Excerpt from Short Stories, 1893, Vol. 12: A Magazine of Select Fiction
Still was the Ardennes forest since the last cry of a world astounding battle had echoed through its depths; and the hills around the vale of the Mouse that, smoke-enwrapped, had repeated to each other the formidable messages of can non, mitrailleuse, and needle-gun, reached up in silent gloom into a heavy atmosphere.
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