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The Frontier

Leblanc Maurice
The Frontier

PART I

CHAPTER I
A HEAD BETWEEN THE BUSHES

"They've done it!"

"What?"

"The German frontier-post … at the circus of the Butte-aux-Loups."

"What about it?"

"Knocked down."

"Nonsense!"

"See for yourself."

Old Morestal stepped aside. His wife came out of the drawing-room and went and stood by the telescope, on its tripod, at the end of the terrace.

"I can see nothing," she said, presently.

"Don't you see a tree standing out above the others, with lighter foliage?"