dans l'eau.

Luc, la gorge paralysee d'angoisse, essayait en vain de crier. Il vit
plus loin quelque chose remuer; puis la tete de son camarade surgit a la
surface du fleuve, pour y rentrer aussitot.

Plus loin encore, il apercut, de nouveau, une main, une seule main
qui sortit de la riviere, et y replongea. Ce fut tout. Les mariniers
accourus ne retrouverent point le corps ce jour-la.

Luc revint seul a la caserne, en courant, la tete affolee, et il raconta
l'accident, les yeux et la voix pleins de larmes, et se mouchant coup
sur coup: "Il se pencha... il se... il se pencha... si bien... si
bien que la tete fit culbute... et... et... le v'la qui tombe... qui
tombe..."

Il ne put en dire plus long, tant l'emotion l'etranglait.--S'il avait
su...

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