In Guy De Maupassant's "Old Milon," the title character is exceptionally clever. For example, receiving the Prussian soldiers at his house, giving them the best treatment he can, he is in fact avoiding conflict with the Prussians; therefore he keeps his family safe from the Prussians. He gains the soldier's trust and "... [is] allowed to go and come freely, to go out and return just as he pleased, as long as he [is] humble, submissive, and obliging toward the conquerors." (3) without any questions. Due to his courtesy to the occupants of his house, no one will concur that he behaves prejudice towards Prussians. When all the murders do occur, Old Milon never sustains to be the prime suspect. Furthermore, taking the uniform of his first German victim and weighing the body in a bag in his pond, Old Milon leaves behind no remains of a corpse or evidence of a death. This method of concealing the body makes it quiet and quick. Rather than he putting the body in grave and making a mess, putting it into the water keeps proof of a grave or any odors leaking about. In the water the body decays faster, is more obscured, and is more unidentifiable, than if it is buried. Old Milon "... [gets] an idea in [his] head", and takes the soldier's garment for future use. Given that he took the uniform off of his prey, if he were found, they would not be able to distinguish if he is a Prussian or not. Pretending to be a wounded German soldier and laying himself in the road yelling help in German, Old Milon makes himself appear German so that the German scouts think he is a friendly comrade. While "... groaning "Hilfe! hilfe!" (3), his yells make him more decipherable to be German rather than an enemy, which in addition, bamboozles the Prussians even more. Using the uniform from his first victim, he is able to fool the Prussian soldiers. Acting in such a way, the soldiers do
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