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Updated: October 4, 2025
On such occasions everything is of the best, even for a simple lieutenant. At Sfax an officer on a visit meant one extra course, vintage wine and old liqueurs. "But this time I imagined from the looks the officers exchanged that perhaps the old stock would stay undisturbed in its cupboard. "'You have all, I think, heard of Captain de Saint-Avit, gentlemen, and the rumors about him.
Shall I tell you what is the matter with you?" I looked at him with an expression of supplication. "Idiot," he found it necessary to repeat once more. Night fell quickly. Only the southern slope of Wadi Mia was still yellow. Among the boulders a little jackal was running about, yapping sharply. "The dib is making a fuss about nothing, bad business," said Saint-Avit.
Make yourself completely at home." The man had risen, and I saw him to be quite tall, slender and very pale. "Lieutenant Ferrières, is it not?" He advanced, holding out his hand. "Captain de Saint-Avit. Delighted, my dear fellow." At the same time Chatelain appeared on the threshold. "Sergeant," said the newcomer, "I cannot congratulate you on the little I have seen.
Unhappily she left Gascony when quite young, came to France and had no more news of M. d'Asterac, of his bottles and his puppets. I sincerely hope, my dear Jacquot, that he renounced his wicked works, which could not be accomplished without the help of the devil." I asked: "Tell me, my dear mother, did Cadette Saint-Avit, the rector's servant, see the bodies in the bottles with her own eyes?"
"'I cannot hope to find a volunteer among you for this kind of mission, so I am compelled to appoint some one. Captain Grandjean, Captain de Saint-Avit is also a Captain. It is fitting that it be an officer of his own rank who carries him our message. Besides, you are the latest comer here. Therefore it is to you that I entrust this painful interview.
"So I killed Captain Morhange," André de Saint-Avit said to me the next day, at the same time, in the same place, with a calm that took no account of the night, the frightful night I had just been through. "Why do I tell you this? I don't know in the least. Because of the desert, perhaps.
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