"May the devil take them--the traitors!" "Zum Henker diese Russen!"* muttered a German.

*"Hang these Russians!" Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down.

Rostov learned later that Russian and Austrian soldiers had been firing at one another.

"My God! What does it all mean?" thought he.

" And here, where at any moment the Emperor may see them....