He is rejoicing because peace has been declared." "Oh, you have a neighbour who has served then! I am glad; for I, too, have seen a little soldiering here and there." He did not look glad, but he drew his brows down over his keen eyes.
"You are French, are you not ?" I asked, as we all walked up the hill together, he with his black bag in his hand and his long blue cloak slung over his shoulder.
"Well, I am of Alsace," said he; "and, you know, they are more German than French.

For myself, I have been in so many lands that I feel at home in all.

I have been a great traveller; and where do you think that I might find a lodging ?" I can scarcely tell now, on looking back with the great gap of five-and-thirty years between, what impression this singular man had made upon me.

I distrusted him, I think, and yet I was fascinated by him also; for there was something in his bearing, in his look, and his whole fashion of speech which was entirely unlike anything that I had ever seen.

Jim Horscroft was a fine man, and Major Elliott was a brave one, but they both lacked something that this wanderer had.