A Southern AssignmentSunday, the sixth of June, 1903, broke the monotony of the life that wewere leading at the Post of Hassi-Inifel by two events of unequal importance,the arrival of a letter from Mlle. de C——, and the latest numbersof the Official Journal of the French Republic.
    "I have the Lieutenant\'s permission?" said Sergeant Chatelain, beginningto glance through the magazines he had just removed from theirwrappings.