[“OUR HERO.”]
A TALE OF THE FRANCO-ENGLISH WAR NINETY YEARS AGO.
By AGNES GIBERNE, Author of “Sun, Moon and Stars,” “The Girl at the Dower House,” etc.
CHAPTER XXIII.
LIFE IN A FRENCH DUNGEON.
ight long long months at Bitche!
No wonder Roy Baron was altered. He had left Verdun a careless and light-hearted lad; almost a child still; young in many respects for his age. Eight months at Bitche had snuffed all remnants of childishness out of him.
Sometimes he caught himself wondering if he really were the same Roy Baron, who once had lived in a happy London home, with never a care or a trouble; who had wept salt tears in a Paris bedroom, because Denham had to leave him behind for a few days; who had carried himself with a gay heart through more than three years of Verdun captivity.
The weight of the last eight months amounted to far more than all that had gone before.