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On the strength of his triumph he got up among his fellow Legionnaires a petition for the pardon and reinstatement of Corporal St. George. Not a man refused to sign, for even those who might have hesitated would not have done so long under the basilisk stare of the ex-champion of boxing. "Sign, or I'll smash you to a jelly," was his remark to one recruit who had not heard enough of St.
It was only the Legionnaires who talked little, and in tones almost humbly suppressed.
April was mild; May warm; June hot; July and August a furnace, but Legionnaires drank no less of the heavy, red Algerian wine than before the summer heat engulfed them. Max had heard men say jokingly or solemnly of each other, "He has the cafard."
As the companies formed up, the "Legion's March" was played, and the young soldiers who had never heard it, unless whistled sotto voce by old Legionnaires, felt the thrill of its tempestuous strains in the marrow of their bones. Nowadays the great marches of the Foreign Legion are not what they once were, unless for government maneuvers.
She distrusted De Launay, recalling some of the more lurid tales she had heard of his exploits. In spite of everything, he had been a légionnaire, and légionnaires could hardly be purified even in the fires of war. Before he arrived at her apartment to go with her to the mairie of that arrondissement, she was to suffer further misgiving.
The start was misunderstood, not only by the champion of the Legion, but by the surrounding Legionnaires, who tittered. "Sorry if I was rude," remarked Max, with an air of nonchalance, to show that he was ready for anything. "That's no way to apologize," said Pelle. "Don't look at me like that. You'll have to learn better manners in the Legion." "A cat may look at a king," retorted the recruit.
There was plenty for the Legionnaires to do in Touggourt. Having come by rail, their first camp was made in the flat space of desert between the big oasis town and the dunes. They were to stay only a few hours, for the first stage of their march would begin long before sun-up, and most of their leisure was to be spent in sleep. Yet somehow there was time for a look at the sights of the place.
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