unreconnoitered

Updated: July 16, 2026

The limbers bumped and jolted and the short-handled whips cracked like the sound of pistol-practise. Blind, unreconnoitered, grim like a black thunderbolt loosed into the blackness the two guns shot along a hollow, thundered up a ridge and burst into the fire-light up above the mutineers, in the last place where any one expected them.

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East