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Updated: May 7, 2025
Only allow me to recall to you certain warnings concerning the Chaamba brigands, and the misfortunes that might arise from a Commandant of a post absenting himself too long." He smiled. "I don't dislike such evidence of a good memory," he said simply. He was in excellent, too excellent spirits. "Don't blame me. I set out for a short ride as usual. Then, the moon rose.
The Chaamba brigands, my dear sir, love firearms, and for the sake of the sixty muskets in your racks, I am sure they would not scruple to make an officer, whose otherwise excellent record is well known to me, account for his absence to a court-martial. Come with me, if you please. We will finish the little inspection I began too rapidly a little while ago." He was already on the stairs.
They will have to climb the mountain." The guide looked at me with amazement. Up to that time I had thought it unnecessary to acquaint him with our new projects. But I supposed Eg-Anteouen would have told him. "Lieutenant, the road across the white plain to Shikh-Salah is not mountainous," said the Chaamba. "We are not keeping to the road across the white plain. We are going south, by Ahaggar."
But his eyes became suddenly hard. Under the lustrous veil I saw his features stiffening. Morhange and I turned around. On the threshold of the cavern, breathless, discomfited, harassed by an hour of vain pursuit, Bou-Djema had returned to us. As Eg-Anteouen and Bou-Djema came face to face, I fancied that both the Targa and the Chaamba gave a sudden start which each immediately repressed.
His only response was a deep moan. Morhange and I leaped to our feet and ran to the guide. Eg-Anteouen reached him as soon as we did. With his eyes closed and his limbs already cold, the Chaamba breathed a death rattle in Morhange's arms. I had seized one of his hands. Eg-Anteouen took the other. Each, in his own way, was trying to divine, to understand.... Suddenly Eg-Anteouen leapt to his feet.
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