en
instrumental in the slaughter of hosts of people, is still thwarted.
True, he has gained certain yards of land--French land--the steep,
sloping sides of that plateau of Douaumont, and the lower ground
opposite the Mort Homme and Hill 304. But at what a price! The slopes
are thick with dead Germans. Returning again and again to the attack,
hounded on by their War Lord, German soldiers still advance over fields
carpeted with their fallen comrades; and still French guns and gallant
French _poilus_ smile grimly down at them, as if to say:

"Come! Come on! Here is Verdun behind us. There is yet land to sell
between these trenches and the city. Come, then! We will sell that
land at a price as heavy, nay, heavier, than that which you have
already paid. Come! But only so far! For Verdun is ours, and shall
remain so always."

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