But as he went with the men he noted as well as he could, without attracting attention to himself, the German position.

Rifle pits and trenches appeared at irregular intervals, but the mountains themselves furnished the chief fortifications.

In such country as this it would be difficult for either side to drive back the other, a fact which the enemies themselves seemed to concede, as there was no firing on this portion of the line.

But at points far to the west the great guns muttered, and their faint echoes ran through the gorges.
The path led around one of the crests, and they came to a little cluster of tiny huts, which John knew to be the quarters of officers.

Snug, too, they looked, with smoke coming out of stovepipes that ran through the roofs of several of them.