tho two traitor.
and followed the bank OF the river. Very
SHS%sno thoy ga moT0% OF the f uSHSns Sq had 70 di Sd0 away TTS.
The. Mouse stood beside him, an open clasp
knife In his fist, nostrils qutvering in the fresh
Hardwood glanced at, the knife and said,
Parish Come back to lie Bourgot. you fooli',.
Hall way back across the wet meadow the
MOUSE KTe G TaS The n nnSli /. e we 9xGI5SsES "S SSGS Hare
wood sharply. Put up that knife, I tell you"
The Mouse closed his knife and plodded on in
silence.
After a while Hardwood asked him about
Bourko and Hide and Yolettc. But he knew
little more than Hardwood did, for he had left
the house. on the ramparts the morning after
Hnrewood's departure, and since then had been
Morning was breaking as they forded the Mol
letter ard answered the sentry.s challenge from
land. They hurried through the main stree.
wherc, sleepy %roliefs were marching to replace
reached the church. where a group of officers
stood on the steps in attitudes Of detection.
men to arrest two Captains Of the carbineers.
Speyer and .Stauffer. | charge them with trea-
Mouse up the steps and led him forward. In
half q dozen sentences he told what he had seen.
The Mouse nodded his corroboration. stealing
muddy shoes. partly to inspire elf-confldence,
partly because he appreciated the Importance
But" said nm artillery. officer, "the ,carhi-
ing camp before daylight"
"Gone!" repeated Hardwood.
They followed the river bank toward Blanc
Mesnil."
shot from the end of the street brought the SOL
diers out of the'church, on q run. At the Same
moment a shell struck a house opposite and
Col, Martin, now ranking officer in the vi;
live to get out Of this I'll have the carbineers
before, a ,drumhead ,c~ourt'martial. Arc you
IF you get there. have these Gardiner Off
calling impatiently to the Mouse to follow. The
bombardment from the Prussian guns had
where, exploding on slate roofs, in 'courtyards,
in the middle OF the street.
The Mouse, half dead with terror, shrieked
as he ran, ducking his head at every crash. ore
hand twisted in coat. one shielding
"This won't do" cried Hardwood, dragging
the Mouse into a hallway. we've got, to wait
until the b9mbardment stops Here break in
Together they forced the door and entered.
The house was dark and empty. Harewood
f the seutt 1ee and Ssf'r raised sdpf him %%If'i to uf the Toof.
North, east. and west, the smoke Of the Prussian
guns curled up from the plain. In the north
Bourget, cannonaded by the fortress of the east
at long range.
There was no chance to reach Paris; he saw
that at the first glance. He saw. too; the
French. pickets being, chased back, into lie
Of a mitrailleuse in the west end OF the village
where columns of smoke arose from a burning
house. Far away : in the gray morning light the
ing mist, through which the sheeted flashes of
the cannon played like lightning behind a thun.
And now began, under the guns Of st. Denis
and observation-disclosures under the walls of
destined to reduce:France to a moral and physi-
cal condition too painful too pitiable to de-
s t6r comm nor sh = sepfaintgE OF ar ae b aIth6Gn1b maze f6e
second and third attempts at anarchy were to
p syitnhI sb0 sbG tiitt the mo fGqrth t i9snTpsc I'll n Vas Tb,d in,
AS for tho miserable village of lie Bourget, it
Prussian guard gathered like a tempest in the
north, and swept across the plain in three col,
Blanc esnil they poured down upon LIE Rour-
get; firing a. they came on. Right through the
biies. sweeping the barricade and turning again
to batter, down doors and windows where.
through the blinds. the soldiers of the 12sih of
the line were firing frenZiedly. From the slate
roof where he crouched Hardwood saw the Mo-
biles give way ana run. In a minute tho in
stricken soldiers. The Prussians shot them as
they ran; The shells tore through them: and
autumn leaves. 4 battery. a mass Of Wrecked
limbers. dying horses and smashed guns choked
the tho t trans fn,,,S Hli IiE. R Efi5not + u a tffI0T1hp TIP PIVOT Of
sian Queen Elizabeth Regiment" took tn I'm on
the flank, and hayoneted them TO the last man.
ments. swept into lie Bourget the Emperor
Francis and the Emperor, Alexandra regi-
fore them an aRonized mob of Mobiles, Franc
tireurs and linesmen. The massacre was fright
full: The Prussian bayyonets swept tine streets as
firing had ended. and the Uhlans capered from
uns iSt Gottl, In the north, however, the
had bsrricaded themselves in the stone houses
lining both sides Of the main street, and were
firing nrmo from the windows siIoSt into the w Thick s of the
through which the Prussians dashed again and
AGAR; %'only'to staggcr back under the blaze Of
Hardwood. on the roof. was a mark now for
the German rifcmen; bullet after bullet
chung. He waited his chance. then crawled
along the states and dropped into the scuttle
where the Mouse stood speechless with terror.
1t was time that he left. A shell, bursting in
the cellar, had ignited tho stored fagots. and the
first iooro the house had begun to burn iiercely.
Come he said. I'VE must make a dash for
the church" And he seized the Mouse, dragged
him down the smoking stairs to the street door;
officers and a couple of dozen voltiReurs ofthe
guard were running toward the church. pur'
sued by Uhlans.
IN the steps and into the dark church they
tumbled pellmcll. Hardwood and the Mouse
among them. They closed the great doors,
boltcd and barricadcd them with benches, pews
and heavy stone slabs from the floor. Already
tho vOltigeurs were firing through the stained
glass across the street: the officers climbed be-
side them and emptied their revolvers into the
masses of Prussinns that surged around the
church in n delirium of fury.
Hardwood, looking over the shoulder of an
officer, saw The Prussian pioneers digging
through the walls of the houses across the
street. saw the German soldiers pour into the
breach, saw them at the windows bayoneting
the remnants of the 12sth, and fiinging the
wounded from the windows; From house TO