Julie Lannes paled a little, and the faithful Suzanne by her side was darkly menacing, but they showed no other emotion.
"Don't risk anything," said John in the lowest of whispers.

"It would be useless." Julie nodded.

The carts moved on down the gorge, their wheels and the hoofs of the horses making but little noise on the soft turf.

The crash of the guns was now distinctly louder and far ahead they saw wisps of smoke floating above the trees.

John was sure that the German batteries were there, but he was equally sure that even had he glasses he could not have seen them.