26/44 It cost us much, but it belongs to the past. We will achieve what we wish." John was silent. He believed that these preliminaries on the part of the old general were intended to create an atmosphere, a belief in his mind that German power was invincible. Our army had advanced too far. Tomorrow we resume our march on Paris." John felt that it was an extraordinary statement for an old man, one of such high rank, the commander of perhaps a quarter of a million soldiers, to be making to him, a young American, but he held his peace, awaiting what lay behind it all. |