" Where, on which side, was now the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?" he asked himself and could not answer.

" Can something bad have happened to me?" he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm.

The wrist felt as if it were not his.

He examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find blood on it.

" Ah, here are people coming," he thought joyfully, seeing some men running toward him.