No Man's Land

space. It may be that there is a harder school than forced inaction; if so, I have no desire to become a pupil. "Those are your or

ways, to get to their goal-to get to the Land of Promise. For it was a Land of Promise; it was the land of t

mpire, carried on as cheerfully as a wet sirocco wind and an ever-prese

e in the Great Retreat. Out of it, as they thought, out of

d up places on the map with their hand, unostentatiously; and when they had found Compiègne they folded the map up, and told the men everything was well. It was that evening th

o him, and his eyes were tired. "It can't be true.

certainty. It arose then, and has never died since, though at times the sky has been black and the storm clouds ominous. They knew that all would be well; and now-after three years-all is well. Their faith has been justified, the faith of the men who waited their call to the work. Only a small proportion r

sick of heart, watching the sun, in a bla