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of the line standing sentry, posted there doubtlessly by the main guard
at a little distance.
This soldier was at the halt with his gun to his shoulder ready to
fire.
He heard the step of Pierre Tissié, and cried out,--
"
Who goes there?"
"Death!" answered Pierre Tissié.
The soldier fired, and missed Pierre Tissié, who sprang on him, and
struck him down with a blow of his knife.
The soldier fell, and blood spurted out of his mouth.
"
I did not know I should speak so truly," muttered Pierre Tissié.
And he added, "Now for the ambulance!"
He took the soldier on his back, picked up the gun which had fallen to
the ground, and came back to the barricade. "I bring you a wounded
man," said he.
"A dead man," they exclaimed.
In truth the soldier had just expired.
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