. The Dreyfus case . ends, Madame de Boulancy, fromwhom they were obtained last year for the editor ofthe Figaro. Esterhazy has accused Madame deBoulancy of interpolating the worst of them, whichhas come to be known as the Lettre du Uhlan; butit is throughout in his handwriting, and exhibitsno sign of having been tampered with. Moreover,Esterhazy allows the genuineness of the others, andthe whole series has, after careful examination bythe Judge Bertulus, been recognised as extracts will show the general character ofthese letters. Thus of French officers he wrote:— Our great mil
. The Dreyfus case . ends, Madame de Boulancy, fromwhom they were obtained last year for the editor ofthe Figaro. Esterhazy has accused Madame deBoulancy of interpolating the worst of them, whichhas come to be known as the Lettre du Uhlan; butit is throughout in his handwriting, and exhibitsno sign of having been tampered with. Moreover,Esterhazy allows the genuineness of the others, andthe whole series has, after careful examination bythe Judge Bertulus, been recognised as extracts will show the general character ofthese letters. Thus of French officers he wrote:— Our great military leaders, poltroons and igno-ramuses as they are, will once more go and peoplethe German prisons. In another letter he writes of the French and oftheir officers thus :— I am absolutely convinced that these peopleare not worth the cartridges it would take to shootthem; and all their petty acts of meanness, worthyonly of low women, quite confirm me in my is for me but a single human quality which. MAJOR ESTERHAZY. Page 16. ESTERHAZY THE MERCENARY 17 I prize, and the people of this country wholly lackit. If this very evening some one came and toldme that I should be slain to-morrow as a captain ofUhlans cutting Frenchmen down, I should assuredlybe perfectly happy. I regret with all my heartthat I was not at Ain-Draham, although it is apoor country, and that I ever set foot again inthis cursed France. . You have quite mistakenmy nature and character. I am, it is true, from ageneral point of view, worth infinitely less than theleast of your friends, but I am a being of quite adifferent species to any of them. And that too isthe very point on which they generally deceivethemselves in regard to myself. However, justnow, exasperated, embittered, mad, placed in analtogether atrocious situation, I am capable of greatthings, in case I find an opportunity, or of cmms,if thereby I can avenge myself. I would not harm a dog, but I would withpleasure have a hundred thous
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