Chapter 32

           

           BesidehimselfwithterrorPierrejumpedupandranbacktothebattery,astotheonlyrefugefromthehorrorsthatsurroundedhim.

           Onenteringtheearthworkhenoticedthatthereweremendoingsomethingtherebutthatnoshotswerebeingfiredfromthebattery.Hehadnotimetorealizewhothesemenwere.Hesawtheseniorofficerlyingontheearthwallwithhisbackturnedasifhewereexaminingsomethingdownbelowandthatoneofthesoldiershehadnoticedbeforewasstrugglingforwardshouting“Brothers!”andtryingtofreehimselffromsomemenwhowereholdinghimbythearm.Healsosawsomethingelsethatwasstrange.

           Buthehadnottimetorealizethatthecolonelhadbeenkilled,thatthesoldiershouting“Brothers!”wasaprisoner,andthatanothermanhadbeenbayonetedinthebackbeforehiseyes,forhardlyhadherunintotheredoubtbeforeathin,sallow-faced,perspiringmaninablueuniformrushedonhimswordinhand,shoutingsomething.Instinctivelyguardingagainsttheshock—fortheyhadbeenrunningtogetheratfullspeedbeforetheysawoneanother—Pierreputouthishandsandseizedtheman(aFrenchofficer)bytheshoulderwithonehandandbythethroatwiththeother.Theofficer,droppinghissword,seizedPierrebyhiscollar.

           Forsomesecondstheygazedwithfrightenedeyesatoneanother’sunfamiliarfacesandbothwereperplexedatwhattheyhaddoneandwhattheyweretodonext.“AmItakenprisonerorhaveItakenhimprisoner?”eachwasthinking.

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