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February 9, 1918 The Boches were bored. To be shut up for three months in a deserted chateau in the heart of Normandy was no small hard- ship for the five Prussian officers accustomed to the gayeties of Berlin. To be sure, during their enforced stay, they had found entertainment in acts of vandalism, after the manner of their kind. Mutilated family portraits, priceless Flemish tapestries cut to ribbons, fine old mirrors cracked by pistol bullets, and the hacked and broken furniture that littered the spacious apartments of the chateau, all bore eloquent testimony to the favorite pastime of the Hun. But even this sport for the moment had palled. Outside the rain descended in torrents. As the brandy and liqueur passed from hand to hand, suddenly the Captain has an inspiration. A soldier is despatched to a nearby city. In the evening he returns. What the nature of his errand was; how the table was laid and the fun grew fast and furious as the champagne flowed; how in an excess of alcoholic patriotism toasts were proposed by the chivalrous Prussians reflecting on the bravery of the men and the virtue of the women of France; what happened to the Baron—is told as only Maupassant could tell it in the story Mademoiselle Fifi found in this superb Verdun Edition of The Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant “pa &. a5 —— > he Th Best English O 350 N ] THE FIRST AND ONLY ADEQUATELY e s giis ver ovels, ° . 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