"'And from Metting to Sarrebourg?'
"'Yes, colonel.'
"'Tell me the names.'
"And the officer named the villages, the farms, the streams, the rivers, the clumps of wood, the curves in the road, and even the intersection of footpaths.
"The colonel followed with his nail.
"'That will do! Now go and take twenty men and push on as far as St. Jean, by such a road. You will see! In case of resistance, you will inform me. Come, sharp!'
"And the officer goes off.
"The colonel, still lying upon his map, calls another.
"'Present, colonel.'
"'You see Lixheim?'