THE GATE IN THE WALL The two travelers were stopped by the guard at the main gate in the walls that encircled the town.

Marteau had drawn his old cloak closely about him, so that it was not evident that he was in uniform.

Pierre's nondescript garments were so tattered and torn that neither would they betray the pair.

The sentry was clad in the old uniform of the Fifth-of-the-Line, except that he sported a white cockade in his head-gear and every device that referred to the Empire had been carefully eliminated.

Still he was the same soldier, and Marteau recognized him at once as one of the veterans of the regiment.