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And so they knew just how he died; and young Billy Breckenbridge, who came over into no-man's-land a day or two later, was able to piece out the story by backtracking along that trail through the sands; able to read those signs from the foot of the Dragoons on across the valley; and able also because he had seen that letter to realize the torture of memories which had come along with the torture of thirst to goad John Ringo on to self-destruction.
Edmonton and Calgary and Moose Jaw and Regina formerly jumping-off places into a no-man's-land became metropolitan cities of twenty-five to fifty thousand people. If every American settler averaged fifteen hundred dollars on his person at this period as customs entries prove it may be confidently set down that his value as a producer and worker was another fifteen hundred dollars.
They're just people who have pegged out claims upon a big intellectual No-Man's-Land and don't feel quite sure of the law. There's a sort of quarrelsome uneasiness.... If we professed Socialism do you think they'd welcome us? Not a man of them! They'd feel it was burglary...." "Yes," said Margaret, looking into the fire. "That is just what I felt about them all the evening.... Particularly Dr.
Last of all there is the repulsion and loathing for the whole business of war, with its bloody ruthlessness, its fiendish ingenuity, and its insensate cruelty, that comes to a man after a battle, when the tortured and dismembered dead lie strewn about the trench, and the wounded groan from No-Man's-Land. But neither is that the fear of death.
The Kentucky hunters were promptly taught that in this no-man's-land, teeming with game and lacking even a solitary human habitation, every Indian must be regarded as a foe. The man who had accompanied Squire Boon was terrified by the presence of the Indians, and now returned to the settlements.
"It is fate, I guess." Then the three started on the way to aerodrome headquarters. About this time came the sounds of heavy firing over No-Man's-Land. "That is one result of your rocket, Bauer, Byers, grimly. Once clear of the Allied front line of trenches, the double platoon of planes spread out on either hand, flying swiftly yet keeping near the earth.
"Crickets, and toads, and frogs, and chuckling birds who seem to think we must be foolish to come right out here into no-man's-land, sir. That's about all. How have you got on?" "Had a lovely walk," I said, as I settled down in my place beneath the sheltering boughs.
When you have left the green-covered kopjes of the Cape a few days before and come to anchor in Walvis Bay on a cold morning you think you have reached No-man's-land after a fast voyage. It is a first impression only. The place is desolate enough; it suggests the Sahara run straight into the sea, or the discomforting dreariness of Punta Arenas, in Patagonia.
During the Battle of the Somme it was found that the enemy often left his actual trenches and came forward into shell-holes in No-Man's-Land so as to escape the fire of our artillery. To counter this manoeuvre the 'creeping barrage' was devised.
We have seen how the possible development of a persistent lethal compound may produce an infected and wide No-Man's-Land. Imposed on this, there will, no doubt, be "gas alert" conditions of great depths. How do these conceptions work out for the war of movement?
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