CHAPTER XXIV.
What occurred at Flushing, and what occurred when we got out of Flushing.
An hour before daybreak we started; the snow was thick on the ground, but the sky was clear, and without any difficulty or interruption we passed through the towns of Axel and Halst, arrived at Terneuse on the fourth day, and went over to Flushing in company with about a dozen more stragglers from the main body.

As we landed, the guard asked us whether we were conscripts.

O'Brien replied that he was, and held out his paper.
They took his name, or rather that of the person it belonged to, down in a book, and told him that he must apply to the _etat major_ before three o'clock.

We passed on delighted with our success, and then O'Brien pulled out the letter which had been given to him by the woman of the cabaret, who had offered to assist me to escape, when O'Brien passed off as a gendarme, and reading the address, demanded his way to the street.
We soon found out the house, and entered.
"Conscripts!" said the woman of the house, looking at O'Brien; "I am billeted full already.

It must be a mistake.