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By Percival Christopher Wren
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"Watch," growled Lejaune, "They yet in doubt, for it was a surprise at -
may all rush out together now, Open tack. They had got ,terribiy'close,.the
rapid fire if they do," and he himself oasis was in their hands, and there
also covered the doorway with the
rifle he hati taken from the sentry,
The man with the rifles, one Gron
au, a big stupid Alsatian, came :tip the
stairs,' I did not look round, but kept
Illy eyes fixed on the doorway
through which a yellow light (from
"where the great guard -lantern. gut -
red") struggled with that of the
dawn. I heard a clattering crash be-
hind me and then I did look round,
fully expecting to see that the man,
had felled Lejaune from behind.
were'nnany hundreds of them to our
little half -company, And they were
brave, There was no denying that, as
they swarmed up to the walls under
our •well -directed rapid-fire, an Arab
falling almost as often as a legionary
pulled the trigger, While hundreds,
along each side, fired at our embra-
sures at a few score yards' range, a
large band attacked the gate with
stones, axes, heavy swords, and bun-
dles of kindling -wood to burn it
down, All this time Lejaune, expos-
Gronav had released the muzzles of ing himself fearlessly, led the defence,
the rifles, they had crashed down on controlling a rapid volley -fine that
the roof, and he was standing point- had terrible effect, both physical, and
ing, staring, his silly eyes gogglingmoral, until the whole,attackceased.
and Iiis silly mouth wide open. So
obviously was he stricken by some
strange vision, that Lejaune, instead
of knocking him down, turned to look
in the direction d his pointing hand.
I did the same. . The oasis was
swarming with Arabs, swiftly and si-
lently advancing to attack! : Even as
I looked, a huge horde of cancel -rid-
ers swept out to the left, another. to
the right, to make a, detour and sur-
round. the fort do all sides.. There
were hundreds and hundreds of them
already in sight, even in that poor
light of early dawn. 'Lejaune°showed
his mettle instantly.
'Run like hell," he barked at Gro- of white or blue ' clothing, looking
nau. "Back with those rifles," and more like scattered bundles of "wash -
sent him staggering with a push. ing" than dead ferocious rnen who., a
Send Sergeant Dupre here, quick." •minute before, had thirsted and yelled
"Down to the barrack -room," he for the blood of the infidel, and had
snapped at me. "Give the alarm. Take
this key to St. Andre and issue the
rifles. Send me the bugler, Jump, or
I'll.::'
I jumped. Even as I. went, Le-
jatine's rifle opened rapid fire into the
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as suddenly as it had begun, and the
Touaregs, as the sun rose, completely
vanished from sight, to turn the as-
sault a siege and to ,pick us off,
in safety, from behind the crests of
the sand -hills. .I suppose this'. whirl-
wind attack'lasted. no more than ten
mint}tes from the moment that the
first 'shot was fired • by , Lejaune, but it
had •seemed like hours to me.
I had shot at least a score of men,
I thought. . My rifle was- hot ar.d
sweating grease, and several bullets
had struck the deep embrasure in
which I leaned . to fire . Below, the
plain was dotted over with little heaps
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places and the Corporal hurried
around the roof, touching each alter-
nate man on the shoulder.; "Fall out
and go below," he ordered.
Ten minutes or so later they were
back, fed, clothed, and in their right
minds, Gone like m.aglc were all
signs of cafard, mutiny, and madness
These weoe eager,happy soldiers, rev-
elling in a fight. With the third batch
I went, hoping tq be back before any-
thing happened, Not a rifle -shot broke
the stillness, as we hastily swallowed
soupe aid coffee, and tore at our
bread.
"Talk 'about 'They cane" to curse
and remained to pray'," murmured
Michael,. with bulging cheeks. "These
jolly old Arabs 'removed our ctu•se
and remained for us to slay. There'll
be no more talk of mutiny for "a
while."
"Nor of anything else, old bean," I
replied, "if they remain to prey." ry
"Never,. get in here," said Michael,
"They couldn't take this place with-
out guns."
"Wonder what '.they're doing?"
mused.
"Diggin' themselves in on the crests
of the sand -hills," said Michael. "They
can't rush us, so they're going to do
some fancy shooting."
"Yes. What about a regular siege?"
I asked: "And killing only one of us
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fearlessly charged to drink it. Our
bugler blew "Cease fire," and on the
order, "Unload! Stand easy," I look-
ed round as I straightened myself up,
unloaded my rifle, and stood at ease.
It was a strange sight. At every
advancing hordes. ' Rushing down the einbrasure there was a caricature of
stairs and along, the passage, I threw a soldier -in some cases almost nak
the'key to St. Andre, who was stand- ed -at his feet a litter of spent cart-
ing like -a graven image at the door ridges, and, in one or two instances,
of the magazine. a pool of blood.. As I looked, one of
"Arabs!" I yelled. "Out with the these wild figures, wearing nothing
rifles and. ammunition!" I but a shirt and trousers, slowlt sank
Dashing on, I came to the door of i to the ground, sat a moment and then
the barrack -room. Michael was point- collapsed ,his head striking with a
ing his rifle at B3oldini's head. Maris
was covering Schwartz, and Cordier
was wavering the muzzle of his rifle
over the room generally. Everybody
was awake, and there was a kind of
whispered babel, over which rose Mi-
chael's clear and cheerful:
"Show a foot anybody who want to
die. . .
Nobody showed a foot, though all
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J farms on hand for sale or to very close shave indeed. But for Gro -
on easy terms. nail's cotating up and diverting atten-
— — tion from the inside of the fort to
THOMAS FELLS the outside, there probably would not
heavy thud. It was Blanc, the sailor.
Lejaune strode over from • his place
in the middle of the roof.
"Here," he shouted. "No room or
time, yet, for shirkers," and putting
his arms round the man, dragged hitu
from the ground and jerked hien
heavily into the embrasure. There he
posed the body, for Blanc appeared
to be 'dead, Into the embrasure it
wall, as Lejaune literally sprang at
me.
"By God!" he roared, "You turn
from your; place again and I'll blow
your head off! Duty, yon dog! Get
tq your duty! What have' yon to d:,.
with this carrion, you cursed, siinkint•
covering., hiding shirker . , ." and e
I turned back into any embrfsure,
picked up the choking, moaning G
antaio and flung Binz into the plac..
from where -he bad fallen.
"Stay there, you rotten dog," he
shouted, "and if you slide out of it,
I'll pin you no with bayonets through
you," and he forced,the dying wretch
into the embrasure so that he was
wedged in position, with his head and
shoulders showing through the apera-
ture between the erenellations on eith-
er side of him.
(Continued' next week)
iri'ORRIS
The hone of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Dennis, of Morris, was the scene of
a very delightful gathering on Thurs-
day evening, August iirth,' when the
congregation of the Ebenezer United
church (Browntown) met to honor
Mr. and Mrs. Melville Dennis, whose,
marriage took place' recently. The
early' part of the evening was spent
injolly oiitdoor games played, in the
moonlight ` on the lawn. Later, the
guests of honor of the evening were
The finest
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found in
to a score of them that we kill? We escorted amid showers of. rice and
should be too few to :man the four
walls eventually."
"What about relief from. Tokotu?"
suggested Michael.
"Over a hundred miles away!" I re-
plied, "and no wires . Nor any chance
to heliograph across a level desert,
even if they could see so far,"
"Chance., for the niedaille inilitaire,"
grinned Michael. "Go to Lejaune and
say, 'Fear not! Alone -I will walk
through the- encircling foe and. bring
you relief.' Then you walk straight
through them, what?"
"Might be done at night," I mused.
"I" don't think,", said, 1Vlichael.
"These merry men will sit around the
seemed to show resentment, especial leaned, chest on the upward sloping
ly Boldini, with a loaded rifle a yard parapet, and elbows wedged against
the outer edges of the massive up-
rights of the crenellatiori. Lejaune
placed the rifle on the flat top of the
embrasure, a dead hand under it, a
dead, handclasped round the small of
the butt, the heel-pl t -e against the
dead shoulder, a dead cheek leaning
against the butt.
"Continue to look useful, my friend,
if you can't be useful," he jeered; and
from his ear. Taking this in at a
glance, I halted, drew breath and then
bawled, 'Aux arrnes! Aux armes!
Les Arbis! Les Arbis!" and, with a
shout to Michael and the other two,
of: "Up with you—we're surrounded,"
I turned to dash back, conscious of a
surge of unclad men from the beds,
as their gaolers rushed after ire.
Whoops and yells9fjoy pursued us,
and gleeful howls of: "Aux armed ' as he furred away, he added: 'Ter
Les Arbis 1" as the delighted men ' haps, you'll see that - route to Mor -
snatched at their clothes, occo if you stare hard enough."
St. Andre staggered towards us be 1 "Now then, Corporal •Boldini," he
neath a huge bundle of rifles. Dupre called, "tale every third man below,
and the guard were clattering up the get them fed and properly dressed,
stairs. As we rushed out on to the
and double back here if you hear a
roof, Lejaune roared, "Stand, to! shot, or the "Assembly' blown. If
Stand to! 'Open fire at once! Rapid there's no attack, take below one for a .few seconds when he fired. I
r Give them hell: you devils! Give Then the a•e-
place in a circlelike a spiritualists'
seance, holding hands, rather than let
anyone slip through them."
"Full moon too," r observed. "Any-
how, I'm very grateful to the lads for
rolling up. . ."
"Shame to shoot 'em," agreed. Mi-
chael, and then Boldini hounded us all
back to the . roof, and we resumed
our stations, •
All was ready, and the Arabs could
come again as soon as they liked. Le-
jaune paced round and round the roof
like a tiger in a cage .
"Hi you, there!" he called up to
Schwartz. "Can you see nothing?"
"Nothing moving, mon Adjudant,"
replied Schwartz.
A moment later he shouted, some-
thing, and his voice was drowned in
the rattle and crash of a sudden out -
break of rifle -fire in a complete circle
all around the fort, The Arabs had -
lined the nearest sand -hills on all
sides of us, and lying flat below the
crests, poured, in a steady independent
fire. This was a very different thing
from their "first mad rush up to the
very walls, when they hoped to sur-
prise, a sleeping fort and swarm up
Over the walls from each other's
shoulders,
They were now difficult to see, and
a.man firing from his embrasure was
as much exposed as an Arab lying
flat behind a stone or in a trench
scooped. out in the sand. `'There was.
a rnan opposite to me, about a hun-
dredn1rel who e
yardsdistant,
Y
ap-
peared as a small black' blob every
few minutes. He must have been ly-
ing on a slope or in a 'shallow sand
trench, and he only showed his head
confetti to the, dining room where
the table bore a shower of beautiful
gifts in evi'lenoe of the good wishes
of the people of the congregation.
The • gifts included many pieces of
ware, linen, china, cut glass and sil-
ver. In the absence of the pastor,
Mr. Lewis Jewitt presented the gifts.
The groom replied briefly expressing
the gratitude felt by his bride and
himself, after which the ladies served
a bountiful lunch. At a late hour, ,idle
gathering broke. up, the guests leav-
ing behind them hearty wishes for
the future success ,and happiness of
the young couple.
fire.half of the nest. felt that either he or I would get
there. hell!" and, ordering Dupre.to mainder. . . Have all !:lint -bin and.
take command of the roof, he rushed, standing -to again in thirty minutes,
below. You, St. Andre, and Maris, marc am -
A •couple of minutes later a con- munition. A hundred rounds per man.
start trickle of risen flowed up from , Cordier, pails of water, Fill all
below, men in shirt sleeves; men bare -
water -flasks and then put filled pails
heaclbl and barefooted, men in noth- there above the gate.... They may
ing but their trousers—but every man
with a full : cartridge -pouch and his
rifle and bayonet. Lejaunemust have
worked like . a • fiend, for within
a few
minutes of Gronau's dropping of the
try another bonfire against rt. ... .
Sergeant Dupre, no wounded whatso-
ever will go below.. Bring up the
medical panniers , . Are all pris-
oners out of the ce ls?
rifles, every man in the fort was on He glared around, a competent, en-
tire roof, and, from every embrasure ergotic, courageous soldier. "And
rifles poured their magazine -fire up- where's the excellent Schwartz?" he
went on. "Here, you dog, up on that
look-ottt platform and watch those
palm-trees—til l the ,.Arabs get you.
Watch that oasis,I say, .
You'll have a little while 'tip there
for the thinking out of some more
plots. . ." And he laid his hand
on the butt of his revolver, as lie
scowled menacingly ai: the big Ger-
man.
Schwartz sprang up the ladder lead-
ing to the high look-out'platforni that
towered far above the roof of the fort.
It was .the post of danger.
"'low, use your eyes, all of you,"
wondered if these things were bawled Lejaune, "and shoot as soon
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"chance," and Gronau's arrival and
idle glance round, at the last mom-
ent that gave a chance of safety,pure
accidental coincidence,
A near thing itrdeed----and tit
issue
hurt, sooner or later, for he, among
others, was potting at my embrasure.
It was certainly "fancy. shooting
as Michael had said, ,waiting for the
small object, a man's head, to appear.
for five seconds at a hundred yards
rangen and. get a shot at it. It was
certainly interesting too, and More
difficult than ride -range Work, for
ones nerves are not steadied nor
one's aim improved by the knowledge
that one Lis also .being shot at one-
self ,and by several people„ With
unpleasant frequency there was a
sharp blow' on the wall near my em-
brasure and sometimes the high wail
big song of a ricochet, as the deflect-'
ed bullet continued its flight at an
angle to the line of its travel.
The morning wore on and the sun
gained rapidly in power. Unreason-
ably and unreasoningly I did not ex-
pect to be hit, and I was not bit;
but X was increasingly conscious of
the terrifie heat and of a severe head
ache, 7 wondered if the high nervous
tension made one more susceptible,
or whether the day was really hotter
than usual. . Suddenly the ratan
on my right leapt back ,sliotrted, spun
round and fell to the ground, his rifle
clattering at my feet, I turned anti
stooped over him. It was the wretch-
ed Cuantaio, shot through the middle
Of his face. As I befit down, was
suddenly Sent crashing against the
as you see anything to shoot at,"
'Ten minutes or so later, Boldini
returned with the men whom he had,
taken below, now all dressed as for
morning parade, They took their
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al &
it �� pot—Da'r&en •the room as much as possible; c1og'e t6d,
windows, raise one of the blinds where the. sun shines in, about.•
eight inches, place as many Wilson's Fly Pads as possible on
plates (properly wetted with water but not flooded) on the
window ledge where the light is strong,'leave the room closed
for two or three hours, then sweep up the h'ies-and. burn them.,
See illustration below.
Put the plates away out of the ,each of children until re,
gzctred in another room.
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Di owed fljerzrles
Of course it's always the other 'chap who
is in the, wrong but that doesn't
lessen the damn e to the innocent arty'§
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More `
Motoringcould •be so much mo e pleasurable .. - e
observe even
so much safer . . if we would only .
the ordinary well known. rules of - the road.
Let'sget out the little old rule book'
and T''brush up on regulations. , Arid,
what's more, let's begin to observe thein
as we never did before
And soon life .will be, more pleasurable
and safer' ": . for motorist and
pedestrian alike.
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