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Updated: June 18, 2025
I had no more than started on my southwest course, as it seemed to me, when I saw the spires and the red-roofed houses of C , and, a kilometre or so from the outskirts, the barracks and hangars of the aviation school where I was to make the first landing. I reduced the gas, and, with the motor purring gently, began a long, gradual descent.
It is twenty-three miles from Ragusa, and is mentioned in the "Tavola Peutingeriana" as "Turns Stagni"; the Romans knew it as "Stagnum." There are traces of ancient walls right across the isthmus, which is only a kilometre wide, Sabbioncello being thus almost an island.
"There is also a Kubelik," suggested Brigit slily, to see what he would answer. "My dear, yes; there is Kubelik, and there is Joachim still, thank God. Chacun dans son genre. But Kubelik is a boy, and he has 'violin hands' fingers a kilomètre long. Look at my hands, and you will see why I am not his equal in execution. In other things " He looked gravely at his hands as he held them out to her.
They were late, no doubt, for they were hastening onward at full speed, thundering along under the stormy sky, through the fiery atmosphere, devouring kilometre after kilometre in swift succession.
They are not ungrateful; they love him, they lean upon him." "But the Pineaux?" I suggested. "Bah! I had forgotten them. Their factory was burnt at the same time. It is more than a kilometre from here; but who can say how far the burning thatch might be carried on the wind? It was insured for a large sum in a bureau in Paris. But there were suspicions raised and questions asked.
The colonel bent his stiff back and ran his forefinger over the map which lay upon the table. "The Chateau Noir is not more than four leagues," he said. "Three and a kilometre, colonel." "You know the place?" "I used to work there." Colonel von Gramm rang the bell. "Give this man food and detain him," said he to the sergeant. "Why detain me, colonel? I can tell you no more."
Then it continues to move for about half a kilometre. It stops. Popof, the major, Caterna, most of the passengers are out on the line in an instant. A network of scaffolding appears confusedly in the darkness, above the piers which were to carry the viaduct across the Tjon valley. Two hundred yards further the train would have been lost in the abyss.
The old man did not know, and so I mentioned that the fifty-five kilometre post was by the quay at Alcudia Port. "Oh, come," said Haigh, "that isn't so bad after all;" but what he meant I did not understand, as he relapsed into silence again. But we were pulling in the last knots very rapidly then, and presently we passed the cemetery, and got into the wished-for La Puebla.
This is the France behind the front, and, aside from the ruined villages and graves, the France that stretches from the Pyrenees to the Marne, a France from which youth and manhood are gone, in which age and childhood remain with the women. Yet in this land we were passing how much of the youth and manhood of France and Germany was buried in the graves the crosses demonstrated at every kilometre.
"The province of Ancona, which is occupied by the Austrians, and governed by priests, has 155 inhabitants to the square kilomètre. The Bas-Rhin, which is the fourth department of France, has but 129, consequently it is evident that the Bas-Rhin will continue to be relatively inferior, so long as it is not governed by priests, and occupied by the Austrians.
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