How was it that two guns were abandoned in the center?" he inquired, searching with his eyes for someone.
(Prince Bagration did not ask about the guns on the left flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very beginning of the action.
) "I think I sent you?" he added, turning to the staff officer on duty.
"One was damaged," answered the staff officer, "and the other I can't understand.
I was there all the time giving orders and had only just left....