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The few among us who know anything about its government might recollect that there are twenty-six cantons the list begins, Aargau, Appenzell, Ausser-Rhoden, Inner-Rhoden you may remember and ends with Valais, Vaud, Zug, and Zurich. And Les Errues is the twenty-seventh canton!" "Yes," said the girl in a low voice, "the evidence lies at your feet."
And yet the Hun-pack hunting them though the forbidden forest of Les Errues had, in their new indifference to their quarry's alarm, and in the ferocity of their growing boldness, offered the two fugitives a new hope and a new reason for courage: the grim courage of those who are about to die, and who know it, and still carry on.
"That eagle which we all see every day in the sky above Les Errues," he said slowly, "has a snow-white crest and tail." Several airmen nodded; one said: "I have noticed that, too, watching the bird through my binoculars." "I know," continued Von Dresslin slowly, "of only one species of eagle which resembles the bird we all see every day... It inhabits North America," he added thoughtfully.
Dept No. 76 and No. 77 are trapped on the northwest edge of the wood of Les Errues which lies under the elbow of Mount Thusis.
And even more than that they feared the terrible reckoning with the nation and with civilisation when war laid naked the heart-breaking secret of the Forbidden Forest of Les Errues. No! War could not be.
She had caught sight of them amid the dusk of the ancient trees was following them, stealthily, murderously, through the dim aisles of this haunted forest of Les Errues. These two were the hunted ones, and their hunters were in the forest nearer now than ever because the woodland was narrowing toward the east.
The stream dashed through shadow and sun-spot, splashing a sparkling way straight into the wilderness of Les Errues; and along its fern-fringed banks strode McKay with swift, light steps.
"Why did you come into Les Errues?" he demanded. "Ask your terrified authorities. Perhaps they'll tell you if their teeth stop chattering long enough that I came here to find out what the Boche are doing on neutral territory."
"Then you believe that this man, Gray, has been sent into Les Errues to aid us to carry on independently the operation in which we have so far failed?" "I begin to think so." The girl's golden eyes became lost in retrospection.
I have reached the plateau below Les Errues by way of this forest. And I'm going there again, Swiss or no Swiss, Hun or no Hun!
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