Then the door was pushed open, and Captain Le Gaire came in." "But where was the guard then ?" "I don't know.

I asked, but the captain had seen no one.

I cannot tell you how the man looked, acted, or exactly what he said.

The first glance at him awoke my sympathy, before he had spoken a word, for his uniform was torn and covered with dirt, and his face all blood from a wound on the temple.

He was trembling like a child, and could hardly talk.