8/11 Their dull minds, slowly reacting, could not grasp the significance of all this. "And they are alone! What meaneth this ?" "_M'adri_" (I know not), ejaculated still another. "But _kill--kill_!" Their attack was hopeless, but its bravery ranked perfect. Their shouting charge down the chamber, sabers high, ended in grunting sprawls of white. Not half-naked like the low-caste Maghrabi outside, but clad in Arab fashion, they lay there, with Legionaries' bullets in breast and brain. |