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-Title: A Thousand Francs Reward
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-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.
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-By Emile Gaboriau.
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-Translated by Laura E. Kendall.
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-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.
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-
-I.
-
-It’s a very short time ago, yesterday as it were, that one Sunday
-afternoon about four o’clock, the whole Quartier du Marais was in an
-uproar.
-
-Rumor asserted that one of the most respectable merchants in the Hue
-Boi-de-Sicile had disappeared, and all efforts to find him continued
-fruitless.
-
-The strange event was discussed in all the shops in the neighborhood;
-there were groups at the doors of all the fruit-sellers, every moment
-some terrified housewife arrived, bringing fresh particulars.
-
-The grocer on the corner had the best and latest news, the most
-reliable, too, for he received his information from the lips of the cook
-who lived in the house.
-
-“So,” said he, “yesterday evening, after dinner, our neighbor, Monsieur
-Jandidier, went down to his cellar to get a bottle of wine, and was
-never seen again. He disappeared, vanished, evaporated!”
-
-It occasionally happens that mysterious disappearances are mentioned.
-The public becomes excited, and prudent people buy sword-canes.
-
-Policemen hear absurd reports, and shrug their shoulders. They know the
-wrong side of the carefully embroidered canvas. They investigate, and
-find, instead of artless falsehoods, the truth; instead of romances,
-sorrowful stories. Yet, up to a certain point, the grocer of the Rue
-Saint Louis told the truth.
-
-M. Jandidier, manufacturer of imitation jewelry, had not been at home
-for the last twenty-four hours.
-
-M. Theodore Jandidier was a man fifty-eight years old, very stout and
-very bald, who had made a large fortune in business. He was supposed
-to have a considerable income from stocks and bonds, and his business
-brought him annually, on an average, fifty thousand francs. He was
-beloved and respected in his neighborhood, and justly so; his honesty
-was above suspicion, his morality rigid. Married late in life to a
-penniless relative, he had made her perfectly happy. He had an only
-daughter, a pretty, graceful girl, named Thérèse, whom he worshiped. She
-had been engaged to the eldest son of Schmidt the banker--member of the
-firm Schmidt, Gubenheim & Worb--M. Gustave; but the match was broken
-off, nobody knew why, for the young people were desperately in love
-with each other. It was said by Jandidier’s acquaintances that Schmidt
-senior, a perfect skinflint, had demanded a dowry far beyond the
-merchant’s means.
-
-Notified by public rumor, which hourly exaggerated the story, the
-commissary of police went to the home of the man already called “the
-victim,” to obtain more exact information.
-
-He found Mme. and Mlle. Jandidier in such terrible grief that it was
-with great difficulty he gleaned the truth. At last he learned the
-following details:
-
-The day before, Saturday, M. Jandidier had dined with his family as
-usual, though his appetite was not good, owing, he said, to a violent
-headache.
-
-After dinner he went to his stores, gave some orders, and then entered
-his office.
-
-At half past six he came upstairs again, and told his wife he was going
-to walk.
-
-And he had not been seen since!
-
-After carefully noting these particulars, the commissary requested Mme.
-Jandidier to let him speak with her alone a few minutes. She made a sign
-of assent, and Mlle. Thérèse left the room.
-
-“Pardon the question I am about to ask, madame,” said the police
-officer. “Do you know whether your husband--again I beg you to excuse
-me--had any ties outside of his own family?”
-
-Mme. Jandidier started up; anger dried her tears.
-
-“I have been married twenty-three years, monsieur, and my husband has
-never returned home later than ten o’clock.”
-
-“Was your husband in the habit of going to any club or café, madame?”
- continued the officer.
-
-“Never; I wouldn’t have allowed it.”
-
-“Did he usually carry valuables on his person?”
-
-“I don’t know; I attended to my housekeeping and didn’t trouble myself
-about business matters.”
-
-It was impossible to get anything more from the haughty wife, who was
-fairly bewildered by sorrow.
-
-Having performed his duty, the commissary thought he ought to give the
-poor woman a little commonplace consolation.
-
-But on withdrawing, after an examination of the house, he felt very
-anxious, and began to suspect that a crime had been committed.
-
-That very evening one of the most skillful members of the detective
-force, Rétiveau, better known in the Rue de Jerusalem under the name
-of Maitre Magloire, was put on M. Jandidier’s track, supplied with an
-excellent photograph of the merchant.
-
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-
-II.
-
-The very day after M. Jandidier’s disappearance, Maitre Magloire
-appeared at the Palais de justice to report what he had done to the
-magistrate in charge of the affair.
-
-“Ah! there you are, Monsieur Magloire,” said the magistrate; “so you’ve
-discovered something?”
-
-“I am on the trail, monsieur.”
-
-“Speak.”
-
-“To begin with, Monsieur Jandidier did not leave home at half past six
-o’clock, but precisely seven.”
-
-“Precisely?”
-
-“Precisely. I ascertained that from a clock-maker in the Rue Saint
-Denis, who is sure of it, because while passing his shop, Monsieur
-Jandidier took out his watch to see if it was exactly like the
-clock over the door. He held an unlighted cigar in his mouth. Having
-discovered this last circumstance, I said to myself, ‘I have it! He’ll
-light his cigar somewhere.’ I reasoned correctly; he went into a retail
-shop on the Boulevard du Temple, whose mistress knows him very well. The
-fact was impressed on the woman’s memory because he always smoked sou
-cigars, and this time bought London ones.”
-
-“How did he appear?”
-
-“Absent-minded, the shop-keeper told me. It was from her I found out
-that he often went to the Café Ture. I entered it, and was told that he
-had been there Saturday evening. He took two small glasses of brandy,
-and talked with his friends. He seemed dull. ‘The gentleman talked all
-the time about life insurance policies,’ the waiter told me. At half
-past eight o’clock our man left the with one of his friends, a merchant
-in the neighborhood, Monsieur Blandureau. I instantly went to this
-gentleman, who informed me that he walked up the boulevard with Monsieur
-Jandidier, who left him at the corner of the Rue Richelieu, pleading a
-business engagement. He was not in his usual spirits, and seemed to be
-assailed by the gloomiest presentiments.”
-
-“Very well, so far,” murmured the magistrate.
-
-“On leaving Monsieur Blandureau, I went to the Rue Roi-de-Sicile to
-ascertain from somebody in the house whether Monsieur Jandidier had any
-customers or friends in the Rue Richelieu, but no one lived there except
-his tailor. I therefore proceeded hap-hazard to the tailor. He saw our
-man Saturday. Monsieur Jandidier called on him after nine o’clock to
-order a pair of trousers. While his measure was being taken, he noticed
-that one of his vest buttons was nearly off, and asked to have it sewed
-on. He was obliged to take off his overcoat while the trifling repair
-was made, and as at the same time he removed the contents of the side
-pocket, the tailor noticed several hundred-franc bank-bills.”
-
-“Ah!” that’s a clew, “He had a considerable sum of money with him?”
-
-“Considerable, no; but tolerably large. The tailor estimates it at
-twelve or fourteen hundred francs.”
-
-“Go on,” said the magistrate.
-
-“While his vest was being repaired, Monsieur Jandidier complained of
-sudden indisposition, and sent a little boy for a carriage, saying that
-he was obliged to go to one of his workmen, who lived a long distance
-off. Unfortunately, the lad had forgotten the number of the carriage.
-He only recollected that it had yellow wheels, and was drawn by a large
-black horse. The vehicle was found. A circular sent to all who kept
-carriages for hire, put me on the track. I learned this morning that
-it was No. 6007. The driver, on being questioned, distinctly remembered
-having been stopped Saturday evening, about nine o’clock, in the Rue
-Richelieu, by a little boy, and waiting ten minutes in front of the
-Maison Gouin. The description he gave of his fare exactly suits our
-man, and he recognized the photograph among five different ones I showed
-him.”
-
-Maitre Magloire stopped. He wanted to enjoy the approval visible in the
-magistrate’s expression.
-
-“Monsieur Jandidier,” he continued, “ordered the driver to take him to
-No. 48 Rue d’Arras-Saint-Victor. In this house lives a workman named
-Jules Tarot, employed by Monsieur Jandidier.”
-
-M. Magloire’s way of pronouncing this name was intended to rouse the
-magistrate’s attention, and did so.
-
-“You have suspicions?” he asked.
-
-“Not exactly, but this is the story. Monsieur Jandidier dismissed the
-carriage at the Rue d’Arras and went to Tarot’s about ten o’clock. At
-eleven the employer and workman came out together. The latter did not
-return until midnight, and here I lose all trace of my man. Of course I
-didn’t question Tarot, for fear of putting him on his guard.”
-
-“Who is this Jules Tarot?”
-
-“A workman in mother-of-pearl, a man who polishes shells on a grindstone
-to make them perfectly iridescent. He’s a skillful fellow, and, assisted
-by his wife, to whom he has taught his trade, can make nearly a hundred
-francs a week.”
-
-“They are in easy circumstances, then?”
-
-“Oh! no. They are both young, they have no children, they are Parisians.
-Deuce take it, they enjoy themselves. Monday regularly carries away what
-the other days bring.”
-
-
-
-
-III.
-
-Two hours after Maitre Magloire’s report, the police went to search
-Jules Tarot’s house.
-
-At sight of the officers, the workman and his wife turned deadly pale,
-and were seized with a nervous tremor that could not escape Maitre
-Magloire’s practiced eye, Yet the most thorough investigation failed to
-detect anything suspicious, and the policemen were about to withdraw,
-when the detective noticed Tarot’s wife glance anxiously at a cage hung
-in the window.
-
-This was a ray of light. In less than an instant Magloire had unhooked
-and taken down the cage. Between the boards, at the bottom, twelve
-hundred-franc bank-bills were found.
-
-This discovery seemed to crush the workman. As to his wife, she began
-to utter piercing shrieks, protesting that both she and her husband were
-innocent. They were arrested, conveyed to head-quarters, and questioned
-by the magistrate. Their answers were precisely the same.
-
-They acknowledged having received a visit from their employer Saturday
-evening. He seemed so ill that they asked him to take something to
-drink, but he refused. He had come, he said, to give a large order, and
-proposed that Tarot should undertake it, employing his own workmen.
-They replied that they had no means to do so, whereupon their
-employer answered: “No matter, I’ll supply the money.” And laid twelve
-hundred-franc bills on the table.
-
-At eleven o’clock M. Jandidier asked his workman to accompany him; he
-was going to the Faubourg Saint Antoine. Tarot went as far as the Place
-de la Bastile, crossing the foot-bridge of Constantine, and walking
-along the canal.
-
-The magistrate asked both husband and wife the very natural question:
-
-“Why did you hide the money?”
-
-They made the same reply.
-
-Monday morning, hearing of M. Jandidier’s disappearance, they were
-seized with terror. Tarot said to his wife: “If it is known that our
-employer came here, that I crossed the bridge and followed the edge of
-the canal with him, I shall be seriously compromised. If this money were
-found in our possession we should be lost.”
-
-The wife then wanted to burn the notes, but Tarot opposed the plan,
-intending to return them to the family.
-
-This explanation was reasonable and plausible, if not probable, but it
-was merely an explanation. Tarot and his wife were kept under arrest.
-
-
-
-
-IV.
-
-A week after, the magistrate was still greatly perplexed. Three more
-examinations had not enabled him to come to any fixed conclusion.
-
-Were Tarot and his wife innocent? Were they simply marvelously clever in
-maintaining a probable story?
-
-The magistrate knew not what to think, when one morning a strange rumor
-spread abroad. The Maison Jandidier had failed. A detective sent to
-make inquiries, brought back the most startling news. M. Jandidier, who
-people supposed to be so rich, was ruined, utterly ruined, and for three
-years had kept up his credit by all sorts of expedients. There was not a
-thousand francs in his house, and his notes due at the end of the month
-amounted to sixty-seven thousand, five hundred francs.
-
-The cautious merchant gambled in stocks at the Bourse, the virtuous
-husband was unfaithful.
-
-The magistrate had just heard these particulars, when Maitre Magloire
-appeared, pale and panting for breath.
-
-“You know, monsieur?” he exclaimed on the threshold. “All!”
-
-“Tarot is innocent.”
-
-“I think so; and yet, that visit--how do you explain that visit?”
-
-Magloire shook his head mournfully.
-
-“I’m a fool,” said he, “and Lecoq has just proved it. Monsieur Jandidier
-talked about life insurance policies at the Café Ture. That was the key
-to the whole matter. Jandidier was insured for 200,000 francs, and the
-companies, in France, never pay in case of suicide; do you understand?”
-
-
-
-
-V.
-
-Thanks to M. Gustave Schmidt, who will marry Mlle. Thérèse Jandidier
-next month, the Maison Jandidier did not fail.
-
-Tarot and his wife, on being restored to liberty, were set up in
-business by the same M. Gustave, and no longer go junketing on Mondays.
-
-But what has become of M. Jandidier? A thousand francs reward for news
-of him!
-
-
-
-
-MILITARY SKETCHES.
-
-
-
-
-THE CANTINIERE.
-
-She may be young or old, dazzlingly pretty or frightfully ugly; in this
-case looks make no difference, she is ever and always the same. If there
-is much that is evil in her composition there is quite as much that is
-good. She is a woman although--or because--she is a cantinière. This
-much is certain--she loves the soldier, and is ever ready to do him a
-service.
-
-It is unnecessary to describe the cantinière in her glory; that is
-to say, at the head of her regiment on review days, arrayed in fall
-uniform, her glazed cap perched jauntily over one ear and her little
-cask on her back. Every one knows her traditional jacket, coquettish
-short skirt, trousers with scarlet stripes, and her fantastic boots.
-
-It is certainly a pretty sight to see her when the drum beats, leading
-the way, and keeping time to the step of the soldiers.
-
-But the drum is not always beating, fortunately! glory and noise do
-not suffice to fill the stomach, so on her return to the quarters, the
-cantinière lays aside her gorgeous apparel, and resumes her civilian
-costume, that is, a skirt and drees, and bestows her attention upon the
-thousand details connected with her establishment.
-
-The cantine is not what the civilian generally supposes; it is at once
-a restaurant, wine-shop, café, beer-shop, and boarding-house. It is here
-that the soldier--and sometimes the officer--takes his morning dram;
-the volunteer spends here a portion of the money sent him by his family;
-hussars afflicted with a hearty appetite find here a cheap supplement to
-the mess-room; troopers under arrest can here enjoy a demi-tasse without
-leaving the quarters, and here all the non-commissioned officers take
-their meals.
-
-They pay forty-five centimes a day and furnish their bread: in exchange
-for this amount, they are entitled to two meals a day, each composed
-of two dishes and a dessert, besides a bowl of soup or porridge in the
-evening.
-
-The charges are not high, as you see; so cantinières do not accumulate
-fortunes as rapidly as the restaurant-keepers on the boulevards.
-
-But moderation in price does not prevent the articles from being good,
-for some cantinières are veritable _cor-dons bleus_, competent to
-prepare a dish originated by Dr. Véron.
-
-In the generality of cases the cantinière is the wife of a drummer in
-the infantry, of a trumpeter in the cavalry; her husband is sometimes
-the fencing-master, or even a common soldier; but his position or rank
-is not of the slightest importance. In the cantine, the husband is a
-nonentity. His existence is scarcely recognized; and he is visible only
-on great occasions, when there is a crowd, or when it is necessary to
-quell disorder, which is seldom the case.
-
-The husband of the cantinière, when his duties are over for the day,
-smokes his pipe behind the door, and drinks brandy--or beer if he is a
-German; almost all the cantinièrea are Alsatians. Their children are
-sent to the regimental school; some become officers, the majority become
-excellent trumpeters.
-
-So the cantinière reigns supreme in her domain, which does not prevent
-her from serving others. She is generally assisted by a young woman, and
-by a good-natured soldier, who becomes her soldier, her right arm, in
-consideration of a small salary. If any disorder arises she quells it,
-putting the offender out-of-doors herself if necessary.
-
-She does not like to give credit; but she is so kind-hearted that she
-can not bear to see a man suffer, and it is impossible for her to refuse
-a drop to a really thirsty soldier. Though she censures herself for her
-weakness, she does not know how to resist an entreaty; but we must
-admit that she is generally paid, and that she does not lose much by her
-liberality.
-
-And what woman would not do the same? How could any one refuse to comply
-with a request of this kind:
-
-“My good Madame Bajot,--I have been in the lock-. up for four days.
-I have not a penny nor even a morsel of tobacco to put in my pipe.
-I entreat you to send me six sous’ worth of tobacco--and a quart of
-brandy--for I am very thirsty--through my comrade, and in a little
-bottle on account of the corporal. By so doing you will save my life,
-and I will settle your bill next pay-day. Let the tobacco be very dry
-and of the best quality.
-
-“Be assured of my eternal gratitude,
-
-“Brulard,
-
-“Of the 1st Division, 3d Squadron.”
-
-The excellent woman shudders on contemplating the prisoner’s privations,
-and sends him the tobacco and brandy.
-
-Moreover, if a trooper be sick or wounded, though not sufficiently to
-be sent to the hospital, she nurses him, dresses his wound, and prepares
-the _tisane_, for which she will never accept any pay.
-
-If the cantinière is ugly, no one thinks of criticising her.
-
-It is her right, and no one even perceives it; but if she is pretty, it
-is a very different matter. She makes havoc in the regiment, and all the
-young conscripts are speedily subjugated by her conquering charms.
-
-It is an old trooper’s axiom, that the goodness of the wine is in an
-inverse ratio to the beauty of the cantinière.
-
-She has a little wagon drawn by one or two horses. It is in this
-equipage that she follows the troops, and appears upon the parade
-ground, where she dispenses tobacco and liquors to the officers and men
-in the intervals of rest during the drill.
-
-During a campaign she devotes herself to her regiment. More than once in
-the thickest of the fight she has been seen going from rank to rank
-to carry a drop to the soldiers, and braving the canister and grape in
-order to give a little water to the wounded. She keeps no accounts at
-such times; she does not sell, she gives.
-
-Several cantinières have been decorated, and the exploits of one of
-their number have been related throughout Europe. They have formed
-the plot of a drama which delineates all the characteristics of “the
-soldier’s mother,” under the title of “The Vivandière of the Grand
-Army.”
-
-
-
-
-THE BARBER OF THE SQUADRON.
-
-As a general thing, it is upon the cheeks of his brother soldiers that
-he serves his apprenticeship--a severe apprenticeship for the cheeks!
-Heaven preserve you from ever falling into his clutches and testing
-his dexterity. In former years, before entering the service, he was a
-carpenter, a mechanic, or a stone-cutter;--his good conduct elevated him
-to the important position of barber, and since that time he has plied in
-turn the scissors and razor with more zeal than discretion.
-
-This office of barber is one of the most popular in the regiment; and
-the person who holds it is not a little proud of the honor. First of
-all, he has a right to exact a small monthly payment from each soldier;
-he also enjoys perfect freedom after ten o’clock; in short, he is
-excused from all drudgery, and most of the exercises. And yet his
-position is no sinecure.
-
-The barber is responsible for the heads of the entire company. If the
-beards are too long, or the hair transgresses the limits prescribed by
-ordinance, he is the one upon whom the blame will fall. The
-regulation is there; he must follow it to the letter, and shave his
-companions-in-arms as closely as possible, and not unfrequently against
-their will; for there are troopers who cling to their hair--
-the natural ornament of man. The military gallant would love to wear
-long hair, probably so a loving hand could caress his curls; but the
-regulations are pitiless.
-
-“As soon as the hair can be seized with the hand, it must positively be
-cut,” says the corporal.
-
-All sorts of means are vainly employed by the foppish trooper to
-preserve his hair. He wets it every day, or pastes it down with the aid
-of _cosmetique_, then hides it carefully under his cap.
-
-‘Wasted efforts! the officers are acquainted with all these tricks; they
-pull off the caps, rumple up the hair, and then the delinquent and the
-barber, who is held responsible, are almost sure of two, or even four
-days in the guard house.
-
-Those sly foxes--the old troopers--do not resort to such hackneyed
-expedients; they feign some affection of the eyes or ears, and thus
-obtain from the sergeant-major permission to wear their hair long.
-
-The days of grand reviews are trying ordeals for the barber. In less
-than two hours he must shave one hundred and fifty or two hundred
-beards, to say nothing of the hair-cutting.
-
-You should see him then, his sleeves rolled up to the elbow, and
-armed with a terrible razor which he has not even time to sharpen. The
-soldiers--I should say, the patients--perhaps martyrs would be still
-better--lather themselves in advance, and come one after another to
-take their place in the seat of torture. The work is accomplished in the
-twinkling of an eye; the most obstinate beards do not resist; hairs that
-refuse to be cut are torn out; the cheek bleeds a little, but that is
-nothing. What is a scratch to a French soldier? Moreover, the barber is
-a conscientious man, and if he occasionally happens to slice off an
-ear, he always takes the greatest possible pains to restore it to its
-rightful owner.
-
-The troopers dread the razor, but they jeer at the barber; they call him
-the butcher, in whispers be it understood--for if he overhears them, it
-is in his power to avenge himself summarily.
-
-Barbers are the heroes of a host of army legends; there is, first, the
-story of Barber Plumepate, who belonged to a cavalry regiment.
-
-This barber, who was very skillful in his profession, had an exceedingly
-vindictive disposition. Very severely punished one day by his captain,
-he swore vengeance, and openly declared he would kill the man who had so
-wronged him.
-
-The barber’s threats coming to the ears of the captain, he immediately
-summoned Plumepate.
-
-“You have sworn that you would kill me,” he said to him; “that is mere
-boasting on your part; you would never dare to do it. Wait a moment; I
-will try you. Prepare your implements and shave me.”
-
-The terrible Plumepate was completely disconcerted. He set to work, but
-he dared not carry out his threats. Never, on the contrary, did he do a
-neater job.
-
-On another occasion, during a campaign, a barber in one of the regiments
-of the line was summoned to shave the commander-in-chief. He was badly
-frightened, and he could but think of the possible consequences should
-his hand tremble. It did tremble so much that the general’s face was
-covered with blood when the operation was concluded. The unfortunate
-barber, terrified by what he had done, shook in every limb, and
-stammered a thousand excuses.
-
-“Hold,” said the general; “here is a louis! If your hand had not trembled
-in shaving your general, you would not be a true trooper.”
-
-During a campaign, a barber becomes a soldier like the others, for then
-both hair and beard are neglected.
-
-“When one finds water in Africa one drinks it; one does not amuse one’s
-self in making soap-suds.”
-
-It sometimes happens that the barber of a regiment is a genuine barber,
-who knows his trade, and who practiced it with honor before he became a
-soldier. Then there is joy in the squadron; and the troopers flock to
-be shaved by this artist, who does not mutilate them, and whose
-well-sharpened razor is scarcely felt. The more foppish, in
-consideration of a small fee, have their hair dressed and oiled.
-
-The lower officers, not only of the squadron, but of the entire
-regiment, give him their patronage; he becomes their favorite, their
-factotum, they treat him affably, almost courteously, and even permit a
-certain degree of familiarity.
-
-Louis XI. made a prime minister of his barber.
-
-
-
-
-THE VAGUEMESTRE.
-
-He is always busy, very busy, exceedingly busy; that is his specialty.
-Do not attempt to speak to him, he can not answer you; do not try to
-stop him, he will march you straight to the guard-house. He does not
-walk, he runs; he has not an hour to spare, not a moment, not a second.
-
-This morning before the odious reveille had driven the soldiers from
-their narrow couches he was up and dressed, ready to start.
-
-Should you succeed in questioning him, this will be his response:
-
-“What a life! what a profession! Look, sir, it is not yet nine o’clock,
-and I have already made thirty trips. I had scarcely time to take my
-dram this morning, and in my haste I almost choked myself. How do I know
-I shall have time to swallow my absinthe? Shall I even get my breakfast?
-That is doubtful. As you see, I invariably reach the cantine an hour
-after the others. Everything is eaten, there is nothing left, or
-if there is, it is something no one would eat, and consequently
-intolerable. Then they bring me an egg. An egg!” (with a bitter laugh),
-“an egg! for a man who has been running about all the morning. Never
-adopt my profession, sir; my existence is insupportable--a dog’s life!
-To-morrow, you may rest assured, I shall tender my resignation and take
-my place in the ranks, like the others. But what am I doing? Here I have
-lost ten minutes in talking; clear oat, d--n you! I should have had time
-to drink my absinthe.”
-
-It must be admitted that the life of the vaguemestre is not a path of
-roses.
-
-He is the Mercury of that company of deities known as the staff of a
-regiment, and like that mythological courier, he must have wings on his
-feet. He is also the superintendent of the regimental post-office; all
-letters that come and go pass through his hands; he must know the hours
-for the arrival and departure of the mails, carry the letters, and go
-after them. If soldiers receive money through the post, they can not
-draw it themselves; they carry their order to him, and he draws it
-and pays it over to them; so I assure you this officer’s time is fully
-occupied. And yet something more than agility is needed, for he must
-think of everything. The slightest oversight or the least delay might
-produce serious consequences, for forgetfulness and want of punctuality
-are severely punished.
-
-In the morning he hastens to the post-office, then to the colonel’s
-house to obtain the order of the day; then he rushes back to the
-barracks in company with the messenger.
-
-He then hastily sorts the letters, making a separate pile for each
-squadron; these he gives to the sergeants, who give them to the
-corporals on duty for the week, who distribute them among the soldiers.
-
-But the hour for the report arrives; he hastens after it; then he starts
-off again. The report must be submitted to the superior officers. The
-lieutenant-colonel is waiting for it; the major is waiting for it,
-so the vaguemestre hurries away. On returning, he must stop to see a
-captain who has sent for him; besides, the colonel has intrusted him
-with a letter to be delivered to a lieutenant who lives at the very end
-of the town. What a nuisance! He rushes to the place, but does not find
-the lieutenant. The letter is important; the lieutenant must be at the
-_café_--lieutenants are always at the _café_--at least, when they are
-not at breakfast. The vaguemestre visits the _café_, no lieutenant; at
-last, he finds him at his boarding-house and delivers the letter.
-
-He heaves a mighty sigh of relief. Now he can breakfast; he hurries
-on with all the fleetness of which his tired limbs are capable; hunger
-lends him wings. He reaches the barracks. Alas! the adjutant-major
-who has just left the table, stops him in the passage; he has a few
-suggestions to make--adjutant-majors always have suggestions to make.
-
-At last he breakfasts in turn; he is the last of all. But it is useless
-to describe the experience of the entire day.
-
-The vaguemestre is gifted with an extraordinary memory. Every week, when
-he distributes the money received by the soldiers, he knows the exact
-condition of each man’s account; he must know if those who are entitled
-to money are in disgrace or ill. Every week the sergeant on duty in each
-squadron must furnish him with a report embodying this information; but
-it would take too much time to consult these documents. He prefers to
-remember.
-
-So, Sunday morning the trumpeter sounds the vaguemestre’s call, that is
-to say, executes a sort of flourish that signifies:
-
-“All who have received money-orders through the post must come and find
-the vaguemestre if they desire what is due them.”
-
-This call is so well understood that the soldiers respond promptly, and
-without hesitation, whereupon colloquies of this kind ensue:
-
-THE VAGUEMESTRE. Private Demanet, you have received twelve francs.
-
-PRIVATE DEMANET. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Private Demanet, your
-outfit is not yet paid for; you are credited with only eleven francs,
-which is a deplorable state of things. You must devote your twelve
-francs to this purpose.
-
-PRIVATE DEMARET. I entreat you, lieutenant--Vaguemestre. Well, then,
-here are a hundred sous. I will keep back only seven francs. Make out a
-receipt.
-
-EXAMPLE SECOND.
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. Private Castagnol, you have received fifty francs.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Your parents seem to
-have more money than they know what to do with.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Lieutenant, my family--
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. Ah! I remember, you are a volunteer. Very well, you may go.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. But my money?
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. You have eight days in the guard-house to make. Next
-Sunday, if you are not punished in the meantime, you shall have your
-money.
-
-PRIVATE OASTAGNOL. But--
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. No remarks.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL (_turning angrily away_). I shall tell my friends to
-send bank-notes next time.
-
-The vaguemestre being usually an adjutant, the soldiers address him as
-lieutenant.
-
-
-
-
-THE ZOUAVE.
-
-
-Many have talked of the zouave: few know him.
-
-Everybody has seen him lazily squatting at the gates of the Tuileries,
-like a granite sphinx on the threshold of the Assyrian palaces. He is
-on guard. He performs his duty with a profoundly melancholy air, smoking
-his pipe with feverish impatience, or, rather, watching with feverish
-impatience all the while he is smoking his pipe, some ray of our
-Parisian sunlight, which seems like moonlight when compared with that
-fierce African sunshine, which pours down upon the head like molten
-lead.
-
-A scrap of green or white calico, twisted around a red fez; a blue
-jacket, trimmed with red or yellow braid, and which leaves the throat
-entirely bare; full scarlet trousers, cut in the Oriental fashion; white
-gaiters buttoning above the ankle; this is his costume.
-
-How can one describe the man?
-
-Short, spare, compactly built and muscular, with broad shoulders, square
-fists, closely shaven head, keen eyes, a mocking smile, and a bold and
-decided bearing--such is the zouave, the best soldier in the world for
-bold ventures, skirmishes with outposts, impossible ambuscades, and
-rapid marches.
-
-Accustomed to the pursuit of the Arab, his constant enemy, the zouave is
-thoroughly conversant with all the stratagems of desert warfare. He has
-learned to outwit his savage foes, so he will always surprise the armies
-of Europe.
-
-“The Arab is very cunning, but the zouave is more cunning still.”
-
-He knows how to conceal himself in a little clump of shrubbery, and
-steal imperceptibly upon the sentinel whom he wishes to capture; he
-can advance without a sound, remain motionless for hours together, hide
-behind the slightest irregularity in the ground, crawl, leap, bound,
-disappear in the undergrowth that surrounds him, follow a track, and
-shun all the traps that are set for him.
-
-As a sharp-shooter, he has no equal.
-
-If a position is to be taken, he dashes forward, with head down,
-overturning everything in his passage. It is no longer a man; it is a
-bullet. Once started on his course, he reaches the goal or dies.
-
-The zouave cordially detests large cities, and regards garrisons with
-abhorrence.
-
-In garrison life, the discipline becomes too irksome; he must polish his
-cartridge-box, whiten his shoulder-belt, wash his clothes, mount guard
-at regular hours, appear at parade--all wearisome enough to the average
-trooper, but insupportable to the zouave.
-
-The zouave needs the freedom of camp life, the free range of an enemy’s
-country, a _ragoût_ improvised under a tent. It matters not if his
-canteen is only three-quarters full, and if the supply of coffee is
-running short, so he has but a morsel of no matter what to appease his
-hunger, he sings, he is gay, he is happy, he is himself.
-
-It is true that when he is not happy, he is equally gay, and sings even
-more loudly.
-
-The zouave owes his fondness for adventure and his almost nomadic habits
-to the African war. In constantly pursuing the Arabs through deserts and
-over mountains, he has formed habits of living very like those of these
-wandering tribes.
-
-Like the philosopher Bias, the zouave carries all his possessions about
-with him, which proves, perhaps, that he is something of a philosopher.
-
-But you should see a zouave’s knapsack when he is starting on an
-expedition. It is monstrous; one wonders if he will not sink beneath his
-burden, and be compelled to cast it aside. He would rather die. Besides,
-it seems to be the universal belief that he does not feel the weight of
-it.
-
-Usually, on taking the field, the infantry lighten their load as much as
-possible; the officers not only permit this, but require it.
-
-It is not so with the zouave. This seems to be the very time that his
-burden must be heaviest He reduces his effects to the smallest possible
-compass, rolls them, squeezes them, and then crowds them, and crowds
-them, until the straps become too short and the distended knapsack
-threatens to burst.
-
-There is a little of everything in the zouave’s load. An enumeration
-of its contents would sound like the inventory of three distinct
-establishments;--a drug, a haberdashery, and a grocery store.
-
-He has thread, needles, buttons, soap, wax, tallow, a thimble, a fork,
-one or two spoons, and several knives, to say nothing of the condiments
-indispensable in the concoction of a savory _ragoût_.
-
-For the zouave is a gourmand. It is to satisfy his fastidious tastes
-in this direction that, having no servant at his command, he has made
-himself the best cook in Europe.
-
-His _ragoûts_ might not make his fortune in Paris; but in Africa, in the
-desert, how many generals have smacked their lips over them!
-
-Any one can make a savory dish of stewed rabbit _with_ a rabbit; but to
-make it _without_ a rabbit, that is a difficult task, quite worthy of a
-zouave.
-
-His fertile imagination never shines as brilliantly as when the
-larder is empty; then, he employs all his wits; he searches, he invents.
-On such days, he dines admirably; but how many strange animals are made
-to turn from their usual path to take the road to the saucepan.
-
-“I do not ask my zouaves for strawberries,” said Marshal, then Colonel
-Canrobert, one frightfully hot day, in the middle of the desert; “but if
-I really desired some, they are quite capable of discovering them in the
-sand.”
-
-To-day the zouave is the most popular of all our soldiers; his _chachia_
-threatens to pass down to posterity with the towering bear-skin cap worn
-by the grenadiers of the First Empire.
-
-It is to the zouave that we owe the words of the celebrated march known
-as the “Casquette.” This is the origin of it:
-
-One night the French camp was surprised by Arabs. A murderous fire so
-astonished our soldiers, that they almost wavered at first; but Marshal
-Bugeaud rushed from his tent, and his presence inspiring our troops with
-their wonted enthusiasm, the enemy was repulsed.
-
-When the conflict was ended, the marshal noticed that every one smiled
-on looking at him. He raised his hands to his head. In his haste, he had
-left his tent adorned with the anything but heroic head-gear of the King
-of Yvetot; in short, a night-cap.
-
-The next day, when the trumpets gave the signal for the troops to resume
-their march, the zouaves, in memory of that original coifiure, sung in
-deafening chorus:
-
-     “As-tu vu
-     La casquette
-     La casquette,
-     As-tu vu
-     La casquette,
-     Du Père Bugeaud?”
-
-Two or three days afterward, the marshal, on giving the order for
-departure, said to the trumpeters: “Boys, sound _la casquette_.”
-
-So this name still clings to the order. To how many victories it has
-led, and will lead the zouaves!
-
-Father Bugeaud’s _casquette_, by insuring the success of “Duc Job,”
- yielded eighty thousand francs to the Théâtre Français, and sixty
-thousand francs to M. Léon Laya.
-
-It is a night-cap well worth the having.
-
-
-
-
-THE FANTASSIN, OR FOOT-SOLDIER.
-
-The fantassin, _par excellence_, is a soldier of the regular infantry.
-The cavalry pretend that the foot-soldier wears spurs on his elbows,
-but this is only a stale joke perpetrated before the bayonet came into
-general use.
-
-The regular infantry is really the French army. It has shed its blood
-upon every battle-field, and has come off victorious again and again.
-It is the infantry that has carried the standards of France through
-conquered Europe. It is the regular infantry which, without shoes,
-provisions, or artillery, swept down from the Alps upon Italy. It is
-the infantry that fought at the Pyramids, at Eylau and at Moscow. The
-infantry is the queen of battles; with her one can go in any direction
-and always maintain one’s position.
-
-There is nothing brilliant about the infantry uniform, and yet when
-seen in masses it produces an excellent effect. It is also the most
-comfortable and the best adapted to all the needs of a soldier in the
-field.
-
-At reviews, upon the parade ground, and on the boulevards there are,
-perhaps, regiments that attract more attention; but such is not the case
-if it is seen in line of battle. One should see it maneuvering under
-fire with the same precision as on the Champs de Mars. Each regiment has
-become a corps, with its officers at its head. A cannon-ball cuts down
-an entire file. “Close up the ranks!” The ranks are closed; the void is
-filled without haste, disorder, or confusion.
-
-Nothing could be more beautiful, nothing could be more magnificent than
-a regiment of the line advancing for a bayonet charge upon the enemy.
-Search the ranks; examine one by one these soldiers blackened with
-powder, try to find the foot-soldier you have seen lounging about the
-shop windows in large cities, with his shako on the back of his head.
-The lounger of yesterday is the hero of to-day. Now, danger illumines
-every face; courage, like an aureole, shines resplendent on every brow.
-All honor to the regulars! upon their banners is written our glorious
-history!
-
-The foot-soldier in garrison bears no resemblance whatever to the
-hero of the battle-field. He does not even remember his exploits of
-yesterday; he little suspects the great deeds he will perform to-morrow
-should France have need of his devotion and courage.
-
-The foot-soldier in garrison is the best and most inoffensive of men,
-always trying to make himself useful, ever ready to do a favor. His
-tastes are simple, and his desires modest; boisterous amusements have no
-attractions for him, and he rarely indulges in the bottle.
-
-The foot-soldier, like all the members of his profession, is generally
-in straitened circumstances.
-
-     “For in France as in Austria
-     The soldier is not rich,
-     Every one knows that.”
-
-It is true that one can not indulge in much extravagance on five
-centimes a day. Fortunately there are ways to increase this meager
-income. In many regiments, the soldiers are allowed to find occupation
-in the city, provided, of course, that discipline does not suffer
-thereby. Those who have a trade devote all their leisure time to it;
-those who have only their two hands and their good-will--and they are
-by far the largest number--nevertheless find a way to make themselves
-useful. In some _bourgeoisie_ households they hire a soldier to take
-care of the garden and scrub the floors.
-
-There is also another source of revenue which, though not the most
-honorable, is certainly the most in vogue; this is playing a trick on
-one’s family.
-
-The fraud is generally suggested by some old grumbler who is an adept in
-the art of deception. A mischievously inclined volunteer, who is a good
-penman, generally writes the letter. Illness is the usual pretext. It is
-the simplest of all, and seldom fails to produce the desired effect.
-How can you suppose that parents will refuse to forward a few francs on
-receiving from their child a letter beginning thus:
-
-“Dear Mother,--The object of this letter is to inform you that I am in
-the hospital.”
-
-The family send money. A letter arrives, inclosing a post-office order.
-The vaguemestre quickly changes it into shining coin. But alas! this
-money vanishes like a dream. And how could it be otherwise? So many
-friends must have a share of this windfall. First, there is the
-bedfellow, then the inventor of the trick, then the writer, then two
-or three comrades, fellow-countrymen--then a corporal who has been
-obliging, and many others. Besides, it is not considered seemly for a
-trooper to spend his money alone.
-
-A soldier who goes out alone, and who drinks alone, is disgraced in the
-eyes of his comrades.
-
-When he has finished his daily task at the barracks, polished his
-weapons, and answered to his name at roll-call, the foot-soldier is at
-liberty, provided he is not on duty, or on guard, or on the _corveê_,
-or undergoing punishment, and he can leave the barracks if he
-chooses. Generally he is eager to improve the opportunity. There must be
-something of importance to detain him if he does not go out; a letter to
-write, some little job to do, a pipe of unusual length to color for
-an officer who is making a collection. But such instances are rare. He
-loves long walks. If he is stationed in a small town, you can always
-meet him in the shady paths in the suburbs. He is generally cutting
-little switches to beat his clothing.
-
-If he is in a large city, he has a variety of amusements. He delights
-in gazing into the shop-windows; he haunts the promenades and the public
-gardens; mountebanks always find in him a patient and appreciative
-patron, ever ready to laugh at their stale jokes. The mountebank and
-the fantassin have had a mutual understanding for a long time. “Walk in.
-Walk in, gentlemen and ladies. Admission is ten centimes; two sous. The
-military only half-price.”
-
-But there is no place like Paris for the soldier. Wine is a trifle dear;
-but how many diversions there are. This is a city! one can stroll about
-five hours without danger of seeing the same objects. Moreover, Paris
-contains the Jardin des Plantes, and the Jardin des Plantes is, as every
-one knows, the soldier’s earthly Paradise.
-
-There, he can spend his hours of liberty most delightfully. He visits,
-in succession, all the cabinets of natural history. He almost splits
-his sides laughing as he stands before the monkey’s palace, watching the
-pranks of its occupants; he goes into ecstasies over the wild animals,
-and shudders while contemplating the reptiles. But his favorites are the
-bear and the elephant. He never leaves the Jardin des Plantes until he
-has seen Martin climb the tree, and given the elephant a crust of bread,
-held in reserve in his cap--for want of pantaloon pockets.
-
-But the foot-soldier would be a body without a soul, if he had no
-countrywoman. The payse, as he styles her, has been created for the
-fantassin, as the fantassin has been created for the payse. They love
-and understand each other. He accompanies the payse, who is usually a
-child’s nurse, in her walks; he assists her in watching the children,
-when he does not prevent her from watching them; on the promenade, the
-fantassin seats himself near the payse and pours sweet nothings into her
-ears, while the children play on the gravel-walk. “Honi soit qui mal y
-pense!”
-
-In spite of the fatigue that results from it, the foot-soldier loves
-a change of garrison. He goes cheerfully from one end of France to the
-other, singing as he plods along. Every day, before two o’clock, his
-legs fail him, which does not prevent him from strolling around to see
-the curiosities of the neighborhood as soon as he reaches the town where
-he is to spend the night.
-
-The _billet_ troubles the soldier a little. It is like a ticket in
-a lottery. Some are very good, some are bad. As a general thing, the
-soldier is cordially received; though the contrary happens sometimes. So
-far as the fantassin is concerned, he hardly ever abuses the hospitality
-accorded him. The _billet_ is considered very good when the people of
-the house invite the soldier to share their dinner. It is a saving of
-time and of money for him. The fantassin is overjoyed, and to repay his
-entertainers, he tells them his history.
-
-When his term of service expires and he returns to his fireside, the
-soldier does not presume upon his superiority. He talks freely but
-not boastingly of his travels and campaigns. He always finds attentive
-auditors, for we all love and respect the old defenders of France.
-
-Some accuse the fantassin of being too unsophisticated; there are
-occasions when simplicity of speech is the height of eloquence.
-
-“What were you doing at Solferino?” some one once asked a soldier.
-
-“I?--I was doing like the rest--killing and being killed,” he replied
-modestly.
-
-Sublimely artless speech in which is summed up all the philosophy of
-war.
-
-
-
-
-THE SOLDIER OF THE LIGHT INFANTRY;
-
-OR, THE CHASSEUR.
-
-He does not walk; he runs; he is truly the soldier of his age--an age of
-steam. He comes from Vincennes to Paris in thirty-five minutes; it takes
-a first class _fiacre_ just twice as long.
-
-The light infantry has given abundant proofs of courage. It was in
-Africa, in 1842, that it received the baptism of fire, a glorious
-baptism.
-
-From the very first the chasseurs inspired the Arabs with unconquerable
-terror. It is true that everything combines to give them a frightful
-appearance in battle; their somber costume, their strange evolutions,
-the shrill sound of their trumpets, make them resemble, seen in the
-midst of the smoke, a legion of unchained devils.
-
-When the Arabs saw them advancing on the run they took flight.
-
-The chasseurs have a terrible weapon. Their rifles, which are loaded
-with oblong balls, pierce a board fifty millimeters in thickness at a
-distance of more than a quarter of a mile; and as all the chasseurs are
-excellent marksmen, they make frightful havoc in the enemy’s ranks.
-
-It is amusing to see the profound astonishment of the Arabs wounded at
-such a distance. They believe there is some witchcraft about it.
-
-At Sebastopol, the corps of volunteer sharp-shooters was recruited from
-the ranks of the chasseurs. Creeping along, hiding in the slightest
-furrow of ground, they generally succeed in approaching within range
-of the battery, and then woe to its defenders! The cannons were soon
-reduced to silence.
-
-It is impossible for any one who has not witnessed the maneuvers of
-the light infantry to have any conception of the marvels resulting from
-discipline and daily practice.
-
-Their ordinary gait is a rapid walk, their accelerated pace is the speed
-of a race-horse. At a blast from the trumpet they disperse in every
-direction, disappearing, kneeling, lying flat on their bellies or
-on their backs, loading their rifles, aiming and firing in every
-conceivable posture. Another signal is heard; instantly they are in the
-ranks, crowded close together, bayonets glittering, ready to charge.
-
-And an impetuous charge by the chasseurs of Vincennes is irresistible.
-Dense as the mass may be upon which they precipitate themselves, they
-cut their way through it with their broad saber-bayonets, leaving a
-bloody trail behind them.
-
-“They are demons!” Prince Mentchikoff exclaimed at Sebastopol.
-
-The chasseurs are very proud of their reputation for swiftness. Once
-when an order of the day was read to them beginning thus:
-
-“Soldiers: we are about to march upon the enemy.”--they cried: “Oh, no,
-that does not suit us, we wish to run.”
-
-When off duty the chasseur preserves his rapid pace, and his ferocious,
-almost tigerish manner. His hat is always cocked defiantly on one side
-of his head, and his belt is always inordinately tight.
-
-Quick and supple in every movement, he adores dancing. It is his
-_forte_, and in it he wins a success that the Parisian fireman alone can
-dispute with him. Naturally, the belles adore this perfect dancer; but
-they should not trust him--the chasseur is even more inconstant than
-that heartless butterfly, the voltigeur.
-
-In Paris he haunts the shades of Vincennes and Saint Maudé. Monday,
-Thursday, and Sunday he can always be found at the public balls, near
-the Barrière du Trône, happy if permission to be absent until midnight
-enables him to remain until the close of the festivities. He invariably
-finds a brother chasseur who is also absent on leave, and who shares
-several bottles of sour wine with him.
-
-*******
-
-But it would be unjust not to say a word concerning the trumpeter of the
-chasseurs.
-
-How the chasseur, laden with his knapsack, rations, weapons, ammunition,
-and accouterments can run without losing his breath completely, it is
-difficult to comprehend.
-
-But how does the trumpeter, as he runs with the others, find breath to
-blow his trumpet?
-
-That is something one can not comprehend.
-
-
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-Title: A Thousand Francs Reward
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-Author: Emile Gaboriau
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-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.
-
-By Emile Gaboriau.
-
-Translated by Laura E. Kendall.
-
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-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.
-
-
-
-
-I.
-
-It's a very short time ago, yesterday as it were, that one Sunday
-afternoon about four o'clock, the whole Quartier du Marais was in an
-uproar.
-
-Rumor asserted that one of the most respectable merchants in the Hue
-Boi-de-Sicile had disappeared, and all efforts to find him continued
-fruitless.
-
-The strange event was discussed in all the shops in the neighborhood;
-there were groups at the doors of all the fruit-sellers, every moment
-some terrified housewife arrived, bringing fresh particulars.
-
-The grocer on the corner had the best and latest news, the most
-reliable, too, for he received his information from the lips of the cook
-who lived in the house.
-
-"So," said he, "yesterday evening, after dinner, our neighbor, Monsieur
-Jandidier, went down to his cellar to get a bottle of wine, and was
-never seen again. He disappeared, vanished, evaporated!"
-
-It occasionally happens that mysterious disappearances are mentioned.
-The public becomes excited, and prudent people buy sword-canes.
-
-Policemen hear absurd reports, and shrug their shoulders. They know the
-wrong side of the carefully embroidered canvas. They investigate, and
-find, instead of artless falsehoods, the truth; instead of romances,
-sorrowful stories. Yet, up to a certain point, the grocer of the Rue
-Saint Louis told the truth.
-
-M. Jandidier, manufacturer of imitation jewelry, had not been at home
-for the last twenty-four hours.
-
-M. Theodore Jandidier was a man fifty-eight years old, very stout and
-very bald, who had made a large fortune in business. He was supposed
-to have a considerable income from stocks and bonds, and his business
-brought him annually, on an average, fifty thousand francs. He was
-beloved and respected in his neighborhood, and justly so; his honesty
-was above suspicion, his morality rigid. Married late in life to a
-penniless relative, he had made her perfectly happy. He had an only
-daughter, a pretty, graceful girl, named Th�r�se, whom he worshiped. She
-had been engaged to the eldest son of Schmidt the banker--member of the
-firm Schmidt, Gubenheim & Worb--M. Gustave; but the match was broken
-off, nobody knew why, for the young people were desperately in love
-with each other. It was said by Jandidier's acquaintances that Schmidt
-senior, a perfect skinflint, had demanded a dowry far beyond the
-merchant's means.
-
-Notified by public rumor, which hourly exaggerated the story, the
-commissary of police went to the home of the man already called "the
-victim," to obtain more exact information.
-
-He found Mme. and Mlle. Jandidier in such terrible grief that it was
-with great difficulty he gleaned the truth. At last he learned the
-following details:
-
-The day before, Saturday, M. Jandidier had dined with his family as
-usual, though his appetite was not good, owing, he said, to a violent
-headache.
-
-After dinner he went to his stores, gave some orders, and then entered
-his office.
-
-At half past six he came upstairs again, and told his wife he was going
-to walk.
-
-And he had not been seen since!
-
-After carefully noting these particulars, the commissary requested Mme.
-Jandidier to let him speak with her alone a few minutes. She made a sign
-of assent, and Mlle. Th�r�se left the room.
-
-"Pardon the question I am about to ask, madame," said the police
-officer. "Do you know whether your husband--again I beg you to excuse
-me--had any ties outside of his own family?"
-
-Mme. Jandidier started up; anger dried her tears.
-
-"I have been married twenty-three years, monsieur, and my husband has
-never returned home later than ten o'clock."
-
-"Was your husband in the habit of going to any club or caf�, madame?"
-continued the officer.
-
-"Never; I wouldn't have allowed it."
-
-"Did he usually carry valuables on his person?"
-
-"I don't know; I attended to my housekeeping and didn't trouble myself
-about business matters."
-
-It was impossible to get anything more from the haughty wife, who was
-fairly bewildered by sorrow.
-
-Having performed his duty, the commissary thought he ought to give the
-poor woman a little commonplace consolation.
-
-But on withdrawing, after an examination of the house, he felt very
-anxious, and began to suspect that a crime had been committed.
-
-That very evening one of the most skillful members of the detective
-force, R�tiveau, better known in the Rue de Jerusalem under the name
-of Maitre Magloire, was put on M. Jandidier's track, supplied with an
-excellent photograph of the merchant.
-
-
-
-
-II.
-
-The very day after M. Jandidier's disappearance, Maitre Magloire
-appeared at the Palais de justice to report what he had done to the
-magistrate in charge of the affair.
-
-"Ah! there you are, Monsieur Magloire," said the magistrate; "so you've
-discovered something?"
-
-"I am on the trail, monsieur."
-
-"Speak."
-
-"To begin with, Monsieur Jandidier did not leave home at half past six
-o'clock, but precisely seven."
-
-"Precisely?"
-
-"Precisely. I ascertained that from a clock-maker in the Rue Saint
-Denis, who is sure of it, because while passing his shop, Monsieur
-Jandidier took out his watch to see if it was exactly like the
-clock over the door. He held an unlighted cigar in his mouth. Having
-discovered this last circumstance, I said to myself, 'I have it! He'll
-light his cigar somewhere.' I reasoned correctly; he went into a retail
-shop on the Boulevard du Temple, whose mistress knows him very well. The
-fact was impressed on the woman's memory because he always smoked sou
-cigars, and this time bought London ones."
-
-"How did he appear?"
-
-"Absent-minded, the shop-keeper told me. It was from her I found out
-that he often went to the Caf� Ture. I entered it, and was told that he
-had been there Saturday evening. He took two small glasses of brandy,
-and talked with his friends. He seemed dull. 'The gentleman talked all
-the time about life insurance policies,' the waiter told me. At half
-past eight o'clock our man left the with one of his friends, a merchant
-in the neighborhood, Monsieur Blandureau. I instantly went to this
-gentleman, who informed me that he walked up the boulevard with Monsieur
-Jandidier, who left him at the corner of the Rue Richelieu, pleading a
-business engagement. He was not in his usual spirits, and seemed to be
-assailed by the gloomiest presentiments."
-
-"Very well, so far," murmured the magistrate.
-
-"On leaving Monsieur Blandureau, I went to the Rue Roi-de-Sicile to
-ascertain from somebody in the house whether Monsieur Jandidier had any
-customers or friends in the Rue Richelieu, but no one lived there except
-his tailor. I therefore proceeded hap-hazard to the tailor. He saw our
-man Saturday. Monsieur Jandidier called on him after nine o'clock to
-order a pair of trousers. While his measure was being taken, he noticed
-that one of his vest buttons was nearly off, and asked to have it sewed
-on. He was obliged to take off his overcoat while the trifling repair
-was made, and as at the same time he removed the contents of the side
-pocket, the tailor noticed several hundred-franc bank-bills."
-
-"Ah!" that's a clew, "He had a considerable sum of money with him?"
-
-"Considerable, no; but tolerably large. The tailor estimates it at
-twelve or fourteen hundred francs."
-
-"Go on," said the magistrate.
-
-"While his vest was being repaired, Monsieur Jandidier complained of
-sudden indisposition, and sent a little boy for a carriage, saying that
-he was obliged to go to one of his workmen, who lived a long distance
-off. Unfortunately, the lad had forgotten the number of the carriage.
-He only recollected that it had yellow wheels, and was drawn by a large
-black horse. The vehicle was found. A circular sent to all who kept
-carriages for hire, put me on the track. I learned this morning that
-it was No. 6007. The driver, on being questioned, distinctly remembered
-having been stopped Saturday evening, about nine o'clock, in the Rue
-Richelieu, by a little boy, and waiting ten minutes in front of the
-Maison Gouin. The description he gave of his fare exactly suits our
-man, and he recognized the photograph among five different ones I showed
-him."
-
-Maitre Magloire stopped. He wanted to enjoy the approval visible in the
-magistrate's expression.
-
-"Monsieur Jandidier," he continued, "ordered the driver to take him to
-No. 48 Rue d'Arras-Saint-Victor. In this house lives a workman named
-Jules Tarot, employed by Monsieur Jandidier."
-
-M. Magloire's way of pronouncing this name was intended to rouse the
-magistrate's attention, and did so.
-
-"You have suspicions?" he asked.
-
-"Not exactly, but this is the story. Monsieur Jandidier dismissed the
-carriage at the Rue d'Arras and went to Tarot's about ten o'clock. At
-eleven the employer and workman came out together. The latter did not
-return until midnight, and here I lose all trace of my man. Of course I
-didn't question Tarot, for fear of putting him on his guard."
-
-"Who is this Jules Tarot?"
-
-"A workman in mother-of-pearl, a man who polishes shells on a grindstone
-to make them perfectly iridescent. He's a skillful fellow, and, assisted
-by his wife, to whom he has taught his trade, can make nearly a hundred
-francs a week."
-
-"They are in easy circumstances, then?"
-
-"Oh! no. They are both young, they have no children, they are Parisians.
-Deuce take it, they enjoy themselves. Monday regularly carries away what
-the other days bring."
-
-
-
-
-III.
-
-Two hours after Maitre Magloire's report, the police went to search
-Jules Tarot's house.
-
-At sight of the officers, the workman and his wife turned deadly pale,
-and were seized with a nervous tremor that could not escape Maitre
-Magloire's practiced eye, Yet the most thorough investigation failed to
-detect anything suspicious, and the policemen were about to withdraw,
-when the detective noticed Tarot's wife glance anxiously at a cage hung
-in the window.
-
-This was a ray of light. In less than an instant Magloire had unhooked
-and taken down the cage. Between the boards, at the bottom, twelve
-hundred-franc bank-bills were found.
-
-This discovery seemed to crush the workman. As to his wife, she began
-to utter piercing shrieks, protesting that both she and her husband were
-innocent. They were arrested, conveyed to head-quarters, and questioned
-by the magistrate. Their answers were precisely the same.
-
-They acknowledged having received a visit from their employer Saturday
-evening. He seemed so ill that they asked him to take something to
-drink, but he refused. He had come, he said, to give a large order, and
-proposed that Tarot should undertake it, employing his own workmen.
-They replied that they had no means to do so, whereupon their
-employer answered: "No matter, I'll supply the money." And laid twelve
-hundred-franc bills on the table.
-
-At eleven o'clock M. Jandidier asked his workman to accompany him; he
-was going to the Faubourg Saint Antoine. Tarot went as far as the Place
-de la Bastile, crossing the foot-bridge of Constantine, and walking
-along the canal.
-
-The magistrate asked both husband and wife the very natural question:
-
-"Why did you hide the money?"
-
-They made the same reply.
-
-Monday morning, hearing of M. Jandidier's disappearance, they were
-seized with terror. Tarot said to his wife: "If it is known that our
-employer came here, that I crossed the bridge and followed the edge of
-the canal with him, I shall be seriously compromised. If this money were
-found in our possession we should be lost."
-
-The wife then wanted to burn the notes, but Tarot opposed the plan,
-intending to return them to the family.
-
-This explanation was reasonable and plausible, if not probable, but it
-was merely an explanation. Tarot and his wife were kept under arrest.
-
-
-
-
-IV.
-
-A week after, the magistrate was still greatly perplexed. Three more
-examinations had not enabled him to come to any fixed conclusion.
-
-Were Tarot and his wife innocent? Were they simply marvelously clever in
-maintaining a probable story?
-
-The magistrate knew not what to think, when one morning a strange rumor
-spread abroad. The Maison Jandidier had failed. A detective sent to
-make inquiries, brought back the most startling news. M. Jandidier, who
-people supposed to be so rich, was ruined, utterly ruined, and for three
-years had kept up his credit by all sorts of expedients. There was not a
-thousand francs in his house, and his notes due at the end of the month
-amounted to sixty-seven thousand, five hundred francs.
-
-The cautious merchant gambled in stocks at the Bourse, the virtuous
-husband was unfaithful.
-
-The magistrate had just heard these particulars, when Maitre Magloire
-appeared, pale and panting for breath.
-
-"You know, monsieur?" he exclaimed on the threshold. "All!"
-
-"Tarot is innocent."
-
-"I think so; and yet, that visit--how do you explain that visit?"
-
-Magloire shook his head mournfully.
-
-"I'm a fool," said he, "and Lecoq has just proved it. Monsieur Jandidier
-talked about life insurance policies at the Caf� Ture. That was the key
-to the whole matter. Jandidier was insured for 200,000 francs, and the
-companies, in France, never pay in case of suicide; do you understand?"
-
-
-
-
-V.
-
-Thanks to M. Gustave Schmidt, who will marry Mlle. Th�r�se Jandidier
-next month, the Maison Jandidier did not fail.
-
-Tarot and his wife, on being restored to liberty, were set up in
-business by the same M. Gustave, and no longer go junketing on Mondays.
-
-But what has become of M. Jandidier? A thousand francs reward for news
-of him!
-
-
-
-
-MILITARY SKETCHES.
-
-
-
-
-THE CANTINIERE.
-
-She may be young or old, dazzlingly pretty or frightfully ugly; in this
-case looks make no difference, she is ever and always the same. If there
-is much that is evil in her composition there is quite as much that is
-good. She is a woman although--or because--she is a cantini�re. This
-much is certain--she loves the soldier, and is ever ready to do him a
-service.
-
-It is unnecessary to describe the cantini�re in her glory; that is
-to say, at the head of her regiment on review days, arrayed in fall
-uniform, her glazed cap perched jauntily over one ear and her little
-cask on her back. Every one knows her traditional jacket, coquettish
-short skirt, trousers with scarlet stripes, and her fantastic boots.
-
-It is certainly a pretty sight to see her when the drum beats, leading
-the way, and keeping time to the step of the soldiers.
-
-But the drum is not always beating, fortunately! glory and noise do
-not suffice to fill the stomach, so on her return to the quarters, the
-cantini�re lays aside her gorgeous apparel, and resumes her civilian
-costume, that is, a skirt and drees, and bestows her attention upon the
-thousand details connected with her establishment.
-
-The cantine is not what the civilian generally supposes; it is at once
-a restaurant, wine-shop, caf�, beer-shop, and boarding-house. It is here
-that the soldier--and sometimes the officer--takes his morning dram;
-the volunteer spends here a portion of the money sent him by his family;
-hussars afflicted with a hearty appetite find here a cheap supplement to
-the mess-room; troopers under arrest can here enjoy a demi-tasse without
-leaving the quarters, and here all the non-commissioned officers take
-their meals.
-
-They pay forty-five centimes a day and furnish their bread: in exchange
-for this amount, they are entitled to two meals a day, each composed
-of two dishes and a dessert, besides a bowl of soup or porridge in the
-evening.
-
-The charges are not high, as you see; so cantini�res do not accumulate
-fortunes as rapidly as the restaurant-keepers on the boulevards.
-
-But moderation in price does not prevent the articles from being good,
-for some cantini�res are veritable _cor-dons bleus_, competent to
-prepare a dish originated by Dr. V�ron.
-
-In the generality of cases the cantini�re is the wife of a drummer in
-the infantry, of a trumpeter in the cavalry; her husband is sometimes
-the fencing-master, or even a common soldier; but his position or rank
-is not of the slightest importance. In the cantine, the husband is a
-nonentity. His existence is scarcely recognized; and he is visible only
-on great occasions, when there is a crowd, or when it is necessary to
-quell disorder, which is seldom the case.
-
-The husband of the cantini�re, when his duties are over for the day,
-smokes his pipe behind the door, and drinks brandy--or beer if he is a
-German; almost all the cantini�rea are Alsatians. Their children are
-sent to the regimental school; some become officers, the majority become
-excellent trumpeters.
-
-So the cantini�re reigns supreme in her domain, which does not prevent
-her from serving others. She is generally assisted by a young woman, and
-by a good-natured soldier, who becomes her soldier, her right arm, in
-consideration of a small salary. If any disorder arises she quells it,
-putting the offender out-of-doors herself if necessary.
-
-She does not like to give credit; but she is so kind-hearted that she
-can not bear to see a man suffer, and it is impossible for her to refuse
-a drop to a really thirsty soldier. Though she censures herself for her
-weakness, she does not know how to resist an entreaty; but we must
-admit that she is generally paid, and that she does not lose much by her
-liberality.
-
-And what woman would not do the same? How could any one refuse to comply
-with a request of this kind:
-
-"My good Madame Bajot,--I have been in the lock-. up for four days.
-I have not a penny nor even a morsel of tobacco to put in my pipe.
-I entreat you to send me six sous' worth of tobacco--and a quart of
-brandy--for I am very thirsty--through my comrade, and in a little
-bottle on account of the corporal. By so doing you will save my life,
-and I will settle your bill next pay-day. Let the tobacco be very dry
-and of the best quality.
-
-"Be assured of my eternal gratitude,
-
-"Brulard,
-
-"Of the 1st Division, 3d Squadron."
-
-The excellent woman shudders on contemplating the prisoner's privations,
-and sends him the tobacco and brandy.
-
-Moreover, if a trooper be sick or wounded, though not sufficiently to
-be sent to the hospital, she nurses him, dresses his wound, and prepares
-the _tisane_, for which she will never accept any pay.
-
-If the cantini�re is ugly, no one thinks of criticising her.
-
-It is her right, and no one even perceives it; but if she is pretty, it
-is a very different matter. She makes havoc in the regiment, and all the
-young conscripts are speedily subjugated by her conquering charms.
-
-It is an old trooper's axiom, that the goodness of the wine is in an
-inverse ratio to the beauty of the cantini�re.
-
-She has a little wagon drawn by one or two horses. It is in this
-equipage that she follows the troops, and appears upon the parade
-ground, where she dispenses tobacco and liquors to the officers and men
-in the intervals of rest during the drill.
-
-During a campaign she devotes herself to her regiment. More than once in
-the thickest of the fight she has been seen going from rank to rank
-to carry a drop to the soldiers, and braving the canister and grape in
-order to give a little water to the wounded. She keeps no accounts at
-such times; she does not sell, she gives.
-
-Several cantini�res have been decorated, and the exploits of one of
-their number have been related throughout Europe. They have formed
-the plot of a drama which delineates all the characteristics of "the
-soldier's mother," under the title of "The Vivandi�re of the Grand
-Army."
-
-
-
-
-THE BARBER OF THE SQUADRON.
-
-As a general thing, it is upon the cheeks of his brother soldiers that
-he serves his apprenticeship--a severe apprenticeship for the cheeks!
-Heaven preserve you from ever falling into his clutches and testing
-his dexterity. In former years, before entering the service, he was a
-carpenter, a mechanic, or a stone-cutter;--his good conduct elevated him
-to the important position of barber, and since that time he has plied in
-turn the scissors and razor with more zeal than discretion.
-
-This office of barber is one of the most popular in the regiment; and
-the person who holds it is not a little proud of the honor. First of
-all, he has a right to exact a small monthly payment from each soldier;
-he also enjoys perfect freedom after ten o'clock; in short, he is
-excused from all drudgery, and most of the exercises. And yet his
-position is no sinecure.
-
-The barber is responsible for the heads of the entire company. If the
-beards are too long, or the hair transgresses the limits prescribed by
-ordinance, he is the one upon whom the blame will fall. The
-regulation is there; he must follow it to the letter, and shave his
-companions-in-arms as closely as possible, and not unfrequently against
-their will; for there are troopers who cling to their hair--
-the natural ornament of man. The military gallant would love to wear
-long hair, probably so a loving hand could caress his curls; but the
-regulations are pitiless.
-
-"As soon as the hair can be seized with the hand, it must positively be
-cut," says the corporal.
-
-All sorts of means are vainly employed by the foppish trooper to
-preserve his hair. He wets it every day, or pastes it down with the aid
-of _cosmetique_, then hides it carefully under his cap.
-
-'Wasted efforts! the officers are acquainted with all these tricks; they
-pull off the caps, rumple up the hair, and then the delinquent and the
-barber, who is held responsible, are almost sure of two, or even four
-days in the guard house.
-
-Those sly foxes--the old troopers--do not resort to such hackneyed
-expedients; they feign some affection of the eyes or ears, and thus
-obtain from the sergeant-major permission to wear their hair long.
-
-The days of grand reviews are trying ordeals for the barber. In less
-than two hours he must shave one hundred and fifty or two hundred
-beards, to say nothing of the hair-cutting.
-
-You should see him then, his sleeves rolled up to the elbow, and
-armed with a terrible razor which he has not even time to sharpen. The
-soldiers--I should say, the patients--perhaps martyrs would be still
-better--lather themselves in advance, and come one after another to
-take their place in the seat of torture. The work is accomplished in the
-twinkling of an eye; the most obstinate beards do not resist; hairs that
-refuse to be cut are torn out; the cheek bleeds a little, but that is
-nothing. What is a scratch to a French soldier? Moreover, the barber is
-a conscientious man, and if he occasionally happens to slice off an
-ear, he always takes the greatest possible pains to restore it to its
-rightful owner.
-
-The troopers dread the razor, but they jeer at the barber; they call him
-the butcher, in whispers be it understood--for if he overhears them, it
-is in his power to avenge himself summarily.
-
-Barbers are the heroes of a host of army legends; there is, first, the
-story of Barber Plumepate, who belonged to a cavalry regiment.
-
-This barber, who was very skillful in his profession, had an exceedingly
-vindictive disposition. Very severely punished one day by his captain,
-he swore vengeance, and openly declared he would kill the man who had so
-wronged him.
-
-The barber's threats coming to the ears of the captain, he immediately
-summoned Plumepate.
-
-"You have sworn that you would kill me," he said to him; "that is mere
-boasting on your part; you would never dare to do it. Wait a moment; I
-will try you. Prepare your implements and shave me."
-
-The terrible Plumepate was completely disconcerted. He set to work, but
-he dared not carry out his threats. Never, on the contrary, did he do a
-neater job.
-
-On another occasion, during a campaign, a barber in one of the regiments
-of the line was summoned to shave the commander-in-chief. He was badly
-frightened, and he could but think of the possible consequences should
-his hand tremble. It did tremble so much that the general's face was
-covered with blood when the operation was concluded. The unfortunate
-barber, terrified by what he had done, shook in every limb, and
-stammered a thousand excuses.
-
-"Hold," said the general; "here is a louis! If your hand had not trembled
-in shaving your general, you would not be a true trooper."
-
-During a campaign, a barber becomes a soldier like the others, for then
-both hair and beard are neglected.
-
-"When one finds water in Africa one drinks it; one does not amuse one's
-self in making soap-suds."
-
-It sometimes happens that the barber of a regiment is a genuine barber,
-who knows his trade, and who practiced it with honor before he became a
-soldier. Then there is joy in the squadron; and the troopers flock to
-be shaved by this artist, who does not mutilate them, and whose
-well-sharpened razor is scarcely felt. The more foppish, in
-consideration of a small fee, have their hair dressed and oiled.
-
-The lower officers, not only of the squadron, but of the entire
-regiment, give him their patronage; he becomes their favorite, their
-factotum, they treat him affably, almost courteously, and even permit a
-certain degree of familiarity.
-
-Louis XI. made a prime minister of his barber.
-
-
-
-
-THE VAGUEMESTRE.
-
-He is always busy, very busy, exceedingly busy; that is his specialty.
-Do not attempt to speak to him, he can not answer you; do not try to
-stop him, he will march you straight to the guard-house. He does not
-walk, he runs; he has not an hour to spare, not a moment, not a second.
-
-This morning before the odious reveille had driven the soldiers from
-their narrow couches he was up and dressed, ready to start.
-
-Should you succeed in questioning him, this will be his response:
-
-"What a life! what a profession! Look, sir, it is not yet nine o'clock,
-and I have already made thirty trips. I had scarcely time to take my
-dram this morning, and in my haste I almost choked myself. How do I know
-I shall have time to swallow my absinthe? Shall I even get my breakfast?
-That is doubtful. As you see, I invariably reach the cantine an hour
-after the others. Everything is eaten, there is nothing left, or
-if there is, it is something no one would eat, and consequently
-intolerable. Then they bring me an egg. An egg!" (with a bitter laugh),
-"an egg! for a man who has been running about all the morning. Never
-adopt my profession, sir; my existence is insupportable--a dog's life!
-To-morrow, you may rest assured, I shall tender my resignation and take
-my place in the ranks, like the others. But what am I doing? Here I have
-lost ten minutes in talking; clear oat, d--n you! I should have had time
-to drink my absinthe."
-
-It must be admitted that the life of the vaguemestre is not a path of
-roses.
-
-He is the Mercury of that company of deities known as the staff of a
-regiment, and like that mythological courier, he must have wings on his
-feet. He is also the superintendent of the regimental post-office; all
-letters that come and go pass through his hands; he must know the hours
-for the arrival and departure of the mails, carry the letters, and go
-after them. If soldiers receive money through the post, they can not
-draw it themselves; they carry their order to him, and he draws it
-and pays it over to them; so I assure you this officer's time is fully
-occupied. And yet something more than agility is needed, for he must
-think of everything. The slightest oversight or the least delay might
-produce serious consequences, for forgetfulness and want of punctuality
-are severely punished.
-
-In the morning he hastens to the post-office, then to the colonel's
-house to obtain the order of the day; then he rushes back to the
-barracks in company with the messenger.
-
-He then hastily sorts the letters, making a separate pile for each
-squadron; these he gives to the sergeants, who give them to the
-corporals on duty for the week, who distribute them among the soldiers.
-
-But the hour for the report arrives; he hastens after it; then he starts
-off again. The report must be submitted to the superior officers. The
-lieutenant-colonel is waiting for it; the major is waiting for it,
-so the vaguemestre hurries away. On returning, he must stop to see a
-captain who has sent for him; besides, the colonel has intrusted him
-with a letter to be delivered to a lieutenant who lives at the very end
-of the town. What a nuisance! He rushes to the place, but does not find
-the lieutenant. The letter is important; the lieutenant must be at the
-_caf�_--lieutenants are always at the _caf�_--at least, when they are
-not at breakfast. The vaguemestre visits the _caf�_, no lieutenant; at
-last, he finds him at his boarding-house and delivers the letter.
-
-He heaves a mighty sigh of relief. Now he can breakfast; he hurries
-on with all the fleetness of which his tired limbs are capable; hunger
-lends him wings. He reaches the barracks. Alas! the adjutant-major
-who has just left the table, stops him in the passage; he has a few
-suggestions to make--adjutant-majors always have suggestions to make.
-
-At last he breakfasts in turn; he is the last of all. But it is useless
-to describe the experience of the entire day.
-
-The vaguemestre is gifted with an extraordinary memory. Every week, when
-he distributes the money received by the soldiers, he knows the exact
-condition of each man's account; he must know if those who are entitled
-to money are in disgrace or ill. Every week the sergeant on duty in each
-squadron must furnish him with a report embodying this information; but
-it would take too much time to consult these documents. He prefers to
-remember.
-
-So, Sunday morning the trumpeter sounds the vaguemestre's call, that is
-to say, executes a sort of flourish that signifies:
-
-"All who have received money-orders through the post must come and find
-the vaguemestre if they desire what is due them."
-
-This call is so well understood that the soldiers respond promptly, and
-without hesitation, whereupon colloquies of this kind ensue:
-
-THE VAGUEMESTRE. Private Demanet, you have received twelve francs.
-
-PRIVATE DEMANET. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Private Demanet, your
-outfit is not yet paid for; you are credited with only eleven francs,
-which is a deplorable state of things. You must devote your twelve
-francs to this purpose.
-
-PRIVATE DEMARET. I entreat you, lieutenant--Vaguemestre. Well, then,
-here are a hundred sous. I will keep back only seven francs. Make out a
-receipt.
-
-EXAMPLE SECOND.
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. Private Castagnol, you have received fifty francs.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Your parents seem to
-have more money than they know what to do with.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Lieutenant, my family--
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. Ah! I remember, you are a volunteer. Very well, you may go.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. But my money?
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. You have eight days in the guard-house to make. Next
-Sunday, if you are not punished in the meantime, you shall have your
-money.
-
-PRIVATE OASTAGNOL. But--
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. No remarks.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL (_turning angrily away_). I shall tell my friends to
-send bank-notes next time.
-
-The vaguemestre being usually an adjutant, the soldiers address him as
-lieutenant.
-
-
-
-
-THE ZOUAVE.
-
-
-Many have talked of the zouave: few know him.
-
-Everybody has seen him lazily squatting at the gates of the Tuileries,
-like a granite sphinx on the threshold of the Assyrian palaces. He is
-on guard. He performs his duty with a profoundly melancholy air, smoking
-his pipe with feverish impatience, or, rather, watching with feverish
-impatience all the while he is smoking his pipe, some ray of our
-Parisian sunlight, which seems like moonlight when compared with that
-fierce African sunshine, which pours down upon the head like molten
-lead.
-
-A scrap of green or white calico, twisted around a red fez; a blue
-jacket, trimmed with red or yellow braid, and which leaves the throat
-entirely bare; full scarlet trousers, cut in the Oriental fashion; white
-gaiters buttoning above the ankle; this is his costume.
-
-How can one describe the man?
-
-Short, spare, compactly built and muscular, with broad shoulders, square
-fists, closely shaven head, keen eyes, a mocking smile, and a bold and
-decided bearing--such is the zouave, the best soldier in the world for
-bold ventures, skirmishes with outposts, impossible ambuscades, and
-rapid marches.
-
-Accustomed to the pursuit of the Arab, his constant enemy, the zouave is
-thoroughly conversant with all the stratagems of desert warfare. He has
-learned to outwit his savage foes, so he will always surprise the armies
-of Europe.
-
-"The Arab is very cunning, but the zouave is more cunning still."
-
-He knows how to conceal himself in a little clump of shrubbery, and
-steal imperceptibly upon the sentinel whom he wishes to capture; he
-can advance without a sound, remain motionless for hours together, hide
-behind the slightest irregularity in the ground, crawl, leap, bound,
-disappear in the undergrowth that surrounds him, follow a track, and
-shun all the traps that are set for him.
-
-As a sharp-shooter, he has no equal.
-
-If a position is to be taken, he dashes forward, with head down,
-overturning everything in his passage. It is no longer a man; it is a
-bullet. Once started on his course, he reaches the goal or dies.
-
-The zouave cordially detests large cities, and regards garrisons with
-abhorrence.
-
-In garrison life, the discipline becomes too irksome; he must polish his
-cartridge-box, whiten his shoulder-belt, wash his clothes, mount guard
-at regular hours, appear at parade--all wearisome enough to the average
-trooper, but insupportable to the zouave.
-
-The zouave needs the freedom of camp life, the free range of an enemy's
-country, a _rago�t_ improvised under a tent. It matters not if his
-canteen is only three-quarters full, and if the supply of coffee is
-running short, so he has but a morsel of no matter what to appease his
-hunger, he sings, he is gay, he is happy, he is himself.
-
-It is true that when he is not happy, he is equally gay, and sings even
-more loudly.
-
-The zouave owes his fondness for adventure and his almost nomadic habits
-to the African war. In constantly pursuing the Arabs through deserts and
-over mountains, he has formed habits of living very like those of these
-wandering tribes.
-
-Like the philosopher Bias, the zouave carries all his possessions about
-with him, which proves, perhaps, that he is something of a philosopher.
-
-But you should see a zouave's knapsack when he is starting on an
-expedition. It is monstrous; one wonders if he will not sink beneath his
-burden, and be compelled to cast it aside. He would rather die. Besides,
-it seems to be the universal belief that he does not feel the weight of
-it.
-
-Usually, on taking the field, the infantry lighten their load as much as
-possible; the officers not only permit this, but require it.
-
-It is not so with the zouave. This seems to be the very time that his
-burden must be heaviest He reduces his effects to the smallest possible
-compass, rolls them, squeezes them, and then crowds them, and crowds
-them, until the straps become too short and the distended knapsack
-threatens to burst.
-
-There is a little of everything in the zouave's load. An enumeration
-of its contents would sound like the inventory of three distinct
-establishments;--a drug, a haberdashery, and a grocery store.
-
-He has thread, needles, buttons, soap, wax, tallow, a thimble, a fork,
-one or two spoons, and several knives, to say nothing of the condiments
-indispensable in the concoction of a savory _rago�t_.
-
-For the zouave is a gourmand. It is to satisfy his fastidious tastes
-in this direction that, having no servant at his command, he has made
-himself the best cook in Europe.
-
-His _rago�ts_ might not make his fortune in Paris; but in Africa, in the
-desert, how many generals have smacked their lips over them!
-
-Any one can make a savory dish of stewed rabbit _with_ a rabbit; but to
-make it _without_ a rabbit, that is a difficult task, quite worthy of a
-zouave.
-
-His fertile imagination never shines as brilliantly as when the
-larder is empty; then, he employs all his wits; he searches, he invents.
-On such days, he dines admirably; but how many strange animals are made
-to turn from their usual path to take the road to the saucepan.
-
-"I do not ask my zouaves for strawberries," said Marshal, then Colonel
-Canrobert, one frightfully hot day, in the middle of the desert; "but if
-I really desired some, they are quite capable of discovering them in the
-sand."
-
-To-day the zouave is the most popular of all our soldiers; his _chachia_
-threatens to pass down to posterity with the towering bear-skin cap worn
-by the grenadiers of the First Empire.
-
-It is to the zouave that we owe the words of the celebrated march known
-as the "Casquette." This is the origin of it:
-
-One night the French camp was surprised by Arabs. A murderous fire so
-astonished our soldiers, that they almost wavered at first; but Marshal
-Bugeaud rushed from his tent, and his presence inspiring our troops with
-their wonted enthusiasm, the enemy was repulsed.
-
-When the conflict was ended, the marshal noticed that every one smiled
-on looking at him. He raised his hands to his head. In his haste, he had
-left his tent adorned with the anything but heroic head-gear of the King
-of Yvetot; in short, a night-cap.
-
-The next day, when the trumpets gave the signal for the troops to resume
-their march, the zouaves, in memory of that original coifiure, sung in
-deafening chorus:
-
-     "As-tu vu
-     La casquette
-     La casquette,
-     As-tu vu
-     La casquette,
-     Du P�re Bugeaud?"
-
-Two or three days afterward, the marshal, on giving the order for
-departure, said to the trumpeters: "Boys, sound _la casquette_."
-
-So this name still clings to the order. To how many victories it has
-led, and will lead the zouaves!
-
-Father Bugeaud's _casquette_, by insuring the success of "Duc Job,"
-yielded eighty thousand francs to the Th��tre Fran�ais, and sixty
-thousand francs to M. L�on Laya.
-
-It is a night-cap well worth the having.
-
-
-
-
-THE FANTASSIN, OR FOOT-SOLDIER.
-
-The fantassin, _par excellence_, is a soldier of the regular infantry.
-The cavalry pretend that the foot-soldier wears spurs on his elbows,
-but this is only a stale joke perpetrated before the bayonet came into
-general use.
-
-The regular infantry is really the French army. It has shed its blood
-upon every battle-field, and has come off victorious again and again.
-It is the infantry that has carried the standards of France through
-conquered Europe. It is the regular infantry which, without shoes,
-provisions, or artillery, swept down from the Alps upon Italy. It is
-the infantry that fought at the Pyramids, at Eylau and at Moscow. The
-infantry is the queen of battles; with her one can go in any direction
-and always maintain one's position.
-
-There is nothing brilliant about the infantry uniform, and yet when
-seen in masses it produces an excellent effect. It is also the most
-comfortable and the best adapted to all the needs of a soldier in the
-field.
-
-At reviews, upon the parade ground, and on the boulevards there are,
-perhaps, regiments that attract more attention; but such is not the case
-if it is seen in line of battle. One should see it maneuvering under
-fire with the same precision as on the Champs de Mars. Each regiment has
-become a corps, with its officers at its head. A cannon-ball cuts down
-an entire file. "Close up the ranks!" The ranks are closed; the void is
-filled without haste, disorder, or confusion.
-
-Nothing could be more beautiful, nothing could be more magnificent than
-a regiment of the line advancing for a bayonet charge upon the enemy.
-Search the ranks; examine one by one these soldiers blackened with
-powder, try to find the foot-soldier you have seen lounging about the
-shop windows in large cities, with his shako on the back of his head.
-The lounger of yesterday is the hero of to-day. Now, danger illumines
-every face; courage, like an aureole, shines resplendent on every brow.
-All honor to the regulars! upon their banners is written our glorious
-history!
-
-The foot-soldier in garrison bears no resemblance whatever to the
-hero of the battle-field. He does not even remember his exploits of
-yesterday; he little suspects the great deeds he will perform to-morrow
-should France have need of his devotion and courage.
-
-The foot-soldier in garrison is the best and most inoffensive of men,
-always trying to make himself useful, ever ready to do a favor. His
-tastes are simple, and his desires modest; boisterous amusements have no
-attractions for him, and he rarely indulges in the bottle.
-
-The foot-soldier, like all the members of his profession, is generally
-in straitened circumstances.
-
-     "For in France as in Austria
-     The soldier is not rich,
-     Every one knows that."
-
-It is true that one can not indulge in much extravagance on five
-centimes a day. Fortunately there are ways to increase this meager
-income. In many regiments, the soldiers are allowed to find occupation
-in the city, provided, of course, that discipline does not suffer
-thereby. Those who have a trade devote all their leisure time to it;
-those who have only their two hands and their good-will--and they are
-by far the largest number--nevertheless find a way to make themselves
-useful. In some _bourgeoisie_ households they hire a soldier to take
-care of the garden and scrub the floors.
-
-There is also another source of revenue which, though not the most
-honorable, is certainly the most in vogue; this is playing a trick on
-one's family.
-
-The fraud is generally suggested by some old grumbler who is an adept in
-the art of deception. A mischievously inclined volunteer, who is a good
-penman, generally writes the letter. Illness is the usual pretext. It is
-the simplest of all, and seldom fails to produce the desired effect.
-How can you suppose that parents will refuse to forward a few francs on
-receiving from their child a letter beginning thus:
-
-"Dear Mother,--The object of this letter is to inform you that I am in
-the hospital."
-
-The family send money. A letter arrives, inclosing a post-office order.
-The vaguemestre quickly changes it into shining coin. But alas! this
-money vanishes like a dream. And how could it be otherwise? So many
-friends must have a share of this windfall. First, there is the
-bedfellow, then the inventor of the trick, then the writer, then two
-or three comrades, fellow-countrymen--then a corporal who has been
-obliging, and many others. Besides, it is not considered seemly for a
-trooper to spend his money alone.
-
-A soldier who goes out alone, and who drinks alone, is disgraced in the
-eyes of his comrades.
-
-When he has finished his daily task at the barracks, polished his
-weapons, and answered to his name at roll-call, the foot-soldier is at
-liberty, provided he is not on duty, or on guard, or on the _corve�_,
-or undergoing punishment, and he can leave the barracks if he
-chooses. Generally he is eager to improve the opportunity. There must be
-something of importance to detain him if he does not go out; a letter to
-write, some little job to do, a pipe of unusual length to color for
-an officer who is making a collection. But such instances are rare. He
-loves long walks. If he is stationed in a small town, you can always
-meet him in the shady paths in the suburbs. He is generally cutting
-little switches to beat his clothing.
-
-If he is in a large city, he has a variety of amusements. He delights
-in gazing into the shop-windows; he haunts the promenades and the public
-gardens; mountebanks always find in him a patient and appreciative
-patron, ever ready to laugh at their stale jokes. The mountebank and
-the fantassin have had a mutual understanding for a long time. "Walk in.
-Walk in, gentlemen and ladies. Admission is ten centimes; two sous. The
-military only half-price."
-
-But there is no place like Paris for the soldier. Wine is a trifle dear;
-but how many diversions there are. This is a city! one can stroll about
-five hours without danger of seeing the same objects. Moreover, Paris
-contains the Jardin des Plantes, and the Jardin des Plantes is, as every
-one knows, the soldier's earthly Paradise.
-
-There, he can spend his hours of liberty most delightfully. He visits,
-in succession, all the cabinets of natural history. He almost splits
-his sides laughing as he stands before the monkey's palace, watching the
-pranks of its occupants; he goes into ecstasies over the wild animals,
-and shudders while contemplating the reptiles. But his favorites are the
-bear and the elephant. He never leaves the Jardin des Plantes until he
-has seen Martin climb the tree, and given the elephant a crust of bread,
-held in reserve in his cap--for want of pantaloon pockets.
-
-But the foot-soldier would be a body without a soul, if he had no
-countrywoman. The payse, as he styles her, has been created for the
-fantassin, as the fantassin has been created for the payse. They love
-and understand each other. He accompanies the payse, who is usually a
-child's nurse, in her walks; he assists her in watching the children,
-when he does not prevent her from watching them; on the promenade, the
-fantassin seats himself near the payse and pours sweet nothings into her
-ears, while the children play on the gravel-walk. "Honi soit qui mal y
-pense!"
-
-In spite of the fatigue that results from it, the foot-soldier loves
-a change of garrison. He goes cheerfully from one end of France to the
-other, singing as he plods along. Every day, before two o'clock, his
-legs fail him, which does not prevent him from strolling around to see
-the curiosities of the neighborhood as soon as he reaches the town where
-he is to spend the night.
-
-The _billet_ troubles the soldier a little. It is like a ticket in
-a lottery. Some are very good, some are bad. As a general thing, the
-soldier is cordially received; though the contrary happens sometimes. So
-far as the fantassin is concerned, he hardly ever abuses the hospitality
-accorded him. The _billet_ is considered very good when the people of
-the house invite the soldier to share their dinner. It is a saving of
-time and of money for him. The fantassin is overjoyed, and to repay his
-entertainers, he tells them his history.
-
-When his term of service expires and he returns to his fireside, the
-soldier does not presume upon his superiority. He talks freely but
-not boastingly of his travels and campaigns. He always finds attentive
-auditors, for we all love and respect the old defenders of France.
-
-Some accuse the fantassin of being too unsophisticated; there are
-occasions when simplicity of speech is the height of eloquence.
-
-"What were you doing at Solferino?" some one once asked a soldier.
-
-"I?--I was doing like the rest--killing and being killed," he replied
-modestly.
-
-Sublimely artless speech in which is summed up all the philosophy of
-war.
-
-
-
-
-THE SOLDIER OF THE LIGHT INFANTRY;
-
-OR, THE CHASSEUR.
-
-He does not walk; he runs; he is truly the soldier of his age--an age of
-steam. He comes from Vincennes to Paris in thirty-five minutes; it takes
-a first class _fiacre_ just twice as long.
-
-The light infantry has given abundant proofs of courage. It was in
-Africa, in 1842, that it received the baptism of fire, a glorious
-baptism.
-
-From the very first the chasseurs inspired the Arabs with unconquerable
-terror. It is true that everything combines to give them a frightful
-appearance in battle; their somber costume, their strange evolutions,
-the shrill sound of their trumpets, make them resemble, seen in the
-midst of the smoke, a legion of unchained devils.
-
-When the Arabs saw them advancing on the run they took flight.
-
-The chasseurs have a terrible weapon. Their rifles, which are loaded
-with oblong balls, pierce a board fifty millimeters in thickness at a
-distance of more than a quarter of a mile; and as all the chasseurs are
-excellent marksmen, they make frightful havoc in the enemy's ranks.
-
-It is amusing to see the profound astonishment of the Arabs wounded at
-such a distance. They believe there is some witchcraft about it.
-
-At Sebastopol, the corps of volunteer sharp-shooters was recruited from
-the ranks of the chasseurs. Creeping along, hiding in the slightest
-furrow of ground, they generally succeed in approaching within range
-of the battery, and then woe to its defenders! The cannons were soon
-reduced to silence.
-
-It is impossible for any one who has not witnessed the maneuvers of
-the light infantry to have any conception of the marvels resulting from
-discipline and daily practice.
-
-Their ordinary gait is a rapid walk, their accelerated pace is the speed
-of a race-horse. At a blast from the trumpet they disperse in every
-direction, disappearing, kneeling, lying flat on their bellies or
-on their backs, loading their rifles, aiming and firing in every
-conceivable posture. Another signal is heard; instantly they are in the
-ranks, crowded close together, bayonets glittering, ready to charge.
-
-And an impetuous charge by the chasseurs of Vincennes is irresistible.
-Dense as the mass may be upon which they precipitate themselves, they
-cut their way through it with their broad saber-bayonets, leaving a
-bloody trail behind them.
-
-"They are demons!" Prince Mentchikoff exclaimed at Sebastopol.
-
-The chasseurs are very proud of their reputation for swiftness. Once
-when an order of the day was read to them beginning thus:
-
-"Soldiers: we are about to march upon the enemy."--they cried: "Oh, no,
-that does not suit us, we wish to run."
-
-When off duty the chasseur preserves his rapid pace, and his ferocious,
-almost tigerish manner. His hat is always cocked defiantly on one side
-of his head, and his belt is always inordinately tight.
-
-Quick and supple in every movement, he adores dancing. It is his
-_forte_, and in it he wins a success that the Parisian fireman alone can
-dispute with him. Naturally, the belles adore this perfect dancer; but
-they should not trust him--the chasseur is even more inconstant than
-that heartless butterfly, the voltigeur.
-
-In Paris he haunts the shades of Vincennes and Saint Maud�. Monday,
-Thursday, and Sunday he can always be found at the public balls, near
-the Barri�re du Tr�ne, happy if permission to be absent until midnight
-enables him to remain until the close of the festivities. He invariably
-finds a brother chasseur who is also absent on leave, and who shares
-several bottles of sour wine with him.
-
-*******
-
-But it would be unjust not to say a word concerning the trumpeter of the
-chasseurs.
-
-How the chasseur, laden with his knapsack, rations, weapons, ammunition,
-and accouterments can run without losing his breath completely, it is
-difficult to comprehend.
-
-But how does the trumpeter, as he runs with the others, find breath to
-blow his trumpet?
-
-That is something one can not comprehend.
-
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-<h1>

-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.

-</h1>

-<h2>

-By Emile Gaboriau.

-</h2>

-<p>

-<br />

-</p>

-<h3>

-Translated by Laura E. Kendall.

-</h3>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<p>

-<b>CONTENTS</b>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0001"> <b>A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.</b> </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0002"> I. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0003"> II. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0004"> III. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0005"> IV. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0006"> V. </a>

-</p>

-<p>

-<br />

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0007"> <b>MILITARY SKETCHES.</b> </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0008"> THE CANTINIERE. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0009"> THE BARBER OF THE SQUADRON. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0010"> THE VAGUEMESTRE. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0011"> THE ZOUAVE. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0012"> THE FANTASSIN, OR FOOT-SOLDIER. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0013"> THE SOLDIER OF THE LIGHT INFANTRY; </a>

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

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-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.

-</h2>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

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-</div>

-<h2>

-I.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">I</span>t&rsquo;s a very short time ago, yesterday as it were, that one Sunday

-afternoon about four o&rsquo;clock, the whole Quartier du Marais was in an

-uproar.

-</p>

-<p>

-Rumor asserted that one of the most respectable merchants in the Hue

-Boi-de-Sicile had disappeared, and all efforts to find him continued

-fruitless.

-</p>

-<p>

-The strange event was discussed in all the shops in the neighborhood;

-there were groups at the doors of all the fruit-sellers, every moment some

-terrified housewife arrived, bringing fresh particulars.

-</p>

-<p>

-The grocer on the corner had the best and latest news, the most reliable,

-too, for he received his information from the lips of the cook who lived

-in the house.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;So,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;yesterday evening, after dinner, our neighbor, Monsieur

-Jandidier, went down to his cellar to get a bottle of wine, and was never

-seen again. He disappeared, vanished, evaporated!&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-It occasionally happens that mysterious disappearances are mentioned. The

-public becomes excited, and prudent people buy sword-canes.

-</p>

-<p>

-Policemen hear absurd reports, and shrug their shoulders. They know the

-wrong side of the carefully embroidered canvas. They investigate, and

-find, instead of artless falsehoods, the truth; instead of romances,

-sorrowful stories. Yet, up to a certain point, the grocer of the Rue

-Saint Louis told the truth.

-</p>

-<p>

-M. Jandidier, manufacturer of imitation jewelry, had not been at home for

-the last twenty-four hours.

-</p>

-<p>

-M. Theodore Jandidier was a man fifty-eight years old, very stout and very

-bald, who had made a large fortune in business. He was supposed to have a

-considerable income from stocks and bonds, and his business brought him

-annually, on an average, fifty thousand francs. He was beloved and

-respected in his neighborhood, and justly so; his honesty was above

-suspicion, his morality rigid. Married late in life to a penniless

-relative, he had made her perfectly happy. He had an only daughter, a

-pretty, graceful girl, named Thérèse, whom he worshiped. She had been

-engaged to the eldest son of Schmidt the banker&mdash;member of the firm

-Schmidt, Gubenheim &amp; Worb&mdash;M. Gustave; but the match was broken

-off, nobody knew why, for the young people were desperately in love with

-each other. It was said by Jandidier&rsquo;s acquaintances that Schmidt senior,

-a perfect skinflint, had demanded a dowry far beyond the merchant&rsquo;s means.

-</p>

-<p>

-Notified by public rumor, which hourly exaggerated the story, the

-commissary of police went to the home of the man already called &ldquo;the

-victim,&rdquo; to obtain more exact information.

-</p>

-<p>

-He found Mme. and Mlle. Jandidier in such terrible grief that it was with

-great difficulty he gleaned the truth. At last he learned the following

-details:

-</p>

-<p>

-The day before, Saturday, M. Jandidier had dined with his family as usual,

-though his appetite was not good, owing, he said, to a violent headache.

-</p>

-<p>

-After dinner he went to his stores, gave some orders, and then entered his

-office.

-</p>

-<p>

-At half past six he came upstairs again, and told his wife he was going to

-walk.

-</p>

-<p>

-And he had not been seen since!

-</p>

-<p>

-After carefully noting these particulars, the commissary requested Mme.

-Jandidier to let him speak with her alone a few minutes. She made a sign

-of assent, and Mlle. Thérèse left the room.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Pardon the question I am about to ask, madame,&rdquo; said the police officer.

-&ldquo;Do you know whether your husband&mdash;again I beg you to excuse me&mdash;had

-any ties outside of his own family?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-Mme. Jandidier started up; anger dried her tears.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I have been married twenty-three years, monsieur, and my husband has

-never returned home later than ten o&rsquo;clock.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Was your husband in the habit of going to any club or café, madame?&rdquo;

- continued the officer.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Never; I wouldn&rsquo;t have allowed it.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Did he usually carry valuables on his person?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know; I attended to my housekeeping and didn&rsquo;t trouble myself

-about business matters.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-It was impossible to get anything more from the haughty wife, who was

-fairly bewildered by sorrow.

-</p>

-<p>

-Having performed his duty, the commissary thought he ought to give the

-poor woman a little commonplace consolation.

-</p>

-<p>

-But on withdrawing, after an examination of the house, he felt very

-anxious, and began to suspect that a crime had been committed.

-</p>

-<p>

-That very evening one of the most skillful members of the detective force,

-Rétiveau, better known in the Rue de Jerusalem under the name of Maitre

-Magloire, was put on M. Jandidier&rsquo;s track, supplied with an excellent

-photograph of the merchant.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

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-</p>

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-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-II.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he very day after M. Jandidier&rsquo;s disappearance, Maitre Magloire appeared

-at the Palais de justice to report what he had done to the magistrate in

-charge of the affair.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Ah! there you are, Monsieur Magloire,&rdquo; said the magistrate; &ldquo;so you&rsquo;ve

-discovered something?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I am on the trail, monsieur.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Speak.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;To begin with, Monsieur Jandidier did not leave home at half past six

-o&rsquo;clock, but precisely seven.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Precisely?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Precisely. I ascertained that from a clock-maker in the Rue Saint Denis,

-who is sure of it, because while passing his shop, Monsieur Jandidier took

-out his watch to see if it was exactly like the clock over the door. He

-held an unlighted cigar in his mouth. Having discovered this last

-circumstance, I said to myself, &lsquo;I have it! He&rsquo;ll light his cigar

-somewhere.&rsquo; I reasoned correctly; he went into a retail shop on the

-Boulevard du Temple, whose mistress knows him very well. The fact was

-impressed on the woman&rsquo;s memory because he always smoked sou cigars, and

-this time bought London ones.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;How did he appear?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Absent-minded, the shop-keeper told me. It was from her I found out that

-he often went to the Café Ture. I entered it, and was told that he had

-been there Saturday evening. He took two small glasses of brandy, and

-talked with his friends. He seemed dull. &lsquo;The gentleman talked all the

-time about life insurance policies,&rsquo; the waiter told me. At half past

-eight o&rsquo;clock our man left the with one of his friends, a merchant in the

-neighborhood, Monsieur Blandureau. I instantly went to this gentleman, who

-informed me that he walked up the boulevard with Monsieur Jandidier, who

-left him at the corner of the Rue Richelieu, pleading a business

-engagement. He was not in his usual spirits, and seemed to be assailed by

-the gloomiest presentiments.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Very well, so far,&rdquo; murmured the magistrate.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;On leaving Monsieur Blandureau, I went to the Rue Roi-de-Sicile to

-ascertain from somebody in the house whether Monsieur Jandidier had any

-customers or friends in the Rue Richelieu, but no one lived there except

-his tailor. I therefore proceeded hap-hazard to the tailor. He saw our man

-Saturday. Monsieur Jandidier called on him after nine o&rsquo;clock to order a

-pair of trousers. While his measure was being taken, he noticed that one

-of his vest buttons was nearly off, and asked to have it sewed on. He was

-obliged to take off his overcoat while the trifling repair was made, and

-as at the same time he removed the contents of the side pocket, the tailor

-noticed several hundred-franc bank-bills.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Ah!&rdquo; that&rsquo;s a clew, &ldquo;He had a considerable sum of money with him?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Considerable, no; but tolerably large. The tailor estimates it at twelve

-or fourteen hundred francs.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Go on,&rdquo; said the magistrate.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;While his vest was being repaired, Monsieur Jandidier complained of

-sudden indisposition, and sent a little boy for a carriage, saying that he

-was obliged to go to one of his workmen, who lived a long distance off.

-Unfortunately, the lad had forgotten the number of the carriage. He only

-recollected that it had yellow wheels, and was drawn by a large black

-horse. The vehicle was found. A circular sent to all who kept carriages

-for hire, put me on the track. I learned this morning that it was No.

-6007. The driver, on being questioned, distinctly remembered having been

-stopped Saturday evening, about nine o&rsquo;clock, in the Rue Richelieu, by a

-little boy, and waiting ten minutes in front of the Maison Gouin. The

-description he gave of his fare exactly suits our man, and he recognized

-the photograph among five different ones I showed him.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-Maitre Magloire stopped. He wanted to enjoy the approval visible in the

-magistrate&rsquo;s expression.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Monsieur Jandidier,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;ordered the driver to take him to No.

-48 Rue d&rsquo;Arras-Saint-Victor. In this house lives a workman named Jules

-Tarot, employed by Monsieur Jandidier.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-M. Magloire&rsquo;s way of pronouncing this name was intended to rouse the

-magistrate&rsquo;s attention, and did so.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;You have suspicions?&rdquo; he asked.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Not exactly, but this is the story. Monsieur Jandidier dismissed the

-carriage at the Rue d&rsquo;Arras and went to Tarot&rsquo;s about ten o&rsquo;clock. At

-eleven the employer and workman came out together. The latter did not

-return until midnight, and here I lose all trace of my man. Of course I

-didn&rsquo;t question Tarot, for fear of putting him on his guard.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Who is this Jules Tarot?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;A workman in mother-of-pearl, a man who polishes shells on a grindstone

-to make them perfectly iridescent. He&rsquo;s a skillful fellow, and, assisted

-by his wife, to whom he has taught his trade, can make nearly a hundred

-francs a week.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;They are in easy circumstances, then?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Oh! no. They are both young, they have no children, they are Parisians.

-Deuce take it, they enjoy themselves. Monday regularly carries away what

-the other days bring.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

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-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-III.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>wo hours after Maitre Magloire&rsquo;s report, the police went to search Jules

-Tarot&rsquo;s house.

-</p>

-<p>

-At sight of the officers, the workman and his wife turned deadly pale, and

-were seized with a nervous tremor that could not escape Maitre Magloire&rsquo;s

-practiced eye, Yet the most thorough investigation failed to detect

-anything suspicious, and the policemen were about to withdraw, when the

-detective noticed Tarot&rsquo;s wife glance anxiously at a cage hung in the

-window.

-</p>

-<p>

-This was a ray of light. In less than an instant Magloire had unhooked

-and taken down the cage. Between the boards, at the bottom, twelve

-hundred-franc bank-bills were found.

-</p>

-<p>

-This discovery seemed to crush the workman. As to his wife, she began to

-utter piercing shrieks, protesting that both she and her husband were

-innocent. They were arrested, conveyed to head-quarters, and questioned by

-the magistrate. Their answers were precisely the same.

-</p>

-<p>

-They acknowledged having received a visit from their employer Saturday

-evening. He seemed so ill that they asked him to take something to drink,

-but he refused. He had come, he said, to give a large order, and proposed

-that Tarot should undertake it, employing his own workmen. They replied

-that they had no means to do so, whereupon their employer answered: &ldquo;No

-matter, I&rsquo;ll supply the money.&rdquo; And laid twelve hundred-franc bills on the

-table.

-</p>

-<p>

-At eleven o&rsquo;clock M. Jandidier asked his workman to accompany him; he was

-going to the Faubourg Saint Antoine. Tarot went as far as the Place de la

-Bastile, crossing the foot-bridge of Constantine, and walking along the

-canal.

-</p>

-<p>

-The magistrate asked both husband and wife the very natural question:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Why did you hide the money?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-They made the same reply.

-</p>

-<p>

-Monday morning, hearing of M. Jandidier&rsquo;s disappearance, they were seized

-with terror. Tarot said to his wife: &ldquo;If it is known that our employer

-came here, that I crossed the bridge and followed the edge of the canal

-with him, I shall be seriously compromised. If this money were found in

-our possession we should be lost.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-The wife then wanted to burn the notes, but Tarot opposed the plan,

-intending to return them to the family.

-</p>

-<p>

-This explanation was reasonable and plausible, if not probable, but it was

-merely an explanation. Tarot and his wife were kept under arrest.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

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-</div>

-<h2>

-IV.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">A</span> week after, the magistrate was still greatly perplexed. Three more

-examinations had not enabled him to come to any fixed conclusion.

-</p>

-<p>

-Were Tarot and his wife innocent? Were they simply marvelously clever in

-maintaining a probable story?

-</p>

-<p>

-The magistrate knew not what to think, when one morning a strange rumor

-spread abroad. The Maison Jandidier had failed. A detective sent to make

-inquiries, brought back the most startling news. M. Jandidier, who people

-supposed to be so rich, was ruined, utterly ruined, and for three years

-had kept up his credit by all sorts of expedients. There was not a

-thousand francs in his house, and his notes due at the end of the month

-amounted to sixty-seven thousand, five hundred francs.

-</p>

-<p>

-The cautious merchant gambled in stocks at the Bourse, the virtuous

-husband was unfaithful.

-</p>

-<p>

-The magistrate had just heard these particulars, when Maitre Magloire

-appeared, pale and panting for breath.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;You know, monsieur?&rdquo; he exclaimed on the threshold. &ldquo;All!&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Tarot is innocent.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I think so; and yet, that visit&mdash;how do you explain that visit?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-Magloire shook his head mournfully.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a fool,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;and Lecoq has just proved it. Monsieur Jandidier

-talked about life insurance policies at the Café Ture. That was the key to

-the whole matter. Jandidier was insured for 200,000 francs, and the

-companies, in France, never pay in case of suicide; do you understand?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

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-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-V.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>hanks to M. Gustave Schmidt, who will marry Mlle. Thérèse Jandidier next

-month, the Maison Jandidier did not fail.

-</p>

-<p>

-Tarot and his wife, on being restored to liberty, were set up in business

-by the same M. Gustave, and no longer go junketing on Mondays.

-</p>

-<p>

-But what has become of M. Jandidier? A thousand francs reward for news of

-him!

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0007" id="link2H_4_0007"> </a>

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-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-MILITARY SKETCHES.

-</h2>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0008" id="link2H_4_0008"> </a>

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-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE CANTINIERE.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">S</span>he may be young or old, dazzlingly pretty or frightfully ugly; in this

-case looks make no difference, she is ever and always the same. If there

-is much that is evil in her composition there is quite as much that is

-good. She is a woman although&mdash;or because&mdash;she is a cantinière.

-This much is certain&mdash;she loves the soldier, and is ever ready to do

-him a service.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is unnecessary to describe the cantinière in her glory; that is to say,

-at the head of her regiment on review days, arrayed in fall uniform, her

-glazed cap perched jauntily over one ear and her little cask on her back.

-Every one knows her traditional jacket, coquettish short skirt, trousers

-with scarlet stripes, and her fantastic boots.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is certainly a pretty sight to see her when the drum beats, leading the

-way, and keeping time to the step of the soldiers.

-</p>

-<p>

-But the drum is not always beating, fortunately! glory and noise do not

-suffice to fill the stomach, so on her return to the quarters, the

-cantinière lays aside her gorgeous apparel, and resumes her civilian

-costume, that is, a skirt and drees, and bestows her attention upon the

-thousand details connected with her establishment.

-</p>

-<p>

-The cantine is not what the civilian generally supposes; it is at once a

-restaurant, wine-shop, café, beer-shop, and boarding-house. It is here

-that the soldier&mdash;and sometimes the officer&mdash;takes his morning

-dram; the volunteer spends here a portion of the money sent him by his

-family; hussars afflicted with a hearty appetite find here a cheap

-supplement to the mess-room; troopers under arrest can here enjoy a

-demi-tasse without leaving the quarters, and here all the non-commissioned

-officers take their meals.

-</p>

-<p>

-They pay forty-five centimes a day and furnish their bread: in exchange

-for this amount, they are entitled to two meals a day, each composed of

-two dishes and a dessert, besides a bowl of soup or porridge in the

-evening.

-</p>

-<p>

-The charges are not high, as you see; so cantinières do not accumulate

-fortunes as rapidly as the restaurant-keepers on the boulevards.

-</p>

-<p>

-But moderation in price does not prevent the articles from being good, for

-some cantinières are veritable <i>cor-dons bleus</i>, competent to prepare

-a dish originated by Dr. Véron.

-</p>

-<p>

-In the generality of cases the cantinière is the wife of a drummer in the

-infantry, of a trumpeter in the cavalry; her husband is sometimes the

-fencing-master, or even a common soldier; but his position or rank is not

-of the slightest importance. In the cantine, the husband is a nonentity.

-His existence is scarcely recognized; and he is visible only on great

-occasions, when there is a crowd, or when it is necessary to quell

-disorder, which is seldom the case.

-</p>

-<p>

-The husband of the cantinière, when his duties are over for the day,

-smokes his pipe behind the door, and drinks brandy&mdash;or beer if he is

-a German; almost all the cantinièrea are Alsatians. Their children are

-sent to the regimental school; some become officers, the majority become

-excellent trumpeters.

-</p>

-<p>

-So the cantinière reigns supreme in her domain, which does not prevent her

-from serving others. She is generally assisted by a young woman, and by a

-good-natured soldier, who becomes her soldier, her right arm, in

-consideration of a small salary. If any disorder arises she quells it,

-putting the offender out-of-doors herself if necessary.

-</p>

-<p>

-She does not like to give credit; but she is so kind-hearted that she can

-not bear to see a man suffer, and it is impossible for her to refuse a

-drop to a really thirsty soldier. Though she censures herself for her

-weakness, she does not know how to resist an entreaty; but we must admit

-that she is generally paid, and that she does not lose much by her

-liberality.

-</p>

-<p>

-And what woman would not do the same? How could any one refuse to comply

-with a request of this kind:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;My good Madame Bajot,&mdash;I have been in the lock-. up for four days. I

-have not a penny nor even a morsel of tobacco to put in my pipe. I entreat

-you to send me six sous&rsquo; worth of tobacco&mdash;and a quart of brandy&mdash;for

-I am very thirsty&mdash;through my comrade, and in a little bottle on

-account of the corporal. By so doing you will save my life, and I will

-settle your bill next pay-day. Let the tobacco be very dry and of the best

-quality.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Be assured of my eternal gratitude,

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Brulard,

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Of the 1st Division, 3d Squadron.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-The excellent woman shudders on contemplating the prisoner&rsquo;s privations,

-and sends him the tobacco and brandy.

-</p>

-<p>

-Moreover, if a trooper be sick or wounded, though not sufficiently to be

-sent to the hospital, she nurses him, dresses his wound, and prepares the

-<i>tisane</i>, for which she will never accept any pay.

-</p>

-<p>

-If the cantinière is ugly, no one thinks of criticising her.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is her right, and no one even perceives it; but if she is pretty, it is

-a very different matter. She makes havoc in the regiment, and all the

-young conscripts are speedily subjugated by her conquering charms.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is an old trooper&rsquo;s axiom, that the goodness of the wine is in an

-inverse ratio to the beauty of the cantinière.

-</p>

-<p>

-She has a little wagon drawn by one or two horses. It is in this equipage

-that she follows the troops, and appears upon the parade ground, where she

-dispenses tobacco and liquors to the officers and men in the intervals of

-rest during the drill.

-</p>

-<p>

-During a campaign she devotes herself to her regiment. More than once in

-the thickest of the fight she has been seen going from rank to rank to

-carry a drop to the soldiers, and braving the canister and grape in order

-to give a little water to the wounded. She keeps no accounts at such

-times; she does not sell, she gives.

-</p>

-<p>

-Several cantinières have been decorated, and the exploits of one of their

-number have been related throughout Europe. They have formed the plot of a

-drama which delineates all the characteristics of &ldquo;the soldier&rsquo;s mother,&rdquo;

- under the title of &ldquo;The Vivandière of the Grand Army.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0009" id="link2H_4_0009"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE BARBER OF THE SQUADRON.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">A</span>s a general thing, it is upon the cheeks of his brother soldiers that he

-serves his apprenticeship&mdash;a severe apprenticeship for the cheeks!

-Heaven preserve you from ever falling into his clutches and testing his

-dexterity. In former years, before entering the service, he was a

-carpenter, a mechanic, or a stone-cutter;&mdash;his good conduct elevated

-him to the important position of barber, and since that time he has plied

-in turn the scissors and razor with more zeal than discretion.

-</p>

-<p>

-This office of barber is one of the most popular in the regiment; and the

-person who holds it is not a little proud of the honor. First of all, he

-has a right to exact a small monthly payment from each soldier; he also

-enjoys perfect freedom after ten o&rsquo;clock; in short, he is excused from all

-drudgery, and most of the exercises. And yet his position is no sinecure.

-</p>

-<p>

-The barber is responsible for the heads of the entire company. If the

-beards are too long, or the hair transgresses the limits prescribed by

-ordinance, he is the one upon whom the blame will fall. The regulation is

-there; he must follow it to the letter, and shave his companions-in-arms

-as closely as possible, and not unfrequently against their will; for there

-are troopers who cling to their hair&mdash; the natural ornament of man. The military gallant would love to wear long

-hair, probably so a loving hand could caress his curls; but the

-regulations are pitiless.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;As soon as the hair can be seized with the hand, it must positively be

-cut,&rdquo; says the corporal.

-</p>

-<p>

-All sorts of means are vainly employed by the foppish trooper to preserve

-his hair. He wets it every day, or pastes it down with the aid of <i>cosmetique</i>,

-then hides it carefully under his cap.

-</p>

-<p>

-‘Wasted efforts! the officers are acquainted with all these tricks; they

-pull off the caps, rumple up the hair, and then the delinquent and the

-barber, who is held responsible, are almost sure of two, or even four days

-in the guard house.

-</p>

-<p>

-Those sly foxes&mdash;the old troopers&mdash;do not resort to such

-hackneyed expedients; they feign some affection of the eyes or ears, and

-thus obtain from the sergeant-major permission to wear their hair long.

-</p>

-<p>

-The days of grand reviews are trying ordeals for the barber. In less than

-two hours he must shave one hundred and fifty or two hundred beards, to

-say nothing of the hair-cutting.

-</p>

-<p>

-You should see him then, his sleeves rolled up to the elbow, and armed

-with a terrible razor which he has not even time to sharpen. The soldiers&mdash;I

-should say, the patients&mdash;perhaps martyrs would be still better&mdash;lather

-themselves in advance, and come one after another to take their place in

-the seat of torture. The work is accomplished in the twinkling of an eye;

-the most obstinate beards do not resist; hairs that refuse to be cut are

-torn out; the cheek bleeds a little, but that is nothing. What is a

-scratch to a French soldier? Moreover, the barber is a conscientious man,

-and if he occasionally happens to slice off an ear, he always takes the

-greatest possible pains to restore it to its rightful owner.

-</p>

-<p>

-The troopers dread the razor, but they jeer at the barber; they call him

-the butcher, in whispers be it understood&mdash;for if he overhears them,

-it is in his power to avenge himself summarily.

-</p>

-<p>

-Barbers are the heroes of a host of army legends; there is, first, the

-story of Barber Plumepate, who belonged to a cavalry regiment.

-</p>

-<p>

-This barber, who was very skillful in his profession, had an exceedingly

-vindictive disposition. Very severely punished one day by his captain, he

-swore vengeance, and openly declared he would kill the man who had so

-wronged him.

-</p>

-<p>

-The barber&rsquo;s threats coming to the ears of the captain, he immediately

-summoned Plumepate.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;You have sworn that you would kill me,&rdquo; he said to him; &ldquo;that is mere

-boasting on your part; you would never dare to do it. Wait a moment; I

-will try you. Prepare your implements and shave me.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-The terrible Plumepate was completely disconcerted. He set to work, but he

-dared not carry out his threats. Never, on the contrary, did he do a

-neater job.

-</p>

-<p>

-On another occasion, during a campaign, a barber in one of the regiments

-of the line was summoned to shave the commander-in-chief. He was badly

-frightened, and he could but think of the possible consequences should his

-hand tremble. It did tremble so much that the general&rsquo;s face was covered

-with blood when the operation was concluded. The unfortunate barber,

-terrified by what he had done, shook in every limb, and stammered a

-thousand excuses.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Hold,&rdquo; said the general; &ldquo;here is a louis! If your hand had not trembled

-in shaving your general, you would not be a true trooper.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-During a campaign, a barber becomes a soldier like the others, for then

-both hair and beard are neglected.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;When one finds water in Africa one drinks it; one does not amuse one&rsquo;s

-self in making soap-suds.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-It sometimes happens that the barber of a regiment is a genuine barber,

-who knows his trade, and who practiced it with honor before he became a

-soldier. Then there is joy in the squadron; and the troopers flock to be

-shaved by this artist, who does not mutilate them, and whose

-well-sharpened razor is scarcely felt. The more foppish, in consideration

-of a small fee, have their hair dressed and oiled.

-</p>

-<p>

-The lower officers, not only of the squadron, but of the entire regiment,

-give him their patronage; he becomes their favorite, their factotum, they

-treat him affably, almost courteously, and even permit a certain degree of

-familiarity.

-</p>

-<p>

-Louis XI. made a prime minister of his barber.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0010" id="link2H_4_0010"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE VAGUEMESTRE.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">H</span>e is always busy, very busy, exceedingly busy; that is his specialty. Do

-not attempt to speak to him, he can not answer you; do not try to stop

-him, he will march you straight to the guard-house. He does not walk, he

-runs; he has not an hour to spare, not a moment, not a second.

-</p>

-<p>

-This morning before the odious reveille had driven the soldiers from their

-narrow couches he was up and dressed, ready to start.

-</p>

-<p>

-Should you succeed in questioning him, this will be his response:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;What a life! what a profession! Look, sir, it is not yet nine o&rsquo;clock,

-and I have already made thirty trips. I had scarcely time to take my dram

-this morning, and in my haste I almost choked myself. How do I know I

-shall have time to swallow my absinthe? Shall I even get my breakfast?

-That is doubtful. As you see, I invariably reach the cantine an hour after

-the others. Everything is eaten, there is nothing left, or if there is, it

-is something no one would eat, and consequently intolerable. Then they

-bring me an egg. An egg!&rdquo; (with a bitter laugh), &ldquo;an egg! for a man who

-has been running about all the morning. Never adopt my profession, sir; my

-existence is insupportable&mdash;a dog&rsquo;s life! To-morrow, you may rest

-assured, I shall tender my resignation and take my place in the ranks,

-like the others. But what am I doing? Here I have lost ten minutes in

-talking; clear oat, d&mdash;n you! I should have had time to drink my

-absinthe.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-It must be admitted that the life of the vaguemestre is not a path of

-roses.

-</p>

-<p>

-He is the Mercury of that company of deities known as the staff of a

-regiment, and like that mythological courier, he must have wings on his

-feet. He is also the superintendent of the regimental post-office; all

-letters that come and go pass through his hands; he must know the hours

-for the arrival and departure of the mails, carry the letters, and go

-after them. If soldiers receive money through the post, they can not draw

-it themselves; they carry their order to him, and he draws it and pays it

-over to them; so I assure you this officer&rsquo;s time is fully occupied. And

-yet something more than agility is needed, for he must think of

-everything. The slightest oversight or the least delay might produce

-serious consequences, for forgetfulness and want of punctuality are

-severely punished.

-</p>

-<p>

-In the morning he hastens to the post-office, then to the colonel&rsquo;s house

-to obtain the order of the day; then he rushes back to the barracks in

-company with the messenger.

-</p>

-<p>

-He then hastily sorts the letters, making a separate pile for each

-squadron; these he gives to the sergeants, who give them to the corporals

-on duty for the week, who distribute them among the soldiers.

-</p>

-<p>

-But the hour for the report arrives; he hastens after it; then he starts

-off again. The report must be submitted to the superior officers. The

-lieutenant-colonel is waiting for it; the major is waiting for it, so the

-vaguemestre hurries away. On returning, he must stop to see a captain who

-has sent for him; besides, the colonel has intrusted him with a letter to

-be delivered to a lieutenant who lives at the very end of the town. What a

-nuisance! He rushes to the place, but does not find the lieutenant. The

-letter is important; the lieutenant must be at the <i>café</i>&mdash;lieutenants

-are always at the <i>café</i>&mdash;at least, when they are not at

-breakfast. The vaguemestre visits the <i>café</i>, no lieutenant; at last,

-he finds him at his boarding-house and delivers the letter.

-</p>

-<p>

-He heaves a mighty sigh of relief. Now he can breakfast; he hurries on

-with all the fleetness of which his tired limbs are capable; hunger lends

-him wings. He reaches the barracks. Alas! the adjutant-major who has just

-left the table, stops him in the passage; he has a few suggestions to make&mdash;adjutant-majors

-always have suggestions to make.

-</p>

-<p>

-At last he breakfasts in turn; he is the last of all. But it is useless to

-describe the experience of the entire day.

-</p>

-<p>

-The vaguemestre is gifted with an extraordinary memory. Every week, when

-he distributes the money received by the soldiers, he knows the exact

-condition of each man&rsquo;s account; he must know if those who are entitled to

-money are in disgrace or ill. Every week the sergeant on duty in each

-squadron must furnish him with a report embodying this information; but it

-would take too much time to consult these documents. He prefers to

-remember.

-</p>

-<p>

-So, Sunday morning the trumpeter sounds the vaguemestre&rsquo;s call, that is to

-say, executes a sort of flourish that signifies:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;All who have received money-orders through the post must come and find

-the vaguemestre if they desire what is due them.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-This call is so well understood that the soldiers respond promptly, and

-without hesitation, whereupon colloquies of this kind ensue:

-</p>

-<p>

-THE VAGUEMESTRE. Private Demanet, you have received twelve francs.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE DEMANET. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Private Demanet, your outfit

-is not yet paid for; you are credited with only eleven francs, which is a

-deplorable state of things. You must devote your twelve francs to this

-purpose.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE DEMARET. I entreat you, lieutenant&mdash;Vaguemestre. Well, then,

-here are a hundred sous. I will keep back only seven francs. Make out a

-receipt. example second.

-</p>

-<p>

-EXAMPLE SECOND.

-</p>

-<p>

-VAGUEMESTRE. Private Castagnol, you have received fifty francs.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Your parents seem to have

-more money than they know what to do with.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Lieutenant, my family&mdash;Vaguemestre. Ah! I

-remember, you are a volunteer. Very well, you may go.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. But my money?

-</p>

-<p>

-VAGUEMESTRE. You have eight days in the guard-house to make. Next Sunday,

-if you are not punished in the meantime, you shall have your money.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE OASTAGKOL. But&mdash;

-</p>

-<p>

-VAGUEMESTRE. No remarks.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL (<i>turning angrily away</i>). I shall tell my friends

-to send bank-notes next time.

-</p>

-<p>

-The vaguemestre being usually an adjutant, the soldiers address him as

-lieutenant.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0011" id="link2H_4_0011"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE ZOUAVE.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">M</span>any have talked of the zouave: few know him.

-</p>

-<p>

-Everybody has seen him lazily squatting at the gates of the Tuileries,

-like a granite sphinx on the threshold of the Assyrian palaces. He is on

-guard. He performs his duty with a profoundly melancholy air, smoking his

-pipe with feverish impatience, or, rather, watching with feverish

-impatience all the while he is smoking his pipe, some ray of our Parisian

-sunlight, which seems like moonlight when compared with that fierce

-African sunshine, which pours down upon the head like molten lead.

-</p>

-<p>

-A scrap of green or white calico, twisted around a red fez; a blue jacket,

-trimmed with red or yellow braid, and which leaves the throat entirely

-bare; full scarlet trousers, cut in the Oriental fashion; white gaiters

-buttoning above the ankle; this is his costume.

-</p>

-<p>

-How can one describe the man?

-</p>

-<p>

-Short, spare, compactly built and muscular, with broad shoulders, square

-fists, closely shaven head, keen eyes, a mocking smile, and a bold and

-decided bearing&mdash;such is the zouave, the best soldier in the world

-for bold ventures, skirmishes with outposts, impossible ambuscades, and

-rapid marches.

-</p>

-<p>

-Accustomed to the pursuit of the Arab, his constant enemy, the zouave is

-thoroughly conversant with all the stratagems of desert warfare. He has

-learned to outwit his savage foes, so he will always surprise the armies

-of Europe.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;The Arab is very cunning, but the zouave is more cunning still.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-He knows how to conceal himself in a little clump of shrubbery, and steal

-imperceptibly upon the sentinel whom he wishes to capture; he can advance

-without a sound, remain motionless for hours together, hide behind the

-slightest irregularity in the ground, crawl, leap, bound, disappear in the

-undergrowth that surrounds him, follow a track, and shun all the traps

-that are set for him.

-</p>

-<p>

-As a sharp-shooter, he has no equal.

-</p>

-<p>

-If a position is to be taken, he dashes forward, with head down,

-overturning everything in his passage. It is no longer a man; it is a

-bullet. Once started on his course, he reaches the goal or dies.

-</p>

-<p>

-The zouave cordially detests large cities, and regards garrisons with

-abhorrence.

-</p>

-<p>

-In garrison life, the discipline becomes too irksome; he must polish his

-cartridge-box, whiten his shoulder-belt, wash his clothes, mount guard at

-regular hours, appear at parade&mdash;all wearisome enough to the average

-trooper, but insupportable to the zouave.

-</p>

-<p>

-The zouave needs the freedom of camp life, the free range of an enemy&rsquo;s

-country, a <i>ragoût</i> improvised under a tent. It matters not if his

-canteen is only three-quarters full, and if the supply of coffee is

-running short, so he has but a morsel of no matter what to appease his

-hunger, he sings, he is gay, he is happy, he is himself.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is true that when he is not happy, he is equally gay, and sings even

-more loudly.

-</p>

-<p>

-The zouave owes his fondness for adventure and his almost nomadic habits

-to the African war. In constantly pursuing the Arabs through deserts and

-over mountains, he has formed habits of living very like those of these

-wandering tribes.

-</p>

-<p>

-Like the philosopher Bias, the zouave carries all his possessions about

-with him, which proves, perhaps, that he is something of a philosopher.

-</p>

-<p>

-But you should see a zouave&rsquo;s knapsack when he is starting on an

-expedition. It is monstrous; one wonders if he will not sink beneath his

-burden, and be compelled to cast it aside. He would rather die. Besides,

-it seems to be the universal belief that he does not feel the weight of

-it.

-</p>

-<p>

-Usually, on taking the field, the infantry lighten their load as much as

-possible; the officers not only permit this, but require it.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is not so with the zouave. This seems to be the very time that his

-burden must be heaviest He reduces his effects to the smallest possible

-compass, rolls them, squeezes them, and then crowds them, and crowds them,

-until the straps become too short and the distended knapsack threatens to

-burst.

-</p>

-<p>

-There is a little of everything in the zouave&rsquo;s load. An enumeration of

-its contents would sound like the inventory of three distinct

-establishments;&mdash;a drug, a haberdashery, and a grocery store.

-</p>

-<p>

-He has thread, needles, buttons, soap, wax, tallow, a thimble, a fork, one

-or two spoons, and several knives, to say nothing of the condiments

-indispensable in the concoction of a savory <i>ragoût</i>.

-</p>

-<p>

-For the zouave is a gourmand. It is to satisfy his fastidious tastes in

-this direction that, having no servant at his command, he has made himself

-the best cook in Europe.

-</p>

-<p>

-His <i>ragoûts</i> might not make his fortune in Paris; but in Africa, in

-the desert, how many generals have smacked their lips over them!

-</p>

-<p>

-Any one can make a savory dish of stewed rabbit <i>with</i> a rabbit; but

-to make it <i>without</i> a rabbit, that is a difficult task, quite worthy

-of a zouave.

-</p>

-<p>

-His fertile imagination never shines as brilliantly as when the larder is

-empty; then, he employs all his wits; he searches, he invents. On such

-days, he dines admirably; but how many strange animals are made to turn

-from their usual path to take the road to the saucepan.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I do not ask my zouaves for strawberries,&rdquo; said Marshal, then Colonel

-Canrobert, one frightfully hot day, in the middle of the desert; &ldquo;but if I

-really desired some, they are quite capable of discovering them in the

-sand.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-To-day the zouave is the most popular of all our soldiers; his <i>chachia</i>

-threatens to pass down to posterity with the towering bear-skin cap worn

-by the grenadiers of the First Empire.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is to the zouave that we owe the words of the celebrated march known as

-the &ldquo;Casquette.&rdquo; This is the origin of it:

-</p>

-<p>

-One night the French camp was surprised by Arabs. A murderous fire so

-astonished our soldiers, that they almost wavered at first; but Marshal

-Bugeaud rushed from his tent, and his presence inspiring our troops with

-their wonted enthusiasm, the enemy was repulsed.

-</p>

-<p>

-When the conflict was ended, the marshal noticed that every one smiled on

-looking at him. He raised his hands to his head. In his haste, he had left

-his tent adorned with the anything but heroic head-gear of the King of

-Yvetot; in short, a night-cap.

-</p>

-<p>

-The next day, when the trumpets gave the signal for the troops to resume

-their march, the zouaves, in memory of that original coifiure, sung in

-deafening chorus:

-</p>

-<pre xml:space="preserve">

-&ldquo;As-tu vu

-La casquette

-La casquette,

-As-tu vu

-La casquette,

-Du Père Bugeaud?&rdquo;

- </pre>

-<p>

-Two or three days afterward, the marshal, on giving the order for

-departure, said to the trumpeters: &ldquo;Boys, sound <i>la casquette</i>.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-So this name still clings to the order. To how many victories it has led,

-and will lead the zouaves!

-</p>

-<p>

-Father Bugeaud&rsquo;s <i>casquette</i>, by insuring the success of &ldquo;Duc Job,&rdquo;

- yielded eighty thousand francs to the Théâtre Français, and sixty thousand

-francs to M. Léon Laya.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is a night-cap well worth the having.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0012" id="link2H_4_0012"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE FANTASSIN, OR FOOT-SOLDIER.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he fantassin, <i>par excellence</i>, is a soldier of the regular

-infantry. The cavalry pretend that the foot-soldier wears spurs on his

-elbows, but this is only a stale joke perpetrated before the bayonet came

-into general use.

-</p>

-<p>

-The regular infantry is really the French army. It has shed its blood upon

-every battle-field, and has come off victorious again and again. It is the

-infantry that has carried the standards of France through conquered

-Europe. It is the regular infantry which, without shoes, provisions, or

-artillery, swept down from the Alps upon Italy. It is the infantry that

-fought at the Pyramids, at Eylau and at Moscow. The infantry is the queen

-of battles; with her one can go in any direction and always maintain one&rsquo;s

-position.

-</p>

-<p>

-There is nothing brilliant about the infantry uniform, and yet when seen

-in masses it produces an excellent effect. It is also the most comfortable

-and the best adapted to all the needs of a soldier in the field.

-</p>

-<p>

-At reviews, upon the parade ground, and on the boulevards there are,

-perhaps, regiments that attract more attention; but such is not the case

-if it is seen in line of battle. One should see it maneuvering under fire

-with the same precision as on the Champs de Mars. Each regiment has become

-a corps, with its officers at its head. A cannon-ball cuts down an entire

-file. &ldquo;Close up the ranks!&rdquo; The ranks are closed; the void is filled

-without haste, disorder, or confusion.

-</p>

-<p>

-Nothing could be more beautiful, nothing could be more magnificent than a

-regiment of the line advancing for a bayonet charge upon the enemy. Search

-the ranks; examine one by one these soldiers blackened with powder, try to

-find the foot-soldier you have seen lounging about the shop windows in

-large cities, with his shako on the back of his head. The lounger of

-yesterday is the hero of to-day. Now, danger illumines every face;

-courage, like an aureole, shines resplendent on every brow. All honor to

-the regulars! upon their banners is written our glorious history!

-</p>

-<p>

-The foot-soldier in garrison bears no resemblance whatever to the hero of

-the battle-field. He does not even remember his exploits of yesterday; he

-little suspects the great deeds he will perform to-morrow should France

-have need of his devotion and courage.

-</p>

-<p>

-The foot-soldier in garrison is the best and most inoffensive of men,

-always trying to make himself useful, ever ready to do a favor. His tastes

-are simple, and his desires modest; boisterous amusements have no

-attractions for him, and he rarely indulges in the bottle.

-</p>

-<p>

-The foot-soldier, like all the members of his profession, is generally in

-straitened circumstances.

-</p>

-<pre xml:space="preserve">

-&ldquo;For in France as in Austria

-The soldier is not rich,

-Every one knows that.&rdquo;

- </pre>

-<p>

-It is true that one can not indulge in much extravagance on five centimes

-a day. Fortunately there are ways to increase this meager income. In many

-regiments, the soldiers are allowed to find occupation in the city,

-provided, of course, that discipline does not suffer thereby. Those who

-have a trade devote all their leisure time to it; those who have only

-their two hands and their good-will&mdash;and they are by far the largest

-number&mdash;nevertheless find a way to make themselves useful. In some <i>bourgeoisie</i>

-households they hire a soldier to take care of the garden and scrub the

-floors.

-</p>

-<p>

-There is also another source of revenue which, though not the most

-honorable, is certainly the most in vogue; this is playing a trick on

-one&rsquo;s family.

-</p>

-<p>

-The fraud is generally suggested by some old grumbler who is an adept in

-the art of deception. A mischievously inclined volunteer, who is a good

-penman, generally writes the letter. Illness is the usual pretext. It is

-the simplest of all, and seldom fails to produce the desired effect. How

-can you suppose that parents will refuse to forward a few francs on

-receiving from their child a letter beginning thus:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Dear Mother,&mdash;The object of this letter is to inform you that I am

-in the hospital.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-The family send money. A letter arrives, inclosing a post-office order.

-The vaguemestre quickly changes it into shining coin. But alas! this money

-vanishes like a dream. And how could it be otherwise? So many friends must

-have a share of this windfall. First, there is the bedfellow, then the

-inventor of the trick, then the writer, then two or three comrades,

-fellow-countrymen&mdash;then a corporal who has been obliging, and many

-others. Besides, it is not considered seemly for a trooper to spend his

-money alone.

-</p>

-<p>

-A soldier who goes out alone, and who drinks alone, is disgraced in the

-eyes of his comrades.

-</p>

-<p>

-When he has finished his daily task at the barracks, polished his weapons,

-and answered to his name at roll-call, the foot-soldier is at liberty,

-provided he is not on duty, or on guard, or on the <i>corveê</i>, or

-undergoing punishment, and he can leave the barracks if he chooses.

-Generally he is eager to improve the opportunity. There must be something

-of importance to detain him if he does not go out; a letter to write, some

-little job to do, a pipe of unusual length to color for an officer who is

-making a collection. But such instances are rare. He loves long walks. If

-he is stationed in a small town, you can always meet him in the shady

-paths in the suburbs. He is generally cutting little switches to beat his

-clothing.

-</p>

-<p>

-If he is in a large city, he has a variety of amusements. He delights in

-gazing into the shop-windows; he haunts the promenades and the public

-gardens; mountebanks always find in him a patient and appreciative patron,

-ever ready to laugh at their stale jokes. The mountebank and the fantassin

-have had a mutual understanding for a long time. &ldquo;Walk in. Walk in,

-gentlemen and ladies. Admission is ten centimes; two sous. The military

-only half-price.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-But there is no place like Paris for the soldier. Wine is a trifle dear;

-but how many diversions there are. This is a city! one can stroll about

-five hours without danger of seeing the same objects. Moreover, Paris

-contains the Jardin des Plantes, and the Jardin des Plantes is, as every

-one knows, the soldier&rsquo;s earthly Paradise.

-</p>

-<p>

-There, he can spend his hours of liberty most delightfully. He visits, in

-succession, all the cabinets of natural history. He almost splits his

-sides laughing as he stands before the monkey&rsquo;s palace, watching the

-pranks of its occupants; he goes into ecstasies over the wild animals, and

-shudders while contemplating the reptiles. But his favorites are the bear

-and the elephant. He never leaves the Jardin des Plantes until he has seen

-Martin climb the tree, and given the elephant a crust of bread, held in

-reserve in his cap&mdash;for want of pantaloon pockets.

-</p>

-<p>

-But the foot-soldier would be a body without a soul, if he had no

-countrywoman. The payse, as he styles her, has been created for the

-fantassin, as the fantassin has been created for the payse. They love and

-understand each other. He accompanies the payse, who is usually a child&rsquo;s

-nurse, in her walks; he assists her in watching the children, when he does

-not prevent her from watching them; on the promenade, the fantassin seats

-himself near the payse and pours sweet nothings into her ears, while the

-children play on the gravel-walk. &ldquo;Honi soit qui mal y pense!&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-In spite of the fatigue that results from it, the foot-soldier loves a

-change of garrison. He goes cheerfully from one end of France to the

-other, singing as he plods along. Every day, before two o&rsquo;clock, his legs

-fail him, which does not prevent him from strolling around to see the

-curiosities of the neighborhood as soon as he reaches the town where he is

-to spend the night.

-</p>

-<p>

-The <i>billet</i> troubles the soldier a little. It is like a ticket in a

-lottery. Some are very good, some are bad. As a general thing, the soldier

-is cordially received; though the contrary happens sometimes. So far as

-the fantassin is concerned, he hardly ever abuses the hospitality accorded

-him. The <i>billet</i> is considered very good when the people of the

-house invite the soldier to share their dinner. It is a saving of time and

-of money for him. The fantassin is overjoyed, and to repay his

-entertainers, he tells them his history.

-</p>

-<p>

-When his term of service expires and he returns to his fireside, the

-soldier does not presume upon his superiority. He talks freely but not

-boastingly of his travels and campaigns. He always finds attentive

-auditors, for we all love and respect the old defenders of France.

-</p>

-<p>

-Some accuse the fantassin of being too unsophisticated; there are

-occasions when simplicity of speech is the height of eloquence.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;What were you doing at Solferino?&rdquo; some one once asked a soldier.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I?&mdash;I was doing like the rest&mdash;killing and being killed,&rdquo; he

-replied modestly.

-</p>

-<p>

-Sublimely artless speech in which is summed up all the philosophy of war.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0013" id="link2H_4_0013"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE SOLDIER OF THE LIGHT INFANTRY;

-</h2>

-<h3>

-OR, THE CHASSEUR.

-</h3>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">H</span>e does not walk; he runs; he is truly the soldier of his age&mdash;an age

-of steam. He comes from Vincennes to Paris in thirty-five minutes; it

-takes a first class <i>fiacre</i> just twice as long.

-</p>

-<p>

-The light infantry has given abundant proofs of courage. It was in Africa,

-in 1842, that it received the baptism of fire, a glorious baptism.

-</p>

-<p>

-From the very first the chasseurs inspired the Arabs with unconquerable

-terror. It is true that everything combines to give them a frightful

-appearance in battle; their somber costume, their strange evolutions, the

-shrill sound of their trumpets, make them resemble, seen in the midst of

-the smoke, a legion of unchained devils.

-</p>

-<p>

-When the Arabs saw them advancing on the run they took flight.

-</p>

-<p>

-The chasseurs have a terrible weapon. Their rifles, which are loaded with

-oblong balls, pierce a board fifty millimeters in thickness at a distance

-of more than a quarter of a mile; and as all the chasseurs are excellent

-marksmen, they make frightful havoc in the enemy&rsquo;s ranks.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is amusing to see the profound astonishment of the Arabs wounded at

-such a distance. They believe there is some witchcraft about it.

-</p>

-<p>

-At Sebastopol, the corps of volunteer sharp-shooters was recruited from

-the ranks of the chasseurs. Creeping along, hiding in the slightest furrow

-of ground, they generally succeed in approaching within range of the

-battery, and then woe to its defenders! The cannons were soon reduced to

-silence.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is impossible for any one who has not witnessed the maneuvers of the

-light infantry to have any conception of the marvels resulting from

-discipline and daily practice.

-</p>

-<p>

-Their ordinary gait is a rapid walk, their accelerated pace is the speed

-of a race-horse. At a blast from the trumpet they disperse in every

-direction, disappearing, kneeling, lying flat on their bellies or on their

-backs, loading their rifles, aiming and firing in every conceivable

-posture. Another signal is heard; instantly they are in the ranks, crowded

-close together, bayonets glittering, ready to charge.

-</p>

-<p>

-And an impetuous charge by the chasseurs of Vincennes is irresistible.

-Dense as the mass may be upon which they precipitate themselves, they cut

-their way through it with their broad saber-bayonets, leaving a bloody

-trail behind them.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;They are demons!&rdquo; Prince Mentchikoff exclaimed at Sebastopol.

-</p>

-<p>

-The chasseurs are very proud of their reputation for swiftness. Once when

-an order of the day was read to them beginning thus:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Soldiers: we are about to march upon the enemy.&rdquo;&mdash;they cried: &ldquo;Oh,

-no, that does not suit us, we wish to run.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-When off duty the chasseur preserves his rapid pace, and his ferocious,

-almost tigerish manner. His hat is always cocked defiantly on one side of

-his head, and his belt is always inordinately tight.

-</p>

-<p>

-Quick and supple in every movement, he adores dancing. It is his <i>forte</i>,

-and in it he wins a success that the Parisian fireman alone can dispute

-with him. Naturally, the belles adore this perfect dancer; but they should

-not trust him&mdash;the chasseur is even more inconstant than that

-heartless butterfly, the voltigeur.

-</p>

-<p>

-In Paris he haunts the shades of Vincennes and Saint Maudé. Monday,

-Thursday, and Sunday he can always be found at the public balls, near the

-Barrière du Trône, happy if permission to be absent until midnight enables

-him to remain until the close of the festivities. He invariably finds a

-brother chasseur who is also absent on leave, and who shares several

-bottles of sour wine with him.

-</p>

-<h3>

-*******

-</h3>

-<p>

-But it would be unjust not to say a word concerning the trumpeter of the

-chasseurs.

-</p>

-<p>

-How the chasseur, laden with his knapsack, rations, weapons, ammunition,

-and accouterments can run without losing his breath completely, it is

-difficult to comprehend.

-</p>

-<p>

-But how does the trumpeter, as he runs with the others, find breath to

-blow his trumpet?

-</p>

-<p>

-That is something one can not comprehend.

-</p>

-<div style="height: 6em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-<pre>

-

-

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-<h1>
-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.
-</h1>
-<h2>
-By Emile Gaboriau.
-</h2>
-<p>
-<br />
-</p>
-<h3>
-Translated by Laura E. Kendall.
-</h3>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<p>
-<b>CONTENTS</b>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0001"> <b>A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.</b> </a>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0002"> I. </a>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0003"> II. </a>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0004"> III. </a>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0005"> IV. </a>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0006"> V. </a>
-</p>
-<p>
-<br />
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0007"> <b>MILITARY SKETCHES.</b> </a>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0008"> THE CANTINIERE. </a>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0009"> THE BARBER OF THE SQUADRON. </a>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0010"> THE VAGUEMESTRE. </a>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0011"> THE ZOUAVE. </a>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0012"> THE FANTASSIN, OR FOOT-SOLDIER. </a>
-</p>
-<p class="toc">
-<a href="#link2H_4_0013"> THE SOLDIER OF THE LIGHT INFANTRY; </a>
-</p>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0001" id="link2H_4_0001"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.
-</h2>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-I.
-</h2>
-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">I</span>t&rsquo;s a very short time ago, yesterday as it were, that one Sunday
-afternoon about four o&rsquo;clock, the whole Quartier du Marais was in an
-uproar.
-</p>
-<p>
-Rumor asserted that one of the most respectable merchants in the Hue
-Boi-de-Sicile had disappeared, and all efforts to find him continued
-fruitless.
-</p>
-<p>
-The strange event was discussed in all the shops in the neighborhood;
-there were groups at the doors of all the fruit-sellers, every moment some
-terrified housewife arrived, bringing fresh particulars.
-</p>
-<p>
-The grocer on the corner had the best and latest news, the most reliable,
-too, for he received his information from the lips of the cook who lived
-in the house.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;So,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;yesterday evening, after dinner, our neighbor, Monsieur
-Jandidier, went down to his cellar to get a bottle of wine, and was never
-seen again. He disappeared, vanished, evaporated!&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-It occasionally happens that mysterious disappearances are mentioned. The
-public becomes excited, and prudent people buy sword-canes.
-</p>
-<p>
-Policemen hear absurd reports, and shrug their shoulders. They know the
-wrong side of the carefully embroidered canvas. They investigate, and
-find, instead of artless falsehoods, the truth; instead of romances,
-sorrowful stories. Yet, up to a certain point, the grocer of the Rue
-Saint Louis told the truth.
-</p>
-<p>
-M. Jandidier, manufacturer of imitation jewelry, had not been at home for
-the last twenty-four hours.
-</p>
-<p>
-M. Theodore Jandidier was a man fifty-eight years old, very stout and very
-bald, who had made a large fortune in business. He was supposed to have a
-considerable income from stocks and bonds, and his business brought him
-annually, on an average, fifty thousand francs. He was beloved and
-respected in his neighborhood, and justly so; his honesty was above
-suspicion, his morality rigid. Married late in life to a penniless
-relative, he had made her perfectly happy. He had an only daughter, a
-pretty, graceful girl, named Thérèse, whom he worshiped. She had been
-engaged to the eldest son of Schmidt the banker&mdash;member of the firm
-Schmidt, Gubenheim &amp; Worb&mdash;M. Gustave; but the match was broken
-off, nobody knew why, for the young people were desperately in love with
-each other. It was said by Jandidier&rsquo;s acquaintances that Schmidt senior,
-a perfect skinflint, had demanded a dowry far beyond the merchant&rsquo;s means.
-</p>
-<p>
-Notified by public rumor, which hourly exaggerated the story, the
-commissary of police went to the home of the man already called &ldquo;the
-victim,&rdquo; to obtain more exact information.
-</p>
-<p>
-He found Mme. and Mlle. Jandidier in such terrible grief that it was with
-great difficulty he gleaned the truth. At last he learned the following
-details:
-</p>
-<p>
-The day before, Saturday, M. Jandidier had dined with his family as usual,
-though his appetite was not good, owing, he said, to a violent headache.
-</p>
-<p>
-After dinner he went to his stores, gave some orders, and then entered his
-office.
-</p>
-<p>
-At half past six he came upstairs again, and told his wife he was going to
-walk.
-</p>
-<p>
-And he had not been seen since!
-</p>
-<p>
-After carefully noting these particulars, the commissary requested Mme.
-Jandidier to let him speak with her alone a few minutes. She made a sign
-of assent, and Mlle. Thérèse left the room.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Pardon the question I am about to ask, madame,&rdquo; said the police officer.
-&ldquo;Do you know whether your husband&mdash;again I beg you to excuse me&mdash;had
-any ties outside of his own family?&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-Mme. Jandidier started up; anger dried her tears.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;I have been married twenty-three years, monsieur, and my husband has
-never returned home later than ten o&rsquo;clock.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Was your husband in the habit of going to any club or café, madame?&rdquo;
- continued the officer.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Never; I wouldn&rsquo;t have allowed it.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Did he usually carry valuables on his person?&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know; I attended to my housekeeping and didn&rsquo;t trouble myself
-about business matters.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-It was impossible to get anything more from the haughty wife, who was
-fairly bewildered by sorrow.
-</p>
-<p>
-Having performed his duty, the commissary thought he ought to give the
-poor woman a little commonplace consolation.
-</p>
-<p>
-But on withdrawing, after an examination of the house, he felt very
-anxious, and began to suspect that a crime had been committed.
-</p>
-<p>
-That very evening one of the most skillful members of the detective force,
-Rétiveau, better known in the Rue de Jerusalem under the name of Maitre
-Magloire, was put on M. Jandidier&rsquo;s track, supplied with an excellent
-photograph of the merchant.
-</p>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-II.
-</h2>
-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he very day after M. Jandidier&rsquo;s disappearance, Maitre Magloire appeared
-at the Palais de justice to report what he had done to the magistrate in
-charge of the affair.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Ah! there you are, Monsieur Magloire,&rdquo; said the magistrate; &ldquo;so you&rsquo;ve
-discovered something?&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;I am on the trail, monsieur.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Speak.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;To begin with, Monsieur Jandidier did not leave home at half past six
-o&rsquo;clock, but precisely seven.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Precisely?&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Precisely. I ascertained that from a clock-maker in the Rue Saint Denis,
-who is sure of it, because while passing his shop, Monsieur Jandidier took
-out his watch to see if it was exactly like the clock over the door. He
-held an unlighted cigar in his mouth. Having discovered this last
-circumstance, I said to myself, &lsquo;I have it! He&rsquo;ll light his cigar
-somewhere.&rsquo; I reasoned correctly; he went into a retail shop on the
-Boulevard du Temple, whose mistress knows him very well. The fact was
-impressed on the woman&rsquo;s memory because he always smoked sou cigars, and
-this time bought London ones.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;How did he appear?&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Absent-minded, the shop-keeper told me. It was from her I found out that
-he often went to the Café Ture. I entered it, and was told that he had
-been there Saturday evening. He took two small glasses of brandy, and
-talked with his friends. He seemed dull. &lsquo;The gentleman talked all the
-time about life insurance policies,&rsquo; the waiter told me. At half past
-eight o&rsquo;clock our man left the with one of his friends, a merchant in the
-neighborhood, Monsieur Blandureau. I instantly went to this gentleman, who
-informed me that he walked up the boulevard with Monsieur Jandidier, who
-left him at the corner of the Rue Richelieu, pleading a business
-engagement. He was not in his usual spirits, and seemed to be assailed by
-the gloomiest presentiments.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Very well, so far,&rdquo; murmured the magistrate.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;On leaving Monsieur Blandureau, I went to the Rue Roi-de-Sicile to
-ascertain from somebody in the house whether Monsieur Jandidier had any
-customers or friends in the Rue Richelieu, but no one lived there except
-his tailor. I therefore proceeded hap-hazard to the tailor. He saw our man
-Saturday. Monsieur Jandidier called on him after nine o&rsquo;clock to order a
-pair of trousers. While his measure was being taken, he noticed that one
-of his vest buttons was nearly off, and asked to have it sewed on. He was
-obliged to take off his overcoat while the trifling repair was made, and
-as at the same time he removed the contents of the side pocket, the tailor
-noticed several hundred-franc bank-bills.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Ah!&rdquo; that&rsquo;s a clew, &ldquo;He had a considerable sum of money with him?&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Considerable, no; but tolerably large. The tailor estimates it at twelve
-or fourteen hundred francs.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Go on,&rdquo; said the magistrate.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;While his vest was being repaired, Monsieur Jandidier complained of
-sudden indisposition, and sent a little boy for a carriage, saying that he
-was obliged to go to one of his workmen, who lived a long distance off.
-Unfortunately, the lad had forgotten the number of the carriage. He only
-recollected that it had yellow wheels, and was drawn by a large black
-horse. The vehicle was found. A circular sent to all who kept carriages
-for hire, put me on the track. I learned this morning that it was No.
-6007. The driver, on being questioned, distinctly remembered having been
-stopped Saturday evening, about nine o&rsquo;clock, in the Rue Richelieu, by a
-little boy, and waiting ten minutes in front of the Maison Gouin. The
-description he gave of his fare exactly suits our man, and he recognized
-the photograph among five different ones I showed him.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-Maitre Magloire stopped. He wanted to enjoy the approval visible in the
-magistrate&rsquo;s expression.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Monsieur Jandidier,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;ordered the driver to take him to No.
-48 Rue d&rsquo;Arras-Saint-Victor. In this house lives a workman named Jules
-Tarot, employed by Monsieur Jandidier.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-M. Magloire&rsquo;s way of pronouncing this name was intended to rouse the
-magistrate&rsquo;s attention, and did so.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;You have suspicions?&rdquo; he asked.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Not exactly, but this is the story. Monsieur Jandidier dismissed the
-carriage at the Rue d&rsquo;Arras and went to Tarot&rsquo;s about ten o&rsquo;clock. At
-eleven the employer and workman came out together. The latter did not
-return until midnight, and here I lose all trace of my man. Of course I
-didn&rsquo;t question Tarot, for fear of putting him on his guard.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Who is this Jules Tarot?&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;A workman in mother-of-pearl, a man who polishes shells on a grindstone
-to make them perfectly iridescent. He&rsquo;s a skillful fellow, and, assisted
-by his wife, to whom he has taught his trade, can make nearly a hundred
-francs a week.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;They are in easy circumstances, then?&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Oh! no. They are both young, they have no children, they are Parisians.
-Deuce take it, they enjoy themselves. Monday regularly carries away what
-the other days bring.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-III.
-</h2>
-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>wo hours after Maitre Magloire&rsquo;s report, the police went to search Jules
-Tarot&rsquo;s house.
-</p>
-<p>
-At sight of the officers, the workman and his wife turned deadly pale, and
-were seized with a nervous tremor that could not escape Maitre Magloire&rsquo;s
-practiced eye, Yet the most thorough investigation failed to detect
-anything suspicious, and the policemen were about to withdraw, when the
-detective noticed Tarot&rsquo;s wife glance anxiously at a cage hung in the
-window.
-</p>
-<p>
-This was a ray of light. In less than an instant Magloire had unhooked
-and taken down the cage. Between the boards, at the bottom, twelve
-hundred-franc bank-bills were found.
-</p>
-<p>
-This discovery seemed to crush the workman. As to his wife, she began to
-utter piercing shrieks, protesting that both she and her husband were
-innocent. They were arrested, conveyed to head-quarters, and questioned by
-the magistrate. Their answers were precisely the same.
-</p>
-<p>
-They acknowledged having received a visit from their employer Saturday
-evening. He seemed so ill that they asked him to take something to drink,
-but he refused. He had come, he said, to give a large order, and proposed
-that Tarot should undertake it, employing his own workmen. They replied
-that they had no means to do so, whereupon their employer answered: &ldquo;No
-matter, I&rsquo;ll supply the money.&rdquo; And laid twelve hundred-franc bills on the
-table.
-</p>
-<p>
-At eleven o&rsquo;clock M. Jandidier asked his workman to accompany him; he was
-going to the Faubourg Saint Antoine. Tarot went as far as the Place de la
-Bastile, crossing the foot-bridge of Constantine, and walking along the
-canal.
-</p>
-<p>
-The magistrate asked both husband and wife the very natural question:
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Why did you hide the money?&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-They made the same reply.
-</p>
-<p>
-Monday morning, hearing of M. Jandidier&rsquo;s disappearance, they were seized
-with terror. Tarot said to his wife: &ldquo;If it is known that our employer
-came here, that I crossed the bridge and followed the edge of the canal
-with him, I shall be seriously compromised. If this money were found in
-our possession we should be lost.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-The wife then wanted to burn the notes, but Tarot opposed the plan,
-intending to return them to the family.
-</p>
-<p>
-This explanation was reasonable and plausible, if not probable, but it was
-merely an explanation. Tarot and his wife were kept under arrest.
-</p>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-IV.
-</h2>
-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">A</span> week after, the magistrate was still greatly perplexed. Three more
-examinations had not enabled him to come to any fixed conclusion.
-</p>
-<p>
-Were Tarot and his wife innocent? Were they simply marvelously clever in
-maintaining a probable story?
-</p>
-<p>
-The magistrate knew not what to think, when one morning a strange rumor
-spread abroad. The Maison Jandidier had failed. A detective sent to make
-inquiries, brought back the most startling news. M. Jandidier, who people
-supposed to be so rich, was ruined, utterly ruined, and for three years
-had kept up his credit by all sorts of expedients. There was not a
-thousand francs in his house, and his notes due at the end of the month
-amounted to sixty-seven thousand, five hundred francs.
-</p>
-<p>
-The cautious merchant gambled in stocks at the Bourse, the virtuous
-husband was unfaithful.
-</p>
-<p>
-The magistrate had just heard these particulars, when Maitre Magloire
-appeared, pale and panting for breath.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;You know, monsieur?&rdquo; he exclaimed on the threshold. &ldquo;All!&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Tarot is innocent.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;I think so; and yet, that visit&mdash;how do you explain that visit?&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-Magloire shook his head mournfully.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a fool,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;and Lecoq has just proved it. Monsieur Jandidier
-talked about life insurance policies at the Café Ture. That was the key to
-the whole matter. Jandidier was insured for 200,000 francs, and the
-companies, in France, never pay in case of suicide; do you understand?&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0006" id="link2H_4_0006"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-V.
-</h2>
-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>hanks to M. Gustave Schmidt, who will marry Mlle. Thérèse Jandidier next
-month, the Maison Jandidier did not fail.
-</p>
-<p>
-Tarot and his wife, on being restored to liberty, were set up in business
-by the same M. Gustave, and no longer go junketing on Mondays.
-</p>
-<p>
-But what has become of M. Jandidier? A thousand francs reward for news of
-him!
-</p>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0007" id="link2H_4_0007"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-MILITARY SKETCHES.
-</h2>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0008" id="link2H_4_0008"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-THE CANTINIERE.
-</h2>
-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">S</span>he may be young or old, dazzlingly pretty or frightfully ugly; in this
-case looks make no difference, she is ever and always the same. If there
-is much that is evil in her composition there is quite as much that is
-good. She is a woman although&mdash;or because&mdash;she is a cantinière.
-This much is certain&mdash;she loves the soldier, and is ever ready to do
-him a service.
-</p>
-<p>
-It is unnecessary to describe the cantinière in her glory; that is to say,
-at the head of her regiment on review days, arrayed in fall uniform, her
-glazed cap perched jauntily over one ear and her little cask on her back.
-Every one knows her traditional jacket, coquettish short skirt, trousers
-with scarlet stripes, and her fantastic boots.
-</p>
-<p>
-It is certainly a pretty sight to see her when the drum beats, leading the
-way, and keeping time to the step of the soldiers.
-</p>
-<p>
-But the drum is not always beating, fortunately! glory and noise do not
-suffice to fill the stomach, so on her return to the quarters, the
-cantinière lays aside her gorgeous apparel, and resumes her civilian
-costume, that is, a skirt and drees, and bestows her attention upon the
-thousand details connected with her establishment.
-</p>
-<p>
-The cantine is not what the civilian generally supposes; it is at once a
-restaurant, wine-shop, café, beer-shop, and boarding-house. It is here
-that the soldier&mdash;and sometimes the officer&mdash;takes his morning
-dram; the volunteer spends here a portion of the money sent him by his
-family; hussars afflicted with a hearty appetite find here a cheap
-supplement to the mess-room; troopers under arrest can here enjoy a
-demi-tasse without leaving the quarters, and here all the non-commissioned
-officers take their meals.
-</p>
-<p>
-They pay forty-five centimes a day and furnish their bread: in exchange
-for this amount, they are entitled to two meals a day, each composed of
-two dishes and a dessert, besides a bowl of soup or porridge in the
-evening.
-</p>
-<p>
-The charges are not high, as you see; so cantinières do not accumulate
-fortunes as rapidly as the restaurant-keepers on the boulevards.
-</p>
-<p>
-But moderation in price does not prevent the articles from being good, for
-some cantinières are veritable <i>cor-dons bleus</i>, competent to prepare
-a dish originated by Dr. Véron.
-</p>
-<p>
-In the generality of cases the cantinière is the wife of a drummer in the
-infantry, of a trumpeter in the cavalry; her husband is sometimes the
-fencing-master, or even a common soldier; but his position or rank is not
-of the slightest importance. In the cantine, the husband is a nonentity.
-His existence is scarcely recognized; and he is visible only on great
-occasions, when there is a crowd, or when it is necessary to quell
-disorder, which is seldom the case.
-</p>
-<p>
-The husband of the cantinière, when his duties are over for the day,
-smokes his pipe behind the door, and drinks brandy&mdash;or beer if he is
-a German; almost all the cantinièrea are Alsatians. Their children are
-sent to the regimental school; some become officers, the majority become
-excellent trumpeters.
-</p>
-<p>
-So the cantinière reigns supreme in her domain, which does not prevent her
-from serving others. She is generally assisted by a young woman, and by a
-good-natured soldier, who becomes her soldier, her right arm, in
-consideration of a small salary. If any disorder arises she quells it,
-putting the offender out-of-doors herself if necessary.
-</p>
-<p>
-She does not like to give credit; but she is so kind-hearted that she can
-not bear to see a man suffer, and it is impossible for her to refuse a
-drop to a really thirsty soldier. Though she censures herself for her
-weakness, she does not know how to resist an entreaty; but we must admit
-that she is generally paid, and that she does not lose much by her
-liberality.
-</p>
-<p>
-And what woman would not do the same? How could any one refuse to comply
-with a request of this kind:
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;My good Madame Bajot,&mdash;I have been in the lock-. up for four days. I
-have not a penny nor even a morsel of tobacco to put in my pipe. I entreat
-you to send me six sous&rsquo; worth of tobacco&mdash;and a quart of brandy&mdash;for
-I am very thirsty&mdash;through my comrade, and in a little bottle on
-account of the corporal. By so doing you will save my life, and I will
-settle your bill next pay-day. Let the tobacco be very dry and of the best
-quality.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Be assured of my eternal gratitude,
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Brulard,
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Of the 1st Division, 3d Squadron.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-The excellent woman shudders on contemplating the prisoner&rsquo;s privations,
-and sends him the tobacco and brandy.
-</p>
-<p>
-Moreover, if a trooper be sick or wounded, though not sufficiently to be
-sent to the hospital, she nurses him, dresses his wound, and prepares the
-<i>tisane</i>, for which she will never accept any pay.
-</p>
-<p>
-If the cantinière is ugly, no one thinks of criticising her.
-</p>
-<p>
-It is her right, and no one even perceives it; but if she is pretty, it is
-a very different matter. She makes havoc in the regiment, and all the
-young conscripts are speedily subjugated by her conquering charms.
-</p>
-<p>
-It is an old trooper&rsquo;s axiom, that the goodness of the wine is in an
-inverse ratio to the beauty of the cantinière.
-</p>
-<p>
-She has a little wagon drawn by one or two horses. It is in this equipage
-that she follows the troops, and appears upon the parade ground, where she
-dispenses tobacco and liquors to the officers and men in the intervals of
-rest during the drill.
-</p>
-<p>
-During a campaign she devotes herself to her regiment. More than once in
-the thickest of the fight she has been seen going from rank to rank to
-carry a drop to the soldiers, and braving the canister and grape in order
-to give a little water to the wounded. She keeps no accounts at such
-times; she does not sell, she gives.
-</p>
-<p>
-Several cantinières have been decorated, and the exploits of one of their
-number have been related throughout Europe. They have formed the plot of a
-drama which delineates all the characteristics of &ldquo;the soldier&rsquo;s mother,&rdquo;
- under the title of &ldquo;The Vivandière of the Grand Army.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0009" id="link2H_4_0009"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-THE BARBER OF THE SQUADRON.
-</h2>
-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">A</span>s a general thing, it is upon the cheeks of his brother soldiers that he
-serves his apprenticeship&mdash;a severe apprenticeship for the cheeks!
-Heaven preserve you from ever falling into his clutches and testing his
-dexterity. In former years, before entering the service, he was a
-carpenter, a mechanic, or a stone-cutter;&mdash;his good conduct elevated
-him to the important position of barber, and since that time he has plied
-in turn the scissors and razor with more zeal than discretion.
-</p>
-<p>
-This office of barber is one of the most popular in the regiment; and the
-person who holds it is not a little proud of the honor. First of all, he
-has a right to exact a small monthly payment from each soldier; he also
-enjoys perfect freedom after ten o&rsquo;clock; in short, he is excused from all
-drudgery, and most of the exercises. And yet his position is no sinecure.
-</p>
-<p>
-The barber is responsible for the heads of the entire company. If the
-beards are too long, or the hair transgresses the limits prescribed by
-ordinance, he is the one upon whom the blame will fall. The regulation is
-there; he must follow it to the letter, and shave his companions-in-arms
-as closely as possible, and not unfrequently against their will; for there
-are troopers who cling to their hair&mdash; the natural ornament of man. The military gallant would love to wear long
-hair, probably so a loving hand could caress his curls; but the
-regulations are pitiless.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;As soon as the hair can be seized with the hand, it must positively be
-cut,&rdquo; says the corporal.
-</p>
-<p>
-All sorts of means are vainly employed by the foppish trooper to preserve
-his hair. He wets it every day, or pastes it down with the aid of <i>cosmetique</i>,
-then hides it carefully under his cap.
-</p>
-<p>
-‘Wasted efforts! the officers are acquainted with all these tricks; they
-pull off the caps, rumple up the hair, and then the delinquent and the
-barber, who is held responsible, are almost sure of two, or even four days
-in the guard house.
-</p>
-<p>
-Those sly foxes&mdash;the old troopers&mdash;do not resort to such
-hackneyed expedients; they feign some affection of the eyes or ears, and
-thus obtain from the sergeant-major permission to wear their hair long.
-</p>
-<p>
-The days of grand reviews are trying ordeals for the barber. In less than
-two hours he must shave one hundred and fifty or two hundred beards, to
-say nothing of the hair-cutting.
-</p>
-<p>
-You should see him then, his sleeves rolled up to the elbow, and armed
-with a terrible razor which he has not even time to sharpen. The soldiers&mdash;I
-should say, the patients&mdash;perhaps martyrs would be still better&mdash;lather
-themselves in advance, and come one after another to take their place in
-the seat of torture. The work is accomplished in the twinkling of an eye;
-the most obstinate beards do not resist; hairs that refuse to be cut are
-torn out; the cheek bleeds a little, but that is nothing. What is a
-scratch to a French soldier? Moreover, the barber is a conscientious man,
-and if he occasionally happens to slice off an ear, he always takes the
-greatest possible pains to restore it to its rightful owner.
-</p>
-<p>
-The troopers dread the razor, but they jeer at the barber; they call him
-the butcher, in whispers be it understood&mdash;for if he overhears them,
-it is in his power to avenge himself summarily.
-</p>
-<p>
-Barbers are the heroes of a host of army legends; there is, first, the
-story of Barber Plumepate, who belonged to a cavalry regiment.
-</p>
-<p>
-This barber, who was very skillful in his profession, had an exceedingly
-vindictive disposition. Very severely punished one day by his captain, he
-swore vengeance, and openly declared he would kill the man who had so
-wronged him.
-</p>
-<p>
-The barber&rsquo;s threats coming to the ears of the captain, he immediately
-summoned Plumepate.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;You have sworn that you would kill me,&rdquo; he said to him; &ldquo;that is mere
-boasting on your part; you would never dare to do it. Wait a moment; I
-will try you. Prepare your implements and shave me.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-The terrible Plumepate was completely disconcerted. He set to work, but he
-dared not carry out his threats. Never, on the contrary, did he do a
-neater job.
-</p>
-<p>
-On another occasion, during a campaign, a barber in one of the regiments
-of the line was summoned to shave the commander-in-chief. He was badly
-frightened, and he could but think of the possible consequences should his
-hand tremble. It did tremble so much that the general&rsquo;s face was covered
-with blood when the operation was concluded. The unfortunate barber,
-terrified by what he had done, shook in every limb, and stammered a
-thousand excuses.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Hold,&rdquo; said the general; &ldquo;here is a louis! If your hand had not trembled
-in shaving your general, you would not be a true trooper.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-During a campaign, a barber becomes a soldier like the others, for then
-both hair and beard are neglected.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;When one finds water in Africa one drinks it; one does not amuse one&rsquo;s
-self in making soap-suds.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-It sometimes happens that the barber of a regiment is a genuine barber,
-who knows his trade, and who practiced it with honor before he became a
-soldier. Then there is joy in the squadron; and the troopers flock to be
-shaved by this artist, who does not mutilate them, and whose
-well-sharpened razor is scarcely felt. The more foppish, in consideration
-of a small fee, have their hair dressed and oiled.
-</p>
-<p>
-The lower officers, not only of the squadron, but of the entire regiment,
-give him their patronage; he becomes their favorite, their factotum, they
-treat him affably, almost courteously, and even permit a certain degree of
-familiarity.
-</p>
-<p>
-Louis XI. made a prime minister of his barber.
-</p>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0010" id="link2H_4_0010"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-THE VAGUEMESTRE.
-</h2>
-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">H</span>e is always busy, very busy, exceedingly busy; that is his specialty. Do
-not attempt to speak to him, he can not answer you; do not try to stop
-him, he will march you straight to the guard-house. He does not walk, he
-runs; he has not an hour to spare, not a moment, not a second.
-</p>
-<p>
-This morning before the odious reveille had driven the soldiers from their
-narrow couches he was up and dressed, ready to start.
-</p>
-<p>
-Should you succeed in questioning him, this will be his response:
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;What a life! what a profession! Look, sir, it is not yet nine o&rsquo;clock,
-and I have already made thirty trips. I had scarcely time to take my dram
-this morning, and in my haste I almost choked myself. How do I know I
-shall have time to swallow my absinthe? Shall I even get my breakfast?
-That is doubtful. As you see, I invariably reach the cantine an hour after
-the others. Everything is eaten, there is nothing left, or if there is, it
-is something no one would eat, and consequently intolerable. Then they
-bring me an egg. An egg!&rdquo; (with a bitter laugh), &ldquo;an egg! for a man who
-has been running about all the morning. Never adopt my profession, sir; my
-existence is insupportable&mdash;a dog&rsquo;s life! To-morrow, you may rest
-assured, I shall tender my resignation and take my place in the ranks,
-like the others. But what am I doing? Here I have lost ten minutes in
-talking; clear oat, d&mdash;n you! I should have had time to drink my
-absinthe.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-It must be admitted that the life of the vaguemestre is not a path of
-roses.
-</p>
-<p>
-He is the Mercury of that company of deities known as the staff of a
-regiment, and like that mythological courier, he must have wings on his
-feet. He is also the superintendent of the regimental post-office; all
-letters that come and go pass through his hands; he must know the hours
-for the arrival and departure of the mails, carry the letters, and go
-after them. If soldiers receive money through the post, they can not draw
-it themselves; they carry their order to him, and he draws it and pays it
-over to them; so I assure you this officer&rsquo;s time is fully occupied. And
-yet something more than agility is needed, for he must think of
-everything. The slightest oversight or the least delay might produce
-serious consequences, for forgetfulness and want of punctuality are
-severely punished.
-</p>
-<p>
-In the morning he hastens to the post-office, then to the colonel&rsquo;s house
-to obtain the order of the day; then he rushes back to the barracks in
-company with the messenger.
-</p>
-<p>
-He then hastily sorts the letters, making a separate pile for each
-squadron; these he gives to the sergeants, who give them to the corporals
-on duty for the week, who distribute them among the soldiers.
-</p>
-<p>
-But the hour for the report arrives; he hastens after it; then he starts
-off again. The report must be submitted to the superior officers. The
-lieutenant-colonel is waiting for it; the major is waiting for it, so the
-vaguemestre hurries away. On returning, he must stop to see a captain who
-has sent for him; besides, the colonel has intrusted him with a letter to
-be delivered to a lieutenant who lives at the very end of the town. What a
-nuisance! He rushes to the place, but does not find the lieutenant. The
-letter is important; the lieutenant must be at the <i>café</i>&mdash;lieutenants
-are always at the <i>café</i>&mdash;at least, when they are not at
-breakfast. The vaguemestre visits the <i>café</i>, no lieutenant; at last,
-he finds him at his boarding-house and delivers the letter.
-</p>
-<p>
-He heaves a mighty sigh of relief. Now he can breakfast; he hurries on
-with all the fleetness of which his tired limbs are capable; hunger lends
-him wings. He reaches the barracks. Alas! the adjutant-major who has just
-left the table, stops him in the passage; he has a few suggestions to make&mdash;adjutant-majors
-always have suggestions to make.
-</p>
-<p>
-At last he breakfasts in turn; he is the last of all. But it is useless to
-describe the experience of the entire day.
-</p>
-<p>
-The vaguemestre is gifted with an extraordinary memory. Every week, when
-he distributes the money received by the soldiers, he knows the exact
-condition of each man&rsquo;s account; he must know if those who are entitled to
-money are in disgrace or ill. Every week the sergeant on duty in each
-squadron must furnish him with a report embodying this information; but it
-would take too much time to consult these documents. He prefers to
-remember.
-</p>
-<p>
-So, Sunday morning the trumpeter sounds the vaguemestre&rsquo;s call, that is to
-say, executes a sort of flourish that signifies:
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;All who have received money-orders through the post must come and find
-the vaguemestre if they desire what is due them.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-This call is so well understood that the soldiers respond promptly, and
-without hesitation, whereupon colloquies of this kind ensue:
-</p>
-<p>
-THE VAGUEMESTRE. Private Demanet, you have received twelve francs.
-</p>
-<p>
-PRIVATE DEMANET. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Private Demanet, your outfit
-is not yet paid for; you are credited with only eleven francs, which is a
-deplorable state of things. You must devote your twelve francs to this
-purpose.
-</p>
-<p>
-PRIVATE DEMARET. I entreat you, lieutenant&mdash;Vaguemestre. Well, then,
-here are a hundred sous. I will keep back only seven francs. Make out a
-receipt. example second.
-</p>
-<p>
-EXAMPLE SECOND.
-</p>
-<p>
-VAGUEMESTRE. Private Castagnol, you have received fifty francs.
-</p>
-<p>
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Your parents seem to have
-more money than they know what to do with.
-</p>
-<p>
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Lieutenant, my family&mdash;Vaguemestre. Ah! I
-remember, you are a volunteer. Very well, you may go.
-</p>
-<p>
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. But my money?
-</p>
-<p>
-VAGUEMESTRE. You have eight days in the guard-house to make. Next Sunday,
-if you are not punished in the meantime, you shall have your money.
-</p>
-<p>
-PRIVATE OASTAGKOL. But&mdash;
-</p>
-<p>
-VAGUEMESTRE. No remarks.
-</p>
-<p>
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL (<i>turning angrily away</i>). I shall tell my friends
-to send bank-notes next time.
-</p>
-<p>
-The vaguemestre being usually an adjutant, the soldiers address him as
-lieutenant.
-</p>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0011" id="link2H_4_0011"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-THE ZOUAVE.
-</h2>
-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">M</span>any have talked of the zouave: few know him.
-</p>
-<p>
-Everybody has seen him lazily squatting at the gates of the Tuileries,
-like a granite sphinx on the threshold of the Assyrian palaces. He is on
-guard. He performs his duty with a profoundly melancholy air, smoking his
-pipe with feverish impatience, or, rather, watching with feverish
-impatience all the while he is smoking his pipe, some ray of our Parisian
-sunlight, which seems like moonlight when compared with that fierce
-African sunshine, which pours down upon the head like molten lead.
-</p>
-<p>
-A scrap of green or white calico, twisted around a red fez; a blue jacket,
-trimmed with red or yellow braid, and which leaves the throat entirely
-bare; full scarlet trousers, cut in the Oriental fashion; white gaiters
-buttoning above the ankle; this is his costume.
-</p>
-<p>
-How can one describe the man?
-</p>
-<p>
-Short, spare, compactly built and muscular, with broad shoulders, square
-fists, closely shaven head, keen eyes, a mocking smile, and a bold and
-decided bearing&mdash;such is the zouave, the best soldier in the world
-for bold ventures, skirmishes with outposts, impossible ambuscades, and
-rapid marches.
-</p>
-<p>
-Accustomed to the pursuit of the Arab, his constant enemy, the zouave is
-thoroughly conversant with all the stratagems of desert warfare. He has
-learned to outwit his savage foes, so he will always surprise the armies
-of Europe.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;The Arab is very cunning, but the zouave is more cunning still.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-He knows how to conceal himself in a little clump of shrubbery, and steal
-imperceptibly upon the sentinel whom he wishes to capture; he can advance
-without a sound, remain motionless for hours together, hide behind the
-slightest irregularity in the ground, crawl, leap, bound, disappear in the
-undergrowth that surrounds him, follow a track, and shun all the traps
-that are set for him.
-</p>
-<p>
-As a sharp-shooter, he has no equal.
-</p>
-<p>
-If a position is to be taken, he dashes forward, with head down,
-overturning everything in his passage. It is no longer a man; it is a
-bullet. Once started on his course, he reaches the goal or dies.
-</p>
-<p>
-The zouave cordially detests large cities, and regards garrisons with
-abhorrence.
-</p>
-<p>
-In garrison life, the discipline becomes too irksome; he must polish his
-cartridge-box, whiten his shoulder-belt, wash his clothes, mount guard at
-regular hours, appear at parade&mdash;all wearisome enough to the average
-trooper, but insupportable to the zouave.
-</p>
-<p>
-The zouave needs the freedom of camp life, the free range of an enemy&rsquo;s
-country, a <i>ragoût</i> improvised under a tent. It matters not if his
-canteen is only three-quarters full, and if the supply of coffee is
-running short, so he has but a morsel of no matter what to appease his
-hunger, he sings, he is gay, he is happy, he is himself.
-</p>
-<p>
-It is true that when he is not happy, he is equally gay, and sings even
-more loudly.
-</p>
-<p>
-The zouave owes his fondness for adventure and his almost nomadic habits
-to the African war. In constantly pursuing the Arabs through deserts and
-over mountains, he has formed habits of living very like those of these
-wandering tribes.
-</p>
-<p>
-Like the philosopher Bias, the zouave carries all his possessions about
-with him, which proves, perhaps, that he is something of a philosopher.
-</p>
-<p>
-But you should see a zouave&rsquo;s knapsack when he is starting on an
-expedition. It is monstrous; one wonders if he will not sink beneath his
-burden, and be compelled to cast it aside. He would rather die. Besides,
-it seems to be the universal belief that he does not feel the weight of
-it.
-</p>
-<p>
-Usually, on taking the field, the infantry lighten their load as much as
-possible; the officers not only permit this, but require it.
-</p>
-<p>
-It is not so with the zouave. This seems to be the very time that his
-burden must be heaviest He reduces his effects to the smallest possible
-compass, rolls them, squeezes them, and then crowds them, and crowds them,
-until the straps become too short and the distended knapsack threatens to
-burst.
-</p>
-<p>
-There is a little of everything in the zouave&rsquo;s load. An enumeration of
-its contents would sound like the inventory of three distinct
-establishments;&mdash;a drug, a haberdashery, and a grocery store.
-</p>
-<p>
-He has thread, needles, buttons, soap, wax, tallow, a thimble, a fork, one
-or two spoons, and several knives, to say nothing of the condiments
-indispensable in the concoction of a savory <i>ragoût</i>.
-</p>
-<p>
-For the zouave is a gourmand. It is to satisfy his fastidious tastes in
-this direction that, having no servant at his command, he has made himself
-the best cook in Europe.
-</p>
-<p>
-His <i>ragoûts</i> might not make his fortune in Paris; but in Africa, in
-the desert, how many generals have smacked their lips over them!
-</p>
-<p>
-Any one can make a savory dish of stewed rabbit <i>with</i> a rabbit; but
-to make it <i>without</i> a rabbit, that is a difficult task, quite worthy
-of a zouave.
-</p>
-<p>
-His fertile imagination never shines as brilliantly as when the larder is
-empty; then, he employs all his wits; he searches, he invents. On such
-days, he dines admirably; but how many strange animals are made to turn
-from their usual path to take the road to the saucepan.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;I do not ask my zouaves for strawberries,&rdquo; said Marshal, then Colonel
-Canrobert, one frightfully hot day, in the middle of the desert; &ldquo;but if I
-really desired some, they are quite capable of discovering them in the
-sand.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-To-day the zouave is the most popular of all our soldiers; his <i>chachia</i>
-threatens to pass down to posterity with the towering bear-skin cap worn
-by the grenadiers of the First Empire.
-</p>
-<p>
-It is to the zouave that we owe the words of the celebrated march known as
-the &ldquo;Casquette.&rdquo; This is the origin of it:
-</p>
-<p>
-One night the French camp was surprised by Arabs. A murderous fire so
-astonished our soldiers, that they almost wavered at first; but Marshal
-Bugeaud rushed from his tent, and his presence inspiring our troops with
-their wonted enthusiasm, the enemy was repulsed.
-</p>
-<p>
-When the conflict was ended, the marshal noticed that every one smiled on
-looking at him. He raised his hands to his head. In his haste, he had left
-his tent adorned with the anything but heroic head-gear of the King of
-Yvetot; in short, a night-cap.
-</p>
-<p>
-The next day, when the trumpets gave the signal for the troops to resume
-their march, the zouaves, in memory of that original coifiure, sung in
-deafening chorus:
-</p>
-<pre xml:space="preserve">
-&ldquo;As-tu vu
-La casquette
-La casquette,
-As-tu vu
-La casquette,
-Du Père Bugeaud?&rdquo;
- </pre>
-<p>
-Two or three days afterward, the marshal, on giving the order for
-departure, said to the trumpeters: &ldquo;Boys, sound <i>la casquette</i>.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-So this name still clings to the order. To how many victories it has led,
-and will lead the zouaves!
-</p>
-<p>
-Father Bugeaud&rsquo;s <i>casquette</i>, by insuring the success of &ldquo;Duc Job,&rdquo;
- yielded eighty thousand francs to the Théâtre Français, and sixty thousand
-francs to M. Léon Laya.
-</p>
-<p>
-It is a night-cap well worth the having.
-</p>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0012" id="link2H_4_0012"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-THE FANTASSIN, OR FOOT-SOLDIER.
-</h2>
-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he fantassin, <i>par excellence</i>, is a soldier of the regular
-infantry. The cavalry pretend that the foot-soldier wears spurs on his
-elbows, but this is only a stale joke perpetrated before the bayonet came
-into general use.
-</p>
-<p>
-The regular infantry is really the French army. It has shed its blood upon
-every battle-field, and has come off victorious again and again. It is the
-infantry that has carried the standards of France through conquered
-Europe. It is the regular infantry which, without shoes, provisions, or
-artillery, swept down from the Alps upon Italy. It is the infantry that
-fought at the Pyramids, at Eylau and at Moscow. The infantry is the queen
-of battles; with her one can go in any direction and always maintain one&rsquo;s
-position.
-</p>
-<p>
-There is nothing brilliant about the infantry uniform, and yet when seen
-in masses it produces an excellent effect. It is also the most comfortable
-and the best adapted to all the needs of a soldier in the field.
-</p>
-<p>
-At reviews, upon the parade ground, and on the boulevards there are,
-perhaps, regiments that attract more attention; but such is not the case
-if it is seen in line of battle. One should see it maneuvering under fire
-with the same precision as on the Champs de Mars. Each regiment has become
-a corps, with its officers at its head. A cannon-ball cuts down an entire
-file. &ldquo;Close up the ranks!&rdquo; The ranks are closed; the void is filled
-without haste, disorder, or confusion.
-</p>
-<p>
-Nothing could be more beautiful, nothing could be more magnificent than a
-regiment of the line advancing for a bayonet charge upon the enemy. Search
-the ranks; examine one by one these soldiers blackened with powder, try to
-find the foot-soldier you have seen lounging about the shop windows in
-large cities, with his shako on the back of his head. The lounger of
-yesterday is the hero of to-day. Now, danger illumines every face;
-courage, like an aureole, shines resplendent on every brow. All honor to
-the regulars! upon their banners is written our glorious history!
-</p>
-<p>
-The foot-soldier in garrison bears no resemblance whatever to the hero of
-the battle-field. He does not even remember his exploits of yesterday; he
-little suspects the great deeds he will perform to-morrow should France
-have need of his devotion and courage.
-</p>
-<p>
-The foot-soldier in garrison is the best and most inoffensive of men,
-always trying to make himself useful, ever ready to do a favor. His tastes
-are simple, and his desires modest; boisterous amusements have no
-attractions for him, and he rarely indulges in the bottle.
-</p>
-<p>
-The foot-soldier, like all the members of his profession, is generally in
-straitened circumstances.
-</p>
-<pre xml:space="preserve">
-&ldquo;For in France as in Austria
-The soldier is not rich,
-Every one knows that.&rdquo;
- </pre>
-<p>
-It is true that one can not indulge in much extravagance on five centimes
-a day. Fortunately there are ways to increase this meager income. In many
-regiments, the soldiers are allowed to find occupation in the city,
-provided, of course, that discipline does not suffer thereby. Those who
-have a trade devote all their leisure time to it; those who have only
-their two hands and their good-will&mdash;and they are by far the largest
-number&mdash;nevertheless find a way to make themselves useful. In some <i>bourgeoisie</i>
-households they hire a soldier to take care of the garden and scrub the
-floors.
-</p>
-<p>
-There is also another source of revenue which, though not the most
-honorable, is certainly the most in vogue; this is playing a trick on
-one&rsquo;s family.
-</p>
-<p>
-The fraud is generally suggested by some old grumbler who is an adept in
-the art of deception. A mischievously inclined volunteer, who is a good
-penman, generally writes the letter. Illness is the usual pretext. It is
-the simplest of all, and seldom fails to produce the desired effect. How
-can you suppose that parents will refuse to forward a few francs on
-receiving from their child a letter beginning thus:
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Dear Mother,&mdash;The object of this letter is to inform you that I am
-in the hospital.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-The family send money. A letter arrives, inclosing a post-office order.
-The vaguemestre quickly changes it into shining coin. But alas! this money
-vanishes like a dream. And how could it be otherwise? So many friends must
-have a share of this windfall. First, there is the bedfellow, then the
-inventor of the trick, then the writer, then two or three comrades,
-fellow-countrymen&mdash;then a corporal who has been obliging, and many
-others. Besides, it is not considered seemly for a trooper to spend his
-money alone.
-</p>
-<p>
-A soldier who goes out alone, and who drinks alone, is disgraced in the
-eyes of his comrades.
-</p>
-<p>
-When he has finished his daily task at the barracks, polished his weapons,
-and answered to his name at roll-call, the foot-soldier is at liberty,
-provided he is not on duty, or on guard, or on the <i>corveê</i>, or
-undergoing punishment, and he can leave the barracks if he chooses.
-Generally he is eager to improve the opportunity. There must be something
-of importance to detain him if he does not go out; a letter to write, some
-little job to do, a pipe of unusual length to color for an officer who is
-making a collection. But such instances are rare. He loves long walks. If
-he is stationed in a small town, you can always meet him in the shady
-paths in the suburbs. He is generally cutting little switches to beat his
-clothing.
-</p>
-<p>
-If he is in a large city, he has a variety of amusements. He delights in
-gazing into the shop-windows; he haunts the promenades and the public
-gardens; mountebanks always find in him a patient and appreciative patron,
-ever ready to laugh at their stale jokes. The mountebank and the fantassin
-have had a mutual understanding for a long time. &ldquo;Walk in. Walk in,
-gentlemen and ladies. Admission is ten centimes; two sous. The military
-only half-price.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-But there is no place like Paris for the soldier. Wine is a trifle dear;
-but how many diversions there are. This is a city! one can stroll about
-five hours without danger of seeing the same objects. Moreover, Paris
-contains the Jardin des Plantes, and the Jardin des Plantes is, as every
-one knows, the soldier&rsquo;s earthly Paradise.
-</p>
-<p>
-There, he can spend his hours of liberty most delightfully. He visits, in
-succession, all the cabinets of natural history. He almost splits his
-sides laughing as he stands before the monkey&rsquo;s palace, watching the
-pranks of its occupants; he goes into ecstasies over the wild animals, and
-shudders while contemplating the reptiles. But his favorites are the bear
-and the elephant. He never leaves the Jardin des Plantes until he has seen
-Martin climb the tree, and given the elephant a crust of bread, held in
-reserve in his cap&mdash;for want of pantaloon pockets.
-</p>
-<p>
-But the foot-soldier would be a body without a soul, if he had no
-countrywoman. The payse, as he styles her, has been created for the
-fantassin, as the fantassin has been created for the payse. They love and
-understand each other. He accompanies the payse, who is usually a child&rsquo;s
-nurse, in her walks; he assists her in watching the children, when he does
-not prevent her from watching them; on the promenade, the fantassin seats
-himself near the payse and pours sweet nothings into her ears, while the
-children play on the gravel-walk. &ldquo;Honi soit qui mal y pense!&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-In spite of the fatigue that results from it, the foot-soldier loves a
-change of garrison. He goes cheerfully from one end of France to the
-other, singing as he plods along. Every day, before two o&rsquo;clock, his legs
-fail him, which does not prevent him from strolling around to see the
-curiosities of the neighborhood as soon as he reaches the town where he is
-to spend the night.
-</p>
-<p>
-The <i>billet</i> troubles the soldier a little. It is like a ticket in a
-lottery. Some are very good, some are bad. As a general thing, the soldier
-is cordially received; though the contrary happens sometimes. So far as
-the fantassin is concerned, he hardly ever abuses the hospitality accorded
-him. The <i>billet</i> is considered very good when the people of the
-house invite the soldier to share their dinner. It is a saving of time and
-of money for him. The fantassin is overjoyed, and to repay his
-entertainers, he tells them his history.
-</p>
-<p>
-When his term of service expires and he returns to his fireside, the
-soldier does not presume upon his superiority. He talks freely but not
-boastingly of his travels and campaigns. He always finds attentive
-auditors, for we all love and respect the old defenders of France.
-</p>
-<p>
-Some accuse the fantassin of being too unsophisticated; there are
-occasions when simplicity of speech is the height of eloquence.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;What were you doing at Solferino?&rdquo; some one once asked a soldier.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;I?&mdash;I was doing like the rest&mdash;killing and being killed,&rdquo; he
-replied modestly.
-</p>
-<p>
-Sublimely artless speech in which is summed up all the philosophy of war.
-</p>
-<p>
-<br /><br />
-</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-<a name="link2H_4_0013" id="link2H_4_0013"> </a>
-</p>
-<div style="height: 4em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-<h2>
-THE SOLDIER OF THE LIGHT INFANTRY;
-</h2>
-<h3>
-OR, THE CHASSEUR.
-</h3>
-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">H</span>e does not walk; he runs; he is truly the soldier of his age&mdash;an age
-of steam. He comes from Vincennes to Paris in thirty-five minutes; it
-takes a first class <i>fiacre</i> just twice as long.
-</p>
-<p>
-The light infantry has given abundant proofs of courage. It was in Africa,
-in 1842, that it received the baptism of fire, a glorious baptism.
-</p>
-<p>
-From the very first the chasseurs inspired the Arabs with unconquerable
-terror. It is true that everything combines to give them a frightful
-appearance in battle; their somber costume, their strange evolutions, the
-shrill sound of their trumpets, make them resemble, seen in the midst of
-the smoke, a legion of unchained devils.
-</p>
-<p>
-When the Arabs saw them advancing on the run they took flight.
-</p>
-<p>
-The chasseurs have a terrible weapon. Their rifles, which are loaded with
-oblong balls, pierce a board fifty millimeters in thickness at a distance
-of more than a quarter of a mile; and as all the chasseurs are excellent
-marksmen, they make frightful havoc in the enemy&rsquo;s ranks.
-</p>
-<p>
-It is amusing to see the profound astonishment of the Arabs wounded at
-such a distance. They believe there is some witchcraft about it.
-</p>
-<p>
-At Sebastopol, the corps of volunteer sharp-shooters was recruited from
-the ranks of the chasseurs. Creeping along, hiding in the slightest furrow
-of ground, they generally succeed in approaching within range of the
-battery, and then woe to its defenders! The cannons were soon reduced to
-silence.
-</p>
-<p>
-It is impossible for any one who has not witnessed the maneuvers of the
-light infantry to have any conception of the marvels resulting from
-discipline and daily practice.
-</p>
-<p>
-Their ordinary gait is a rapid walk, their accelerated pace is the speed
-of a race-horse. At a blast from the trumpet they disperse in every
-direction, disappearing, kneeling, lying flat on their bellies or on their
-backs, loading their rifles, aiming and firing in every conceivable
-posture. Another signal is heard; instantly they are in the ranks, crowded
-close together, bayonets glittering, ready to charge.
-</p>
-<p>
-And an impetuous charge by the chasseurs of Vincennes is irresistible.
-Dense as the mass may be upon which they precipitate themselves, they cut
-their way through it with their broad saber-bayonets, leaving a bloody
-trail behind them.
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;They are demons!&rdquo; Prince Mentchikoff exclaimed at Sebastopol.
-</p>
-<p>
-The chasseurs are very proud of their reputation for swiftness. Once when
-an order of the day was read to them beginning thus:
-</p>
-<p>
-&ldquo;Soldiers: we are about to march upon the enemy.&rdquo;&mdash;they cried: &ldquo;Oh,
-no, that does not suit us, we wish to run.&rdquo;
- </p>
-<p>
-When off duty the chasseur preserves his rapid pace, and his ferocious,
-almost tigerish manner. His hat is always cocked defiantly on one side of
-his head, and his belt is always inordinately tight.
-</p>
-<p>
-Quick and supple in every movement, he adores dancing. It is his <i>forte</i>,
-and in it he wins a success that the Parisian fireman alone can dispute
-with him. Naturally, the belles adore this perfect dancer; but they should
-not trust him&mdash;the chasseur is even more inconstant than that
-heartless butterfly, the voltigeur.
-</p>
-<p>
-In Paris he haunts the shades of Vincennes and Saint Maudé. Monday,
-Thursday, and Sunday he can always be found at the public balls, near the
-Barrière du Trône, happy if permission to be absent until midnight enables
-him to remain until the close of the festivities. He invariably finds a
-brother chasseur who is also absent on leave, and who shares several
-bottles of sour wine with him.
-</p>
-<h3>
-*******
-</h3>
-<p>
-But it would be unjust not to say a word concerning the trumpeter of the
-chasseurs.
-</p>
-<p>
-How the chasseur, laden with his knapsack, rations, weapons, ammunition,
-and accouterments can run without losing his breath completely, it is
-difficult to comprehend.
-</p>
-<p>
-But how does the trumpeter, as he runs with the others, find breath to
-blow his trumpet?
-</p>
-<p>
-That is something one can not comprehend.
-</p>
-<div style="height: 6em;">
-<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
-</div>
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-<pre>
-
-
-
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-
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-Title: A Thousand Francs Reward
-       and, Military Sketches
-
-Author: Emile Gaboriau
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-Translator: Laura E. Kendall
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-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.
-
-By Emile Gaboriau.
-
-Translated by Laura E. Kendall.
-
-
-
-
-
-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.
-
-
-
-
-I.
-
-It's a very short time ago, yesterday as it were, that one Sunday
-afternoon about four o'clock, the whole Quartier du Marais was in an
-uproar.
-
-Rumor asserted that one of the most respectable merchants in the Hue
-Boi-de-Sicile had disappeared, and all efforts to find him continued
-fruitless.
-
-The strange event was discussed in all the shops in the neighborhood;
-there were groups at the doors of all the fruit-sellers, every moment
-some terrified housewife arrived, bringing fresh particulars.
-
-The grocer on the corner had the best and latest news, the most
-reliable, too, for he received his information from the lips of the cook
-who lived in the house.
-
-"So," said he, "yesterday evening, after dinner, our neighbor, Monsieur
-Jandidier, went down to his cellar to get a bottle of wine, and was
-never seen again. He disappeared, vanished, evaporated!"
-
-It occasionally happens that mysterious disappearances are mentioned.
-The public becomes excited, and prudent people buy sword-canes.
-
-Policemen hear absurd reports, and shrug their shoulders. They know the
-wrong side of the carefully embroidered canvas. They investigate, and
-find, instead of artless falsehoods, the truth; instead of romances,
-sorrowful stories. Yet, up to a certain point, the grocer of the Rue
-Saint Louis told the truth.
-
-M. Jandidier, manufacturer of imitation jewelry, had not been at home
-for the last twenty-four hours.
-
-M. Theodore Jandidier was a man fifty-eight years old, very stout and
-very bald, who had made a large fortune in business. He was supposed
-to have a considerable income from stocks and bonds, and his business
-brought him annually, on an average, fifty thousand francs. He was
-beloved and respected in his neighborhood, and justly so; his honesty
-was above suspicion, his morality rigid. Married late in life to a
-penniless relative, he had made her perfectly happy. He had an only
-daughter, a pretty, graceful girl, named Therese, whom he worshiped. She
-had been engaged to the eldest son of Schmidt the banker--member of the
-firm Schmidt, Gubenheim & Worb--M. Gustave; but the match was broken
-off, nobody knew why, for the young people were desperately in love
-with each other. It was said by Jandidier's acquaintances that Schmidt
-senior, a perfect skinflint, had demanded a dowry far beyond the
-merchant's means.
-
-Notified by public rumor, which hourly exaggerated the story, the
-commissary of police went to the home of the man already called "the
-victim," to obtain more exact information.
-
-He found Mme. and Mlle. Jandidier in such terrible grief that it was
-with great difficulty he gleaned the truth. At last he learned the
-following details:
-
-The day before, Saturday, M. Jandidier had dined with his family as
-usual, though his appetite was not good, owing, he said, to a violent
-headache.
-
-After dinner he went to his stores, gave some orders, and then entered
-his office.
-
-At half past six he came upstairs again, and told his wife he was going
-to walk.
-
-And he had not been seen since!
-
-After carefully noting these particulars, the commissary requested Mme.
-Jandidier to let him speak with her alone a few minutes. She made a sign
-of assent, and Mlle. Therese left the room.
-
-"Pardon the question I am about to ask, madame," said the police
-officer. "Do you know whether your husband--again I beg you to excuse
-me--had any ties outside of his own family?"
-
-Mme. Jandidier started up; anger dried her tears.
-
-"I have been married twenty-three years, monsieur, and my husband has
-never returned home later than ten o'clock."
-
-"Was your husband in the habit of going to any club or cafe, madame?"
-continued the officer.
-
-"Never; I wouldn't have allowed it."
-
-"Did he usually carry valuables on his person?"
-
-"I don't know; I attended to my housekeeping and didn't trouble myself
-about business matters."
-
-It was impossible to get anything more from the haughty wife, who was
-fairly bewildered by sorrow.
-
-Having performed his duty, the commissary thought he ought to give the
-poor woman a little commonplace consolation.
-
-But on withdrawing, after an examination of the house, he felt very
-anxious, and began to suspect that a crime had been committed.
-
-That very evening one of the most skillful members of the detective
-force, Retiveau, better known in the Rue de Jerusalem under the name
-of Maitre Magloire, was put on M. Jandidier's track, supplied with an
-excellent photograph of the merchant.
-
-
-
-
-II.
-
-The very day after M. Jandidier's disappearance, Maitre Magloire
-appeared at the Palais de justice to report what he had done to the
-magistrate in charge of the affair.
-
-"Ah! there you are, Monsieur Magloire," said the magistrate; "so you've
-discovered something?"
-
-"I am on the trail, monsieur."
-
-"Speak."
-
-"To begin with, Monsieur Jandidier did not leave home at half past six
-o'clock, but precisely seven."
-
-"Precisely?"
-
-"Precisely. I ascertained that from a clock-maker in the Rue Saint
-Denis, who is sure of it, because while passing his shop, Monsieur
-Jandidier took out his watch to see if it was exactly like the
-clock over the door. He held an unlighted cigar in his mouth. Having
-discovered this last circumstance, I said to myself, 'I have it! He'll
-light his cigar somewhere.' I reasoned correctly; he went into a retail
-shop on the Boulevard du Temple, whose mistress knows him very well. The
-fact was impressed on the woman's memory because he always smoked sou
-cigars, and this time bought London ones."
-
-"How did he appear?"
-
-"Absent-minded, the shop-keeper told me. It was from her I found out
-that he often went to the Cafe Ture. I entered it, and was told that he
-had been there Saturday evening. He took two small glasses of brandy,
-and talked with his friends. He seemed dull. 'The gentleman talked all
-the time about life insurance policies,' the waiter told me. At half
-past eight o'clock our man left the with one of his friends, a merchant
-in the neighborhood, Monsieur Blandureau. I instantly went to this
-gentleman, who informed me that he walked up the boulevard with Monsieur
-Jandidier, who left him at the corner of the Rue Richelieu, pleading a
-business engagement. He was not in his usual spirits, and seemed to be
-assailed by the gloomiest presentiments."
-
-"Very well, so far," murmured the magistrate.
-
-"On leaving Monsieur Blandureau, I went to the Rue Roi-de-Sicile to
-ascertain from somebody in the house whether Monsieur Jandidier had any
-customers or friends in the Rue Richelieu, but no one lived there except
-his tailor. I therefore proceeded hap-hazard to the tailor. He saw our
-man Saturday. Monsieur Jandidier called on him after nine o'clock to
-order a pair of trousers. While his measure was being taken, he noticed
-that one of his vest buttons was nearly off, and asked to have it sewed
-on. He was obliged to take off his overcoat while the trifling repair
-was made, and as at the same time he removed the contents of the side
-pocket, the tailor noticed several hundred-franc bank-bills."
-
-"Ah!" that's a clew, "He had a considerable sum of money with him?"
-
-"Considerable, no; but tolerably large. The tailor estimates it at
-twelve or fourteen hundred francs."
-
-"Go on," said the magistrate.
-
-"While his vest was being repaired, Monsieur Jandidier complained of
-sudden indisposition, and sent a little boy for a carriage, saying that
-he was obliged to go to one of his workmen, who lived a long distance
-off. Unfortunately, the lad had forgotten the number of the carriage.
-He only recollected that it had yellow wheels, and was drawn by a large
-black horse. The vehicle was found. A circular sent to all who kept
-carriages for hire, put me on the track. I learned this morning that
-it was No. 6007. The driver, on being questioned, distinctly remembered
-having been stopped Saturday evening, about nine o'clock, in the Rue
-Richelieu, by a little boy, and waiting ten minutes in front of the
-Maison Gouin. The description he gave of his fare exactly suits our
-man, and he recognized the photograph among five different ones I showed
-him."
-
-Maitre Magloire stopped. He wanted to enjoy the approval visible in the
-magistrate's expression.
-
-"Monsieur Jandidier," he continued, "ordered the driver to take him to
-No. 48 Rue d'Arras-Saint-Victor. In this house lives a workman named
-Jules Tarot, employed by Monsieur Jandidier."
-
-M. Magloire's way of pronouncing this name was intended to rouse the
-magistrate's attention, and did so.
-
-"You have suspicions?" he asked.
-
-"Not exactly, but this is the story. Monsieur Jandidier dismissed the
-carriage at the Rue d'Arras and went to Tarot's about ten o'clock. At
-eleven the employer and workman came out together. The latter did not
-return until midnight, and here I lose all trace of my man. Of course I
-didn't question Tarot, for fear of putting him on his guard."
-
-"Who is this Jules Tarot?"
-
-"A workman in mother-of-pearl, a man who polishes shells on a grindstone
-to make them perfectly iridescent. He's a skillful fellow, and, assisted
-by his wife, to whom he has taught his trade, can make nearly a hundred
-francs a week."
-
-"They are in easy circumstances, then?"
-
-"Oh! no. They are both young, they have no children, they are Parisians.
-Deuce take it, they enjoy themselves. Monday regularly carries away what
-the other days bring."
-
-
-
-
-III.
-
-Two hours after Maitre Magloire's report, the police went to search
-Jules Tarot's house.
-
-At sight of the officers, the workman and his wife turned deadly pale,
-and were seized with a nervous tremor that could not escape Maitre
-Magloire's practiced eye, Yet the most thorough investigation failed to
-detect anything suspicious, and the policemen were about to withdraw,
-when the detective noticed Tarot's wife glance anxiously at a cage hung
-in the window.
-
-This was a ray of light. In less than an instant Magloire had unhooked
-and taken down the cage. Between the boards, at the bottom, twelve
-hundred-franc bank-bills were found.
-
-This discovery seemed to crush the workman. As to his wife, she began
-to utter piercing shrieks, protesting that both she and her husband were
-innocent. They were arrested, conveyed to head-quarters, and questioned
-by the magistrate. Their answers were precisely the same.
-
-They acknowledged having received a visit from their employer Saturday
-evening. He seemed so ill that they asked him to take something to
-drink, but he refused. He had come, he said, to give a large order, and
-proposed that Tarot should undertake it, employing his own workmen.
-They replied that they had no means to do so, whereupon their
-employer answered: "No matter, I'll supply the money." And laid twelve
-hundred-franc bills on the table.
-
-At eleven o'clock M. Jandidier asked his workman to accompany him; he
-was going to the Faubourg Saint Antoine. Tarot went as far as the Place
-de la Bastile, crossing the foot-bridge of Constantine, and walking
-along the canal.
-
-The magistrate asked both husband and wife the very natural question:
-
-"Why did you hide the money?"
-
-They made the same reply.
-
-Monday morning, hearing of M. Jandidier's disappearance, they were
-seized with terror. Tarot said to his wife: "If it is known that our
-employer came here, that I crossed the bridge and followed the edge of
-the canal with him, I shall be seriously compromised. If this money were
-found in our possession we should be lost."
-
-The wife then wanted to burn the notes, but Tarot opposed the plan,
-intending to return them to the family.
-
-This explanation was reasonable and plausible, if not probable, but it
-was merely an explanation. Tarot and his wife were kept under arrest.
-
-
-
-
-IV.
-
-A week after, the magistrate was still greatly perplexed. Three more
-examinations had not enabled him to come to any fixed conclusion.
-
-Were Tarot and his wife innocent? Were they simply marvelously clever in
-maintaining a probable story?
-
-The magistrate knew not what to think, when one morning a strange rumor
-spread abroad. The Maison Jandidier had failed. A detective sent to
-make inquiries, brought back the most startling news. M. Jandidier, who
-people supposed to be so rich, was ruined, utterly ruined, and for three
-years had kept up his credit by all sorts of expedients. There was not a
-thousand francs in his house, and his notes due at the end of the month
-amounted to sixty-seven thousand, five hundred francs.
-
-The cautious merchant gambled in stocks at the Bouerse, the virtuous
-husband was unfaithful.
-
-The magistrate had just heard these particulars, when Maitre Magloire
-appeared, pale and panting for breath.
-
-"You know, monsieur?" he exclaimed on the threshold. "All!"
-
-"Tarot is innocent."
-
-"I think so; and yet, that visit--how do you explain that visit?"
-
-Magloire shook his head mournfully.
-
-"I'm a fool," said he, "and Lecoq has just proved it. Monsieur Jandidier
-talked about life insurance policies at the Cafe Ture. That was the key
-to the whole matter. Jandidier was insured for 200,000 francs, and the
-companies, in France, never pay in case of suicide; do you understand?"
-
-
-
-
-V.
-
-Thanks to M. Gustave Schmidt, who will marry Mlle. Therese Jandidier
-next month, the Maison Jandidier did not fail.
-
-Tarot and his wife, on being restored to liberty, were set up in
-business by the same M. Gustave, and no longer go junketing on Mondays.
-
-But what has become of M. Jandidier? A thousand francs reward for news
-of him!
-
-
-
-
-MILITARY SKETCHES.
-
-
-
-
-THE CANTINIERE.
-
-She may be young or old, dazzlingly pretty or frightfully ugly; in this
-case looks make no difference, she is ever and always the same. If there
-is much that is evil in her composition there is quite as much that is
-good. She is a woman although--or because--she is a cantiniere. This
-much is certain--she loves the soldier, and is ever ready to do him a
-service.
-
-It is unnecessary to describe the cantiniere in her glory; that is
-to say, at the head of her regiment on review days, arrayed in fall
-uniform, her glazed cap perched jauntily over one ear and her little
-cask on her back. Every one knows her traditional jacket, coquettish
-short skirt, trousers with scarlet stripes, and her fantastic boots.
-
-It is certainly a pretty sight to see her when the drum beats, leading
-the way, and keeping time to the step of the soldiers.
-
-But the drum is not always beating, fortunately! glory and noise do
-not suffice to fill the stomach, so on her return to the quarters, the
-cantiniere lays aside her gorgeous apparel, and resumes her civilian
-costume, that is, a skirt and drees, and bestows her attention upon the
-thousand details connected with her establishment.
-
-The cantine is not what the civilian generally supposes; it is at once
-a restaurant, wine-shop, cafe, beer-shop, and boarding-house. It is here
-that the soldier--and sometimes the officer--takes his morning dram;
-the volunteer spends here a portion of the money sent him by his family;
-hussars afflicted with a hearty appetite find here a cheap supplement to
-the mess-room; troopers under arrest can here enjoy a demi-tasse without
-leaving the quarters, and here all the non-commissioned officers take
-their meals.
-
-They pay forty-five centimes a day and furnish their bread: in exchange
-for this amount, they are entitled to two meals a day, each composed
-of two dishes and a dessert, besides a bowl of soup or porridge in the
-evening.
-
-The charges are not high, as you see; so cantinieres do not accumulate
-fortunes as rapidly as the restaurant-keepers on the boulevards.
-
-But moderation in price does not prevent the articles from being good,
-for some cantinieres are veritable _cor-dons bleus_, competent to
-prepare a dish originated by Dr. Veron.
-
-In the generality of cases the cantiniere is the wife of a drummer in
-the infantry, of a trumpeter in the cavalry; her husband is sometimes
-the fencing-master, or even a common soldier; but his position or rank
-is not of the slightest importance. In the cantine, the husband is a
-nonentity. His existence is scarcely recognized; and he is visible only
-on great occasions, when there is a crowd, or when it is necessary to
-quell disorder, which is seldom the case.
-
-The husband of the cantiniere, when his duties are over for the day,
-smokes his pipe behind the door, and drinks brandy--or beer if he is a
-German; almost all the cantinierea are Alsatians. Their children are
-sent to the regimental school; some become officers, the majority become
-excellent trumpeters.
-
-So the cantiniere reigns supreme in her domain, which does not prevent
-her from serving others. She is generally assisted by a young woman, and
-by a good-natured soldier, who becomes her soldier, her right arm, in
-consideration of a small salary. If any disorder arises she quells it,
-putting the offender out-of-doors herself if necessary.
-
-She does not like to give credit; but she is so kind-hearted that she
-can not bear to see a man suffer, and it is impossible for her to refuse
-a drop to a really thirsty soldier. Though she censures herself for her
-weakness, she does not know how to resist an entreaty; but we must
-admit that she is generally paid, and that she does not lose much by her
-liberality.
-
-And what woman would not do the same? How could any one refuse to comply
-with a request of this kind:
-
-"My good Madame Bajot,--I have been in the lock-. up for four days.
-I have not a penny nor even a morsel of tobacco to put in my pipe.
-I entreat you to send me six sous' worth of tobacco--and a quart of
-brandy--for I am very thirsty--through my comrade, and in a little
-bottle on account of the corporal. By so doing you will save my life,
-and I will settle your bill next pay-day. Let the tobacco be very dry
-and of the best quality.
-
-"Be assured of my eternal gratitude,
-
-"Brulard,
-
-"Of the 1st Division, 3d Squadron."
-
-The excellent woman shudders on contemplating the prisoner's privations,
-and sends him the tobacco and brandy.
-
-Moreover, if a trooper be sick or wounded, though not sufficiently to
-be sent to the hospital, she nurses him, dresses his wound, and prepares
-the _tisane_, for which she will never accept any pay.
-
-If the cantiniere is ugly, no one thinks of criticising her.
-
-It is her right, and no one even perceives it; but if she is pretty, it
-is a very different matter. She makes havoc in the regiment, and all the
-young conscripts are speedily subjugated by her conquering charms.
-
-It is an old trooper's axiom, that the goodness of the wine is in an
-inverse ratio to the beauty of the cantiniere.
-
-She has a little wagon drawn by one or two horses. It is in this
-equipage that she follows the troops, and appears upon the parade
-ground, where she dispenses tobacco and liquors to the officers and men
-in the intervals of rest during the drill.
-
-During a campaign she devotes herself to her regiment. More than once in
-the thickest of the fight she has been seen going from rank to rank
-to carry a drop to the soldiers, and braving the canister and grape in
-order to give a little water to the wounded. She keeps no accounts at
-such times; she does not sell, she gives.
-
-Several cantinieres have been decorated, and the exploits of one of
-their number have been related throughout Europe. They have formed
-the plot of a drama which delineates all the characteristics of "the
-soldier's mother," under the title of "The Vivandiere of the Grand
-Army."
-
-
-
-
-THE BARBER OF THE SQUADRON.
-
-As a general thing, it is upon the cheeks of his brother soldiers that
-he serves his apprenticeship--a severe apprenticeship for the cheeks!
-Heaven preserve you from ever falling into his clutches and testing
-his dexterity. In former years, before entering the service, he was a
-carpenter, a mechanic, or a stone-cutter;--his good conduct elevated him
-to the important position of barber, and since that time he has plied in
-turn the scissors and razor with more zeal than discretion.
-
-This office of barber is one of the most popular in the regiment; and
-the person who holds it is not a little proud of the honor. First of
-all, he has a right to exact a small monthly payment from each soldier;
-he also enjoys perfect freedom after ten o'clock; in short, he is
-excused from all drudgery, and most of the exercises. And yet his
-position is no sinecure.
-
-The barber is responsible for the heads of the entire company. If the
-beards are too long, or the hair transgresses the limits prescribed by
-ordinance, he is the one upon whom the blame will fall. The
-regulation is there; he must follow it to the letter, and shave his
-companions-in-arms as closely as possible, and not unfrequently against
-their will; for there are troopers who cling to their hair--
-the natural ornament of man. The military gallant would love to wear
-long hair, probably so a loving hand could caress his curls; but the
-regulations are pitiless.
-
-"As soon as the hair can be seized with the hand, it must positively be
-cut," says the corporal.
-
-All sorts of means are vainly employed by the foppish trooper to
-preserve his hair. He wets it every day, or pastes it down with the aid
-of _cosmetique_, then hides it carefully under his cap.
-
-'Wasted efforts! the officers are acquainted with all these tricks; they
-pull off the caps, rumple up the hair, and then the delinquent and the
-barber, who is held responsible, are almost sure of two, or even four
-days in the guard house.
-
-Those sly foxes--the old troopers--do not resort to such hackneyed
-expedients; they feign some affection of the eyes or ears, and thus
-obtain from the sergeant-major permission to wear their hair long.
-
-The days of grand reviews are trying ordeals for the barber. In less
-than two hours he must shave one hundred and fifty or two hundred
-beards, to say nothing of the hair-cutting.
-
-You should see him then, his sleeves rolled up to the elbow, and
-armed with a terrible razor which he has not even time to sharpen. The
-soldiers--I should say, the patients--perhaps martyrs would be still
-better--lather themselves in advance, and come one after another to
-take their place in the seat of torture. The work is accomplished in the
-twinkling of an eye; the most obstinate beards do not resist; hairs that
-refuse to be cut are torn out; the cheek bleeds a little, but that is
-nothing. What is a scratch to a French soldier? Moreover, the barber is
-a conscientious man, and if he occasionally happens to slice off an
-ear, he always takes the greatest possible pains to restore it to its
-rightful owner.
-
-The troopers dread the razor, but they jeer at the barber; they call him
-the butcher, in whispers be it understood--for if he overhears them, it
-is in his power to avenge himself summarily.
-
-Barbers are the heroes of a host of army legends; there is, first, the
-story of Barber Plumepate, who belonged to a cavalry regiment.
-
-This barber, who was very skillful in his profession, had an exceedingly
-vindictive disposition. Very severely punished one day by his captain,
-he swore vengeance, and openly declared he would kill the man who had so
-wronged him.
-
-The barber's threats coming to the ears of the captain, he immediately
-summoned Plumepate.
-
-"You have sworn that you would kill me," he said to him; "that is mere
-boasting on your part; you would never dare to do it. Wait a moment; I
-will try you. Prepare your implements and shave me."
-
-The terrible Plumepate was completely disconcerted. He set to work, but
-he dared not carry out his threats. Never, on the contrary, did he do a
-neater job.
-
-On another occasion, during a campaign, a barber in one of the regiments
-of the line was summoned to shave the commander-in-chief. He was badly
-frightened, and he could but think of the possible consequences should
-his hand tremble. It did tremble so much that the general's face was
-covered with blood when the operation was concluded. The unfortunate
-barber, terrified by what he had done, shook in every limb, and
-stammered a thousand excuses.
-
-"Hold," said the general; "here is a louis! If your hand had not trembled
-in shaving your general, you would not be a true trooper."
-
-During a campaign, a barber becomes a soldier like the others, for then
-both hair and beard are neglected.
-
-"When one finds water in Africa one drinks it; one does not amuse one's
-self in making soap-suds."
-
-It sometimes happens that the barber of a regiment is a genuine barber,
-who knows his trade, and who practiced it with honor before he became a
-soldier. Then there is joy in the squadron; and the troopers flock to
-be shaved by this artist, who does not mutilate them, and whose
-well-sharpened razor is scarcely felt. The more foppish, in
-consideration of a small fee, have their hair dressed and oiled.
-
-The lower officers, not only of the squadron, but of the entire
-regiment, give him their patronage; he becomes their favorite, their
-factotum, they treat him affably, almost courteously, and even permit a
-certain degree of familiarity.
-
-Louis XI. made a prime minister of his barber.
-
-
-
-
-THE VAGUEMESTRE.
-
-He is always busy, very busy, exceedingly busy; that is his specialty.
-Do not attempt to speak to him, he can not answer you; do not try to
-stop him, he will march you straight to the guard-house. He does not
-walk, he runs; he has not an hour to spare, not a moment, not a second.
-
-This morning before the odious reveille had driven the soldiers from
-their narrow couches he was up and dressed, ready to start.
-
-Should you succeed in questioning him, this will be his response:
-
-"What a life! what a profession! Look, sir, it is not yet nine o'clock,
-and I have already made thirty trips. I had scarcely time to take my
-dram this morning, and in my haste I almost choked myself. How do I know
-I shall have time to swallow my absinthe? Shall I even get my breakfast?
-That is doubtful. As you see, I invariably reach the cantine an hour
-after the others. Everything is eaten, there is nothing left, or
-if there is, it is something no one would eat, and consequently
-intolerable. Then they bring me an egg. An egg!" (with a bitter laugh),
-"an egg! for a man who has been running about all the morning. Never
-adopt my profession, sir; my existence is insupportable--a dog's life!
-To-morrow, you may rest assured, I shall tender my resignation and take
-my place in the ranks, like the others. But what am I doing? Here I have
-lost ten minutes in talking; clear oat, d--n you! I should have had time
-to drink my absinthe."
-
-It must be admitted that the life of the vaguemestre is not a path of
-roses.
-
-He is the Mercury of that company of deities known as the staff of a
-regiment, and like that mythological courier, he must have wings on his
-feet. He is also the superintendent of the regimental post-office; all
-letters that come and go pass through his hands; he must know the hours
-for the arrival and departure of the mails, carry the letters, and go
-after them. If soldiers receive money through the post, they can not
-draw it themselves; they carry their order to him, and he draws it
-and pays it over to them; so I assure you this officer's time is fully
-occupied. And yet something more than agility is needed, for he must
-think of everything. The slightest oversight or the least delay might
-produce serious consequences, for forgetfulness and want of punctuality
-are severely punished.
-
-In the morning he hastens to the post-office, then to the colonel's
-house to obtain the order of the day; then he rushes back to the
-barracks in company with the messenger.
-
-He then hastily sorts the letters, making a separate pile for each
-squadron; these he gives to the sergeants, who give them to the
-corporals on duty for the week, who distribute them among the soldiers.
-
-But the hour for the report arrives; he hastens after it; then he starts
-off again. The report must be submitted to the superior officers. The
-lieutenant-colonel is waiting for it; the major is waiting for it,
-so the vaguemestre hurries away. On returning, he must stop to see a
-captain who has sent for him; besides, the colonel has intrusted him
-with a letter to be delivered to a lieutenant who lives at the very end
-of the town. What a nuisance! He rushes to the place, but does not find
-the lieutenant. The letter is important; the lieutenant must be at the
-_cafe_--lieutenants are always at the _cafe_--at least, when they are
-not at breakfast. The vaguemestre visits the _cafe_, no lieutenant; at
-last, he finds him at his boarding-house and delivers the letter.
-
-He heaves a mighty sigh of relief. Now he can breakfast; he hurries
-on with all the fleetness of which his tired limbs are capable; hunger
-lends him wings. He reaches the barracks. Alas! the adjutant-major
-who has just left the table, stops him in the passage; he has a few
-suggestions to make--adjutant-majors always have suggestions to make.
-
-At last he breakfasts in turn; he is the last of all. But it is useless
-to describe the experience of the entire day.
-
-The vaguemestre is gifted with an extraordinary memory. Every week, when
-he distributes the money received by the soldiers, he knows the exact
-condition of each man's account; he must know if those who are entitled
-to money are in disgrace or ill. Every week the sergeant on duty in each
-squadron must furnish him with a report embodying this information; but
-it would take too much time to consult these documents. He prefers to
-remember.
-
-So, Sunday morning the trumpeter sounds the vaguemestre's call, that is
-to say, executes a sort of flourish that signifies:
-
-"All who have received money-orders through the post must come and find
-the vaguemestre if they desire what is due them."
-
-This call is so well understood that the soldiers respond promptly, and
-without hesitation, whereupon colloquies of this kind ensue:
-
-THE VAGUEMESTRE. Private Demanet, you have received twelve francs.
-
-PRIVATE DEMANET. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Private Demanet, your
-outfit is not yet paid for; you are credited with only eleven francs,
-which is a deplorable state of things. You must devote your twelve
-francs to this purpose.
-
-PRIVATE DEMARET. I entreat you, lieutenant--Vaguemestre. Well, then,
-here are a hundred sous. I will keep back only seven francs. Make out a
-receipt.
-
-EXAMPLE SECOND.
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. Private Castagnol, you have received fifty francs.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Your parents seem to
-have more money than they know what to do with.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Lieutenant, my family--
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. Ah! I remember, you are a volunteer. Very well, you may go.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. But my money?
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. You have eight days in the guard-house to make. Next
-Sunday, if you are not punished in the meantime, you shall have your
-money.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. But--
-
-VAGUEMESTRE. No remarks.
-
-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL (_turning angrily away_). I shall tell my friends to
-send bank-notes next time.
-
-The vaguemestre being usually an adjutant, the soldiers address him as
-lieutenant.
-
-
-
-
-THE ZOUAVE.
-
-
-Many have talked of the zouave: few know him.
-
-Everybody has seen him lazily squatting at the gates of the Tuileries,
-like a granite sphinx on the threshold of the Assyrian palaces. He is
-on guard. He performs his duty with a profoundly melancholy air, smoking
-his pipe with feverish impatience, or, rather, watching with feverish
-impatience all the while he is smoking his pipe, some ray of our
-Parisian sunlight, which seems like moonlight when compared with that
-fierce African sunshine, which pours down upon the head like molten
-lead.
-
-A scrap of green or white calico, twisted around a red fez; a blue
-jacket, trimmed with red or yellow braid, and which leaves the throat
-entirely bare; full scarlet trousers, cut in the Oriental fashion; white
-gaiters buttoning above the ankle; this is his costume.
-
-How can one describe the man?
-
-Short, spare, compactly built and muscular, with broad shoulders, square
-fists, closely shaven head, keen eyes, a mocking smile, and a bold and
-decided bearing--such is the zouave, the best soldier in the world for
-bold ventures, skirmishes with outposts, impossible ambuscades, and
-rapid marches.
-
-Accustomed to the pursuit of the Arab, his constant enemy, the zouave is
-thoroughly conversant with all the stratagems of desert warfare. He has
-learned to outwit his savage foes, so he will always surprise the armies
-of Europe.
-
-"The Arab is very cunning, but the zouave is more cunning still."
-
-He knows how to conceal himself in a little clump of shrubbery, and
-steal imperceptibly upon the sentinel whom he wishes to capture; he
-can advance without a sound, remain motionless for hours together, hide
-behind the slightest irregularity in the ground, crawl, leap, bound,
-disappear in the undergrowth that surrounds him, follow a track, and
-shun all the traps that are set for him.
-
-As a sharp-shooter, he has no equal.
-
-If a position is to be taken, he dashes forward, with head down,
-overturning everything in his passage. It is no longer a man; it is a
-bullet. Once started on his course, he reaches the goal or dies.
-
-The zouave cordially detests large cities, and regards garrisons with
-abhorrence.
-
-In garrison life, the discipline becomes too irksome; he must polish his
-cartridge-box, whiten his shoulder-belt, wash his clothes, mount guard
-at regular hours, appear at parade--all wearisome enough to the average
-trooper, but insupportable to the zouave.
-
-The zouave needs the freedom of camp life, the free range of an enemy's
-country, a _ragout_ improvised under a tent. It matters not if his
-canteen is only three-quarters full, and if the supply of coffee is
-running short, so he has but a morsel of no matter what to appease his
-hunger, he sings, he is gay, he is happy, he is himself.
-
-It is true that when he is not happy, he is equally gay, and sings even
-more loudly.
-
-The zouave owes his fondness for adventure and his almost nomadic habits
-to the African war. In constantly pursuing the Arabs through deserts and
-over mountains, he has formed habits of living very like those of these
-wandering tribes.
-
-Like the philosopher Bias, the zouave carries all his possessions about
-with him, which proves, perhaps, that he is something of a philosopher.
-
-But you should see a zouave's knapsack when he is starting on an
-expedition. It is monstrous; one wonders if he will not sink beneath his
-burden, and be compelled to cast it aside. He would rather die. Besides,
-it seems to be the universal belief that he does not feel the weight of
-it.
-
-Usually, on taking the field, the infantry lighten their load as much as
-possible; the officers not only permit this, but require it.
-
-It is not so with the zouave. This seems to be the very time that his
-burden must be heaviest He reduces his effects to the smallest possible
-compass, rolls them, squeezes them, and then crowds them, and crowds
-them, until the straps become too short and the distended knapsack
-threatens to burst.
-
-There is a little of everything in the zouave's load. An enumeration
-of its contents would sound like the inventory of three distinct
-establishments;--a drug, a haberdashery, and a grocery store.
-
-He has thread, needles, buttons, soap, wax, tallow, a thimble, a fork,
-one or two spoons, and several knives, to say nothing of the condiments
-indispensable in the concoction of a savory _ragout_.
-
-For the zouave is a gourmand. It is to satisfy his fastidious tastes
-in this direction that, having no servant at his command, he has made
-himself the best cook in Europe.
-
-His _ragouts_ might not make his fortune in Paris; but in Africa, in the
-desert, how many generals have smacked their lips over them!
-
-Any one can make a savory dish of stewed rabbit _with_ a rabbit; but to
-make it _without_ a rabbit, that is a difficult task, quite worthy of a
-zouave.
-
-His fertile imagination never shines as brilliantly as when the
-larder is empty; then, he employs all his wits; he searches, he invents.
-On such days, he dines admirably; but how many strange animals are made
-to turn from their usual path to take the road to the saucepan.
-
-"I do not ask my zouaves for strawberries," said Marshal, then Colonel
-Canrobert, one frightfully hot day, in the middle of the desert; "but if
-I really desired some, they are quite capable of discovering them in the
-sand."
-
-To-day the zouave is the most popular of all our soldiers; his _chachia_
-threatens to pass down to posterity with the towering bear-skin cap worn
-by the grenadiers of the First Empire.
-
-It is to the zouave that we owe the words of the celebrated march known
-as the "Casquette." This is the origin of it:
-
-One night the French camp was surprised by Arabs. A murderous fire so
-astonished our soldiers, that they almost wavered at first; but Marshal
-Bugeaud rushed from his tent, and his presence inspiring our troops with
-their wonted enthusiasm, the enemy was repulsed.
-
-When the conflict was ended, the marshal noticed that every one smiled
-on looking at him. He raised his hands to his head. In his haste, he had
-left his tent adorned with the anything but heroic head-gear of the King
-of Yvetot; in short, a night-cap.
-
-The next day, when the trumpets gave the signal for the troops to resume
-their march, the zouaves, in memory of that original coifiure, sung in
-deafening chorus:
-
-     "As-tu vu
-     La casquette
-     La casquette,
-     As-tu vu
-     La casquette,
-     Du Pere Bugeaud?"
-
-Two or three days afterward, the marshal, on giving the order for
-departure, said to the trumpeters: "Boys, sound _la casquette_."
-
-So this name still clings to the order. To how many victories it has
-led, and will lead the zouaves!
-
-Father Bugeaud's _casquette_, by insuring the success of "Duc Job,"
-yielded eighty thousand francs to the Theatre Francais, and sixty
-thousand francs to M. Leon Laya.
-
-It is a night-cap well worth the having.
-
-
-
-
-THE FANTASSIN, OR FOOT-SOLDIER.
-
-The fantassin, _par excellence_, is a soldier of the regular infantry.
-The cavalry pretend that the foot-soldier wears spurs on his elbows,
-but this is only a stale joke perpetrated before the bayonet came into
-general use.
-
-The regular infantry is really the French army. It has shed its blood
-upon every battle-field, and has come off victorious again and again.
-It is the infantry that has carried the standards of France through
-conquered Europe. It is the regular infantry which, without shoes,
-provisions, or artillery, swept down from the Alps upon Italy. It is
-the infantry that fought at the Pyramids, at Eylau and at Moscow. The
-infantry is the queen of battles; with her one can go in any direction
-and always maintain one's position.
-
-There is nothing brilliant about the infantry uniform, and yet when
-seen in masses it produces an excellent effect. It is also the most
-comfortable and the best adapted to all the needs of a soldier in the
-field.
-
-At reviews, upon the parade ground, and on the boulevards there are,
-perhaps, regiments that attract more attention; but such is not the case
-if it is seen in line of battle. One should see it maneuvering under
-fire with the same precision as on the Champs de Mars. Each regiment has
-become a corps, with its officers at its head. A cannon-ball cuts down
-an entire file. "Close up the ranks!" The ranks are closed; the void is
-filled without haste, disorder, or confusion.
-
-Nothing could be more beautiful, nothing could be more magnificent than
-a regiment of the line advancing for a bayonet charge upon the enemy.
-Search the ranks; examine one by one these soldiers blackened with
-powder, try to find the foot-soldier you have seen lounging about the
-shop windows in large cities, with his shako on the back of his head.
-The lounger of yesterday is the hero of to-day. Now, danger illumines
-every face; courage, like an aureole, shines resplendent on every brow.
-All honor to the regulars! upon their banners is written our glorious
-history!
-
-The foot-soldier in garrison bears no resemblance whatever to the
-hero of the battle-field. He does not even remember his exploits of
-yesterday; he little suspects the great deeds he will perform to-morrow
-should France have need of his devotion and courage.
-
-The foot-soldier in garrison is the best and most inoffensive of men,
-always trying to make himself useful, ever ready to do a favor. His
-tastes are simple, and his desires modest; boisterous amusements have no
-attractions for him, and he rarely indulges in the bottle.
-
-The foot-soldier, like all the members of his profession, is generally
-in straitened circumstances.
-
-     "For in France as in Austria
-     The soldier is not rich,
-     Every one knows that."
-
-It is true that one can not indulge in much extravagance on five
-centimes a day. Fortunately there are ways to increase this meager
-income. In many regiments, the soldiers are allowed to find occupation
-in the city, provided, of course, that discipline does not suffer
-thereby. Those who have a trade devote all their leisure time to it;
-those who have only their two hands and their good-will--and they are
-by far the largest number--nevertheless find a way to make themselves
-useful. In some _bourgeoisie_ households they hire a soldier to take
-care of the garden and scrub the floors.
-
-There is also another source of revenue which, though not the most
-honorable, is certainly the most in vogue; this is playing a trick on
-one's family.
-
-The fraud is generally suggested by some old grumbler who is an adept in
-the art of deception. A mischievously inclined volunteer, who is a good
-penman, generally writes the letter. Illness is the usual pretext. It is
-the simplest of all, and seldom fails to produce the desired effect.
-How can you suppose that parents will refuse to forward a few francs on
-receiving from their child a letter beginning thus:
-
-"Dear Mother,--The object of this letter is to inform you that I am in
-the hospital."
-
-The family send money. A letter arrives, inclosing a post-office order.
-The vaguemestre quickly changes it into shining coin. But alas! this
-money vanishes like a dream. And how could it be otherwise? So many
-friends must have a share of this windfall. First, there is the
-bedfellow, then the inventor of the trick, then the writer, then two
-or three comrades, fellow-countrymen--then a corporal who has been
-obliging, and many others. Besides, it is not considered seemly for a
-trooper to spend his money alone.
-
-A soldier who goes out alone, and who drinks alone, is disgraced in the
-eyes of his comrades.
-
-When he has finished his daily task at the barracks, polished his
-weapons, and answered to his name at roll-call, the foot-soldier is at
-liberty, provided he is not on duty, or on guard, or on the _corvee_,
-or undergoing punishment, and he can leave the barracks if he
-chooses. Generally he is eager to improve the opportunity. There must be
-something of importance to detain him if he does not go out; a letter to
-write, some little job to do, a pipe of unusual length to color for
-an officer who is making a collection. But such instances are rare. He
-loves long walks. If he is stationed in a small town, you can always
-meet him in the shady paths in the suburbs. He is generally cutting
-little switches to beat his clothing.
-
-If he is in a large city, he has a variety of amusements. He delights
-in gazing into the shop-windows; he haunts the promenades and the public
-gardens; mountebanks always find in him a patient and appreciative
-patron, ever ready to laugh at their stale jokes. The mountebank and
-the fantassin have had a mutual understanding for a long time. "Walk in.
-Walk in, gentlemen and ladies. Admission is ten centimes; two sous. The
-military only half-price."
-
-But there is no place like Paris for the soldier. Wine is a trifle dear;
-but how many diversions there are. This is a city! one can stroll about
-five hours without danger of seeing the same objects. Moreover, Paris
-contains the Jardin des Plantes, and the Jardin des Plantes is, as every
-one knows, the soldier's earthly Paradise.
-
-There, he can spend his hours of liberty most delightfully. He visits,
-in succession, all the cabinets of natural history. He almost splits
-his sides laughing as he stands before the monkey's palace, watching the
-pranks of its occupants; he goes into ecstasies over the wild animals,
-and shudders while contemplating the reptiles. But his favorites are the
-bear and the elephant. He never leaves the Jardin des Plantes until he
-has seen Martin climb the tree, and given the elephant a crust of bread,
-held in reserve in his cap--for want of pantaloon pockets.
-
-But the foot-soldier would be a body without a soul, if he had no
-countrywoman. The payse, as he styles her, has been created for the
-fantassin, as the fantassin has been created for the payse. They love
-and understand each other. He accompanies the payse, who is usually a
-child's nurse, in her walks; he assists her in watching the children,
-when he does not prevent her from watching them; on the promenade, the
-fantassin seats himself near the payse and pours sweet nothings into her
-ears, while the children play on the gravel-walk. "Honi soit qui mal y
-pense!"
-
-In spite of the fatigue that results from it, the foot-soldier loves
-a change of garrison. He goes cheerfully from one end of France to the
-other, singing as he plods along. Every day, before two o'clock, his
-legs fail him, which does not prevent him from strolling around to see
-the curiosities of the neighborhood as soon as he reaches the town where
-he is to spend the night.
-
-The _billet_ troubles the soldier a little. It is like a ticket in
-a lottery. Some are very good, some are bad. As a general thing, the
-soldier is cordially received; though the contrary happens sometimes. So
-far as the fantassin is concerned, he hardly ever abuses the hospitality
-accorded him. The _billet_ is considered very good when the people of
-the house invite the soldier to share their dinner. It is a saving of
-time and of money for him. The fantassin is overjoyed, and to repay his
-entertainers, he tells them his history.
-
-When his term of service expires and he returns to his fireside, the
-soldier does not presume upon his superiority. He talks freely but
-not boastingly of his travels and campaigns. He always finds attentive
-auditors, for we all love and respect the old defenders of France.
-
-Some accuse the fantassin of being too unsophisticated; there are
-occasions when simplicity of speech is the height of eloquence.
-
-"What were you doing at Solferino?" some one once asked a soldier.
-
-"I?--I was doing like the rest--killing and being killed," he replied
-modestly.
-
-Sublimely artless speech in which is summed up all the philosophy of
-war.
-
-
-
-
-THE SOLDIER OF THE LIGHT INFANTRY;
-
-OR, THE CHASSEUR.
-
-He does not walk; he runs; he is truly the soldier of his age--an age of
-steam. He comes from Vincennes to Paris in thirty-five minutes; it takes
-a first class _fiacre_ just twice as long.
-
-The light infantry has given abundant proofs of courage. It was in
-Africa, in 1842, that it received the baptism of fire, a glorious
-baptism.
-
-From the very first the chasseurs inspired the Arabs with unconquerable
-terror. It is true that everything combines to give them a frightful
-appearance in battle; their somber costume, their strange evolutions,
-the shrill sound of their trumpets, make them resemble, seen in the
-midst of the smoke, a legion of unchained devils.
-
-When the Arabs saw them advancing on the run they took flight.
-
-The chasseurs have a terrible weapon. Their rifles, which are loaded
-with oblong balls, pierce a board fifty millimeters in thickness at a
-distance of more than a quarter of a mile; and as all the chasseurs are
-excellent marksmen, they make frightful havoc in the enemy's ranks.
-
-It is amusing to see the profound astonishment of the Arabs wounded at
-such a distance. They believe there is some witchcraft about it.
-
-At Sebastopol, the corps of volunteer sharp-shooters was recruited from
-the ranks of the chasseurs. Creeping along, hiding in the slightest
-furrow of ground, they generally succeed in approaching within range
-of the battery, and then woe to its defenders! The cannons were soon
-reduced to silence.
-
-It is impossible for any one who has not witnessed the maneuvers of
-the light infantry to have any conception of the marvels resulting from
-discipline and daily practice.
-
-Their ordinary gait is a rapid walk, their accelerated pace is the speed
-of a race-horse. At a blast from the trumpet they disperse in every
-direction, disappearing, kneeling, lying flat on their bellies or
-on their backs, loading their rifles, aiming and firing in every
-conceivable posture. Another signal is heard; instantly they are in the
-ranks, crowded close together, bayonets glittering, ready to charge.
-
-And an impetuous charge by the chasseurs of Vincennes is irresistible.
-Dense as the mass may be upon which they precipitate themselves, they
-cut their way through it with their broad saber-bayonets, leaving a
-bloody trail behind them.
-
-"They are demons!" Prince Mentchikoff exclaimed at Sebastopol.
-
-The chasseurs are very proud of their reputation for swiftness. Once
-when an order of the day was read to them beginning thus:
-
-"Soldiers: we are about to march upon the enemy."--they cried: "Oh, no,
-that does not suit us, we wish to run."
-
-When off duty the chasseur preserves his rapid pace, and his ferocious,
-almost tigerish manner. His hat is always cocked defiantly on one side
-of his head, and his belt is always inordinately tight.
-
-Quick and supple in every movement, he adores dancing. It is his
-_forte_, and in it he wins a success that the Parisian fireman alone can
-dispute with him. Naturally, the belles adore this perfect dancer; but
-they should not trust him--the chasseur is even more inconstant than
-that heartless butterfly, the voltigeur.
-
-In Paris he haunts the shades of Vincennes and Saint Maude. Monday,
-Thursday, and Sunday he can always be found at the public balls, near
-the Barriere du Trone, happy if permission to be absent until midnight
-enables him to remain until the close of the festivities. He invariably
-finds a brother chasseur who is also absent on leave, and who shares
-several bottles of sour wine with him.
-
-*******
-
-But it would be unjust not to say a word concerning the trumpeter of the
-chasseurs.
-
-How the chasseur, laden with his knapsack, rations, weapons, ammunition,
-and accouterments can run without losing his breath completely, it is
-difficult to comprehend.
-
-But how does the trumpeter, as he runs with the others, find breath to
-blow his trumpet?
-
-That is something one can not comprehend.
-
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-<h1>

-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.

-</h1>

-<h2>

-By Emile Gaboriau.

-</h2>

-<p>

-<br />

-</p>

-<h3>

-Translated by Laura E. Kendall.

-</h3>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<p>

-<b>CONTENTS</b>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0001"> <b>A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.</b> </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0002"> I. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0003"> II. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0004"> III. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0005"> IV. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0006"> V. </a>

-</p>

-<p>

-<br />

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0007"> <b>MILITARY SKETCHES.</b> </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0008"> THE CANTINIERE. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0009"> THE BARBER OF THE SQUADRON. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0010"> THE VAGUEMESTRE. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0011"> THE ZOUAVE. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0012"> THE FANTASSIN, OR FOOT-SOLDIER. </a>

-</p>

-<p class="toc">

-<a href="#link2H_4_0013"> THE SOLDIER OF THE LIGHT INFANTRY; </a>

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0001" id="link2H_4_0001"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-A THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD.

-</h2>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-I.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">I</span>t&rsquo;s a very short time ago, yesterday as it were, that one Sunday

-afternoon about four o&rsquo;clock, the whole Quartier du Marais was in an

-uproar.

-</p>

-<p>

-Rumor asserted that one of the most respectable merchants in the Hue

-Boi-de-Sicile had disappeared, and all efforts to find him continued

-fruitless.

-</p>

-<p>

-The strange event was discussed in all the shops in the neighborhood;

-there were groups at the doors of all the fruit-sellers, every moment some

-terrified housewife arrived, bringing fresh particulars.

-</p>

-<p>

-The grocer on the corner had the best and latest news, the most reliable,

-too, for he received his information from the lips of the cook who lived

-in the house.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;So,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;yesterday evening, after dinner, our neighbor, Monsieur

-Jandidier, went down to his cellar to get a bottle of wine, and was never

-seen again. He disappeared, vanished, evaporated!&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-It occasionally happens that mysterious disappearances are mentioned. The

-public becomes excited, and prudent people buy sword-canes.

-</p>

-<p>

-Policemen hear absurd reports, and shrug their shoulders. They know the

-wrong side of the carefully embroidered canvas. They investigate, and

-find, instead of artless falsehoods, the truth; instead of romances,

-sorrowful stories. Yet, up to a certain point, the grocer of the Rue

-Saint Louis told the truth.

-</p>

-<p>

-M. Jandidier, manufacturer of imitation jewelry, had not been at home for

-the last twenty-four hours.

-</p>

-<p>

-M. Theodore Jandidier was a man fifty-eight years old, very stout and very

-bald, who had made a large fortune in business. He was supposed to have a

-considerable income from stocks and bonds, and his business brought him

-annually, on an average, fifty thousand francs. He was beloved and

-respected in his neighborhood, and justly so; his honesty was above

-suspicion, his morality rigid. Married late in life to a penniless

-relative, he had made her perfectly happy. He had an only daughter, a

-pretty, graceful girl, named Thérèse, whom he worshiped. She had been

-engaged to the eldest son of Schmidt the banker&mdash;member of the firm

-Schmidt, Gubenheim &amp; Worb&mdash;M. Gustave; but the match was broken

-off, nobody knew why, for the young people were desperately in love with

-each other. It was said by Jandidier&rsquo;s acquaintances that Schmidt senior,

-a perfect skinflint, had demanded a dowry far beyond the merchant&rsquo;s means.

-</p>

-<p>

-Notified by public rumor, which hourly exaggerated the story, the

-commissary of police went to the home of the man already called &ldquo;the

-victim,&rdquo; to obtain more exact information.

-</p>

-<p>

-He found Mme. and Mlle. Jandidier in such terrible grief that it was with

-great difficulty he gleaned the truth. At last he learned the following

-details:

-</p>

-<p>

-The day before, Saturday, M. Jandidier had dined with his family as usual,

-though his appetite was not good, owing, he said, to a violent headache.

-</p>

-<p>

-After dinner he went to his stores, gave some orders, and then entered his

-office.

-</p>

-<p>

-At half past six he came upstairs again, and told his wife he was going to

-walk.

-</p>

-<p>

-And he had not been seen since!

-</p>

-<p>

-After carefully noting these particulars, the commissary requested Mme.

-Jandidier to let him speak with her alone a few minutes. She made a sign

-of assent, and Mlle. Thérèse left the room.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Pardon the question I am about to ask, madame,&rdquo; said the police officer.

-&ldquo;Do you know whether your husband&mdash;again I beg you to excuse me&mdash;had

-any ties outside of his own family?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-Mme. Jandidier started up; anger dried her tears.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I have been married twenty-three years, monsieur, and my husband has

-never returned home later than ten o&rsquo;clock.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Was your husband in the habit of going to any club or café, madame?&rdquo;

- continued the officer.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Never; I wouldn&rsquo;t have allowed it.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Did he usually carry valuables on his person?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know; I attended to my housekeeping and didn&rsquo;t trouble myself

-about business matters.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-It was impossible to get anything more from the haughty wife, who was

-fairly bewildered by sorrow.

-</p>

-<p>

-Having performed his duty, the commissary thought he ought to give the

-poor woman a little commonplace consolation.

-</p>

-<p>

-But on withdrawing, after an examination of the house, he felt very

-anxious, and began to suspect that a crime had been committed.

-</p>

-<p>

-That very evening one of the most skillful members of the detective force,

-Rétiveau, better known in the Rue de Jerusalem under the name of Maitre

-Magloire, was put on M. Jandidier&rsquo;s track, supplied with an excellent

-photograph of the merchant.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-II.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he very day after M. Jandidier&rsquo;s disappearance, Maitre Magloire appeared

-at the Palais de justice to report what he had done to the magistrate in

-charge of the affair.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Ah! there you are, Monsieur Magloire,&rdquo; said the magistrate; &ldquo;so you&rsquo;ve

-discovered something?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I am on the trail, monsieur.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Speak.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;To begin with, Monsieur Jandidier did not leave home at half past six

-o&rsquo;clock, but precisely seven.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Precisely?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Precisely. I ascertained that from a clock-maker in the Rue Saint Denis,

-who is sure of it, because while passing his shop, Monsieur Jandidier took

-out his watch to see if it was exactly like the clock over the door. He

-held an unlighted cigar in his mouth. Having discovered this last

-circumstance, I said to myself, &lsquo;I have it! He&rsquo;ll light his cigar

-somewhere.&rsquo; I reasoned correctly; he went into a retail shop on the

-Boulevard du Temple, whose mistress knows him very well. The fact was

-impressed on the woman&rsquo;s memory because he always smoked sou cigars, and

-this time bought London ones.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;How did he appear?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Absent-minded, the shop-keeper told me. It was from her I found out that

-he often went to the Café Ture. I entered it, and was told that he had

-been there Saturday evening. He took two small glasses of brandy, and

-talked with his friends. He seemed dull. &lsquo;The gentleman talked all the

-time about life insurance policies,&rsquo; the waiter told me. At half past

-eight o&rsquo;clock our man left the with one of his friends, a merchant in the

-neighborhood, Monsieur Blandureau. I instantly went to this gentleman, who

-informed me that he walked up the boulevard with Monsieur Jandidier, who

-left him at the corner of the Rue Richelieu, pleading a business

-engagement. He was not in his usual spirits, and seemed to be assailed by

-the gloomiest presentiments.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Very well, so far,&rdquo; murmured the magistrate.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;On leaving Monsieur Blandureau, I went to the Rue Roi-de-Sicile to

-ascertain from somebody in the house whether Monsieur Jandidier had any

-customers or friends in the Rue Richelieu, but no one lived there except

-his tailor. I therefore proceeded hap-hazard to the tailor. He saw our man

-Saturday. Monsieur Jandidier called on him after nine o&rsquo;clock to order a

-pair of trousers. While his measure was being taken, he noticed that one

-of his vest buttons was nearly off, and asked to have it sewed on. He was

-obliged to take off his overcoat while the trifling repair was made, and

-as at the same time he removed the contents of the side pocket, the tailor

-noticed several hundred-franc bank-bills.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Ah!&rdquo; that&rsquo;s a clew, &ldquo;He had a considerable sum of money with him?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Considerable, no; but tolerably large. The tailor estimates it at twelve

-or fourteen hundred francs.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Go on,&rdquo; said the magistrate.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;While his vest was being repaired, Monsieur Jandidier complained of

-sudden indisposition, and sent a little boy for a carriage, saying that he

-was obliged to go to one of his workmen, who lived a long distance off.

-Unfortunately, the lad had forgotten the number of the carriage. He only

-recollected that it had yellow wheels, and was drawn by a large black

-horse. The vehicle was found. A circular sent to all who kept carriages

-for hire, put me on the track. I learned this morning that it was No.

-6007. The driver, on being questioned, distinctly remembered having been

-stopped Saturday evening, about nine o&rsquo;clock, in the Rue Richelieu, by a

-little boy, and waiting ten minutes in front of the Maison Gouin. The

-description he gave of his fare exactly suits our man, and he recognized

-the photograph among five different ones I showed him.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-Maitre Magloire stopped. He wanted to enjoy the approval visible in the

-magistrate&rsquo;s expression.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Monsieur Jandidier,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;ordered the driver to take him to No.

-48 Rue d&rsquo;Arras-Saint-Victor. In this house lives a workman named Jules

-Tarot, employed by Monsieur Jandidier.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-M. Magloire&rsquo;s way of pronouncing this name was intended to rouse the

-magistrate&rsquo;s attention, and did so.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;You have suspicions?&rdquo; he asked.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Not exactly, but this is the story. Monsieur Jandidier dismissed the

-carriage at the Rue d&rsquo;Arras and went to Tarot&rsquo;s about ten o&rsquo;clock. At

-eleven the employer and workman came out together. The latter did not

-return until midnight, and here I lose all trace of my man. Of course I

-didn&rsquo;t question Tarot, for fear of putting him on his guard.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Who is this Jules Tarot?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;A workman in mother-of-pearl, a man who polishes shells on a grindstone

-to make them perfectly iridescent. He&rsquo;s a skillful fellow, and, assisted

-by his wife, to whom he has taught his trade, can make nearly a hundred

-francs a week.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;They are in easy circumstances, then?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Oh! no. They are both young, they have no children, they are Parisians.

-Deuce take it, they enjoy themselves. Monday regularly carries away what

-the other days bring.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-III.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>wo hours after Maitre Magloire&rsquo;s report, the police went to search Jules

-Tarot&rsquo;s house.

-</p>

-<p>

-At sight of the officers, the workman and his wife turned deadly pale, and

-were seized with a nervous tremor that could not escape Maitre Magloire&rsquo;s

-practiced eye, Yet the most thorough investigation failed to detect

-anything suspicious, and the policemen were about to withdraw, when the

-detective noticed Tarot&rsquo;s wife glance anxiously at a cage hung in the

-window.

-</p>

-<p>

-This was a ray of light. In less than an instant Magloire had unhooked

-and taken down the cage. Between the boards, at the bottom, twelve

-hundred-franc bank-bills were found.

-</p>

-<p>

-This discovery seemed to crush the workman. As to his wife, she began to

-utter piercing shrieks, protesting that both she and her husband were

-innocent. They were arrested, conveyed to head-quarters, and questioned by

-the magistrate. Their answers were precisely the same.

-</p>

-<p>

-They acknowledged having received a visit from their employer Saturday

-evening. He seemed so ill that they asked him to take something to drink,

-but he refused. He had come, he said, to give a large order, and proposed

-that Tarot should undertake it, employing his own workmen. They replied

-that they had no means to do so, whereupon their employer answered: &ldquo;No

-matter, I&rsquo;ll supply the money.&rdquo; And laid twelve hundred-franc bills on the

-table.

-</p>

-<p>

-At eleven o&rsquo;clock M. Jandidier asked his workman to accompany him; he was

-going to the Faubourg Saint Antoine. Tarot went as far as the Place de la

-Bastile, crossing the foot-bridge of Constantine, and walking along the

-canal.

-</p>

-<p>

-The magistrate asked both husband and wife the very natural question:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Why did you hide the money?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-They made the same reply.

-</p>

-<p>

-Monday morning, hearing of M. Jandidier&rsquo;s disappearance, they were seized

-with terror. Tarot said to his wife: &ldquo;If it is known that our employer

-came here, that I crossed the bridge and followed the edge of the canal

-with him, I shall be seriously compromised. If this money were found in

-our possession we should be lost.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-The wife then wanted to burn the notes, but Tarot opposed the plan,

-intending to return them to the family.

-</p>

-<p>

-This explanation was reasonable and plausible, if not probable, but it was

-merely an explanation. Tarot and his wife were kept under arrest.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-IV.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">A</span> week after, the magistrate was still greatly perplexed. Three more

-examinations had not enabled him to come to any fixed conclusion.

-</p>

-<p>

-Were Tarot and his wife innocent? Were they simply marvelously clever in

-maintaining a probable story?

-</p>

-<p>

-The magistrate knew not what to think, when one morning a strange rumor

-spread abroad. The Maison Jandidier had failed. A detective sent to make

-inquiries, brought back the most startling news. M. Jandidier, who people

-supposed to be so rich, was ruined, utterly ruined, and for three years

-had kept up his credit by all sorts of expedients. There was not a

-thousand francs in his house, and his notes due at the end of the month

-amounted to sixty-seven thousand, five hundred francs.

-</p>

-<p>

-The cautious merchant gambled in stocks at the Bourse, the virtuous

-husband was unfaithful.

-</p>

-<p>

-The magistrate had just heard these particulars, when Maitre Magloire

-appeared, pale and panting for breath.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;You know, monsieur?&rdquo; he exclaimed on the threshold. &ldquo;All!&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Tarot is innocent.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I think so; and yet, that visit&mdash;how do you explain that visit?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-Magloire shook his head mournfully.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a fool,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;and Lecoq has just proved it. Monsieur Jandidier

-talked about life insurance policies at the Café Ture. That was the key to

-the whole matter. Jandidier was insured for 200,000 francs, and the

-companies, in France, never pay in case of suicide; do you understand?&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0006" id="link2H_4_0006"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-V.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>hanks to M. Gustave Schmidt, who will marry Mlle. Thérèse Jandidier next

-month, the Maison Jandidier did not fail.

-</p>

-<p>

-Tarot and his wife, on being restored to liberty, were set up in business

-by the same M. Gustave, and no longer go junketing on Mondays.

-</p>

-<p>

-But what has become of M. Jandidier? A thousand francs reward for news of

-him!

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0007" id="link2H_4_0007"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-MILITARY SKETCHES.

-</h2>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0008" id="link2H_4_0008"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE CANTINIERE.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">S</span>he may be young or old, dazzlingly pretty or frightfully ugly; in this

-case looks make no difference, she is ever and always the same. If there

-is much that is evil in her composition there is quite as much that is

-good. She is a woman although&mdash;or because&mdash;she is a cantinière.

-This much is certain&mdash;she loves the soldier, and is ever ready to do

-him a service.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is unnecessary to describe the cantinière in her glory; that is to say,

-at the head of her regiment on review days, arrayed in fall uniform, her

-glazed cap perched jauntily over one ear and her little cask on her back.

-Every one knows her traditional jacket, coquettish short skirt, trousers

-with scarlet stripes, and her fantastic boots.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is certainly a pretty sight to see her when the drum beats, leading the

-way, and keeping time to the step of the soldiers.

-</p>

-<p>

-But the drum is not always beating, fortunately! glory and noise do not

-suffice to fill the stomach, so on her return to the quarters, the

-cantinière lays aside her gorgeous apparel, and resumes her civilian

-costume, that is, a skirt and drees, and bestows her attention upon the

-thousand details connected with her establishment.

-</p>

-<p>

-The cantine is not what the civilian generally supposes; it is at once a

-restaurant, wine-shop, café, beer-shop, and boarding-house. It is here

-that the soldier&mdash;and sometimes the officer&mdash;takes his morning

-dram; the volunteer spends here a portion of the money sent him by his

-family; hussars afflicted with a hearty appetite find here a cheap

-supplement to the mess-room; troopers under arrest can here enjoy a

-demi-tasse without leaving the quarters, and here all the non-commissioned

-officers take their meals.

-</p>

-<p>

-They pay forty-five centimes a day and furnish their bread: in exchange

-for this amount, they are entitled to two meals a day, each composed of

-two dishes and a dessert, besides a bowl of soup or porridge in the

-evening.

-</p>

-<p>

-The charges are not high, as you see; so cantinières do not accumulate

-fortunes as rapidly as the restaurant-keepers on the boulevards.

-</p>

-<p>

-But moderation in price does not prevent the articles from being good, for

-some cantinières are veritable <i>cor-dons bleus</i>, competent to prepare

-a dish originated by Dr. Véron.

-</p>

-<p>

-In the generality of cases the cantinière is the wife of a drummer in the

-infantry, of a trumpeter in the cavalry; her husband is sometimes the

-fencing-master, or even a common soldier; but his position or rank is not

-of the slightest importance. In the cantine, the husband is a nonentity.

-His existence is scarcely recognized; and he is visible only on great

-occasions, when there is a crowd, or when it is necessary to quell

-disorder, which is seldom the case.

-</p>

-<p>

-The husband of the cantinière, when his duties are over for the day,

-smokes his pipe behind the door, and drinks brandy&mdash;or beer if he is

-a German; almost all the cantinièrea are Alsatians. Their children are

-sent to the regimental school; some become officers, the majority become

-excellent trumpeters.

-</p>

-<p>

-So the cantinière reigns supreme in her domain, which does not prevent her

-from serving others. She is generally assisted by a young woman, and by a

-good-natured soldier, who becomes her soldier, her right arm, in

-consideration of a small salary. If any disorder arises she quells it,

-putting the offender out-of-doors herself if necessary.

-</p>

-<p>

-She does not like to give credit; but she is so kind-hearted that she can

-not bear to see a man suffer, and it is impossible for her to refuse a

-drop to a really thirsty soldier. Though she censures herself for her

-weakness, she does not know how to resist an entreaty; but we must admit

-that she is generally paid, and that she does not lose much by her

-liberality.

-</p>

-<p>

-And what woman would not do the same? How could any one refuse to comply

-with a request of this kind:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;My good Madame Bajot,&mdash;I have been in the lock-. up for four days. I

-have not a penny nor even a morsel of tobacco to put in my pipe. I entreat

-you to send me six sous&rsquo; worth of tobacco&mdash;and a quart of brandy&mdash;for

-I am very thirsty&mdash;through my comrade, and in a little bottle on

-account of the corporal. By so doing you will save my life, and I will

-settle your bill next pay-day. Let the tobacco be very dry and of the best

-quality.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Be assured of my eternal gratitude,

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Brulard,

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Of the 1st Division, 3d Squadron.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-The excellent woman shudders on contemplating the prisoner&rsquo;s privations,

-and sends him the tobacco and brandy.

-</p>

-<p>

-Moreover, if a trooper be sick or wounded, though not sufficiently to be

-sent to the hospital, she nurses him, dresses his wound, and prepares the

-<i>tisane</i>, for which she will never accept any pay.

-</p>

-<p>

-If the cantinière is ugly, no one thinks of criticising her.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is her right, and no one even perceives it; but if she is pretty, it is

-a very different matter. She makes havoc in the regiment, and all the

-young conscripts are speedily subjugated by her conquering charms.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is an old trooper&rsquo;s axiom, that the goodness of the wine is in an

-inverse ratio to the beauty of the cantinière.

-</p>

-<p>

-She has a little wagon drawn by one or two horses. It is in this equipage

-that she follows the troops, and appears upon the parade ground, where she

-dispenses tobacco and liquors to the officers and men in the intervals of

-rest during the drill.

-</p>

-<p>

-During a campaign she devotes herself to her regiment. More than once in

-the thickest of the fight she has been seen going from rank to rank to

-carry a drop to the soldiers, and braving the canister and grape in order

-to give a little water to the wounded. She keeps no accounts at such

-times; she does not sell, she gives.

-</p>

-<p>

-Several cantinières have been decorated, and the exploits of one of their

-number have been related throughout Europe. They have formed the plot of a

-drama which delineates all the characteristics of &ldquo;the soldier&rsquo;s mother,&rdquo;

- under the title of &ldquo;The Vivandière of the Grand Army.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0009" id="link2H_4_0009"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE BARBER OF THE SQUADRON.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">A</span>s a general thing, it is upon the cheeks of his brother soldiers that he

-serves his apprenticeship&mdash;a severe apprenticeship for the cheeks!

-Heaven preserve you from ever falling into his clutches and testing his

-dexterity. In former years, before entering the service, he was a

-carpenter, a mechanic, or a stone-cutter;&mdash;his good conduct elevated

-him to the important position of barber, and since that time he has plied

-in turn the scissors and razor with more zeal than discretion.

-</p>

-<p>

-This office of barber is one of the most popular in the regiment; and the

-person who holds it is not a little proud of the honor. First of all, he

-has a right to exact a small monthly payment from each soldier; he also

-enjoys perfect freedom after ten o&rsquo;clock; in short, he is excused from all

-drudgery, and most of the exercises. And yet his position is no sinecure.

-</p>

-<p>

-The barber is responsible for the heads of the entire company. If the

-beards are too long, or the hair transgresses the limits prescribed by

-ordinance, he is the one upon whom the blame will fall. The regulation is

-there; he must follow it to the letter, and shave his companions-in-arms

-as closely as possible, and not unfrequently against their will; for there

-are troopers who cling to their hair&mdash; the natural ornament of man. The military gallant would love to wear long

-hair, probably so a loving hand could caress his curls; but the

-regulations are pitiless.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;As soon as the hair can be seized with the hand, it must positively be

-cut,&rdquo; says the corporal.

-</p>

-<p>

-All sorts of means are vainly employed by the foppish trooper to preserve

-his hair. He wets it every day, or pastes it down with the aid of <i>cosmetique</i>,

-then hides it carefully under his cap.

-</p>

-<p>

-‘Wasted efforts! the officers are acquainted with all these tricks; they

-pull off the caps, rumple up the hair, and then the delinquent and the

-barber, who is held responsible, are almost sure of two, or even four days

-in the guard house.

-</p>

-<p>

-Those sly foxes&mdash;the old troopers&mdash;do not resort to such

-hackneyed expedients; they feign some affection of the eyes or ears, and

-thus obtain from the sergeant-major permission to wear their hair long.

-</p>

-<p>

-The days of grand reviews are trying ordeals for the barber. In less than

-two hours he must shave one hundred and fifty or two hundred beards, to

-say nothing of the hair-cutting.

-</p>

-<p>

-You should see him then, his sleeves rolled up to the elbow, and armed

-with a terrible razor which he has not even time to sharpen. The soldiers&mdash;I

-should say, the patients&mdash;perhaps martyrs would be still better&mdash;lather

-themselves in advance, and come one after another to take their place in

-the seat of torture. The work is accomplished in the twinkling of an eye;

-the most obstinate beards do not resist; hairs that refuse to be cut are

-torn out; the cheek bleeds a little, but that is nothing. What is a

-scratch to a French soldier? Moreover, the barber is a conscientious man,

-and if he occasionally happens to slice off an ear, he always takes the

-greatest possible pains to restore it to its rightful owner.

-</p>

-<p>

-The troopers dread the razor, but they jeer at the barber; they call him

-the butcher, in whispers be it understood&mdash;for if he overhears them,

-it is in his power to avenge himself summarily.

-</p>

-<p>

-Barbers are the heroes of a host of army legends; there is, first, the

-story of Barber Plumepate, who belonged to a cavalry regiment.

-</p>

-<p>

-This barber, who was very skillful in his profession, had an exceedingly

-vindictive disposition. Very severely punished one day by his captain, he

-swore vengeance, and openly declared he would kill the man who had so

-wronged him.

-</p>

-<p>

-The barber&rsquo;s threats coming to the ears of the captain, he immediately

-summoned Plumepate.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;You have sworn that you would kill me,&rdquo; he said to him; &ldquo;that is mere

-boasting on your part; you would never dare to do it. Wait a moment; I

-will try you. Prepare your implements and shave me.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-The terrible Plumepate was completely disconcerted. He set to work, but he

-dared not carry out his threats. Never, on the contrary, did he do a

-neater job.

-</p>

-<p>

-On another occasion, during a campaign, a barber in one of the regiments

-of the line was summoned to shave the commander-in-chief. He was badly

-frightened, and he could but think of the possible consequences should his

-hand tremble. It did tremble so much that the general&rsquo;s face was covered

-with blood when the operation was concluded. The unfortunate barber,

-terrified by what he had done, shook in every limb, and stammered a

-thousand excuses.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Hold,&rdquo; said the general; &ldquo;here is a louis! If your hand had not trembled

-in shaving your general, you would not be a true trooper.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-During a campaign, a barber becomes a soldier like the others, for then

-both hair and beard are neglected.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;When one finds water in Africa one drinks it; one does not amuse one&rsquo;s

-self in making soap-suds.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-It sometimes happens that the barber of a regiment is a genuine barber,

-who knows his trade, and who practiced it with honor before he became a

-soldier. Then there is joy in the squadron; and the troopers flock to be

-shaved by this artist, who does not mutilate them, and whose

-well-sharpened razor is scarcely felt. The more foppish, in consideration

-of a small fee, have their hair dressed and oiled.

-</p>

-<p>

-The lower officers, not only of the squadron, but of the entire regiment,

-give him their patronage; he becomes their favorite, their factotum, they

-treat him affably, almost courteously, and even permit a certain degree of

-familiarity.

-</p>

-<p>

-Louis XI. made a prime minister of his barber.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0010" id="link2H_4_0010"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE VAGUEMESTRE.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">H</span>e is always busy, very busy, exceedingly busy; that is his specialty. Do

-not attempt to speak to him, he can not answer you; do not try to stop

-him, he will march you straight to the guard-house. He does not walk, he

-runs; he has not an hour to spare, not a moment, not a second.

-</p>

-<p>

-This morning before the odious reveille had driven the soldiers from their

-narrow couches he was up and dressed, ready to start.

-</p>

-<p>

-Should you succeed in questioning him, this will be his response:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;What a life! what a profession! Look, sir, it is not yet nine o&rsquo;clock,

-and I have already made thirty trips. I had scarcely time to take my dram

-this morning, and in my haste I almost choked myself. How do I know I

-shall have time to swallow my absinthe? Shall I even get my breakfast?

-That is doubtful. As you see, I invariably reach the cantine an hour after

-the others. Everything is eaten, there is nothing left, or if there is, it

-is something no one would eat, and consequently intolerable. Then they

-bring me an egg. An egg!&rdquo; (with a bitter laugh), &ldquo;an egg! for a man who

-has been running about all the morning. Never adopt my profession, sir; my

-existence is insupportable&mdash;a dog&rsquo;s life! To-morrow, you may rest

-assured, I shall tender my resignation and take my place in the ranks,

-like the others. But what am I doing? Here I have lost ten minutes in

-talking; clear oat, d&mdash;n you! I should have had time to drink my

-absinthe.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-It must be admitted that the life of the vaguemestre is not a path of

-roses.

-</p>

-<p>

-He is the Mercury of that company of deities known as the staff of a

-regiment, and like that mythological courier, he must have wings on his

-feet. He is also the superintendent of the regimental post-office; all

-letters that come and go pass through his hands; he must know the hours

-for the arrival and departure of the mails, carry the letters, and go

-after them. If soldiers receive money through the post, they can not draw

-it themselves; they carry their order to him, and he draws it and pays it

-over to them; so I assure you this officer&rsquo;s time is fully occupied. And

-yet something more than agility is needed, for he must think of

-everything. The slightest oversight or the least delay might produce

-serious consequences, for forgetfulness and want of punctuality are

-severely punished.

-</p>

-<p>

-In the morning he hastens to the post-office, then to the colonel&rsquo;s house

-to obtain the order of the day; then he rushes back to the barracks in

-company with the messenger.

-</p>

-<p>

-He then hastily sorts the letters, making a separate pile for each

-squadron; these he gives to the sergeants, who give them to the corporals

-on duty for the week, who distribute them among the soldiers.

-</p>

-<p>

-But the hour for the report arrives; he hastens after it; then he starts

-off again. The report must be submitted to the superior officers. The

-lieutenant-colonel is waiting for it; the major is waiting for it, so the

-vaguemestre hurries away. On returning, he must stop to see a captain who

-has sent for him; besides, the colonel has intrusted him with a letter to

-be delivered to a lieutenant who lives at the very end of the town. What a

-nuisance! He rushes to the place, but does not find the lieutenant. The

-letter is important; the lieutenant must be at the <i>café</i>&mdash;lieutenants

-are always at the <i>café</i>&mdash;at least, when they are not at

-breakfast. The vaguemestre visits the <i>café</i>, no lieutenant; at last,

-he finds him at his boarding-house and delivers the letter.

-</p>

-<p>

-He heaves a mighty sigh of relief. Now he can breakfast; he hurries on

-with all the fleetness of which his tired limbs are capable; hunger lends

-him wings. He reaches the barracks. Alas! the adjutant-major who has just

-left the table, stops him in the passage; he has a few suggestions to make&mdash;adjutant-majors

-always have suggestions to make.

-</p>

-<p>

-At last he breakfasts in turn; he is the last of all. But it is useless to

-describe the experience of the entire day.

-</p>

-<p>

-The vaguemestre is gifted with an extraordinary memory. Every week, when

-he distributes the money received by the soldiers, he knows the exact

-condition of each man&rsquo;s account; he must know if those who are entitled to

-money are in disgrace or ill. Every week the sergeant on duty in each

-squadron must furnish him with a report embodying this information; but it

-would take too much time to consult these documents. He prefers to

-remember.

-</p>

-<p>

-So, Sunday morning the trumpeter sounds the vaguemestre&rsquo;s call, that is to

-say, executes a sort of flourish that signifies:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;All who have received money-orders through the post must come and find

-the vaguemestre if they desire what is due them.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-This call is so well understood that the soldiers respond promptly, and

-without hesitation, whereupon colloquies of this kind ensue:

-</p>

-<p>

-THE VAGUEMESTRE. Private Demanet, you have received twelve francs.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE DEMANET. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Private Demanet, your outfit

-is not yet paid for; you are credited with only eleven francs, which is a

-deplorable state of things. You must devote your twelve francs to this

-purpose.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE DEMARET. I entreat you, lieutenant&mdash;Vaguemestre. Well, then,

-here are a hundred sous. I will keep back only seven francs. Make out a

-receipt. example second.

-</p>

-<p>

-EXAMPLE SECOND.

-</p>

-<p>

-VAGUEMESTRE. Private Castagnol, you have received fifty francs.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Yes, lieutenant Vaguemestre. Your parents seem to have

-more money than they know what to do with.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. Lieutenant, my family&mdash;Vaguemestre. Ah! I

-remember, you are a volunteer. Very well, you may go.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL. But my money?

-</p>

-<p>

-VAGUEMESTRE. You have eight days in the guard-house to make. Next Sunday,

-if you are not punished in the meantime, you shall have your money.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE OASTAGKOL. But&mdash;

-</p>

-<p>

-VAGUEMESTRE. No remarks.

-</p>

-<p>

-PRIVATE CASTAGNOL (<i>turning angrily away</i>). I shall tell my friends

-to send bank-notes next time.

-</p>

-<p>

-The vaguemestre being usually an adjutant, the soldiers address him as

-lieutenant.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0011" id="link2H_4_0011"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE ZOUAVE.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">M</span>any have talked of the zouave: few know him.

-</p>

-<p>

-Everybody has seen him lazily squatting at the gates of the Tuileries,

-like a granite sphinx on the threshold of the Assyrian palaces. He is on

-guard. He performs his duty with a profoundly melancholy air, smoking his

-pipe with feverish impatience, or, rather, watching with feverish

-impatience all the while he is smoking his pipe, some ray of our Parisian

-sunlight, which seems like moonlight when compared with that fierce

-African sunshine, which pours down upon the head like molten lead.

-</p>

-<p>

-A scrap of green or white calico, twisted around a red fez; a blue jacket,

-trimmed with red or yellow braid, and which leaves the throat entirely

-bare; full scarlet trousers, cut in the Oriental fashion; white gaiters

-buttoning above the ankle; this is his costume.

-</p>

-<p>

-How can one describe the man?

-</p>

-<p>

-Short, spare, compactly built and muscular, with broad shoulders, square

-fists, closely shaven head, keen eyes, a mocking smile, and a bold and

-decided bearing&mdash;such is the zouave, the best soldier in the world

-for bold ventures, skirmishes with outposts, impossible ambuscades, and

-rapid marches.

-</p>

-<p>

-Accustomed to the pursuit of the Arab, his constant enemy, the zouave is

-thoroughly conversant with all the stratagems of desert warfare. He has

-learned to outwit his savage foes, so he will always surprise the armies

-of Europe.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;The Arab is very cunning, but the zouave is more cunning still.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-He knows how to conceal himself in a little clump of shrubbery, and steal

-imperceptibly upon the sentinel whom he wishes to capture; he can advance

-without a sound, remain motionless for hours together, hide behind the

-slightest irregularity in the ground, crawl, leap, bound, disappear in the

-undergrowth that surrounds him, follow a track, and shun all the traps

-that are set for him.

-</p>

-<p>

-As a sharp-shooter, he has no equal.

-</p>

-<p>

-If a position is to be taken, he dashes forward, with head down,

-overturning everything in his passage. It is no longer a man; it is a

-bullet. Once started on his course, he reaches the goal or dies.

-</p>

-<p>

-The zouave cordially detests large cities, and regards garrisons with

-abhorrence.

-</p>

-<p>

-In garrison life, the discipline becomes too irksome; he must polish his

-cartridge-box, whiten his shoulder-belt, wash his clothes, mount guard at

-regular hours, appear at parade&mdash;all wearisome enough to the average

-trooper, but insupportable to the zouave.

-</p>

-<p>

-The zouave needs the freedom of camp life, the free range of an enemy&rsquo;s

-country, a <i>ragoût</i> improvised under a tent. It matters not if his

-canteen is only three-quarters full, and if the supply of coffee is

-running short, so he has but a morsel of no matter what to appease his

-hunger, he sings, he is gay, he is happy, he is himself.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is true that when he is not happy, he is equally gay, and sings even

-more loudly.

-</p>

-<p>

-The zouave owes his fondness for adventure and his almost nomadic habits

-to the African war. In constantly pursuing the Arabs through deserts and

-over mountains, he has formed habits of living very like those of these

-wandering tribes.

-</p>

-<p>

-Like the philosopher Bias, the zouave carries all his possessions about

-with him, which proves, perhaps, that he is something of a philosopher.

-</p>

-<p>

-But you should see a zouave&rsquo;s knapsack when he is starting on an

-expedition. It is monstrous; one wonders if he will not sink beneath his

-burden, and be compelled to cast it aside. He would rather die. Besides,

-it seems to be the universal belief that he does not feel the weight of

-it.

-</p>

-<p>

-Usually, on taking the field, the infantry lighten their load as much as

-possible; the officers not only permit this, but require it.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is not so with the zouave. This seems to be the very time that his

-burden must be heaviest He reduces his effects to the smallest possible

-compass, rolls them, squeezes them, and then crowds them, and crowds them,

-until the straps become too short and the distended knapsack threatens to

-burst.

-</p>

-<p>

-There is a little of everything in the zouave&rsquo;s load. An enumeration of

-its contents would sound like the inventory of three distinct

-establishments;&mdash;a drug, a haberdashery, and a grocery store.

-</p>

-<p>

-He has thread, needles, buttons, soap, wax, tallow, a thimble, a fork, one

-or two spoons, and several knives, to say nothing of the condiments

-indispensable in the concoction of a savory <i>ragoût</i>.

-</p>

-<p>

-For the zouave is a gourmand. It is to satisfy his fastidious tastes in

-this direction that, having no servant at his command, he has made himself

-the best cook in Europe.

-</p>

-<p>

-His <i>ragoûts</i> might not make his fortune in Paris; but in Africa, in

-the desert, how many generals have smacked their lips over them!

-</p>

-<p>

-Any one can make a savory dish of stewed rabbit <i>with</i> a rabbit; but

-to make it <i>without</i> a rabbit, that is a difficult task, quite worthy

-of a zouave.

-</p>

-<p>

-His fertile imagination never shines as brilliantly as when the larder is

-empty; then, he employs all his wits; he searches, he invents. On such

-days, he dines admirably; but how many strange animals are made to turn

-from their usual path to take the road to the saucepan.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I do not ask my zouaves for strawberries,&rdquo; said Marshal, then Colonel

-Canrobert, one frightfully hot day, in the middle of the desert; &ldquo;but if I

-really desired some, they are quite capable of discovering them in the

-sand.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-To-day the zouave is the most popular of all our soldiers; his <i>chachia</i>

-threatens to pass down to posterity with the towering bear-skin cap worn

-by the grenadiers of the First Empire.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is to the zouave that we owe the words of the celebrated march known as

-the &ldquo;Casquette.&rdquo; This is the origin of it:

-</p>

-<p>

-One night the French camp was surprised by Arabs. A murderous fire so

-astonished our soldiers, that they almost wavered at first; but Marshal

-Bugeaud rushed from his tent, and his presence inspiring our troops with

-their wonted enthusiasm, the enemy was repulsed.

-</p>

-<p>

-When the conflict was ended, the marshal noticed that every one smiled on

-looking at him. He raised his hands to his head. In his haste, he had left

-his tent adorned with the anything but heroic head-gear of the King of

-Yvetot; in short, a night-cap.

-</p>

-<p>

-The next day, when the trumpets gave the signal for the troops to resume

-their march, the zouaves, in memory of that original coifiure, sung in

-deafening chorus:

-</p>

-<pre xml:space="preserve">

-&ldquo;As-tu vu

-La casquette

-La casquette,

-As-tu vu

-La casquette,

-Du Père Bugeaud?&rdquo;

- </pre>

-<p>

-Two or three days afterward, the marshal, on giving the order for

-departure, said to the trumpeters: &ldquo;Boys, sound <i>la casquette</i>.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-So this name still clings to the order. To how many victories it has led,

-and will lead the zouaves!

-</p>

-<p>

-Father Bugeaud&rsquo;s <i>casquette</i>, by insuring the success of &ldquo;Duc Job,&rdquo;

- yielded eighty thousand francs to the Théâtre Français, and sixty thousand

-francs to M. Léon Laya.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is a night-cap well worth the having.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0012" id="link2H_4_0012"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE FANTASSIN, OR FOOT-SOLDIER.

-</h2>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he fantassin, <i>par excellence</i>, is a soldier of the regular

-infantry. The cavalry pretend that the foot-soldier wears spurs on his

-elbows, but this is only a stale joke perpetrated before the bayonet came

-into general use.

-</p>

-<p>

-The regular infantry is really the French army. It has shed its blood upon

-every battle-field, and has come off victorious again and again. It is the

-infantry that has carried the standards of France through conquered

-Europe. It is the regular infantry which, without shoes, provisions, or

-artillery, swept down from the Alps upon Italy. It is the infantry that

-fought at the Pyramids, at Eylau and at Moscow. The infantry is the queen

-of battles; with her one can go in any direction and always maintain one&rsquo;s

-position.

-</p>

-<p>

-There is nothing brilliant about the infantry uniform, and yet when seen

-in masses it produces an excellent effect. It is also the most comfortable

-and the best adapted to all the needs of a soldier in the field.

-</p>

-<p>

-At reviews, upon the parade ground, and on the boulevards there are,

-perhaps, regiments that attract more attention; but such is not the case

-if it is seen in line of battle. One should see it maneuvering under fire

-with the same precision as on the Champs de Mars. Each regiment has become

-a corps, with its officers at its head. A cannon-ball cuts down an entire

-file. &ldquo;Close up the ranks!&rdquo; The ranks are closed; the void is filled

-without haste, disorder, or confusion.

-</p>

-<p>

-Nothing could be more beautiful, nothing could be more magnificent than a

-regiment of the line advancing for a bayonet charge upon the enemy. Search

-the ranks; examine one by one these soldiers blackened with powder, try to

-find the foot-soldier you have seen lounging about the shop windows in

-large cities, with his shako on the back of his head. The lounger of

-yesterday is the hero of to-day. Now, danger illumines every face;

-courage, like an aureole, shines resplendent on every brow. All honor to

-the regulars! upon their banners is written our glorious history!

-</p>

-<p>

-The foot-soldier in garrison bears no resemblance whatever to the hero of

-the battle-field. He does not even remember his exploits of yesterday; he

-little suspects the great deeds he will perform to-morrow should France

-have need of his devotion and courage.

-</p>

-<p>

-The foot-soldier in garrison is the best and most inoffensive of men,

-always trying to make himself useful, ever ready to do a favor. His tastes

-are simple, and his desires modest; boisterous amusements have no

-attractions for him, and he rarely indulges in the bottle.

-</p>

-<p>

-The foot-soldier, like all the members of his profession, is generally in

-straitened circumstances.

-</p>

-<pre xml:space="preserve">

-&ldquo;For in France as in Austria

-The soldier is not rich,

-Every one knows that.&rdquo;

- </pre>

-<p>

-It is true that one can not indulge in much extravagance on five centimes

-a day. Fortunately there are ways to increase this meager income. In many

-regiments, the soldiers are allowed to find occupation in the city,

-provided, of course, that discipline does not suffer thereby. Those who

-have a trade devote all their leisure time to it; those who have only

-their two hands and their good-will&mdash;and they are by far the largest

-number&mdash;nevertheless find a way to make themselves useful. In some <i>bourgeoisie</i>

-households they hire a soldier to take care of the garden and scrub the

-floors.

-</p>

-<p>

-There is also another source of revenue which, though not the most

-honorable, is certainly the most in vogue; this is playing a trick on

-one&rsquo;s family.

-</p>

-<p>

-The fraud is generally suggested by some old grumbler who is an adept in

-the art of deception. A mischievously inclined volunteer, who is a good

-penman, generally writes the letter. Illness is the usual pretext. It is

-the simplest of all, and seldom fails to produce the desired effect. How

-can you suppose that parents will refuse to forward a few francs on

-receiving from their child a letter beginning thus:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Dear Mother,&mdash;The object of this letter is to inform you that I am

-in the hospital.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-The family send money. A letter arrives, inclosing a post-office order.

-The vaguemestre quickly changes it into shining coin. But alas! this money

-vanishes like a dream. And how could it be otherwise? So many friends must

-have a share of this windfall. First, there is the bedfellow, then the

-inventor of the trick, then the writer, then two or three comrades,

-fellow-countrymen&mdash;then a corporal who has been obliging, and many

-others. Besides, it is not considered seemly for a trooper to spend his

-money alone.

-</p>

-<p>

-A soldier who goes out alone, and who drinks alone, is disgraced in the

-eyes of his comrades.

-</p>

-<p>

-When he has finished his daily task at the barracks, polished his weapons,

-and answered to his name at roll-call, the foot-soldier is at liberty,

-provided he is not on duty, or on guard, or on the <i>corveê</i>, or

-undergoing punishment, and he can leave the barracks if he chooses.

-Generally he is eager to improve the opportunity. There must be something

-of importance to detain him if he does not go out; a letter to write, some

-little job to do, a pipe of unusual length to color for an officer who is

-making a collection. But such instances are rare. He loves long walks. If

-he is stationed in a small town, you can always meet him in the shady

-paths in the suburbs. He is generally cutting little switches to beat his

-clothing.

-</p>

-<p>

-If he is in a large city, he has a variety of amusements. He delights in

-gazing into the shop-windows; he haunts the promenades and the public

-gardens; mountebanks always find in him a patient and appreciative patron,

-ever ready to laugh at their stale jokes. The mountebank and the fantassin

-have had a mutual understanding for a long time. &ldquo;Walk in. Walk in,

-gentlemen and ladies. Admission is ten centimes; two sous. The military

-only half-price.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-But there is no place like Paris for the soldier. Wine is a trifle dear;

-but how many diversions there are. This is a city! one can stroll about

-five hours without danger of seeing the same objects. Moreover, Paris

-contains the Jardin des Plantes, and the Jardin des Plantes is, as every

-one knows, the soldier&rsquo;s earthly Paradise.

-</p>

-<p>

-There, he can spend his hours of liberty most delightfully. He visits, in

-succession, all the cabinets of natural history. He almost splits his

-sides laughing as he stands before the monkey&rsquo;s palace, watching the

-pranks of its occupants; he goes into ecstasies over the wild animals, and

-shudders while contemplating the reptiles. But his favorites are the bear

-and the elephant. He never leaves the Jardin des Plantes until he has seen

-Martin climb the tree, and given the elephant a crust of bread, held in

-reserve in his cap&mdash;for want of pantaloon pockets.

-</p>

-<p>

-But the foot-soldier would be a body without a soul, if he had no

-countrywoman. The payse, as he styles her, has been created for the

-fantassin, as the fantassin has been created for the payse. They love and

-understand each other. He accompanies the payse, who is usually a child&rsquo;s

-nurse, in her walks; he assists her in watching the children, when he does

-not prevent her from watching them; on the promenade, the fantassin seats

-himself near the payse and pours sweet nothings into her ears, while the

-children play on the gravel-walk. &ldquo;Honi soit qui mal y pense!&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-In spite of the fatigue that results from it, the foot-soldier loves a

-change of garrison. He goes cheerfully from one end of France to the

-other, singing as he plods along. Every day, before two o&rsquo;clock, his legs

-fail him, which does not prevent him from strolling around to see the

-curiosities of the neighborhood as soon as he reaches the town where he is

-to spend the night.

-</p>

-<p>

-The <i>billet</i> troubles the soldier a little. It is like a ticket in a

-lottery. Some are very good, some are bad. As a general thing, the soldier

-is cordially received; though the contrary happens sometimes. So far as

-the fantassin is concerned, he hardly ever abuses the hospitality accorded

-him. The <i>billet</i> is considered very good when the people of the

-house invite the soldier to share their dinner. It is a saving of time and

-of money for him. The fantassin is overjoyed, and to repay his

-entertainers, he tells them his history.

-</p>

-<p>

-When his term of service expires and he returns to his fireside, the

-soldier does not presume upon his superiority. He talks freely but not

-boastingly of his travels and campaigns. He always finds attentive

-auditors, for we all love and respect the old defenders of France.

-</p>

-<p>

-Some accuse the fantassin of being too unsophisticated; there are

-occasions when simplicity of speech is the height of eloquence.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;What were you doing at Solferino?&rdquo; some one once asked a soldier.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;I?&mdash;I was doing like the rest&mdash;killing and being killed,&rdquo; he

-replied modestly.

-</p>

-<p>

-Sublimely artless speech in which is summed up all the philosophy of war.

-</p>

-<p>

-<br /><br />

-</p>

-<hr />

-<p>

-<a name="link2H_4_0013" id="link2H_4_0013"> </a>

-</p>

-<div style="height: 4em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-<h2>

-THE SOLDIER OF THE LIGHT INFANTRY;

-</h2>

-<h3>

-OR, THE CHASSEUR.

-</h3>

-<p class="pfirst"><span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">H</span>e does not walk; he runs; he is truly the soldier of his age&mdash;an age

-of steam. He comes from Vincennes to Paris in thirty-five minutes; it

-takes a first class <i>fiacre</i> just twice as long.

-</p>

-<p>

-The light infantry has given abundant proofs of courage. It was in Africa,

-in 1842, that it received the baptism of fire, a glorious baptism.

-</p>

-<p>

-From the very first the chasseurs inspired the Arabs with unconquerable

-terror. It is true that everything combines to give them a frightful

-appearance in battle; their somber costume, their strange evolutions, the

-shrill sound of their trumpets, make them resemble, seen in the midst of

-the smoke, a legion of unchained devils.

-</p>

-<p>

-When the Arabs saw them advancing on the run they took flight.

-</p>

-<p>

-The chasseurs have a terrible weapon. Their rifles, which are loaded with

-oblong balls, pierce a board fifty millimeters in thickness at a distance

-of more than a quarter of a mile; and as all the chasseurs are excellent

-marksmen, they make frightful havoc in the enemy&rsquo;s ranks.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is amusing to see the profound astonishment of the Arabs wounded at

-such a distance. They believe there is some witchcraft about it.

-</p>

-<p>

-At Sebastopol, the corps of volunteer sharp-shooters was recruited from

-the ranks of the chasseurs. Creeping along, hiding in the slightest furrow

-of ground, they generally succeed in approaching within range of the

-battery, and then woe to its defenders! The cannons were soon reduced to

-silence.

-</p>

-<p>

-It is impossible for any one who has not witnessed the maneuvers of the

-light infantry to have any conception of the marvels resulting from

-discipline and daily practice.

-</p>

-<p>

-Their ordinary gait is a rapid walk, their accelerated pace is the speed

-of a race-horse. At a blast from the trumpet they disperse in every

-direction, disappearing, kneeling, lying flat on their bellies or on their

-backs, loading their rifles, aiming and firing in every conceivable

-posture. Another signal is heard; instantly they are in the ranks, crowded

-close together, bayonets glittering, ready to charge.

-</p>

-<p>

-And an impetuous charge by the chasseurs of Vincennes is irresistible.

-Dense as the mass may be upon which they precipitate themselves, they cut

-their way through it with their broad saber-bayonets, leaving a bloody

-trail behind them.

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;They are demons!&rdquo; Prince Mentchikoff exclaimed at Sebastopol.

-</p>

-<p>

-The chasseurs are very proud of their reputation for swiftness. Once when

-an order of the day was read to them beginning thus:

-</p>

-<p>

-&ldquo;Soldiers: we are about to march upon the enemy.&rdquo;&mdash;they cried: &ldquo;Oh,

-no, that does not suit us, we wish to run.&rdquo;

- </p>

-<p>

-When off duty the chasseur preserves his rapid pace, and his ferocious,

-almost tigerish manner. His hat is always cocked defiantly on one side of

-his head, and his belt is always inordinately tight.

-</p>

-<p>

-Quick and supple in every movement, he adores dancing. It is his <i>forte</i>,

-and in it he wins a success that the Parisian fireman alone can dispute

-with him. Naturally, the belles adore this perfect dancer; but they should

-not trust him&mdash;the chasseur is even more inconstant than that

-heartless butterfly, the voltigeur.

-</p>

-<p>

-In Paris he haunts the shades of Vincennes and Saint Maudé. Monday,

-Thursday, and Sunday he can always be found at the public balls, near the

-Barrière du Trône, happy if permission to be absent until midnight enables

-him to remain until the close of the festivities. He invariably finds a

-brother chasseur who is also absent on leave, and who shares several

-bottles of sour wine with him.

-</p>

-<h3>

-*******

-</h3>

-<p>

-But it would be unjust not to say a word concerning the trumpeter of the

-chasseurs.

-</p>

-<p>

-How the chasseur, laden with his knapsack, rations, weapons, ammunition,

-and accouterments can run without losing his breath completely, it is

-difficult to comprehend.

-</p>

-<p>

-But how does the trumpeter, as he runs with the others, find breath to

-blow his trumpet?

-</p>

-<p>

-That is something one can not comprehend.

-</p>

-<div style="height: 6em;">

-<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

-</div>

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-<pre>

-

-

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