There was no one now between the squadron and the enemy except a few scattered skirmishers.
An empty space of some seven hundred yards was all that separated them.
The enemy ceased firing, and that stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt.
"One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death.
And what is there? Who is there?--there beyond that field, that tree, that roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know.