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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Educate," say the English. The black man obeys and puts away his gods, but he worships them all the time in his soul. We must get his gods on our side, and then he will move mountains. We must do as John Laputa did with Sheba's necklace. 'That's all in the air, said Stumm, but he did not laugh. 'It is sober common sense, I said. 'But you must begin at the right end.
I had most of my clothes on now and felt more courageous. 'It is all a plot to get him into disgrace and draft him off to the front. Stumm did not storm as I expected, but smiled. 'That was always his destiny, he said, 'ever since I saw him. He was no use to us except as a man with a rifle. Cannon-fodder, nothing else.
I remembered Blenkiron's news about the Russians advancing on a broad front, for it was clear that Stumm was taking pains about the flank of the fortress. Kara Gubek was the point of interest. It stood on a rib of land between two peaks, which from the contour lines rose very steep. So long as it was held it was clear that no invader could move down the Euphrates glen.
I have not come six thousand miles to be made a fool of. 'Discipline, by God, Stumm cried. 'This is none of your ragged commandos. In two strides he was above me and had lifted me out of my seat. His great hands clutched my shoulders, and his thumbs gouged my armpits. I felt as if I were in the grip of a big ape. Then very slowly he shook me so that my teeth seemed loosened and my head swam.
Stumm switched on the electric light, and there was a great hall with black tarnished portraits of men an women in old-fashioned clothes, and mighty horns of deer on the walls. There seemed to be no superfluity of servants.
We've got to find a hole somewhere just outside the castrol, and some sort of head-cover. We're bound to get damaged whatever happens, but we'll stick it out to the end. When they think they have finished with us and rush the place, there may be one of us alive to put a bullet through old Stumm. What do you say?
For such a moment I would have gone through fire and water. 'Majesty, this is the Dutchman I spoke of, I heard Stumm say. 'What language does he speak? the Emperor asked. 'Dutch, was the reply; 'but being a South African he also speaks English. A spasm of pain seemed to flit over the face before me. Then he addressed me in English.
Suddenly a big grey bonnet slipped past me and as I turned my head I heard a familiar voice. It was Stumm, looking like something that has been run over. He had his jaw in a sling, so that I wondered if I had broken it, and his eyes were beautifully bunged up. It was that that saved me, that and his raging temper.
Rasta and the Turks wanted our blood: so did Stumm and the Germans; and once the lady found we were deceiving her she would want it most of all. Our only hope was Sandy, and he gave no sign of his existence. I began to fear that with him, too, things had miscarried. And yet I wasn't really depressed, only impatient.
In Germany we put discipline first and last, and therefore we will conquer the world. Off with you now. Your train starts in three minutes. We will see what von Stumm will make of you. That fellow gave me the best 'feel' of any German I had yet met. He was a white man and I could have worked with him. I liked his stiff chin and steady blue eyes.
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