Tell me more of that idea of yours about finding the place where the duel was fought.

If I set out to-morrow to seek for it myself, where must I go to first?
where ?" He stopped; his strength was evidently becoming exhausted, and his mind was growing confused.

"What am I to do?
I can't remember.

You know everything--will you not help me?
My misery has made me unable to help myself." He stopped, murmured something about failing if he went to the frontier alone, and spoke confusedly of delays that might be fatal, then tried to utter the name of "Ada"; but, in pronouncing the first letter, his voice faltered, and, turning abruptly from me, he burst into tears.
My pity for him got the better of my prudence at that moment, and without thinking of responsibilities, I promised at once to do for him whatever he asked.

The wild triumph in his expression as he started up and seized my hand showed me that I had better have been more cautious; but it was too late now to retract what I had said.