But you are married--and so many will mourn if you"-- Raynal interrupted him sternly.

"You forget, sir, that Rose de Beaurepaire is my sister, when you tell me you have no tie to life." He added, with wonderful dignity and sobriety, "Allow me to write to my wife, sir; and, while I write, reflect that you can embitter an old comrade's last moments by persisting in your refusal to restore his sister the honor you have robbed her of." And leaving the other staggered and confused by this sudden blow, he retired into Dujardin's tent, and finding writing materials on a little table that was there, sat down to pen a line to Josephine.
Camille knew to whom he was writing, and a jealous pang passed through him.
What he wrote ran thus,-- "A bastion is to be attacked at five.

I command.

Colonel Dujardin proposed we should draw lots, and I lost.

The service is honorable, but the result may, I fear, give you some pain.