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'Is there a man of eourage among you—a man, par example such as the trumpeter, brave enough to enter ,an eiripty, fort with me?" They looked sheepish for a mom- ent. Someone murmured, 'And where is jean the Trumpeter?" and then I heard a curious whispered remark: 'Gee! I sure would like to see a ghost, Buddy,' and the whispered re- ply: 'Sure thing, Hank, and I'd like to see ole Brown some more.' Two men stepped forward as one, and saluted. They • were in extraordinary con- trast in body, and some similarity NI face, for one was a giant and the other not more than five feet in height, while both had clean-shaven, leathery countenances, somewhat of the bold Red Indian type. You know what I mean—lean hatch et faces, biggish noses, mouths like a straight gash, and big chins. By their grey eyes they were Northen- ers, and by their speech, Americans. 'You would like to see the fort, and how it was manned to the last by heroes—victorious in death?' I asked. 'Oui, mon Commandant,' they re- plied together. 'Ins't there. a Frenchman you?' I asked the rest. Another man, a big sturdy Gascon, he looked, saluted and joined the Amp- ericans . Then what they now call 'the herd instinct' and 'mob psychol- ogy' came into play, and the others did the same. Good! I had the lot..I would take them around the fort as though doing honour to the dead and showing them as an example—and then I suddenly remembered." ? "The murdered sous -officer," said George Lawrence. . "Exactly, George! Thee fellows must not see him lying there, with a French bayonet through him! I must go in first alone, and give myself the pleasant task of removing the bayon- et. I would cover his face, and it would be assumed that he had been shot and had fallen where he lay.Yes that was it. 'Good! Yon shall come with me then said I, and have the privilege of treading holy ground and seeing a sight of which to tell your grandchil- dren when you are old men. You can also tell your comrades of what you have seen, and give them a fresh pride in their/glorious Regiment,' and I bade the Sergeant-Major march them over to the fort. • Mounting my mule, which had not been uniaddled, I rode quickly across to the gate. The sentry had been withdrawn. Dismounting I hurried up to the roof to perform the distasteful duty I could not very well have delegated to the Sergeant-Major. I emerged from the darkness of the stair -case on to the roof. And there I stood and stared and rubbed my eyes—and then for a mom- ent felt just a little faint and just a little in sympathy with those pddr superstitious fools of the escouade. For, my dear George, the body of the sous -officer was no longer there! Nor was that of the bare -headed recum- bent man!" "Good God," ejaculated Lawrence, raisiag himself on his elbow and turn- ing to de Beaujolais. " "Yes, that is what r said," contin- ued the other. "What else was there to say? Were there djinns, afrites, ev- il spirits in this cursed desert, even g$ the inhabitants declared. Was the whole thing a nightmare? Had I dreamt that the body of a French sous -officer had lain here, with a French bayonet through it? Or was I dreaming now? And then I think my teriaperature went up two or three degrees from the mere hundred and two that one dis- regards; for I remember entertaining the wild idea that perhaps a living man was shamming dead among these corpses. Moreover ,I remember go- ing from corpse to corpse and ques- tioning them. One or two that Seem- ed extra life4ike took by the arrn, and as I shotted at them, I shook them and pulled at them until they fel Ito the ground, their rifles clatter- ing down with them. Suddenly I heard the feet of men upon the stair, and pulled myself to- gether. The Sergeant-Major and the half-dozen er so of thle Iegioi- aries came out on to the roof, I managed to make thy little, speeeh as they stared arotind in arnazetnent, the most arriated of all being the Sergeatit-Major, who ,gazed at the smeared pool of blood where the body of 1436 SOUS-001CM' had lain. The two Americanseemed partic- Warty intereSted, and appeared to be as they loOking fOr 4111ittieg attleng the dead. Major Henri de Beaujolais, learning that the lonely fort at Zinderneuf has been attacked by Arabs takes his com- mandant to the rescue. Arriving there he is startled to find men prop- ped up in the entbraseres—dead. In- side he finds the commandant dead— with a French bayonet in his heart, and a note crushed in his hand. The note is signed by Michael Geste, and admits the theft of "Blue Water"— a valuable sapphire, owned by Lady Brandon. Next to the dead coin- manda.nt is a young offiLr. Later, when de Beaujolais has left the fort the body of the young officer disap- pears. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY We are too much non-commission- ed officer and to little officer. We are too remote from them, We do not play games with them, get to know them, interest ourselves in them as f ellow human beings, in the way that your officers do. Too ofen it is a case with us hated non-coms, and stranger officers . Particulary is this so in the Legion. The non- coms. are all-powerful and tyrannical; the officers are utterly uninterested in the men as individuals, and do not ev- en know their names. And I was not one of their own off- icers of the Legion. 1 was a Spahi officer, superintending the organiz- ation of mule calvary out of infantry; or rather making ordinary infantry in- to mounted infantry, that the Legion might hope to compete with the Tou- aregs in mobility. We wanted mount- ed riflemen down there, just as you did in the Boer War, or else the Ar- abs served us as the Boers did you at first. I certainly had not been.. uriduly harsh or oppressive during the time I had been with this particular lot; but, on the other hand, I certainly had no personal influence with them. I did not know them, nor they me, and all our lives seemed likely to be for- feited in consequence. However I talked to the men whom Dufour brought, and did my best un- der the heavy handicap of not so much as knowing their names, Fin- ally, I dismissed them with the words: 'Por your lives, influence your friends -wisely and well, and get it in- to their heads that at moon -rise we will have obedience with honour and safety, or disobedience with dishonour misery, and death. For at moon- rise the chosen escouade will enter the fort, and bring out the dead, or the company will fire upon them; Au 'voir Ines enfants.' Of course I knew the danger of mak- ing any reference to what would hap- pen if the company refused to fire on the escouad.e—but it was foolish \to pretend to ignore the possibility of such a thing.- But I made no allusion to the Senegalese', and the coercion or punishnient of white men by black. It might be that the company would obey oders, if the escouade remained mutinous, and it might be that all would reflect upon the coming of the Senegalese. Anyhow, 1 was on knife-edge, and all depended upon the effect On these rascals of a four hour rest, and the words of the men to whom. I had talk- ed. There was just a chance that St. Andre and his Senegalese might arrive in time to influence the course of affairs—but I most certainly would not bring myself to postpone the issue until his arrival, and then take shel- ter behind the blacks . With the full moon well up in the sky—by its beau- tiful soft light—we should see what we should sec. . And then, just as the men turned to go, I had an idea. StfppoSe some of them would volttnteer to go over the fart with me; see for themselves that there was nothing to be afraid of; and then report, to their fellows that all was well. Their statement and the inevitable airs of superiority which they would give themselves, might well counter- act Rastignac's influence and their su- perstitious fears. If some of these men, selected for their character and influence, went back in the spirit of, 'Well cowards, we have been in there and it is much the same as atty other such cursed hole—except that some- body had a great idea for diddling the Arabs,' the others would probably take the line, 'Well, where you can go, we can. Who are you to swag-, gel?' • W. R. 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They cotild see for themselves that the Ar" abs had not entered and carried him off. 1)erhaps their minds were too full a the question: 'Wbere is jean the Trumpeter?for the other ques- tion to formulate itself. I had made no reference to the dis- appearance of the trumpeter; but I knew that they had seen him ' enter and WO waited, as I did, for an aa- stounding quarter of an hour, to see him come out again. They had watch- ed me go in alone, at the end of that tithe, and had seen me emerge alone. What could I say? It seemed to me to be best to say nothing on that subject, so I said it. After a •few minutes that seemed like a few hours, I bade Dufour take the men round the outbuildings, and then march them back to the oasis. As he disappeared, last, down the stair, I called hiin back and we were alone together. Simultaneously we said the sante words: 'Did you move it?'—and each of us knew that the either knew nothing about it. I laughed loudly, if not, merrily, and the Sergeant-Major produced the oath of a lifetime; in length and original- ity, remarkable even for the Legion. 'Quit so Chef,' said I `Life grows a little complicated.' 'I'll give a complicated death to this farceur, when I find . gF,owl- ed he as I Motioned him ,to be off. 'Blood of the devil, I will!" He clattered down the stairs, and, soon after,' I heard his voice below, as he led the group of men across the courtyard. 'Not much here to terrify the great Rastignac, hein?' he jeered. .'But there is certainly something here to terrify me, my friend,' I ob- served to myself, and made my way back to my mule and the oasis. In fact, I fled. Well, George,• mon vieux, what do you think happened? Did the escour ade obey and enter the fort like lambs, or did they refuse and success- fully defy me, secure in the know- ledge that the others would not fire on them?" , "You are alive to tell the tale, jolly was the reply. 'That's the main thing.' "On account of the, importance of a part of it to you, my George eh?" smiled the Frenchman. 'Oh, not at all, old chap,' Lawrence hastened to say, with a somewhat guilty smile. "Simply on account of the fact that you are spared to France and to your friends. "I thank you, my little George. Al- most you might be h Frenchman," said de Beaujolais; with an ironical bow. "But tell me, what do you think hapepned? Did they obey and enter, or did they refuse?" "Give it up Jolly. I can only feel sure that one of the two happened," replied Lawrence. "And that is where you are wrong, my friend, for neither happened," continued de Beaujolais. "They nei- ther obeyed and entered, nor 'disobey- ed and stayed out!" • 'Good Lord!" ejaculated Lawrence. "What then?" And this time it was the French- man who suggested a little refresh- ment. "Well this is the last 'event' on that remarkable programme mon cher Georges;!.: resumed de Beaujolais a little later. -NA very appropriate and suitable one too . . .`A delightful open-air entertainment, concluded with fireworks,'. aa the reporters of fetes charnpetres say." 'Fire -works? Rifle -fire works do you mean?" asked Lawrence. "No, my George, nothing to speak of. Just fire -works. Works of fire. I will tell you. . . I let the moon get well up, and 'es.' -'X would try it. Not as though ',,tiort'esi Office /66, Retid.; '02'4: 1 I was' really' persuading' or beseeching A •J WALKER 1: and ,arixious to prove that the escou- -. . " "- ' '.r F., ade had nothing' to fear if sent to gar- • . ':141JANIttiRE, DE...MAR ' I. rison . the place.. , No—merely as , , •' ''''' • offering them, superior Soldiers, an ,•V.1JtIVIRAt,!..nitt,g0rOlt i opportunity of' Seeirig the ;fort before , :11/4trotor Eqmpment I its remarkable di4positiene wer6,Ai,„ , WINGt-IA111, ONTARIO turbed "Ofaita racolleat said Ty then sent my servant, Achinet, for the Sergeant-Major, and bade that, good fellow to parade the men as be- fore, with the fort a hundred Paces in their rear, the garrison escOuade on the right of the line, • This party W•ould either march into the fort or not, If not—then the re- mainder would be ordered to right- fohn and shoot 'pm where they stood for disobedience in the field, practi- cally in the presence of the enernY. This party would either obey or not. If not—then I would at .once give he order to 'pile arms.' If they did this, as they might, from force of It'abit, they would immediately be marched off to the oasis and would be 'arrested' by the non-comenissioned officers and marched back to Tokotu, under escort of the Senegalese, to a- wait court-martial. If they (lid not pile arras, the non-commissioned offi- cers were t9 come at once to 'me, and'we would prepare to sell our lives dearly -for the' men would mutiny and 'desert. Possibly- a few of the men would join us, and there was a ghost of a chance that we might fight our way into tlie for and hold it, but it was infinitely more probable that we should be riddled where we stood. 'Bien, mon Commandant,' said Du- four, as he saluted, and then, hesitat- ingly, 'Might I presume to make a request and a suggestion. May I stand by you, and Rastignac stand by me—with the muzzle of my revol- ver against his liver—it being clear that, at the slightest threat to you, Rastignac's digestion is impaired? If he knows that just this will happen, he also may give good advice to his friends. . . 'Nothing of the sort, Dufour,' 1re- plied . 'Everything will proceed nor- mally and pronerly, until the men themselves behave .bnormally and improperly. We shall lead and command soldiers of France until we have to fight and kill or be killed by, mutineers against the officers of France in the execution of their duty. Proceed.' Would you have said the same, Geo- rge? It seemed to me that this idea of the Sergeant -Major's was not much better than that of waiting for the Senegalese. Would you have done the same in my place?" 'I can only hope I should have had the courage to act as bravely and as wisely as you did, Jolly," was the re- ply. 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Perhaps—but 1 felt that I could do more, somehow, in case of trouble if I could dash at assailants with sword and revolver. I am a calvary man and the arrne blan'cheIs my wea- pon. Cold steel and cut and thrust for me, if I had to go down fighting. You can't charge arid use your sword on a camel, so I compromisedon the mule—but how I longed for my Ar- ab charged, and a few of my Spahis behind me! It would be,a fight then, instead of a murder It was a weird and not unimpress- ive scene. That sinister fort, silver and black, the frozen waves of' the ocean Of sand, an illimitable' silver sea; the oasis a big dark island upon it; the men, statutes, inscrutable and still., What would they do? Would my next words, be my last? Would a doub le line of rifles riee and level them selves at my breast, or would that es- couade, upon whom everything de- pended, move off like a machine and enter the fort? As I faced the men, I was acutely interested, and yet felt like a specta- tor, impersonal and unafraid. I was about to witness a thrilling drama, de- / picting the fate of one Henri de Beau- jolais, quite probably his death. I hoped he would play a worthy part on this moonlit stage. I hoped that, even more thri. I hoped to see him survive the play. I was calm. I waS detached. . • ' ntoisnoontino'notoonnoosno gg ondiunisassottotio*".; , • eorge Lawrence sighed and strucic a 'match. "I cast one more look at the glor- ious moon and took a deep brea th.. If this was my last order on parade, it should be worthily given in a voice deep, clear, and firm. Abaft all firm. And as my mouth opened, hnd my lower jaw moved in the act of speech. —I believe it dropped George, and my - mouth remained open. • For from that enigmatical, brood- ing, fatal fort—there shot up a tongue of flame. 'Mon Dieu! Regardez!' cried the Sergeant-Major, arid pointed. I be- lieve, every head turned, and in per- fect silence I heard him whisper, Spir- its, ghosts, devils!' That brought me to myself shrap• - ly. Yes, imbecile!' I said. they - carry thatches and indulge in arson!: Quite noted incendiaries! Where is. Rastignac?' I aslced that becauge it was perfect- ly obvious that s'omeone was in the fort and had set fire to soinething highly inflarnable. I had been in the place an hour 'or two before. There was certainly no sign of fire then and this was a sudden rush of flame. As I watched, another column 01r smoke and fire burA forth in a differ- ent place. `He is tied up back there, mon Com- mandant,' replied Dufour. 'The forbidden crapudine?' I asked.. '1 told Corporal Brille to tie him to.. a tree,' was the reply. — — Anyhow it could not be Rastignac's work, for he would not have entered' the place, even had he been left 'at liberty and had an opportunity to da so. 'Send, and see if he is still there -- and make sure that everyone else is acounted for,' I ordered. • (To Be Continued) CANADA'S "NEW GOVERNOR i• GENE AL A IVES •••,, qlool Ata .4400A, womb 5.4p..1,16 VIKOL'elt W/1.1.inGbox NAIS 411.0 orriciAt. • •C1.610 • 100X, •L','S K: ••,,,, ?• ....*i. ::14, 'I.?' .' i• k... . '..., ..W I.—Crayon sketch of Viscount Wininadon drawn on board Empress of Stotland just prior to the vessel sailing for Canoe: t. 2.—Crayon sketch of ViSCOUTtteS3 Willirlftd011 draWn on board the Canadian Pacific liner ntopress of Scotland just pr, r to the vessel's departure for Oargithi., . •'•, 3. --Misty '(inset) Cairn Terrier, belonging to Their Excellencies which gained instant popularity, • 4.—menu ca,d designed for use on Empress of section(' When she curled the Governor-General to Canada, ShoWina on a map of the world the various positions held all over by the Empire by Viscount Wiltingdott. 5.,--Canadlan Pacific Flagship Empress of Scotland which carried Their Excellencies to Canada. • rrhejr Excellencies Viscount and Viscountess Willingdoa made maay friends on their voyage from England to Quebec on board the Canadian Pacific flagship Empreas of Scotlaftd, when His Lordship came here in October to become trovernor-General of the Dominion. They paid visits to all parts of the vessel chattitig with new settlers for Canada and presiding at the various functions that take place aboard ship during an ocean voyage. Sharing their popularity was their Cairn Terrier, Misty, Who was friends with everyone except perhaps a plump Chowwholooked tohi ' m as though he might • develop into a dangerous rival. Canada's thirteenth Governor-General hada fine reception when the ship docked at Quebec. He struek a tactful note when he told his Fr0r1C11,.Canadian audience he too could claim deseeet front the Nortriaris and that Prench blood flowed in his'veins equally as itt theirs. "Itt this country," he said, "the descendants of our 'two races have worked for many years under the British Crownior a common purpose arid object, namely, to promote the welfare and prcspel'zy of the people of this wonderful country." pirst,impressions are vital in establishing successful rela- tions and perhaps no impression gave so cordial an effect as . one of His Lordship's speeches aboard the Empress of Scot- land, which was broadcast all over Canada. In it he said:. "I wonder if I may venture to add one word of rather an ' intimate and personal eharacter. It is this—in v ishing ail my fellow -passengers the best of gooti luck in the f.:ture arid all health and happiness they,eanposibly expect and obtain, may them one theone and all to give an occasional thought— a kindly thought—to one who is about to undertake very grave responsibilities for the British Empire in the great Dominion of Canada." - That is the trtie democratic note, sounded. with modesty and feeling and sure d an unreserved response throughout the, length and breadth of Canada. 1