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Tfm GREATEST W(STERY STORY AVER WRITTEN
At times, I vvas almost glad that I and count our many blessing, my
missed him; and at those times I al- moment, Schwartz, I-la.ff, Brandt ,33o1-
Diglay was not with us, much as I brethren," he yawned, and, at that
idar, Delarey and Vogue entered the
room and joined Guantaio, Colonna
and Gotto at ‘‘the other end of it.
Here they conversed in low voices,
with occasional glances at us.
And to me, • one night, came
Schwartz, as I sat in a corner of the
little courtyard, • trying to imagine
that' the night was cooler than the
day, and this spot, Which faced north,
less hot than the others.
• He was a huge, powerful, hairy
ruffian, who would have made a great
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pirate -captain, for he had brains,
even under the greatest provocation. courage and determination, quite tin -
But we felt that the time would come hampered by over -fine scruples of
when Lejaune would cease to wait honour or mercy. He was- further
endowed with „a. magnetic personality,
and •po're' of command.
"ArP •.0 enjoying life, Smith?" he
askeec'e seating himself beside me.
i'yuite as much as you are,
''..)chwartz," I replied.
"Would you like a change?" he en-
quired.
"I am fond of change," said I.
A brief silence ensued.
"Have you ever seen a .pig die?"
he asked suddenly. ,
"No," I replied.
"Well, you , soon will," he assured
me.
"Feeling ill?" I enquired nudely. I
did not like the gross Schwartz,
"You are going to see a big pig
die," he went on, ignoring my vulgar-
ity. "A sacred pig-. Ap. annointed Pig.
A strined pig. A promoted pig. Oh,
an adjutant pig,"
"So?" 1 murmured.
"Yes. Monsieur le Cochon is go-
ing to become MonsieurPorc."
"And are you going to become
Monsieur Charcutier, `Mr. Pork
butcher,' so to speak?" I enquired.
There could be no harm in knowing
all there waseto know about thus bus-
iness.
"Aha! my friend," growled the Ger-
man, "that remains to be seen. So
many want a cotelette de porc or a
savouret de porc. We shall have to
cast lots." -
He was silent for a minute and sat
beside me, gnawing his knuckles. He
was shaking from head to foot with
fever, excitement, or diseased nerves.
"Do you want a chance to be cha-
cutier?" he asked.
• "I have had no experience of pig -
killing," 1 answered.
_
"Look you," he growled, seizing
my arm, "you will have the exper-
ience shortly, either as pig or as
butcher, for all here will be coehon
or charcutier—in a day or two. See?
Choose whether you will be a pig or
a butcher. . . . And tel your bro-
ther to choose. . . . Meantime, if
any man comes to you and says
'pore,' you reply 'cochon.' Then he
will know that I have spoken to you,
and you will know that he is one of
most wished that Michael was not,
much as I -depended on him.
Dariger to oneself is unpleasant
enough; when it is that of being mur-
dered by lunatic. 'When to it is add-
ed the danger of constant fear, of a
similar fate overtaking people whom
one loves, it becomes ten times worse.
Michael and. I both begged each
other not to be so foolish as to play
into Lejaune's hands, by giving him
the faintest chance to accuse us of
any breach of duty or discipline, or
of so much, as an insubordinate look,
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us See'? And, you and your brother pre, Beldoni, Guantaio and a few 14Y -
make up your minds quicklyWe al supperters to defeat the eonspirat-
don't care either way. There' are ors and secure the mutineers, It
enough of us-eroh, enough. . . ." Anda would only , be 3 matter of entering
as somebodY APproached, he got up •the barraelc-room at pight, seizing
and slouched 'off. • the arms, and covering the suspects
That night I told Michael what 1 with the rifles .of the loyalists, while
had heard.•• the guard arrested , them. Anyone
Tlie next day it was Guantaio. I resisting, could be shot as soon as
was sitting in the same place and he he raised a hand. ,
crept towards me ParPosefully; Lejaune alone could de the busi-
"Who's that?" he -asked, and hear- 'ness with his revolver, if he entered
ing my name, came and sat down be- the rooni while all were asleep, and
side me, as. Schwartz had done. . shoot any man who did not instantly
"It's hot," he 'said, removing his hey any order that he gave.
kepi and polling. . In fact, I bregan' to wonater why
"It is," I agreed, , Guantaio should be hesitating like
for an excuse, and that all we could
do was to put off the -evil day. . .
"I'm positively glad, now, that Dig
isn't here," said Michael to me, one
terrible afternoon, as we lay gasp-
ing on our burning cots during siesta,
hours, in our stiffing caeserne.
"Hank and Buddy too," he added.
"One word of back -chat to Lejaune
would have been fatal. .1 And Dig
might have done it. Budd:,- more so.
. . . Or if Hank once, lost control
he'd lay Lejaune oetr. like a pole-
axed ox. . . .13
"Somebody'll do- for him one of
these days, if we, don't soon get a
new commangf•ng officer," said I.
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"And, a goocgob too."
"Not it," contradicted Michael. "It
would be erne degree worse than let-
ting him . These asses would
give three loud cheers, march off in-
to thr desert, and survive about three
'days of it --if the Arabs didn't get
them before they died of thirst"
"It'll happen," prophesied I.
"Schwartz is getting very mysterious
and importarkt these days. Oh. it'll
happen all right."
"That's what I think," Mich -
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ael, "and it's about the worst thing
that could happen. And if no one
goes and does it spontaneously,
•there'll be a plot to murder him—if
there isn't one alrea.dy, which I be-
lieve there is; as you say—and we
should have the choice of fighting for
Lejaune —(for Lejaune!)— or being
two of a ' gang of silly, murdering
mutineers with nothing but a choice
of beastly deaths—thirst and Arabs
in the desert, or court martial and a
firing party at dawn. . . . Rotten."
"If he's promoted Lieutenant and
kept in command here; -he won't last
a week," said I. . . . "What's going
to happen if they make a plot to
mutiny and we're the only two that
refuse to join them?"
"We should join Lejaune instead,
where dead men tell no tales, I ex-
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"What would Sergeant Dupre and
Corporal Boldird do?" I sp'eculated.
"If it were a case of saving their
skins they'd join the mutineers, I
should say—if they were given the
option," replied 'Michael. "They prob-
ably loathe Lejaune as much as we,
do, and neither of them is exactly
the man to die for a iminciple. . .
If they woke to find a gang of bad
men, with rifles, round their beds,
they'd, 'take the •cash and let the dis-
credit go,"—`Nor heed, the rumble of
a distant drum' from Tokotu," he
added, ..
"I doubt if they'd be given/the op-
tion," I said.
"So do I," 'agreed Michael. "They're
not loved, They've been whips and
scorpions in Lejaune's hands too
long and too willingly,"
"And if we were 'approached' on
the subject of a mutiny and did our
miserable duty in warning Lejaune
and the others?" I asked.
"We should promptly get thirty
days' cells from Lejaune for curry-
ing favollr" with horrible lies, and
short shrift from the mutineers for
being eserocs," said Michael.
"Let us give thanks auto the Lord
InuFaciov, Jane t907 ,
.tONTAPtIO
"Are you fond of , porc?" "lids. Surely it was to his interest to
he enquired. „ • betray his friends?
"Cochon!" said I playfully. ' Certainly he would not allow any
"Ab!" he replied at once. ,"What ridiculous scruples to hinder him
do you think el it all-?" • from committing any treacherous vil-
"I never think," said I.' • lainy and certainly it was far less
• This silenced him for a minute: dangerous, in the long run, to be on
"They are ten to one," he said sud- the side of authority—for the =tin-
denly. "Ten butchers to a pig. What eers' real danger only beganwith the
chance has the big ,pig and one or mutiny, and it steadily increased
two biggish pigs against a score of increased from the Mtn -lent when
butchers?" • they set forth into the desert to es -
"Ah!" I said imitatively. "What do cape. a,
you think of it all?" More and niore I wondered. at his
"I never think,".said Guantaio, with hesitation.
a malevolent smile. I yawned and And then a light began to dawn
stretched and affected to settle my- upon my brain. This Guantaios, was
self to41slum' ber• ' ' the henchman of his compatriot, Cor-
-"How would you and your brother poral Boldini. Boldini might be killed
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like to be pigs if I could find two when the mutineers killed Lejaune;
or three other pigs to join the big for hate and vengeance were the
pig, and 4, the one or two biggish
mainsprings of the plot, and 13aldini
pigs?" he enquined, nudging me. • was hated second only to Lejaune
himself. He might not be given the
I belied my statement that I never
option of joining the mutineers when
thought, and did some rapid thinking.
Lejaune' was murdered; Suppose the
Had it been arranged that he Italians, Boldini, •Guantaio, Colonna
should sound me as soon as Schwartz
and Gotto were a united party, led
had hinted at the assassination of Le -
by Boldini, with some sinister end of
jaune. Was it his task to find out their own in view? And might not
whether my name was to be put on
Guantaio be doubtful as to whether
"- i-" the role allotted to him were not too
the "butcher" list or on the ID g
list? Were ' all those who did not much that of the cat's-paw?
wholeheartedly join" the "butchers" Suppose the Boldini party intended
to be shot in their beds 'on the night to fish in troubled water—for a pearl
of the mutiny? . „ of great price? In other viords, sup -
Or, again, was the rogue trying tqr pose they hoped to•do what they had
find out which was likely to be the certainly tried, and failed, to do in
stronger party. and did he intend to Sid'-bel-Abbes, when they had in -
betray his friends to the non -coni- duced Bolidai to attempt to rob my,
missioned officers, if he thought. brother?
them likely to win? • Most undoubtedly these rogues be -
"How should we like to become lieved Boldini's story that we were a
*pigs, you say?" I temporised. . . gang of jewel -thieves and that Mich-,
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"I should hate to, be butchered— ael, carried about with him a price -
shouldn't you?" , less gem—to which they had at least
"Very much," he replied. . . v "But as much right as he had. No—I de -
do you know," he went on,. "I have cided-- Guantaio spoke the truth
heard of pigs attacking men. Taking when he said he did not know what
them unawares and eating them- do. He was a knave all through.
up. . . ."
"I should hate to be eaten up by
a pig -'--shouldn't you?" I observed,
"Very much," • he agreed again.
"One does not want to be slaughter-
ed by butchers nor eaten by pigs."
"Not if one is a wise pig—fore-
warned and forearmed—who attacks
the butchers, taking them unawares,"
he replied.
• "Has the big pig got his eye on
the butchers?" I asked.
"No," replied •Guantaio. "Nor have
the biggish pigs,"
"Are you going to open the eyes
of the blind pigs?" ,enquired.
"I don't know," answered Guan-
taioe And I hada very strong con-
viction that he was .speaking the
truth, for there was a ring of gen-
uine doubt and puzzlement in his
voice. At any rate, if he were lying
when he said it, he was lying extra-
ordinarily 'well.
No—he did not know what to do,
I decided, and he was simply trying
to find out where his private inter-
ests lay. Would it pay him better to
stand in with his friends, and assist
in the mutiny and the murder of Le-
jaune and the non-commissioned of-
ficer? Or would he do better for
himself if he betrayed his friends,
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the course most likely to lead him to 'Schwartz) "talks of waiting till full
the poseession of two things—a whole
skin enda share in the jewel—unless
indeed he could •get the jewel itself.
"It's a difficult problem, my
friend," mused I sententiously. "One
does not know which side to take.
. . . One would like to be a pig,
if the pigs are going to catch the
butchers napping. .\ . -On the other
hand, one .._-..1A. like to be a char-
moon," was the reply, , "If a new
Commandant has not come by then,
or if Monsieur le Grand Cochon has.
been promoted and given `command
before then, it would be a good date.
. •. . Db it at night and have fall
moon for a long big moonlight
march, and so On. . .
cutier, if the butchers ane going to "So one has three or four days in -
act first. . • ."• which' to make up one's mind?"
We sat •gilerit awhile, the excellent observed •
Guantaio making a perfett meal of i"Yes," • replied Guantaio. "But I
, his nails.' don't advise yone waiting three or
He would betray anybody and every -1 "And—that is a- point!" I went on. four days before doing it. . . .
body. He was afraid that his share j"When are the butchers going to Schwartz will want to know in good
in the mutin,r would be death; whe- kill?" time. . . .—So as to arrange some
ther it failed or not, 'and what he , "Monsieur le Grand Charcutier" butchers for each pig, you see, . ."
really wanted to do was to folio* (by whom, I supposed, he meant • (To be continued)
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warned, his superiors, and assisted
them to defeat the inutiueers'?
That he was one of the ringleaders
of the plot was obvious, since he was
the bosom 0 friend of Colonna, Gotto,
Vogue, and the rest of Schwartz's
baird, and had always been one of the
circle in their recent confabulations
and mutterings together.
I followed the excellent, if difficult,
plan of trying to put myself in Gum-
taio's place," and to think with his
mind. •
• On the one hared, if I were Guare,
taio, 1 should see the groat dangers
attendant on the mutiny. It might
fail,' and if it auceeed.ecl, it could only
be the prelnde to a terrible march
into the desdet—a march of oloomed
men, limited by the Arabs and, by
the French alike, and certain to die
of thirst and starvation if not killed
by eneirties.
On the other hand, if I were the
excellent Goatitaio, I should see the
advantages attendant upon playing
the part of the sairlottr• of the situa-
tion. Reward and promotion were
certain for the men /Who saved the
lives• of his superiors and the henour
She flag, and who preserved the
vort„ of Zinderneuf for Frafice. And,
of couree, it would be the eirnplest
thief in tile world for Lejatme, Du-
to-
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