On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Publishedaboebm -

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some were clapping me on the backon every side smiling faces were
looking into mine; and so it was that I knew that I had won my footing in
the Hussars of Conflans.
THE ADVENTURES OF GERARD
45
III. How the Brigadier Slew the
Fox[*]
[*] This storyalready published in The Green Flagis included here
so that all of the Brigadier Gerard stories may appear together.
In all the great hosts of France there was only one officer toward
whom the English of Wellington's Army retained a deepsteadyand
unchangeable hatred.
There were plunderers among the Frenchand men of violence
gamblersduellistsand roues. All these could be forgivenfor others of
their kidney were to be found among the ranks of the English. But one
officer of Massena's force had committed a crime which was unspeakable
unheard ofabominable; only to be alluded to with curses late in the
eveningwhen a second bottle had loosened the tongues of men. The
news of it was carried back to Englandand country gentlemen who knew
little of the details of the war grew crimson with passion when they heard
of itand yeomen of the shires raised freckled fists to Heaven and swore.
And yet who should be the doer of this dreadful deed yilai:
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