THE ARMY MARCHES AWAY Gallantly on his errand rode young Marteau.

Napoleon's order to Berthier, by him transmitted down the line, had secured four of the best horses in the army for his messengers.

For young Marteau went not alone.

With him rode a tall grenadier of the Imperial Guard, whose original name had been lost, or forgot, in a sobriquet which fitted him perfectly, and which he had richly earned in a long career as a soldier.

They called him "Bullet Stopper," "Balle-Arretante," the curious compound ran in French, and the soldiers clipped it and condensed it into "Bal-Arret!" He used to boast that he had been wounded in every country in Europe and in Asia and Africa as well.