"Oh! our machine--how it is being riddled!"
"You," I said to him, "you sicken me with your machine. I'll wager that
there is nothing the matter with it. Go and see and we'll find out for
certain! It is not an order that I give you, but only that when the
question is settled in your mind, you will leave us in peace----"
The cannonade grew worse at this moment and there was a literal
downpour of shells in the village----
"You are not going? Then I'm going myself--and at least I will not have
to listen to you any longer----"
I started toward the stairs when I heard LeBlond's voice in back of me,
which said:
"You are crazy--you have vowed to get killed--it is suicide----"