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"And Malta," cried Servadac, unable to control himself any longer; "Malta town, forts, soldiers, governor, and all has vanished just like Algeria." For a moment a cloud rested upon the colonel's brow, only to give place to an expression of decided incredulity. "The statement seems highly incredible," he said. "Incredible?" repeated Servadac. "Why is it that you doubt my word?"
The same results have been observed by the French army in Algeria, where, in 1845, their troops were, like ours, disseminated over a vast space, and broken up into small detachments stationed in numerous intrenched posts.
"I'm used to the idea now. I shall lose some things by being poor, but I shall gain others." She gave him a long look, seeing that he wanted no sympathy in words, and that it would jar on him if she tried to offer it. "Yes, you'll gain others," she echoed. "It must be splendid to be a man. I wonder if things go as you think will you stay and seek your fortune in Algeria?"
"The years passed on," resumed the Frenchman, "but I did not forget the author of my little sketches. A few weeks ago I resolved to cross the Channel and pay a visit to London, which I last saw in 1891. I had but lately returned from a long trip to Algeria and Morocco, and I was told that the English spring was mild; in Paris I found the weather too cold for my chest complaint.
And it is worth noting that, alone among the provinces conquered by the European peoples, Algeria has been actually incorporated in the mother-country; it is part of the French Republic, and its elected representatives sit in the French Parliament. In the nature of things the conquest of Algeria could not stand alone.
What trade was carried on, except in Egypt, in Algeria, and in the immediate vicinity of the old French settlements on the West Coast, was mainly in the hands of British merchants. Over the greater part of the coastal belts only the British power was known to the native tribes and chieftains. During the two generations before 1878 the interior of the continent had begun to be known.
I don't know, for the life of me, what dire offense the man who founded European society was guilty of; but it is certain his successors, from Algeria to the North Pole, are sadly mistrusted by the unmarried ladies. This, I regret to say, is the case in Sweden, as well as in Germany and France.
Then we heard of this other man through Captain Holliday. You remember Arthur Holliday?" "Do I not?" Her nephew made a slight grimace. "Oh, I know you never cared for him, but this is quite apart from anything personal. You see, when Arthur was so terribly damaged from that last smash of his, he met this Dr. Sartorius out in Algeria.
Giles's, who, when he was asked what the country was, answered, "The yard where the gentlemen live when they go out of town" significant that, and pathetic; then I wondered whether the time would ever come when society would be far enough advanced to open to even such as he a glimpse, if it were only once a year, of the fresh, clean face of God's earth; and then I became aware of a soft mysterious hum, above and around me, and turned on my back to look whence it proceeded, and saw the leaves gold-green and transparent in the sunlight, quivering against the deep heights of the empyrean blue; and hanging in the sunbeams that pierced the foliage, a thousand insects, like specks of fire, that poised themselves motionless on thrilling wings, and darted away, and returned to hang motionless again; and I wondered what they eat, and whether they thought about anything, and whether they enjoyed the sunlight; and then that brought back to me the times when I used to lie dreaming in my crib on summer mornings, and watched the flies dancing reels between me and the ceilings; and that again brought the thought of Susan and my mother; and I prayed for them not sadly I could not be sad there; and prayed that we might all meet again some day and live happily together; perhaps in the country, where I could write poems in peace; and then, by degrees, my sentences and thoughts grew incoherent, and in happy, stupid animal comfort, I faded away into a heavy sleep, which lasted an hour or more, till I was awakened by the efforts of certain enterprising great black and red ants, who were trying to found a small Algeria in my left ear.
"I hadn't thought of staying in Algeria," he answered her at last. "I don't suppose I shall stay. But I don't know. Just now my future's hidden behind a big cloud." "Like mine!" cried Sanda DeLisle. "Does it comfort you at all to know there's some one here, close to your side, who's walking in the dark, exactly as you are?" It was the thought that had hovered, dim and wordless, in his own mind.
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