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By afternoon he noted an extraordinary amount of movement in the village.

Georgette, the Warden's daughter, brought the news that many enormous automobiles and soldiers, French soldiers, were beginning to pass through the main street.

In a little while a procession began filing past on the high road near the castle, leading to the bridge over the Marne.

This was composed of motor trucks, open and closed, that still had their old commercial signs under their covering of dust and spots of mud.