He sent at once for the doctor, and held my shoulder tenderly while the ball was taken from it.

This he kept, together with Miste's revolver, and indeed acted throughout with the greatest shrewdness and good sense.

As an old campaigner he strongly urged me to remain quietly at St.Martin for a few days until the fever which inevitably follows a bullet wound should have abated; but, on learning that it was my intention to proceed at once to Genoa, placed no difficulty in my way.
Knowing that I should find Sander at Genoa, where I could be tended, Giraud decided to remain at St.Martin Lantosque until Miste had been buried and all formalities observed.
So I set forth alone about midday--in a private carriage placed at my disposal by some local good Samaritan--feeling like a worm and no man..