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"In other words, you're going to I to me,. if I shoot' Bolidar. You
shoot friend Bolidar before friend couldn't just blow Lejaune's head off,'
you?" I'
Bolidar shoots I said. in cold blood. That is exactly what
Schwartz is going to do. .. , And
what we object to."
And it was so, of course; I might
wellSchwartz an oto dof-
fer to be the butcher.
...,, "Well,',' saki I, "suppose I cover Le-
"jaune ; with my rifle and tell him I'll
blow his head off the moment he
moves—and then . I tell him to "
"Consider himself under arrest?"
jeered Michael. "And what are you
then, but the rankest mutineer of the
lot? Besides; it's quite likely that Le
"That's it, my son. If he's cur en-
ough to do dirty murder like that,
just because Lejaune tells him to, he
must take his little
risks," repliedlied Mi-
chael.
"And if that happens -1 mean if I
see him cover you and you shoot(him
Lejaune is going with hire. It is as
much Lejaune's .murder as itis Boli
dar's," I said.
"You're going to shoot Lejaune,
eh?" asked Michael. +.
"I am," I said, "if Bolidar covers
you. Why should ,he cover you, in jaune won't be there. He's brave
particular, out of a score or so of ,enough—but he'd like to survive the
risen, unless he has been told to shoot show. In fact, he intends to be the
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t sole survivor, I should say."
"Well -=w=e'll tell Bolidar just what's
going to happen, and we'll invite him
to tell Lejaune too, It would be fair-
er, perhaps," said Michael.
"Golly," I observed. "Won't it
make the lad gibber! One more slay-
er on his track!"
"Yes," smiled Michael. "Then he'll
know that if neither Lejaune nor Bol-
dini nor Schwartz kills him, I shall.'
Poor old Bolidar. , .."
"What about poor old us?" Yasked.
"We're for it, I should say," replied
Michael. "Of course, Lejaune won't
believe that this wonderfful diamond
they are talking about has been left
at Sidi, and he'll carry . on."
"I'm muddled," I groaned. "Let's
get it clear now:
"One:.We tell Schwartz we won't
join his gang, and that we will warn
Lejaune of the plot to murder him."
"Or shall we tell Schwartz that Le-
jaune knows all about it?" Michael in-
terrupted.
"Good Lord, I'd forgotten that," I
said. "I suppose we'd better."
"Then they'll crucify poor old Boli-
dar for good, this time," grinned Mi-
chael. "Serve him right, too. Teach
him not to go about murdering to
cftrd er. . . ."`
"We need not say who told us that
Lejaune knows," I observed.
"And then they will know that you
and I are beastly traitorsl" said Mi-
chael. "Of course, they will at once
think that we told him ourselves."
"Probably Guantaio has told them
that, and done it himself, meanwhile,"
I suggested..
"Oh, damn it all—let's talk about
something else," groaned Michael.
*I'm sick of their silly games."
"Yes, old chap. But it's pretty seri
ious," I said. "Let me just go over it.
again:
"One: We tell Schwartz that we
"Well, what are you going to do?”
he asked as they sat open-mouthed.
"Whatever it is, Lejaune will Ido it
first," he added, "so you'd better do
notthing."
Lejaune will do it first," I put
in,
Michael's coolness ,bitter contempt
for them, and his obvious sincerirt
had won. They knew he spoke the
truth, and thy eknew he had not be-
trayed them to Lejaune.
I watched Guantaio, and decided
that save perhaps for a little . coura,;^,
he was anohter Bolidar. Certainly
Boldini would .hear of Michael's ac-
tion, if Lejaune did:. not, as soon as
Guantaio could get away from his
dupes
"What to dol" murmured Schwartz.
"VVhat ot'do! If Lejaune knows' ev-
erything. .
v-erything.. , „
"Declare the whole thing off," said
Michael, "and then the, noble soul
who has told Lejaune so much, can
tell him that too," and Michael's eye
rested on Guantaio.
It rested so long upon Guantaio,
that that gnetleman felt constrained
to leap to his feet and bluster.
"Do" you dare to 'suggest. ." he
shouted and stopped: (Qui s'excuse.
s'accuse.)
"I' did not know I had suggested
anything," said Michael softly. "Why
should I suggest anything, my
friend?"
"If it were you -I'd hang you to
the wall with bayonets through your
ears, you yellow dog," growled
Schwartz, glaring at Guantaio.
',Ile lies! He lies!" screamed Guan-
taio.
"How do you know?" asked Mi-
chael. "How do you know what Le-
jaune knows?"
"Ts, rneant that you lie if you say
that Z betrayed the plot," blustered
Guantaio.
"I haven't said it;" replied Michael.
"It is only you :who have said it.
You seem to be another of the clev-
er ones... .
Michael's coolness and suprelority
were establishing a kind of-..upretn-
acy for hila over\these stupid crea-
tures, driven and bedevilled as they
were by cafard and by Lejaune.
They stared at each other and at.
"Looks as though we've simply got
to join Schwarzt then,".I said.
"Damned if I do," rtpiied' Michael.
"I'm certainly going bald-headed for
anyone who goes for me, but I'm not
going to join any mutineers, nor com-
mit any murdres."
`Nor are you," he added, as I stared
glumly out into the desert.
"What is to be done then?" I asked
once again.
"Nothing, I: tell you," repeated Mi-
chael. "We've got to `jump lively
when we do jump,' as Buddy says;
but we can only wait on events and
do what's best, as they arise. Mean-
while, let's hold polite converse with
the merry Schwartz.... Come on."
And we got up and strolled through
th estarlit darknses to the Fort.
,"I suppose we can take it that
Sergeant Dupre knows all about the
plot?" I said, as we passed into eh.,
stifling court -yard.
"No doubt of it," replied Michail.
"I am inclined to think Lejaune
would try to keep a nice compact.
'loyal party' to deal with the mutin-
eers, and hope they'd be like the Kil-
kenny cats, mutually destnilctive.. , .
Say, Dupre, Boldini, and five or six
legionnaires. . . . Some of whom
would be killed in the scrap. .
Of course, one doesn't know what his
plans really are — except that he
means to get a diamond, a lot of
kudos, and a nice little vengeance on
his would, be murderers. . . ."
As we entered the barrack-troop-1,
we saw that a committee -meeting of
the "butcher" party was in session.
They stared in hostile fashion at Mi-
chael and me 'as we went to our cost
and got out our cleaning -rags from
the little bags.
I sat down on my bed and began
won't join his gang. And that Le- melting wex on to my belt and pouch
jaune knows all about his plot. ` es, preparatory to asitquage labours.
"Two: Lejaune acts b of o re 'The conspirators'. heads drew to-
Schwartz does, and he raids the bar- gether again.
rack -room the night before the mu-
tiny. We shall either be in bed as
though mutineers, or we shall be or-
dered to join the guard of loyal men
us. _
"What's to be done?" said Schwartz..
. . . "By God! When 'I catch the
traitor ' . .' he roared and shook
his great fists above his shaggy head.
"Nothing's to be done," replied 1•li-
chael again, "because you can do no-
thing. You''are in Lejaune's hands
absolutely. Take my advice and drop
this lunacy, and youmay hear .not:h
ing more of it. ... There may be
a new Commandant her ein a week
or two . .."
"Yes -and his name may be Le-
jaune," answered Schwartz,
"Anyhow—he knows, and he's gut
us," put in Brandt. "I vote we all
join in the plot and then all vote ij;.
abandoned. Then he can't punish „ne
more than. another. He can't put the
whole blasted garrison in his cursed
Michael went over to where they cells, can he?" '
were grouped at the end of the long I "You're right," said Haff. "That's
table. # it. Abandon the whole scheme, I say.
"Have you come with your answer And find out the traitor and give
who are to arrest the mutineers. to a question I asked you about some
him a night that he'll remember
you "Three: In either case Bolidar 1 cachous?" growled. Schwartz, scowl through eternity in hell.....
is to shoot you. But directly he rais { ing at him.I But the ferocious Schwartz was of
es his rifle in your; direction, you are 111 "I have come with some news a different fibre, and in his dogged
going to shoot him. (You'll have to 1 about a cochon, my friend," replied land savage brain the murder of Le-
Michale.
Half a dozen pairs of eyes glared
at thirn, and I strolled over: So did
St. Andre from his cot. Just then
Maris and Cordier entered, and; I
beckoned to them.'
"He knows all about it," said Mi-
chael
take your rifle to bed with you if Le-
jaune is going to pretend that you
are a mutineer.)
"Four: If 1 see that Bolidar is out
to murder you, I shall shoot Lejaune
myself. (I shall take my rifle to bed
too, if' we are left with the rnutin-
eers.)
"Five: If . . :"
"Five: the fat will be in the fire
nicely, then," interrupted Michael `.
"What can we do but bolt into the
desert with the rest, if you kill Le-
jaune? ' You'd . be the most badly -
'wanted of all the badly -wanted niti
tinders, after that They'd get us
too, if they had to turn out a desert -
column of all arms...
We pondered. the delightful situa-
tion .. :
"Besides," Ivliehael went 00, "you
couldn't do it. Of course you
couldn't . It would be a different thing
if Lejadtie were raising a rifle to
shoot you, as Bolidar will be doing..
Schwartz stared in amazement,
struck dins by the cool daring r.f
the person who had the courage and
effrontery to taunt and insult him.
Michael turned to Brandt., Half, Dc
larey, Guantaio, Vogue, and the rest
of Schwartz's familiars.
"A remarkabl cleader,". he said,
"Here you are, the gang of you, mak-
ing ;your wonderful 'plans, and Le-
jatthc knows every word .Tot say,
and precisely what you are ;;1"i ig to
do—almost as soon as you know it
yourselves! ... Join you? No thanks,'
You have talked cleverly about `pigs'
and 'butchers—'hut what about a lot
of silly sheep? 'You make me tired;"
and Michael produced a most col,
vincing and creditable yawn.
jaune was an idee fixe,
"Abandon nothing!" he roared,
springing to his feet. "I tell you 1
" And then Michael laid his
hand on his arm.
"Silence, you noisy fool," he said
quietly. `'Don't you understand yet
that whatever you say now will. go
Schwartz sprang to . his feet, his 1 straight to Lejaune?"
eyes blazing, his beard seeming to 1 Schwartz,mfoaming, swung on Guan-
bristle, and his teeth gleaming as he .
,thio.
bared theta. 'He was a dangerous, 1
Get out of this," he growled, and
savage -looking suffian,
pointed to the door.
"you have told him!" he shouted, I "I swear I . ." °Megan Guantaio
pointing in Michael's face. "You indignantly.
treacherous filthy cur, you have be-
trayed°'us!" and. he glanced to where
a bayonet hung at the head of ';is
bed.
"And conie straight here and t•iid
you?" sneered Michael coldly.
"If
you were as clever as you are r
you ,night see I should hardly do
that, You'rea pretyt leader of a gang
of desperate mutineers, aren't you?"
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"Get out, I say!" bawled Schwartz,
"and when the time comes for us to
strike our blow—be careful. Let me
only suspect 'you, ; and I'll hang you
to the flagstaff by one foot.
By God, I will. . . . Go!"
Guantaio slunk off.
"Now lister. to me again," said Mi-
chael, "As I told you, Lejadne knows
all about your plot to murder him
and desert at full moon. I did not
tell him. But I was going to tell
him, if, after I had warned you, you
refused to abandon the scheme."
Schwartz growled And' rose to his
feet again;
"Oh, yes," Michael went .on, "I was
going tci warn you first, to give you
a'. chance to think better of it --in
which ease I should have said noth-
ing, of course.... But now get this
clear. If I know of any new scheme,.
or any change of date .or method, or.
anything that Lejaune does not al-
ready know—I shall tell hili:, , .. .
'Do you understand?
"You cursed spy! You filthy, treach-
erous hound! You . ." roared
'-Schwarzt. "Why should you . . ,"
"Oh, don't beuch, a noisy nui
sante,, Schwartz," interrupted Mi
chael, "1 and a party of my friends
don't choose to ;give Lejaune, the
chance he wants, and we don't really
like murder, either, .. We have as
much right to live as you, haven't
we?"
"Live," snarled Brandt, -"Do you
call this living?"
"We arn't dying of thirst,anyhow,"
replied Michael. "And if we are chiv-
vied and hunted and hounded by Le-
jaune, it's better than being hunted
to our 'deaths by a camel -company
of gouns or by the Touregs, isn't
it?'
"And who are / your precious
friends?" asked Haff.
"Therearefive of them here,for,
a start," said St. Andre.
"And how many - more?"
Schwartz .
"You'll find that out when you
start mutinying, niy friend," said Ma-
ris. "Don't . fancy that all your band
mean all they say."
"In fact, put in Cordier, "you
aren't "the only conspirators. There
is also a ;plot not to mutiny, d'you
see? '. And, some good 'friends'
of yours are in it too."
"So you'd better drop it, Schwartz,"
I added. ; "None of us is a spy, and
none of us will report anything to
Lejaune without telling you first and
inviting you to give it up. And if
you refuse—Lejaune is going to know
all about it. You are simply surround-
ed by real spies, too, mind."
"You cowardly hounds!" growled
Schwartz. "There isn't a man in the
asked
place. . . . Cowards, I say."
'"Oh, quite," agreed Michael. "But
we've enough pluck to stick things.
out while Lejaune is in command, if
you -haven't..:. Anyhow—you know
how things stand now, and he stroll-
ed off, followed by St. Andre, Maris,
Cordier and myself.
"This it -a maison de fous," observ-
ed . St. Andre.
"A corner of the lunatic asylum of
Hell," said Cordier.
"Some of us had better keep awake
tonight, ;I think," observed Maris.
"Especially if; Bolidar is not in his
bed," I added,
Michael drew me aside.
"We'll have another word with that
sportsman," he said, "I think he'll
:have the latest tip from the stable,
and I fancy he'll believe any promise
we make him.
After completing our astiquage and
other preparations for the morrow,
-Michael and I strolled in the court-
yard.
"What'll Schwartz do now?" I`
asked.
"Probably act tonight," said Mi-
chael, "unless he swallowedour bluff
that our j)arty consists of more than
us five. e may be won er ng s o
how many of his supposed adherents
will really follow hint, if he starts the
show., . , ."
"He maysee how many will take
a solemn oath to Stand by him and
sec it through, if he gives the word.
for tonight," I suggested:
"Quite likely," 'agreed Michael.
"And if neither Guantaio nor Bolidar
knows about it, Schwartz may pull
it off all 'right,"
"I don't somehow see Lejaune
tak-
en by surprise, whenhekno knows what's
brewing," I: said.
"No," replied M,idhael. "But he may
be relying on Bolidar gii*b g him the
tip,"
(To be continued)
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