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Jules Verne
· Around the World in Eighty Days
· Project Gutenberg
Calling one of his lieutenants, he was on the point of ordering a reconnaissance, when gunshots were heard. The soldiers rushed out of the fort, and half a mile off they perceived a little band returning in good order. Fogg was marching at their head, and just behind him were Passepartout and the other two travellers, rescued from the Sioux.
The abrupt interruption of the lieutenant's reconnaissance order by distant gunfire instantly shifts the fort's atmosphere from routine readiness to alert anticipation. The soldiers' swift mobilization and their focused gaze half a mile away convey a disciplin...