After making him cover a good league on foot, in the darkness rendered apparently more intense by the fires of the bivouacs which lighted the horizon on every side, the adjutant handed Fabrizio over to an officer of gendarmerie who, with a grave air, asked for his papers.
Jendarmeriako ofizial baten eskuetan utzi zuen infanteriako ofizialordeak Fabrice, legoa oso bat oinez egitera behartu ondoren mutila, ilunpe beltzean, gaua areago ilundu baitzuten, nonbait, ostertza nonahitik argituz kanpalekuetako suek.