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Michael and The three Geste, brothers, Michael, 1 being denounced to the mutineers Digby and John, leave home under as traitors, Guantaio might well be the shadow of disgrace, following the moved to murder and rob Michael mysterious theft of the "Blue Water'" —secure in his honorable role of exe- a valuable saplrire oivned by their cutioner of justice upon a cowardly aunt, traitor. The Legion knew no punishment too severe for infliction • upon any man who acted contrary to the inter- ests of his comrades. Guantaio need not fear the fate of Bolidar in such Circustances. "What would you do if you were Jae?" 1 asked. w'' "Join the butchers," was.the prompt reply. • "You and your brother ,must FIRST READ THIS So that was it a a z a Lady Brandon. They join the French Foreign Legion and there come . into contact with the dregs of humanity. They forma fast friend- ship with two adventurous Ameri- cans, Hank and Biddy, In their first titch a 1' band ht r g and of murderous Tou- aregs they are vintorious and follow- ing their victory the ,nen march to 1 1 t -e h oneI = fort at Zinderneuf, where ;1lichaeI, or "Beau," and John had the misfortune to lose their brother Dig- follow Schwartz. Betterthe enmity by who, will the two Americnas, was of Lejaunethan of half, jthe barrack sent to the mounted -infantry school room led by Schwartz. Lejaune at Tanout-Azzal. Things went to pieces at Zinderneuf. Cafard, a form of insanity, broke out. The 'comman- dant killed himself. Later the new commandant died and his place was given to. Adjutant Lejaune, formerly a sergeant, one of the most brutal,. but also one of the bravest men, in the Legion. A plot is formed among some of the men to kill Lejaune. John hems of it and is asked to de- cide which side to take. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "And what about Lejaune?" I ask- ed, since we were to use navies and not fantastic titles. "Suppose some- body warned hint? . What then?" "Who would?' . asked Guantaio. "Who loves that mad dog enough to be crucified, and have his throat cut, on his behalf? Why . should anyone warn him? Wouldn't his death be a benefaction and a blessing to all?" "Not irthings went wrong," I re- plied. "Nor if it ended in our all dy- ing in the desert." "No," agreed Guantiao, gnawing away at his nails. "No. . , I hate the desert. . . . I fear it. • i fear it. . . Yes -that was the truth of the mat- ter. Hefeared being involved in a successful mutiny almost as . much as in an unsuccessful one. "Suppose, par exemple, I went and warned. Lejatine?" Iasked. 'Huh! 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'Of course, you and your brother would be held to have acted 'togeth- er, as ogeth-er,.:as you always do," said Guantaio,. couldn't come straight to your bed and murder you, anyhow. Schwartz could; and would, And he will, unless you join him..... Yes, undoubtedly the filthy crea- ture was in grave doubt about the best course to pursue, and spoke from min- ute to minute as new ideas and fresh views occurred to him, and as, his fears and hopes swayed him. At present he saw the desirability of me and Michael being mutineers. Just now, he had seer` some advantage in our not being of their party. Q , Probably the most puzzling and baf- fling thing to a tortuous mind is sim- ple truth. It is often the sublest Iomacy, when dealing with such peo=' pie as this. So I decided to speak the plain truth, and leave him to make what he could of it. • "I shall, talk the inatter. over with my brother," I said, "and we will de- cide tonight. Probably we shall warn Lejaune. You can tell Schwartz that, And I can give him a definite answer tomorrow. Then ' he can do as he pleases." 'You won't warn Lejaune until you have told Schwartz you are going too do so, of course? asked Guantaio, ar..d I had seen his eyes light up as I announced the probability of our de- fying Schwartz. That seemed to suit him finely. "No, I 'won't," I assured him. "Nei ther will my brother.:.. Provided, of course, that nothing will be done tonight? No mutinying,' I mean... "Oh, no, said Guantaio. "They're not ready yet. A few haven't joined. Schwartz would like to get ,every-, body, of course;" but failing that, he wants to know exactly who is to be killed before they start. It will pre- vent unfortunate accidents. ... Also they' want the full `noon. . , . "Well -I shall decide tonight," 'I said. "And now please go away. I want to think- and also I m not ex- traordinarily fond of you, Guantaio, really. 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"`Follow ziie outside when I go," i said' A few minutes later he found me in the courtyard, and I learned that Schwartz had sounded him that day; told hint that he must choose between being a pig or a butcher; and had given hint a couple of days in which ,kip snake up his mind. Schwartz hacl concluded by informing St. Andre that all who were not for hizn would be treated as being against hirnre'and that eighty per cent of the men. had villingly taken the oath to follow len and to obey lzini absolutely. , "What are you going to do, St. \.mire? I asked. "What you and: your brother do," as the immediate reply. He went on to say that he had bought of nothing else from the mo - tent he had learnt of the plot, and hat be had come to the conclusion that"11e would joinwith Michael a me, to .do what seemed the b thing. `You see, my friend," he conclud "on; of course, cannot join in w these poor madmen—one has been officer and a gentleman. Even if o had sunk low enough, .to do such thing, and one eased one's conscie by saying that Lejaune desert/ death, the fact remains that the lunatics can but step from the fr ing-pan into the fire." zee est: ed, ith an ne a nee es se y - "Exactly," I agreed, "Here we live-in hell, I admit-- 'but we do live, and we are not here. forever," he "went ,on.. "Out in the desert we shall not live: Those who do not, die of thirst, will die by slow tortureunder the knives of the Arab. women" "They hey will , 1 . said. "Besides," he continued, "I would not join them if we could march straight into the service of the Sultan of Morocco and be welcomed and re- warded with high rank in his army. .. 1 am a, Freficlunafz and have hen an 'officer and a gerefleman.e. I am here through no fault of my own. St. Andre is my real name. My bro- ther is . Lieutenant in a ,;Senegalese ,attalion... , But you and your bro- ther' are not Frenchmen, and if you could get to Morocco, each of you Could be another Kaid McLean. But you could not get to Morocco on foot` from here,.. . You would be hunted like mad dogs, apart from all question of food and water.... You could not do it." "We. are notF renchnien and we have not been officers, St. Andre," I replied; "but' we are gentlemen—and' we do not murder nor join murder - gangs, . . :. ; And as you say, We could trot do it and would not if we could." "No, I knew you would not join them," said St. Andre, seizing my, hand,' "'and I told myself I should do just what you and your brother did." "Well -I'll tack it over with him as ' soon as he comes Off duty, and we will let you know what we decide," I said, "but certainly it will not be to join. them." `Meanwhile," I added, "you get hold of Maris-he's a decent good chap, and see what he has got to . say. You might try Glock, Dobroff, Marigny, Blanc and Cordier, too, if you get a chance:.. They are among the least mad in this lunatic asylum." "Yes," agreed St. Andre, "If we can form a party of our own, we may be able to save the situation," and he went off. I waited for Michael, sitting on a native bed, of string plaited across a wooden frame, that stood by the courtyard wall near the guard -room. Seated here in the stifling dark, I listened tb the gibberings, groans, yells, and niad laughter that . came from the cellules, where some of Le- jaune's victims were being driven more and more insane by solitary confinement ment and starvation. When Michael was relieved, I fol- lowed him as hewent to the barrack - room to put his rifle in the rack and throw off his kit. "I'll be sitting .;an the anpareb," I said. "More developments." "I'll be with you in five minutes," he replied. e' When he joined me, I told hint what Guantaio.. had said, and'I added my own views ' on the situation, to- gether with those of St. Andre, Michael. Iistened in „silence, "Position's this, I think," he said, when I ` had finished. "Schwartz and his band of lunatics proposing to murder Lejaune and anybody who stands by hint, Guantaiohas given the show away to Corporal Boldizi be - cease he thinks the mutiny too risky. Boldini wants to join the mutineers if they're likely to be successful--bu.t not otherwise. Probably he, Goan- taio, Colonna, Gotto and, Bolidar are in league to,get the mighty 'diamond' --one way or the other—out of this mutiny. If we join the mutineers, l3oldi nzi az d Co. will v loin too, with the idea of killing amid robbing the in the' desert and getting to :Morocco with. the Cillinazl-leohinoot.. • , Or to put it,more truly, Boldini'would get the 'Co.' to do the ,murdering and steal- ing, and then .kill or rob whichever of his gang brought it off. -If we re- fuse e -fuse to join the mutineers, Datelines plan would then be to get Guantaio to murder me in becl-ostensibly for being a traitor to the noble cause of mutiny -and pinch the Great No; mond from my belt. , „ Failing. that, Boldini Would use us in helping to suppress the mutiny, hoping that, in the scrap, I might get done in,, and he could rob my corpse, He •could do more than hope it. Ile could arrange " " 'On the other Band," said 1, "T3o1- dirxi may know nothing whatever about the plot, and Guantaio may be wondering whether to let the mutiny go on, or whether to want his cid pal Bol.dsni anxl, give the show away." 1 w "Quite so," agreed Michael, "We're'. absolutely in the dark in dealing with hopeless congenital bred -in -the -bone liars like Guantaio. We can only go otx probabilities, and, on the whole,, the swine seemed to be egging you on to join the plot,. , , , Well, that means he has some, definite personal 'inter-' est in our joining it. Obviously if he hadn't, he wouldn't care a damn whe-• ther we joined it or not." "What's to be done, • Beau?" I asked, "Get •together ' an opposition -gang of non -mutineers, and then tell Schwartz plainly that we are going to warn Lejaune and also going to obey Lejaune's orders on the subject," was the prompt reply. "Exactly," said I. "Just about what It oldG ua ntaio .... And' St. Andre will stand in with us, whatever we decide to do." rr Butpo• u s se iwee° can •get no one else," I pondered. "Thenwe and St. Andre will warn Lejaune and tell hien he can -count on es three to be true to our salt," said Michael. "Without warning Schwartz?" I asked. "Certainly not," replied • Micheal. "We can't sneak like that." "Of course, Schwartz and Co. will do us in, as traitors," I observed. 'Probably," agreed Michael. "Try to, anyhow.", "If we can get up a strongish par- ty, Schwartz's lot may chuck the idea of mutiny, he went ort. ' If they don't, it'will be a case of who strikes first. We`'inus warn Lejaune the moment we've made it quite clear to Schwartz that we're going to do so then and there, unless he gives up the whole idea.... Whether he gives it up or not, will depend on the number we can get to back us." __We sat silent for a minute or two, pondering this cheerful position. "Tell you what," he said suddenly, "we'll call a ' meeting. The Briton's panacea. Tomorrow evening at six, the other side of the oasis, and we'll invite St. Andre, Blanc, Cordier, Mar- igny and any other Frenchmen who'd ., be likely to follow St. Andre. Then there's Maris Dobroff, Glock and Ra- mon, among the foreigners, who might join ,us. I wish to God that Digby, Hank and Buddy were - here." "They'd make all the difference," said We "h. ll—if that lot will join us, we can probably turn Schwartz's murder- party into a mere gang of ordinary deserters, if go they must. . " Shortly afterwards, St. Andre, look- ing for us ,came to wherewe were sit- ting. ✓ "I've spoken to Maris,e said he, and he's with you two, heart and soul. 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