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Updated: May 1, 2025
There it lay still, in a crumpled heap, but the marabout and two of his men made a dash to the rescue, dragging the limp form out of rifle range. It was a heroic act, and the Highlanders admired it while they fired at the heroes. One fell, to rise no more, and already two masked corpses had fallen from the wall into the courtyard, daring climbers shot by Rostafel as they tried to drop.
Saidee, who had come out from the dining-room into the courtyard, could see her on the wall, and Rostafel was babbling that she was "une petite lionne, une merveille de courage et de finesse."
Or is it the women they are after?" Stephen was not inclined to be confidential. "No doubt they have their own reasons," he answered. "What they are, can't matter to us." "It matters that they are concocting some plan, and that we do not know what it is," said Rostafel. "To get on to the roof over our heads is what they'd like best, no doubt," said Stephen.
Ammunition was running low, and soon they must fall back upon the small supply kept by Rostafel, which had already been placed in the dining-room; but matters were not quite desperate, since each minute brought the soldiers from Bordj Azzouz nearer, even if the carrier pigeon had failed. "Why do they not blow us up?" asked the Frenchman, sober now, and extremely pessimistic. "They could do it.
Firing as he ran, Stephen made a dash for the barricade, where he found Rostafel, and as the enemy swarmed into the quadrangle, pouring over dead and dying camels, the two Highlanders burst with yells like the slogans of their fighting ancestors, out from the watch-towers nearest the gateway. The sudden apparition of these gigantic twin figures, bare-legged, dressed in kilts, appalled the Arabs.
Stephen opened the door, and let in the fresh air and morning light, but the sight in the quadrangle was too ugly for the eyes of women. "Don't come out!" he called sharply over his shoulder as he turned past the barricade, with Rostafel at his back. The courtyard was hideous as a slaughter-house.
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