“No, I beg pardon,” said the Colonel,” it began first on the left side. I was there myself.”
“Well, perhaps,” said Kalougin, “I spent more time on the right. I went there twice, first to look for the General, and then just to see the lodgments. That’s where it was hot!”
“Kalougin must know,” said Galtsin. “By the way, V—— told me to-day that you are a trump——”
“But the losses, the losses are terrible!” said the Colonel “In my regiment me had four hundred casualties. It is astonishing that I am still alive.”
Just then the figure of Mihaylof, with his head bandaged, appeared at the end of the boulevard and came towards these gentlemen.
“What, are you wounded, Captain?” said Kalougin.
“Yes, slightly, with a stone,” answered Mihaylof.
“Est-ce que le pavillon est baisse deja?”[23] asked
