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Updated: July 3, 2025
Presently his shoulders slipped along the wall and he fell, to lie limp and motionless before Joan. Then she fainted. When Joan returned to consciousness she was lying half outside the opening of the cabin and above her was a drift of blue gun-smoke, slowly floating upward. Almost as swiftly as perception of that smoke came a shuddering memory. She lay still, listening.
Amid the clear, cool air from the river the gun-smoke had a strangely pleasant smell, and, in the darkening landscape, the merry shots flashed out with charming effect. The wounded wild fowl, as they fell, described graceful curves against the pale green sky where now the first faint stars gleamed. Yourii felt unusually energetic and gay.
For film purposes, the West consists of one part beautiful maiden in distress, three parts bandit, and two parts hero. Mix these to taste with plenty of swift action and gun-smoke, and serve with bandits all dead or handcuffed and beautiful maiden and hero in lover's embrace on top. That's your film West, boys and how well I know it!" Luck stopped to light a cigarette and to heave a sigh.
Now they're all lined up back of the post.... Ah! gun-smoke! They move.... It looks like a go." Then Holley was silent, strained, in watching. So were all the watchers silent. Bostil saw far down the valley a moving, dark line of horses. "THEY'RE OFF! THEY'RE OFF!" called Holley, thrillingly.
But luckily somebody had a field-glass, and with its help a little corner of the battle of Vauquois was suddenly brought close to us the rush of French infantry up the slopes, the feathery drift of French gun-smoke lower down, and, high up, on the wooded crest along the sky, the red lightnings and white puffs of the German artillery.
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