We were born and bred together, we are of the same company, sleep in the same room, and always go in pairs.

If he will go and you will give him a captaincy, I will go too.' 'Bring your comrade over to Kehl,' said Galgenstein, delighted.

'I will give you the best of dinners, and can promise to satisfy both of you.' 'Had you not better speak to him on the bridge ?' said the grenadier.
'I dare not leave my post; but you have but to pass, and talk over the matter.' Galgenstein, after a little parley, passed the sentinel; but presently a panic took him, and he retraced his steps.

But the grenadier brought his bayonet to the Prussian's breast and bade him stand: that he was his prisoner.
The Prussian, however, seeing his danger, made a bound across the bridge and into the Rhine; whither, flinging aside his musket, the intrepid sentry followed him.

The Frenchman was the better swimmer of the two, seized upon the recruiter, and bore him to the Strasburg side of the stream, where he gave him up.
'You deserve to be shot,' said the general to him, 'for abandoning your post and arms; but you merit reward for an act of courage and daring.
The King prefers to reward you,' and the man received money and promotion.
As for Galgenstein, he declared his quality as a nobleman and a captain in the Prussian service, and applications were made to Berlin to know if his representations were true.