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All was accomplished that Hullin had commanded: the defiles of the Zorne, and of the Sarre, were strongly defended; that of the Blanru, the extreme of the position, had been put in a state of defence by Jean-Claude himself and the three hundred men who formed his principal force.
It is thither, on the eastern acclivity of the Donon, two _kilometres'_ distance from Grandfontaine, that we must transport ourselves to await the coming of events.