Though some skeptics smiled when told of Berg`s merits, it could not be denied that he was a painstaking and brave officer, on excellent terms with his superiors, and a moral young man with a brilliant career before him and an assured position in society.

"Mr. Aide-de-camp! Mr. Aide-de-camp!... For heaven`s sake... Protect me! What will become of us? I am the wife of the doctor of the Seventh Chasseurs.... They won`t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost our people..."