Roudon repeated the order he had received the day before.
“So you haven’t received the cancellation of the order? You always ought to wait for that. We were relieved last night. Take that stuff back where you got it from.”
We carried the caissons back to our wagons by the same way, by the same bridge.
Captain D ... was coming along the towpath and saw us arrive.
Roudon was furious as he told him about our useless adventure which might have cost us so dear.
He listened, laughed, then, coldly:
“Bah! that will do the mules good. They’ll get used to marching at night....”