"See. Here is the cord with which he had been killed. For he had not been shot. He had been hanged.
(She held out to us the cord—a coil of small but strong rope.)
"And here is the cap.
(She was holding the gray cap in her two hands.)
"When I saw him, I said to the Prussians:
"'Do the same thing to me now. Without my little scamp I cannot go on. So do the same to me.'
"Three weeks later, I went again to search for my little scamp. I did not find him any more. The French soldiers had buried him with their dead."