Suddenly he again felt that he was alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head.

"Where is it, that lofty sky that I did not know till now, but saw today?" was his first thought.

" And I did not know this suffering either," he thought.

" Yes, I did not know anything, anything at all till now.

But where am I?" He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices speaking French.