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"Listen, Philip!" she went on. "I prayed for a miracle, and it has happened. Perhaps there'll be another; who knows? We'll wait and see. If nothing happens, why Do you think I'm afraid?" He made no answer, and she needed none. When she had unsaddled Tuesday, and left him grazing near the "camp," Marion set out with Murray's hatchet and knife to cut splints for Haig's broken leg.
The whole of Houthulst forest, which then had hardly been touched, was taken at a stroke; and on the 29th Dixmude fell and the Belgians were across the Roulers-Menin road. As a consequence of this and of Haig's advance the Germans had to evacuate the rest of the Lys salient and draw back their front towards Lille and Douai.
It was on her lips, the explanation that the men had passed the branch road leading to Haig's ranch, that they were now riding away from it. But she hesitated. And why? She did not know then; but an hour later she would be reproaching herself bitterly for that moment's indecision.
But Haig was as much the quicker in action as he was the nimbler in wit. The two revolvers cracked, it seemed, as one, but with very different results. Haig's battered old hat, lifted as if by a sudden gust of wind, slid from his head, and fell to the ground with a bullet hole through it. But Huntington threw up his hands, pitched forward, and fell in a heap in the dusty road.
Haig's First Corps was more successful farther east; Vendresse and Troyon were captured and the Chemin des Dames was almost reached. But D'Esperey's 5th French army could make little impression on the Craonne plateau; Foch's 9th was unable to force the Suippe to the east of Reims, and Langle's 4th, while it occupied Souain, was similarly held up in Champagne.
But I didn't stick my fingers in my ears." "No, I can understand that." "Thanks. It was this way: I was fishing for fish, really. Under a clump of willows, just where the road from Haig's joins the main valley road. You know?" "Yes, yes!" "Haig and another man, Higgins, it turned out to be he's a Denver lawyer with his family for an outing down at Cobalt Lake.
You fellows look all right to me, and if Haig's changed his mind, or hasn't got the cash handy, bring the horse back here, and I'll talk business with you." "Talk business now!" Smith blurted out, averting his eyes from Larkin. "Very well. I'll give you five hundred for him if you don't want to go any farther. He ain't worth it, but he's a kind of a curiosity, and "
For there so it is generally believed the practical sense and generous temper of the British Commander brought about that change in the whole condition of the war which we know as the "unity of command." Sunday, March 24th, had been a particularly bad day in that vast defensive battle which, in General Haig's phrase, "strained the resources of the Allies to the uttermost."
"And open to all of us," added Seth. "We never had any dispute with the Englishman who owned Haig's ranch before him, and he got fair treatment, though he wasn't here much of the time to look after it. We heard he had some family trouble, and one day when he'd been gone a long time " "That's four years now," interrupted Claire. "Yes. Haig showed up, and said the ranch was his.
For some thirty feet the trail went down the face of the precipice, much like a fire escape on the wall of a tenement house, barely wide enough to accommodate horse and rider, so narrow, indeed, that Haig's left leg was scraped and bruised by hard contact with the stone.
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