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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1927-08-04, Page 6WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES erous hyenas—So and tell your bro- ther what I have said, and as soon as I have that diamond locked for safety in the Company treasure -chest, I'll give you a chance to •save your "Listen carefully now. Creep back worthless lives. . and wake your brother; St. Andre, Maris and Cordier, and tell them t6 get up :and steal silently from the room with their rifles, . . . I shall be at the door with that revolver and I'll shoot "anybody—on the first movement that I don't like. ..' . Go!" I saluted and turned about. S'o the hour had come! And Lejaune was about to act! Moreover he was go- ing to act on Bolidar's information that Michael, Maris, St, Andre, Cor- dier and I had refused to join: the mutineei s, and:. so belonged to neith- er party. He wae going to make us five loyal soldiers the executioners of the rebels. He had a perfect right to order us to seize any mutineer and to shoot the man ' if he resisted arrest. Also it was our plain duty to obey him. But Michael? What would happen' when Michael.denied any knowledge of a diamond? How would he fare at Lejaune's hands`when the mutiny had been suppressed? Lejaune's bare word, was sufficient to send him to join the defeated mutineers—wheth- er they were in the next world or in the antechamber of the next world, the Penal l3attalion. "Make a sound—or a false move, and you'll be the first that dies -the first' of many, I hope," growled Le-' jaune, as I crept. down the passage between thick mud walls, and I felt the muzzle of his revolver jabbed in- to:the,small of my back. The blood surged ;.to my head» and I all but sprang rotund•. • One second's space of time fora drive at the point of his jaw—and I asked no more. But he wouldn't give me that sec- ond, and 'I couldn't do much for Mi- chael ,withmy spine shattered by 'a .450 expanding bullet. Lejaune would think as much of shooting me as he would of ,putting his foot on a scorp- ion. . . . corpion.... And if, by any: wild chance, I succeeded, and knocked him out and secured the revolver—how should we be any the better off? Boldini and his gang, and probably Dupre too, were after 'the "diamond," and would kill Michael to get it. . With Lejaune following, I reached the door of our barrack -room. Here the adjudant halted, his revolver rais- ed, and whispered: _ 'Your brother, Maris, Cordier, St. Andre -quick. . . . I crept to Michael's bed. What would happen if he sprang up with a shout, and roused the snoring sleep- ers around him? '.Could Lejaune over- awe verawe the lot, or would they, empty- handed, have the courage to rush him? Probably they would not. Ev- erybody waits for a lead in, a case like that. I began whispering in Michael's ear. "Beau, old chap! . . It's John. Don't make a noise. . Beau, old chap! . . ..It's John. .. . . Hush! Don't make a noise. He woke, and was instantly alert. "What's up?" he whispered. "Take your tunic and trousers and boots, get your rifle, and go out. Le- jaune is relying on our party. Take your bayonet. . . ." He saw Lejaune in the doorway, near which was the night -lamp, and got off his cot. I .crept to St. Andre and woke him in the same way. "The adjudant wants us," I whis- pered. "He's at" the ;door." "Good!" said St. Andre. time he did something." Maris also woke quietly, and soon grasped what was wanted of him. By the time I had roused Cordier, Mi- chael was creeping from the room; dressed, his rifle in his hand. I saw Lejaune give him some cartridges from his bulging side -pockets. I crept out too, taking my rifle and bayonet, and Lejaune gave me ten cartridges, "Go outside and load," he ;whisper - al,. Quick. . .. Then shoot any man at once, if he sets his foot on the floor, after: a warning." We charged our magazines and stood behind Lejaune in the doorway, rifles at 'the ready, St. Andre joined us and received the same orders. Le- jaune shook his fist at hlaris•and Cor- dier, and beckoned to them angrily. Not one of the sleepers stirred. When the other two joined us, Lejaune said; "St. Andre : and Cordier remain here until relieved. If any man wakes, order silence ,cover him with r your rifle, and say you'll shoot hips if he leaves his bed. Do it at once; to any man and every titan, who disobeys.; Fail, acid I'll shoot you myself. Follow ills, you others," and he, quiet- ly returned to his quarters, "Guard' the door, you," he said to Maris, "and shoot anybody who ape' proaches. Anybody, I say." "Now' you, quick," he said, renter- itig the rooire and closing the 'doer. "Give me This wretched diamond that sE1,LTNCrTON l ilTtrAL FIRE INSURANCE CO, Established i:li4o. EEead. Office, Guelph, Qnt, Risks 'taken on all classes of insur- Once at `.reasonable rates.. 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"Well, if you do, College, Toronto and National College, you'd better listen carefully to what Chicago. • ,U GESTE By Percival Christopher Wren THE GREATEST MYSTERY STORY EVER WRITTEN FIRST READ THIS "See here then, you infection," he The three Geste brothers, Michael,, went on; "there's some talk among Digby and John, leave home under those' dogs of a jewel, A diamond your gang of jewel -thieves got away with in London. Also there is a plot among them to murder you both and steal it, and desert with it," "Is that so, mon Adjudant?" said 1, as he stopped. "Don't you answer nie! God smite you, you unspeakable curruptionl" he roared. "Yes, it is so," he went on, mimicking me sa age1Y.,a. nd I know all aboutit, as I knoweverything else that is done,' and said, and thought too -thought; I say—in this place. Now I doh't care a curse try. The commandant at Zinderneuf !what becomes of you and that' an kills. himself and the one who takes ! ointed thief, your brother; but"I his place dies later. This leaves Le- jaune, a cruel but brave man, in charge. A plot to kill Lejaune is formed but the two brothers refuse to take part in it. Bolidar, a ruffian, tells them that Lejaune is going to kill Michael and get possession of the "Blue Water," a valuable sapphire which he thinks Michael has. Michael tells the conspirators that if any at- tempt is made to kill Lejaune he will 'align himself against them. John wonders why Lejaune who has heard of the plot does not do something aoout it, when suddenly one night Lejaune himselfappears in'' the bar- racks, when the rest of the inen are sleeping. He has a pistol in his hand and John wonders if' the end has come. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY There stood Lejaune—looking from bed to bed. He was quite alone and he held a revolver in his hand.. Whom was he going to shoot? • \Vas this the beginning of the end? Without thinking, I raised myself on my elbow. He saw me at once, and, first placing a finger to his lips, beckoned to me I stared in. amazement. Frowning savagely, he beckoned again, with a swift and imperious movement of his 1 to me. I'll put it where no plots and arm. !plans will trouble it. . . . You and What was the idea, Was he going l •your cursed jewels! Wrecking discip- to murder me outside? Or was .he E line and causing trouble! You ought going to tell me to fetch Michael out? to be doing twenty years in goal, the In that case, had. I better refuse or just spring on him, get the revolver, and . . . and what? Neither murder nor mutiny was going to improve our precarious position. As these thoughts flashed through my mind, I seized my trousers and tunic, . struggled into them, and tip- toed to the door. "Follow me," said Lejaune, and led the way to his quarters. Closing the door of his bare, comfortless little room,and seating himself at the ta- ble, Lejaune stared at me in silence, his hot arrogant eyes glaring beneath eyebrows contracted in a fierce evil - tempered frown." ."Do you and your miserable broth- er want to live?".he suddenly growl- ed. "Answer me, you dog." "On the whole, I think so, mon Adjudant," I replied, trying to strike a note between defiant impudence and cringing servility. "Oh—on the whole, you do, do you?" sneered Lejaune, and ,,again the shadow of disgrace, following the mysterious theft of the "'Blue Water," a valuable sapphire owned by their aunt, Lady Brandon. They join the French Foreign Legion and there ti.:•lnie into contact with the dregs of. rttttnianity. ' They form a fast, friend- ship with two adventurous Americans, Hank and Buddy, The command marches to Zinderneuf, a lonely fort in the Sahara. There Michael and John hese their brother, Digby, who is sent, with the two Americans and others to a training school for infan- won't have plots and plans and mur- ders in any forceundermy command. Understand that! D'you hear me, sa- cred animal?' Answer me." "I hear you, mon Adjudant," I ad- mitted. "Very well, then," he growled, "I am going to teach these sacred curs to attend to their duty and, leave dia- monds and plots alone. By God I ani!' To that end' I am going to detail you and your brother and a few more -say, Legionnaires St. Andre, Cord- ier and Maris, as a Corporal's guard, to arrest the ringleaders among those impudent swine. And I myself am going to attend to the business. You'll act at my personal orders, under my personal command, and you'll shoot down any man. whom I tell you to shoot - as mutineering mad dogs should, be shot. D'you hear me, you fish -faced, cod -eyed, bug -eating, dumb cretin! Answer me!" "I hear you, mon Adjudant," I re- plied. 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You'll be given ammunition. You or your brother or both, will be put over the magazine, and will shoot anyone, ex- cept myself, who approaches it. Any- one, you understand, whether non- commissioned officer or legionnaire. I'll teach the swine -by God, I'll teach them:! . . . Now then . . . it was your brother I wanted, but you happened to be awake and I_ saw no point in entering that cage of treach- What is your biggest asset? :'t The 'ming people rJ have the right idea about the importance of keeping up one's friends. Their modern point of view is that your friends are your biggest asset. Keeping them up be- comes a very simple matter when you can so easily call them by Long Distance. The ser- vice was never - so quick, and .to Interurban towns (within a,radius of say 25 .miles) the rate is particu- larly low. The finest kind of a habit is to have one day each weekfor calling up a friend or friends by Long Distance. The benefits are often quite startling. Thursdays August 4th, 1927 "It is is the eatlse of all this trouble;" He glared at Michael. "You jewel -thieves have cereupted the whole of this; garrison, and are a menace to discipline. I'll take charge of it now; and then I'll' ;take charge of, some of those swine• who think they can plot murder and rob- bery and desertion in my Company, by God! .. Out with it, you t'hiei ing goal -bird. . . . Quick. . Un- less you want yourthroat cut by those mad dogs of mutineers who've fixed `yourbusiness far this morning at parade. . Oh, yes, I know all about it: Quick, I say—the •Devil blast your dirty soul . ." and he shook his fist. Michael stared back, ao one lost astonishment and wonder. "`Diamond, Monsieur 1'Adjudant? he murmured. - face Lejaune's swarthy f a was suffus- ed, his eyes bulged and blazed. "You try any tricks with me and I'll' blow your filthy head off -here and now!" he roared, picking up, his revolver from the table where he had laid it. "Give me' that diamond, you scurvy hound, and I'll keep it until I know whose property it is. D'you think I'm going to have the discipline of this fort spoiled by every cursed run- away jewel -thief that chooses to hide here with his swag, and tempt honest men? . Out with it, you gallows - cheating gaol -breaker, before I put you where you belong. . Quick!" "I have no diamond, ,mon . Adju- dant," replied Michael quietly, and giving back look for look. "As I could have told "you, mon Adjudant," I put in, "my brother has never had a diamond in his life and neither have L" Words failed Lejaune. I thought (and hoped) that he was going to have an appoplectic fit. His red face went purple and his eyes bulged yet more. He drew back his lips, baring his cruel -looking teeth and causing his moustache to bristle. He raised and pointed the revolver, and I was just about to bring up my rifle, but had the presence of mind to realise that he could shoot twice with the lifted revolver, before I could even bring 'my rifle up to cover' him. Michael did not turn a hair, and I was thankful that I, too, had suffic- ient restraint to stand motionless at attention. A movement would have been mutiny, and probably—death. (Continued ,next week) in UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO' TVafversity Coutse in Medieel Science consists of six years' rest* ded to ,rtst. nd Science and fou, years to pure A, n,Iad Medicine. loot more than fifty students are per mitted o enroll for the first year. The edical School bas the best equipped plant of :its site 4i" on the continent. Lott - don's Hospital and clini- cal'facilities are excellent.' The Se110o1 of. Medicine Las made its reputation through the. quality and high training of its graduates. 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