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The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway — reward. (search)
An Incident of Napoleon's time.
The French army lay encamped only about a day's march from Berlin.
It was on the 23d of October. The sentinels were doubled and the most strict orders given, for the Prussian and Austrian spies were plenty and troublesome.
At midnight, Pierre Sancoin was stationed at one of the outposts.
He was a stout, bold, shrewd man, and a good soldier.
The colonel of the regiment was with the sergeant on this'bout, having requested to be called at midnight, that he was found the key to the cipher which had been taken from the person of the drummer; and now that the colonel had them both, he could translate the mystic scroll.
It proved to be a direction to the Bavarian to lay his plans for keeping as near Napoleon's person as possible, after he should enter Berlin, and then wait for further orders.
The mystery was explained.
The Bavarian had contrived to call the great dog away from the regiment, and deliver him up to the enemy, and his skin was to