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A Soldier of the Legion

BY C.N. & A.M. Williamson

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. 1914

_Copyright, 1914, by_

C.N. & A.M. WILLIAMSON

_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian_

TO THE LEGION

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Telegram 3

II. The Blow 15

III. The Last Act of "Girls' Love" 34

IV. The Upper Berth 45

V. The Night of Storms 58

VI. The News 71

VII. Sir Knight 80

VIII. On the Station Platform 95

IX. The Colonel of the Legion 106

X. The Voice of the Legion 117

XI. Four Eyes 132

XII. No. 1033 143

XIII. The Agha's Rose 148

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1: A Soldier of the Legion by A. M. Williamson
2: Or girls from the adjacent town of Omallaha
3: And here he was at old Fort Ellsworth
4: And Billie Brookton began tangoing with Max Doran
5: Miss Brookton had a complexion nearly as white
6: Doran did not remember to thank his love for her solicitude
7: Things happened quickly with Max Doran
8: Edwin Reeves took the hand Max held out
9: Max turned his eyes to the bed
10: I used to be afraid at first that Jack would guess
11: Delatour was your real father's name
12: So no one but he and Anne Wickham and I need ever know
13: Without injuring fath without injuring the name
14: The daughter of John Doran must have what was hers
15: The question repeated itself insistently Why not reconsider
16: He would say to Edwin Reeves that
17: As Edwin Reeves reminded them both
18: And exchanged it for the Doran baby
19: The version which Max finally let stand
20: And found Lefebre without difficulty
21: That same night Max left Paris for Marseilles
22: A suitcase with his name marked on it
23: Which not even a prude or a snob could think offensive
24: Sidi bel Abbes was a place in Algeria
25: He knew only that he was at Sidi bel Abbes Sidi bel Abbes
26: If he had left his suitcase in plain sight
27: Bethinking himself of a certain silver flask in his suitcase
28: Soft looking as that of a child and gazed at Max wistfully
29: Max held the girl firmly in the berth
30: Yet you're in the second class
31: If the worst comes to the worst
32: Bending toward her from his low seat on the suitcase
33: But when Sanda DeLisle quietly made the suggestion
34: I think it is the Hotel Pension Schreiber now
35: Madame Delatour had sold her interest in the hotel to him
36: And the one time guardian of Sanda DeLisle
37: She turned her head and saw Max Doran
38: Because Sanda DeLisle was somewhat of the same type
39: The letter was of course from Miss DeLisle
40: Max gave lightness to the sombre words with a laugh
41: He's chosen Touggourt for his starting place
42: Having been even better hidden than those
43: Said the young man who lived at Bel Abbes
44: But said nothing of his own worries to Sanda
45: Max took Sanda's bag and his own
46: Might have interested strangers to Sidi bel Abbes
47: And Sanda also had been impressed
48: Colonel DeLisle looked keenly at Max
49: Colonel DeLisle lingered an instant to murmur
50: At night the coffin rested in my father's tent
51: Loaded with purple stained cases of Algerian wine
52: Josephine Delatour was coarse minded and sly
53: Was Max Doran from being elated by this tie of blood
54: Max saw nothing of Sanda and Colonel DeLisle
55: Mademoiselle DeLisle has told you
56: DeLisle looked at his companion intently
57: Every soldier of the Legion has his chance
58: DeLisle laughed rather bitterly
59: The Bureau du Commandant de Recrutement
60: Provided the medecin major be not too critical
61: And voices shouted eagerly Voila les bleus
62: Elderly Legionnaire with a long nose and clever
63: And at anything Pelle might do
64: But he fights French fashion with la savate
65: This was just what Pelle was waiting for
66: Who would be willing to come to Djazerta
67: When her father pointed out Djazerta on the map
68: And the whole was curtained with sumptuous djerbi
69: Scarcely a word of which could Sanda understand
70: To come forward shyly at sight of Sanda
71: Ourieda made little birdlike sucking sounds
72: Stood dutifully behind Lella Mabrouka
73: Lella Mabrouka did not follow the girls
74: If Aunt Mabrouka sends her own woman
75: It isn't only Aunt Mabrouka I am thinking of
76: I hated Tahar and loved Manoeel Valdez
77: Before Manoeel knew that anything had happened
78: I seemed to feel Manoeel thinking of me
79: But to a friend leave the envelope open
80: It was only the Legionnaires who talked little
81: Instantly Max guessed that Juan Garcia
82: As a warning against desertion
83: Then you are Manoeel Valdez
84: But as Legionnaires they were already far apart
85: The cafard grew and prospered there
86: On that shelf was the famous paquetage of the Legionnaire
87: Grant had a right to marry Josephine
88: And that was what Billie Brookton wanted
89: In the neighbourhood of El Gadhari
90: DeLisle cried out cheerfully in English
91: Broke in Colonel DeLisle sharply
92: Unless whistled sotto voce by old Legionnaires
93: After Touggourt their way would diverge from Sanda's
94: I've heard that Stanton's at Touggourt
95: But the raeita laughed the other music down
96: Will he go to the cafe and see Ahmara with the caid
97: George and his chum Juan Garcia from the march of the Legion
98: But it's between here and Touggourt
99: Manoeel knew the errand which had brought Corporal St
100: Ourieda sighed rather than protested
101: And Leila Mabrouka and her woman
102: For her to go away veiled and swathed in the bassourah
103: Believing Lella Mabrouka safely asleep
104: Embarka obeyed without protest
105: No doubt Mabrouka had meant to send her
106: And to make Ourieda believe Sanda had gone
107: Lella Mabrouka and Taous both veiled
108: Noticed these bendings of la hennena
109: Zakia says I may tell thee our secret
110: Lella Mabrouka clapped her hands
111: Ben Raana had just come out from another room beyond
112: That same night Khadra Bent Djellab
113: And had been brought out from Djazerta
114: Then Tahar could protect his property
115: Accompanied Mademoiselle DeLisle
116: Max hinted at this explanation to comfort her
117: Sanda suddenly dropped the subject
118: And Manoeel and Ourieda will gain time
119: I'm thinking of Ourieda and Manoeel
120: Ben Raana cut him short furiously
121: It must be that the wind brings it from Touggourt
122: Sanda was Mademoiselle DeLisle
123: And perhaps you met again here in Touggourt with my father
124: And a girl like Sanda flashing down like a falling star
125: Instead of marching on to Touggourt
126: Realizing her worship of Stanton
127: Now that Sanda was staying behind
128: You've overstayed your leave already
129: If he were at Bel Abbes he'd save you
130: Would be equal to seeing Sanda day after day
131: His meeting with Sanda seemed to Stanton a good omen
132: Though Max was twenty six and Stanton twenty years older
133: Nobody except DeLisle could possibly understand
134: In the thought of the marriage near Touggourt
135: For Sanda and Stanton were arriving
136: And that priest from Touggourt will have told the Amaranthes
137: Or searching for Sanda and ordering
138: And Ahmara can travel with the other women
139: Saltpetre deserts through which the caravan must travel
140: But Ahmara was afraid of Max St
141: Heard Stanton cursing the negro porters
142: And took part against them with Stanton
143: Stanton wondered what they were saying
144: The Chief was bawling instructions to Ahmara
145: Could she have heard what he and Ahmara were saying
146: Max tried to force a ring of cheerfulness into his voice
147: Of hoping that Sanda did not see
148: Because he could not bear to have Sanda suffer for him
149: And lay unconscious while Ahmara wriggled herself free
150: Ahmara had fled to Dardai to live as she could by her beauty
151: When the caravan left Touggourt
152: It would be disastrous for Colonel DeLisle
153: It was Sanda who told the tale
154: There was Manoeel Valdez in Rome
155: Took an active interest in Max St
156: And thought of Josephine Doran Reeves
157: But what did the Doran Reeveses do
158: She had met Captain de la Tour in Sidi bel Abbes
159: But Colonel DeLisle did not say this or anything like it
160: Stanton read it to him when she comes
161: And a lieutenant's commission in the Legion