Sealed Lips — page 291: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

SHALED LIPS. 283 years, because I have before my eyes countinally - the bloody, disfigured face of a man, who was nearer to you than Godefroid. What have you done to prevent his haunting you night and day, not to see him cursing us both with his dying breath ?” “He died a_ soldier’s death,” stammered the widow. “T will tell you how he died since you feign a con- venient ignorance. In the future you will not be able to pretend that you do not know.” Pere Chrysostome arose, and approached the chair where Sauval’s widow, was sitting. “One evening,” recited he, in a trembling voice, “your husband entered my room. We were near the enemy. We were preparing for battle next day. ‘General,’ said he, ‘one of my comrades thought he would make me smile by telling mea bivouac story—he was ignorant of the glorious role that I played in it—and told me that you werea coward, a liar, and a false friend. I know now that the favor that you did me in according me a post near you was the price of infamy. I know that my wife is a miserable, ambitious woman, that my daughter is a stranger who will live under a usurped name. In ten minutes my whole life has been ruined, past and future, What matters all the ~ events in the world to me now, victories or defeats? I have only one thing remaining—my honor as a soldier. That'is why I do not kill you. At this time GoOmichboo KS (E(@)