human
Doctor Behrend has been here the whole time, he said,
gpt
Has Doctor Behrend gone? he asked. I wished very much to speak with him.
human
The doctor wished it too. He said I should have ready your cloak and your pistols, as you were to go away this evening, and would not take me with you this time as usual when you go out on patrol duty.
gpt
No, Frederic, not this time, said Walter absently. He paced several times up and down, then he halted suddenly.
human
It is all the same now! he murmured.
gpt
Why not tell him what I was going to confide to Robert?--Frederic!
human
Herr Lieutenant!
gpt
It is possible an attack may be made to-night. Have you received orders to be ready for an alarm?
human
Yes, at ten o'clock with two men I am to patrol the park. It is for the sake of security, the captain says, because it is not guarded.
gpt
Very well! In any event you will see the doctor before this. It was very necessary that I should speak with him, but I must go, and I have no time to seek him in the village. You will deliver my errand word for word, just as I tell you; but to him alone, and no other. Do you hear?
human
To no other!
gpt
If it should come to a conflict, he is the only one who will not have to take a part in it, and the French sharp-shooters around here are a barbarous horde to whom nothing is sacred. He must protect Miss Forest so far as lies in his power.
human
The American Miss?
gpt
Yes! Walter again hesitated, but then all at once the words broke hasty and ardent, from his lips.
human
Tell him I demand it of him as a last duty of friendship. Miss Forest has been to me the one dearest in the wide world! He shall guard her if he must, with his life!