Where our men were, and where the French, he did not know.

There was no one near.

Having disentangled his leg, he rose.

" Where, on which side, was now the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?" he asked himself and could not answer.

" Can something bad have happened to me?" he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm.