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After all, we were on the direct route to Amiens, and it was up to us to yield slowly so as to give Haig and Petain time to get up supports. I was a miser about every yard of ground, for every yard and every minute were precious. We alone stood between the enemy and the city, and in the city was Mary. If you ask me about our plans I can't tell you. I had a new one every hour.
For some reason he did not wish to trust the information to the telegraph wires, and the two lads had volunteered to deliver it in person to General Petain. Their offer had been accepted, which accounts for the fact that we find them upon the last leg of their journey to Verdun at the opening of this story. Stubbs had elected to accompany them, for, as he said, "I've got to get the news."
General Pétain said, smiling, that before the war he had sometimes thought of women "as those who inspired the most beautiful ideas in men and prevented them from carrying them out," but the war, he added, had certainly proved conclusively the value of women's work. M. Forain expressed the desire to visit the chief French hospital of the Scottish women at the Abbaye de Royaumont.
Nor could he even afford that deliberate method of progress favoured by Haig and Pétain, which consisted in rapid advances on limited fronts to limited objectives, or in snail-like movements over wider areas.
Stubbs made no reply. "If I thought that, I would tell General Petain," declared Chester. "It must be a great thing to have such imaginations," said Stubbs with something like a sigh. "Some of these days, if you like, I'll get you both jobs on the Gazette." "Now look here, Stubbs," said Hal. "Laying all joking aside, are you going to tell us about this thing or not?"
He will seek to send out no information which you desire suppressed." "I never heard of one like that," said the general. "He's the only one in captivity, sir. His name is Stubbs, sir, of the New York Gazette" "His name will be Mudd, sir, if he doesn't conduct himself properly while within my lines," declared General Petain. "Take him with you.
But when I asked them about the battle they could tell me little. It was a very serious attack in tremendous force, but the British line was strong and the reserves were believed to be sufficient. Petain and Foch had gone north to consult with Haig. The situation in Champagne was still obscure, but some French reserves were already moving thence to the Somme sector.
The information placed in the hands of General Petain days before by Hal and Chester had been the one link in the chain that had been missing. Now the general staff felt sure of the success of this great effort, though there was not a man who had taken part in the preparations who did not know that the victory if victory there should be would be won at tremendous cost.
It is impossible not to feel the deepest admiration for these men who have earned such undying glory, not only for themselves, but for their Motherland. No one could have been more gracious and kind than General Petain, and in his presence one realised the strength and power of France.
The flower of the French Army and almost all the leading French Generals Castelnau, Pétain, Nivelle, Gouraud, have passed through its furnace. But famous as it is, and for ever associated with the remarkable and fascinating personality of General Gouraud, which gives to it a panache of its own, it has not the sacredness of Verdun. We had spent the day before the expedition to Champagne at St.
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