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Updated: June 4, 2025


"To rifle a caravan is a crime, though to steal a continent is glory." Bel-a-faire-peur laughed slightly. "Do not tempt me to rebel against my adopted flag."

"You haven't a finer soldier in your Chasseurs, mon cher; don't wish him shot, for the good of the service," said the Viscount de Chanrellon, who had now a command of his own in the Light Cavalry of Algiers. "Pardieu! If I had to choose whether I'd be backed by 'Bel-a-faire-peur, or by six other men in a skirmish, I'd choose him, and risk the odds."

That night the Pearl of the Desert lay once more in the mighty, sinuous arms of the great Emir. But, with the dawn, his vengeance fell in terrible fashion, on the sleeping camp of the Franks; and from that hour dated the passionate, savage, unconcealed hate of Raoul de Chateauroy for the most daring soldier of all his fiery Horse, known in his troop as "Bel-a-faire-peur."

"Don't I tell you the four Arabs were like four devils! They knocked down an old colon, and Bel-a-faire-peur tried to prevent their doing more mischief, and they set on him like so many wild-cats. He kept his temper wonderfully; he always tries to preserve order; you can't say so much of your riff-raff, Captain Vireflau, commonly! Here! this is his horse.

More than once the weight of his arm and the slash of his saber had called them to account in fiery fashion for their brutality to women or their thefts from the country people, till they grew aware that "Bel-a-faire-peur" would risk having all their swords buried in him rather than stand by to see injustice done.

Bel-a-faire-peur, you fell, too, among the Lotos and the Coeurs d'Acier once, I will warrant." The Chasseur, who was passing, paused and smiled a little, as he saluted. "Coeurs d'Acier are to be found in all ranks of the sex, monsieur, I fancy!" "Bah! you beg the question. Did not a woman send you out here?" "No, monsieur only chance." "A fig for your chance!

Ah! he is a fine soldier, that Bel-a-faire-peur of yours. Why don't you give him a step two steps three steps? Diantre! It is not like France to leave him a Corporal!"

"Well, it is not a face like a tobacco-stopper, as thine is, Tata!" responded Cigarette, with a puff of her namesake; the repartee of the camp is apt to be rough. "He is Bel-a-faire-peur, as you nickname him." "A woman's face!" growled the injured Tata; whose own countenance was of the color and well-nigh of the flatness of one of the red bricks of the wall.

With Bel-a-faire-peur they held their peace; they kept the silence which they saw that he wished to keep, as, his hour of liberty being come, he went slowly out of the great court with the handful of Napoleons thrust in the folds of his sash.

"Bel-a-faire-peur" awakened general interest through Algiers; he brought so fiery and so daring a reputation with him from the wars and raids of the interior, yet he was so calm, so grave, so gentle, so listless.

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