The Frontier

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Leblanc Maurice. The Frontier

PART I

CHAPTER I. A HEAD BETWEEN THE BUSHES

CHAPTER II. THE GIRL WITH THE BARE ARMS

CHAPTER III. THE VIOLET PAMPHLET

CHAPTER IV. PHILIPPE AND HIS WIFE

CHAPTER V. THE SHEET OF NOTE-PAPER

CHAPTER VI. THE PLASTER STATUE

CHAPTER VII. EVE TRIUMPHANT

CHAPTER VIII. THE TRAP

PART II

CHAPTER I. THE TWO WOMEN

CHAPTER II. PHILIPPE TELLS A LIE

CHAPTER III. FATHER AND SON

CHAPTER IV. THE ENQUIRIES

CHAPTER V. THE THUNDERCLAP

CHAPTER VI. THE BUTTE-AUX-LOUPS

CHAPTER VII. MARTHE ASKS A QUESTION

CHAPTER VIII. THE STAGES TO CALVARY

PART III

CHAPTER I. THE ARMED VIGIL

CHAPTER II. THEY WHO GO TO THEIR DEATH

CHAPTER III. IDEAS AND FACTS

CHAPTER IV. THE SACRED SOIL

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"They've done it!"

"The German frontier-post … at the circus of the Butte-aux-Loups."

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"Oh, I swear to you, in the old days, we'd have ducked our school-master in the horse-pond, if he had dared… But, by Jove, France had a place of her own in the world then! And such a place!

… That was the time of Solferino!.. Of Magenta!.. We weren't satisfied with chucking down frontier-posts in those days: we crossed the frontiers … and at the double, believe me…"

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