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DR. G. I -I. ROSS
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Dentistry
Office over IL, E. Isard's Store.
H. W. COLBORNE, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Medical Representative D. S. C. R.
Phone 54 Wingham a hundred_ Stop that bandag-
Successor to Dr- W. R. Hambly ing, Cordier, and stir yourself;
When my turn came, later, to go
DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND below, I was more thankful for the
M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.CP. (Land.) comparative darkness and coolness of
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON the caserne than for the soupe and
Dr. Chisholm's old: stand. wine even, .for my head was splitting.
"'Moriturus to saltine,'" said Cor
DR. R. L. STEWART . diet, as he raised his mug of wade -
Graduate of ..University of Toronto, `Don't talk rot," said L "You're no
Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the ; more moriturus than—Madame la Re -
Ontario College of Physicians and ! publique."
Surgeons. l "I shall be dead before sunset," re
Office in Chisholm BIock !
Josephine Street. Phone eg. ; pled Cordier. "This place will be a si-1
lent grave shortly . _ 'Madame la
Republique—niorturi te. salntant 1 . "
Dr. Margaret C. Calder and he drank again.
General Practitioner
Graduate University of Toronto "Re's fey," said Michael. Anyhow,
Faculty of Medicine better to die fighting than to be done'!
0ftice-Josepl re St., two doors south in by Lejaune afterwards. . , If I
of Brunswick Hotel,: go, rd like to take that gentle ad -
Telephones: Office 28a, Residence 151 judazt with me
'He's a topping soldier;' I said.
"Great.," agreed Michael. ':Let's for-
gee htt' "
"'\ e zwi?l, if he dies,' said L "I am
afraid that hell see to it that he needs
eme firrg5,ng, i. b.e and we survive
this /hew, and he ;ens sonsrel
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I11 have no skulking mali;ners
here," he roared "You'll all stay in
those embrasures alive or dead,: while
there's an Arab in sight. , .
Suddenly the Arab fire dwindled and
slackened and then ceased. Either
they had had. enough of our heavy and.
accurate fire, or else some new tactics
were going to be introduced. I im-
agined that a camel -man' had ridden
all round the sand -hills; out of sight,
calling the leaders to colloquy .with
the Emir in command.
Our bugles sounded; the "Cease
fire."
"Stand easy; ... Wounded lie down
where they are," rang out Lejaune's
voice, and some half-dozen men sank
to the ground in their own blood. I
was thankful to see that Michael was
not among them.
Sergeant Dupre with Cordier, who
had been a doctor, went to each in
turn, with bandages and stimulants.
"Corporal Boldin," barked Lejaune,
"take the men down in three batches.
Ten minutes for soupe. and a half -
litre of wine each. Come back to the
'pas gyrnnastique if you hear the 'As-
sembly' blown .. : St. Andre, replen-
ish ammunition:. Each man to have
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"In hell, dear friends," smiled Cor
dier,
"Suppose the goums were choppe
in the oasis?" paid Michael, "Take
by surprise, as we were,"
"What I said to Dupre," replie
Cordier. "lout Lejaune was too old
bird. They camped in the oasis b
day,but were ordered to be out a
night, and patrol separately, one nort
to south on the east and the other o.
the west, a half -circle each, from sun
set to sunrise, Dupre says , .'. Likel
they'd have been chopped in the oasi
inthe daytime all right, sound aslee
—but they wouldn't be caught a
dawn. They were well outside the an
veloping movement from the oasi
when the Arabs surrounded the place
and the goums would be off to Toko
•
to at the first shot or sooner..
By the time ..."
"Up with you,"shouted Boldini, and
we hurried back to the roof and re
sunned :our stations. The wounded
were again in their places, one or two
lying very still in them, others abl
to stand. On either side of me, a
dead pian stood wedged into his elft
brasure, his rifle projecting before
him, his elbows and the slope of the
parapet keeping hien in position. I
could see no ' sign of life from my
side of the fort, Nothing but sand
and stones over which danced the
blinding, aching heat -blaze. Suddenly
there was a cry from Schwartz on
the look -out platform.
"The palms," he shouted and point-
ed. "They're climbing them." He rais
ed his rifle and fired .
Those were his last words. A vol-
ley rang out a minute later, and he
fell. Bullets were striking the wall
against which I stood, upon its inner
face. drab marksmen had climbed to
the tops of the palms of the oasis,
and were firing down upon the roof.
From all the sand -hills round, the cir-
cle of fire broke out again.
"Rapid fire at the palms," shouted
Lejaune, "Sergeant Dupre, take half
the men from the other three sides to
that one. Bring these birds down
from their trees quickly._ ... Braadt
up with you on to the look -out plat,,
forst Quick . .:
I glanced round as I charged my
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whether we could hold out till night
fell and the Arabs could not see to
shoot. . . Would they shoot by
moonlight? It was unlikely, the Arab
being, as a rule, averse from any sort
of night work except peaceful travel-
ling; A dawa gush . is' his favorite man-
oeuvre. .s '4 ,
ag
It waony to fire my rifle, for
my head ached with one of those ter-
rible eye -strain heat stroke pains that
give the feeling tha the head is open-
ing and' shutting, exposing the brain,'
Every explosion of my rifle was like
a blow on the head with a heavy ham-
mer, I had almost come to the end
of my tether when once again the fire
of the Arabs slackened and dwindled
and died away. On the "Cease fire"
bugle being ordered by Lejaune, I
straightened up. I looked round as
the words, • "Unload! Stand easy!"
rang out. Michael was all right, but.
a good half of the garrison was dead
or 'dying, for quite half the men,,:,re
mained partly standing,' parr ly lying,
wedged' into their embrasures as the
others obeyed the orders shouted by
Lejaune. Among the dead were both
Sergeant Dupre and Corporal Boldini,
and both had been stuck up to simu
late living men, Haff must be dead
too, for DelareA,,,had .been sent up to
the platform and was lying flat be-
hind a little pile of bodies. St. Andre
was alive, for Lejaune called out:
"St. Andre, take rank as . Corporal;'
One half the men to go below for
soupe and coffee. Double back if you
hear the `Assembly blown. . ." and
St. Andre passed round the roof,
touching each alternate man of those
who were standing up, and saying,
"Fall out and go below."
In many embrasures was a man
whom he did not touch. Poor Cordier
had spoken truly as concerned his
own fate, for he remained at his post,
staring out with dead eyes across the
desert Maris was dead too. There
were left three men—St. Andre, Mi-
chael, and myself, upon whom Le-
jaune could rely if the Arabs now
drew off and abandoned the siege of
the fort. But this the Arabs did not
do. Leaving a circle of what were
presumably their best marksmen, to
pick off any of the defenders of the
fort who showed themselves, the bulk.
of them retired out of sight behind
the oasis and sand -hills beyond it. By
Lejaune's orders, the embrasures wer
occupied only by the dead, the liv
ing being ordered below in small pa
, ties, for rest and food. St. Andre wa
told to see that every man left hi
bed and paquetage as tidy as for ih
spection, and that the room was in
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s
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magazine afresh. Brandt looked a
tie pias orae. and then at Lejaune. Le-
t
jannrfs hand went to the revolver in
the he ister at his bel:, and Brandt
cli abed th,c ladder. and started thing,
'.-+s y ae be ci+i.1.4t h the :3C,lt
ofhis e ieI :c> def ms _ill on his
��eet ,,tent., as 1 teemed sac,,. I saw his
egglibeir iters Sao Irneed and ',..rash -1 i1 s
r2ntth sir b t.n streaming hands
nes
ahen 1 Took aicfner
tie the zvan had been
re ed
:hitt, the e 1ra,sn,r and _>.):ed
Lenten= s tL defender _,f
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em 2..:,"'' il: in azid tttrzing, sa i
the
the railing,
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t'!"pre the ACJs the t a.t =et a
by appy tme.e' :team i')r e:_ _ r_:at
a= ',r.,tany :hen in the. fort that
.b ph r *he
the .it 'Pz .0 etc.,, ,,r.e -ha ...� ? ,r.r^
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Out of town and right .relle e-
spondedto. All busm�ss cJn`edenia. z.
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.... The 'I'ougras have no field ;;._.
srjanrrlt.
...,and to them a snarl era an ere- °:mare._ �rna: sal if he car, -t be
brasure he a rraasl...."
.`w4 hat
about when there are tor, ; 1 tkeci hea:'J ism call the name of
few . keep up any volta:ne of i'nrw " Halt "Up yoyte go, Haff,,, he shouted.
I asked. 1 "You're another of these brave risque
"He snag hope far relief before ' touts. Up you god°'
then," hazarded Michael,
Schwartz, Brandt, xaffl Doubtless
"He does," put in St. Andre, who ion next would be D la d V
rs an y ogue
I had fust joined us and taken a seat , And then Colonna, Gotta and
at the table. "Dupre told me so. The L'olidar. ; , . Guantaio was dead...
wily beggar has kept the two goums Why didn't he send Michael up there?
outside every night lately—presurnab- Presumably he hoped; to keep him,
ly ever since he knew of the conspir- St. Andre; Cordier, Maris, and me
acy. They had orders to go, hell for
leather, to Tokotu, and say the fort
was attacked, the rnoinent they heard
a rifle fired, inside or out" torious over the Ar
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, He wouldn't want to be left via
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himself defenceless in the hands of
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,
He wouldn't send to Tokotu to ask the mutineers , and the thieves. 1
for help in quelling a mutiny of his glanced up at Hatt and saw that he
own men, before it happened -but he
wouldn't mind acolumn arriving be-
cause a gouln had erroneously report-
ed an attack on the fort"
"Cunning lad!" agreed Michael,'
"And he knew that when the conspir-
acy was about to bloom and he nip
ped it in the bud, he'd be pretty short-
handed after it, if he should be at-
tacked—even by a small raiding par-
ty out for a lark."
"Yes," said Cordier. "He saved his
face and he saved the fart too. If a
shot had been fired at the mutineers,
the gowns would have scuttled off as
ordered, and the relief -column from
Tokotu would have found an heroic
Lejatme cowing and guarding a gang
of mtitincers, . As it is, they'll
know tomorrow morning, at 't'okotu,.
that the place' is invested, and they'll
be here the next day."
"Question is -where shall w,e be by
then?" I observed.
was lying behind Schwartz's 'body,
and firing over it as though it were a
parapot along the edge of the plat-
form, 1 wondered how long this sec-
ond phase of the fight had lasted, and
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25e per packet at all Druggists,
Grocers and General Stores.,
perfect order. Lejaune himself never
left the roof, but had soupe, coffee,.
and wine brought up to him. To the
look -out platform he sent Vogue to
join the bodies of his fellow-conspir
ators, Schwartz, Haff, and Delarey.
Except for a. crouching sentry in
the middle of each wall of the roof,
those who were not below, feeding
and resting sat with their backs to
.fie wall, each beside his embrasure.
The fire of the Arab sharpshooters
did no harm, and they wasted their
ammunition on dead men. And so
the evening came and wore away and
the moon rose. Where we were, we
„lay., with permission to sleep, St. An
dee having the duty of seeing that
two sentries patrolled each wall and,
were changed every two hours.
By Lejaune's orders, Vogue, rn the
dusk before moonrise, pushed the bo-
dies of Schwartz, Haff and Delarey
from the look -out platform to fall
down to the roof. , They were then,
posed in embrasures, as though living
'defenders of the fort. It seemed to
give Lejaune special pleasure to
thrust his half -smoked cigarette he-
-Leven Schwartz's teeth, and pull the
dead minas kepi rakishly to one sole.
"There, my fine conspirator,” said
he when the body was arranged to his
liking. "Stand there and do your duty
satisfactorily for the first time in your.
life, now you're dead, Much more use-
ful now than ever you were before."
"He's a devil! Ire's a devil! He's.
triad—mad! . ," groaned Vogue -as
he dragged, the body of Delarey past
me,
"Up with himl Put hint over them"
growled Lejaune, when Vogue hacl
got the body in his arms. "I'll allot
your corpse the place next to his;
and your pipe shall be stuck' between
your teeth. You arefond of a pipe,
friend Vogue! helps you to think
out plots, eh? . , . Up with hint,.
you dog ..'.' and he kept his hand
on the butt of his revolver, as he
baited the man.Be then sent hint
back to ,.the look -out platform, to be
a target for the Totiaregs when the
moon rose, or the sun, if he lived to
see it, .
1 had a talk with Michael when
our turn came to go below for rest
and food.
"Looks like a thin time tot xotrow,'
said Mieheel,. "If they pot a. few of
us and then r,ttsh, they should get in,"
"Yes," I agreed. "They ought to
keep tip a heavy fire while their Am-
munition lasts, and thenchargYe on
camels in one feel swoop, And then
climb up front the bachs of the cam-
els.' A lot would be killed but a big-
gerlot would get
"Don't give there the tip, anyhow,"
grinned Michael, "Two or three hun-
dred of the devils inside the place
and it would be .a' short life and i.
merry for the half-dogen or so of u,
wlio were left by that time. . ,
"If we can stand them off tomor-
row, the relief from Tokotu ought to
oril' up the next morning," I said,
"If either of those goums got away
and played the game/ "id ,agreed Mich-
ael. "They, may have been pinched
though: The relief will find, a
thin house here, if they do come. .
It'll mean a commission for Lejaune
all right."
"Nice if he's confirmed in command
her, and we survive 1" I remarked.
"Yes," said Michael, "and talking
of which, look here, old son. If 'I
take the knock and you don't, I want
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'you to do something for me. ,
Something most important , . what?"
"You can rely on me, Beau," I said.
, "I know I can, John," he replied,
"There's some letters. A funny public.
sort' of letter, a letter for Claudia, and
one for you, and one for 'Digby; in
my belt—and there's a letter and a
tiny packet for Aunt Patricia. If you
possibly can, olddhali, get that letter
and packet to Aunt. No hurry about
it—but get it to her. See? Especial-
ly the letters The packet doesn't mat
ter, and it contains nothing of any
value, but I'd die a lot more com-
fortable if I knew that. Aunt Patricia
was going to get that better <after my
death. .
(Continued next week)
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FOR six blocks the driver of''the car had
tried to pass the boy on the bike. Every
time the road seemed dear of jaywalkers,
street cars and brick wagons, the boy,
g Y by
design or accident, swerved across the motor.
car's path.
Finally there was an opening.
The driver `"stepped on it" .. And just
decided,_tri
then the boy to cross the;greet
front of him. Then it happened.
Life seems to be a perpetual race between educar
tion and disaster.
Probably by the, time cyclists and pedestrians have
learned how to co-operate with drivers of motor
cars,' we shall ` find ourselves in the middle of the
aeroplane era, with a brand new set of problems.
But meanwhileou Y boys s who ride
bicycles, won't you try to make the high-
ways . safer, won'tyou tryto ride in a straight
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line, use your hand to signal when you're.
going to stop or turn,' and carry a tail light
at night ? Atta Boy !
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