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GOOD-BYE TO SENTISBRUGG
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las for the little cadets, their holidays were over! The two must leave their dear village of Sentisbrugg the next morning and return to the dreary city, to the school with all its jealousies and quarrels.
Until today they had simply refused to believe it. They had vaguely imagined that, when the time came, Nature herself might take a hand and bring about some great event to save them. There might be an earthquake. Anything might happen. There might be a flood, or an epidemic among the teachers; perhaps even a sudden declaration of war!
During all their last afternoon they lay stretched out on the Goat's Rock, looking to left and right to see whether the French cuirassiers weren't galloping up the mountain at full speed, or whether the dark uniforms of the Baden riflemen
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