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Updated: June 25, 2025
But there was one oddity, in the way of an ex voto, which pleased me hugely: a faithful model of a canal boat, swung from the vault, with a written aspiration that God should conduct the Saint Nicolas of Creil to a good haven. The thing was neatly executed, and would have made the delight of a party of boys on the waterside. But what tickled me was the gravity of the peril to be conjured.
The generating dynamos made by MM. Breguet, and the receiving dynamos constructed by MM. Mignon and Rouart, were during a preliminary trial placed side by side, one portion of the circuit being very short, and the other twice the distance between La Chapelle and Creil, or seventy miles. In future experiments the two dynamos will be placed in their normal positions at each end of the line.
Wade, who was always business-like, had reopened his writing-case when he saw Roden, and now came forward to hand him a written paper. "That is a copy," he said, "of the telegram we have sent to Creil. He can come here and select what men he wants the steady ones and the skilled workmen. With each man we will hand him a cheque in trust. The others can take their money and go."
For whatever might have been the real plans of the German General Staff, the rank and file, as they came south from Creil and Nanteuil, believed themselves only a few hours from the Boulevards, from the city of pleasure and spoil. What had happened? The common cry of men so sharply foiled went up. "Nous sommes trahis!"
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