"There!" he said. "There, they shall not pass!"
FOOTNOTES:
[15] Vance Thompson, writing from the front, Sept. 13, 1914, said of this: "Some day the story of what was done in Alsace will be written, and the stories of Visé and Aerschot and Onsmael and Louvain will seem pale and negligible; but not now—five generations to come will whisper them in the Vosges."
[16] The horizon-blue uniforms of the French Army were not ready until the year 1915.
[17] Red Cross report. Private of the Lancashire Fusilier Regiment after the battle of Vitry le François.
[18] Official report. Lieut. Col. of Hussars, after battle of Le Cateau.
[CHAPTER VII]
WHERE DESTINY SAID "HALT!"