The Frontier. Морис Леблан
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Maurice Leblanc
The Frontier
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664597151
Table of Contents
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?"
"Yes."
"And, to the right of that tree, a little lower down, an empty space surrounded by fir-trees?"
"Yes."
"That's the circus of the Butte-aux-Loups and it