he
regiment as having done a very brave deed, under fire. He smiled a
little at that. It had taken place so long ago, this time when he had
done the deed, received the wound that kept him suffering so long. It
seemed so little worth while to acknowledge it now, after all these
months, when he was just ready to leave.

Then more delay took place, and Grammont got weaker, and the orderlies
said among themselves that if the General was ever going to decorate
this man, that he had better hurry up. However, so long a time had
passed that it did not much matter. Grammont was pleased with his
citation. It seemed to make it all right for him, somehow. It seemed to
give him standing among his fellow patients. The hideous tattoo marks on
his arms and legs, chest and back, which proclaimed him an _apache_,
which showed him such every time his wound was dressed, were about to
be overlaid with a decoration for bravery upon the field of battle. But
still the General did not come. Grammont grew very weak and feeble and
his patience became exhausted. He held on as long as he could. So he
died finally, after a long pull, just twenty minutes before the General
arrived with his medals.

PARIS,
27 June, 1916.

AN INCIDENT

At the intersection of the rue du Bac and the Boulevard St. Germain
rises the statue of Claude Chappe, rising like a rock in the midst of
the stream of traffic, and like a rock splitting the stream and
diverting it into currents which flow east and west, north and south,
smoothly and without collision. In guiding the stream of traffic and
directing its orderly flow, the statue of Claude Chappe is greatly
assisted by the presence of an _agent de police_, with a picturesque
cape and a picturesque sword, and who controls the flow of vehicles with
as much precision as a London policeman, although there are those who
profess that a London policeman is the only one who understands the
business. Before the war, when the omnibuses ran, the _agent de police_
was always on duty; since the war, when the Paris omnibuses are all at
the Front, carrying meat to the soldiers, there are certain times during
the day when the whole responsibility for traffic regulation falls upon
the statue of Claude Chappe. It was at one of these times, when Claude
Chappe was standing head in air as usual, and failed to regard the
comings and goings of the street, that this incident occurred.

Down on the Quai, an officer of the French