WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.120 --> 00:00:06.040 Tired out from a strenuous weekend, get a little too 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:06.879 much sunburn. 3 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:09.400 I want to get away from it all. 4 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:14.839 M h. 5 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:19.679 We offer you escape. 6 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:27.359 You are stealthily stalking into a silent desert fortress, walking 7 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:30.800 into what you know may be a trap. Around you 8 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:35.359 stand a legion of dead men, and over you, an 9 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:38.520 unseen menace hangs in the African night. 10 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.320 Escape designed to free you from the four walls of 11 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:54.079 today for a half hour of high adventure. 12 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:02.359 Hum hm. Tonight we are escaped to Africa, to the Sahara, 13 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.200 to an earlier day and one of the greatest adventure 14 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:11.760 mysteries of all time. Perciful Christopher Wren's boul Jess. 15 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:32.439 The report had been brought to my head quarters and 16 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:35.000 took or to three days before, and I'd had the 17 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.480 squadron on horse un ready to leave within ten minutes. 18 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:41.040 We've been on continuous forced march ever since. The camel 19 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:43.560 scout had reported that this indin of outpost was under 20 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.239 attack from a force of at least two thousand Arabs, 21 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:49.879 and the tiny garrison had little chance of surviving. As 22 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:51.959 we came up to the last crest of sand dune, 23 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.560 shutting off our view of the lonely mud fort. I 24 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:58.000 ordered my sergeant major to Lismont Demain in formed skirmish lines, 25 00:01:58.280 --> 00:01:59.799 while I rode on ahead to reconnoiter. 26 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:02.560 At the top of the ridge. 27 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.040 I reined in my horse and sat staring in amazement 28 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.280 over the two hundred yards of bare sands stretching up 29 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:14.400 to the walls of the fort. Nothing moved, There was 30 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:18.479 no sound, no sign of life. The oasis off to 31 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:23.599 my left was deserted, the Arabs were gone, and the 32 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:27.719 dragola of France still waved overhead. Then two shots of 33 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:30.199 work were fired from the fort, and the bullets kicked 34 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:31.879 up spats of dust off to one side of me. 35 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:34.719 I rode in under the walls and stopped in front 36 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:37.240 of the tall wooden gate. I could see now that 37 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:40.080 every consolate above me was mended by a grim faced leigonnaire, 38 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:41.800 holding his rifle. 39 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:42.560 Leveled and ready. 40 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:46.879 Congratulations with me, wells, and I are proud to salute you. 41 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:53.360 Come now, why so, grime, you are victorious? Inform your 42 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.360 coming down the ram nature of the spies, of which 43 00:02:55.400 --> 00:03:01.479 is leasure, leisure eire you up there with a pipe 44 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:03.680 in your mouth, go and form your comment down. Do 45 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:06.560 you hear me, he's everything another monk. 46 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:10.960 Commodore, I'm not sure. Sound the regimental call. 47 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:22.639 They do not, m officiate. You leave me satin. 48 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:23.759 When I get inside this. 49 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:26.240 Foe capital the man over the gate, he has been 50 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:27.240 shot in the forehead. 51 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:30.879 Suck, you are right, sad on he's dead and they 52 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.479 won next to him. Wait on along these walls. They 53 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.599 are all day impossible then, who've ed the shots? 54 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:39.840 When I roared up, Sergeant, get a volunteer. Have him 55 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:41.919 climb up the wall and open this gate from the inside. 56 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:43.840 If you will pardon me, mont command down, Yes, I 57 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:44.560 will volunteer. 58 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:50.800 Hm hmm, all right, glove go, hey, wimont commodown sudden, 59 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:54.520 this could be a trap. Have the men take open 60 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:57.280 order at fifty yards and wait and watch the gun 61 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:58.360 slits there along. 62 00:03:58.159 --> 00:03:58.680 The wall. 63 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:07.240 And the wait we did five minutes ten The men 64 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:09.919 began to look at one another to stir uneasily. 65 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:14.599 The thought was silent. Nothing moved. 66 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:21.040 Fifteen minutes pass the gate was not opened, and the 67 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:22.720 bugler did not come back. 68 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.480 Finally, my sergeant and I climbed the wall. 69 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:31.959 Ourselves, which searched the eerie outpost room by room, but 70 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:34.560 we could find no sign of our bugler, nor of 71 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:38.079 any other living soul. The bodies of the entire garrison 72 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:39.800 were on the battle ramp at the top of the wall. 73 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:43.920 The heads and shoulders jam grotesquely into the gun slates, 74 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:47.560 for somebody probed them, while their dead ants clutched the 75 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.959 rifles they would never fire again. Only two bodies were 76 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:55.360 not so pleased. One was that of a light haired 77 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.959 young man, who lay peacefully on his back, his hands 78 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:01.040 crossed over the right wound in his chest. 79 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:07.639 And the other body, this one was the commandancy. 80 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:10.839 He was a gold star, so it does surg but 81 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:13.680 he also was a French bayonet in his heart. He 82 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:15.279 was murdered by one of his own. 83 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.959 Men, rifles fired from an empty ford. The buglar has disappeared. 84 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.360 I do not like this place. Oh, in the name 85 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:24.560 of Heaven did they stab him? His revolver is still 86 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:29.759 in his right hand. The other scrap of paper, perhaps 87 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:35.319 the paper explains all of this to the eye, Commissioner 88 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:41.120 of Scotland Yard, you by confess William Philly the die 89 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:46.439 and die alone stole the great sapphire known as blue Water, 90 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:49.120 signed bow yest. 91 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:51.680 What this is all about? What does this mean? Comment? 92 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:55.079 On these things are impersible, But they have happened. They 93 00:05:55.120 --> 00:06:00.120 do not make sense. Why don't we not go outside? 94 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:02.120 But this was not to be the end of it. 95 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.600 Shortly after dark, a tongue of flame flared suddenly in 96 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:07.639 the heart of the silent fort, and in a matter 97 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:10.839 of moments the whole interior was ablaze, throwing a great 98 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.519 perter of fire up into the black desert night. 99 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:19.600 We sat and watched it burn. 100 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:23.879 There was nothing else through and as I stared at 101 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:28.519 the leaping flames, kindled by some unseen and unknown hand, 102 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:33.519 I realized suddenly that neither I nor any man alive 103 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:38.959 would ever know what strange things had really happened here 104 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:40.240 at the lonely fort. 105 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:41.680 I was Internet. 106 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:57.000 My name is John Jest, and I am the only 107 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:06.399 person alive who knows all that happened at Sundnough. My 108 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.680 two brothers and I grew up at Brandon Ebbs, south 109 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:12.639 of London. Beau was the oldest, then Digby, and finally 110 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:13.839 myself two years younger. 111 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:16.560 I can remember very little. 112 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:18.600 Of those days as I look back, except that we 113 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:22.399 were happy as only young boys can be. We read 114 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:25.720 thrilling tales of the French foreign legion sailed toy boats 115 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:28.680 on the pond, and gave flaming Viking funerals for the 116 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:31.720 tin soldiers who fell in our battles, burning them on 117 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:35.199 funeral piles of kindlingwood, with toy dogs and horses at 118 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:39.959 their feet, while Digby blew taps on his trumpet. Our 119 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:43.480 only queen was cool and lovely Aunt Patricia, with whom 120 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.639 we lived. Her husband, Sir Hector, was seldom in England. 121 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:49.360 And if the hurt in Aunt Patricia's eyes grew deeper 122 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.279 with the years, while the great estate fell slowly into ruin, 123 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:55.639 then we children knew nothing of it. There were the 124 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:59.839 two girls, of course, our cousins. Only girls didn't count 125 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:05.399 that age. But those days are far away now I'm 126 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:09.879 gone forever, and I can remember clearly only that one 127 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:12.720 last night when the three of us came home from Oxford. 128 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:15.600 Our cousins were there, and we were all together for 129 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:19.720 the holidays. It was on that night the story of 130 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:31.800 Zinderner rarely began. We finished dinner and played games for 131 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:32.200 a while. 132 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.679 Now we just sat in the library talking. 133 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:38.840 Gradually our attention became focused more and more on the 134 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:41.919 small black set in box standing in the center of 135 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:42.360 the table. 136 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:45.720 Please can't we open the case now? Look at it. 137 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:47.639 You've had it sitting there for half an hour. 138 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:50.799 Dear, I thought you always liked to draw out the 139 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:52.159 suspense as long as possible. 140 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:53.840 It's enough, I. 141 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:56.279 Must I agree with their arpetration. Why bo you do 142 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:01.480 come on annual look at the family jewels? Well, all right, 143 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:03.600 I should have my trumpet to blow up. 144 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:08.960 Ladies and gentlemen. One of the six largest and most 145 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.440 perfect sapphires in the world, the blue. 146 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:15.159 Water rather and I've seen it half dozen times a 147 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:15.960 year all my life. 148 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:17.480 Go ahead, Claudia, take it down. 149 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:20.159 It's nice to look at it. 150 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:20.399 Bob. 151 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:24.240 When you touch it it always feels cold. John, would 152 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.399 you like to juggle a stone worth fifty thousand pounds? 153 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:28.960 I think I'll just look for a wild dig after all. 154 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:33.720 Burden will have them back on again in a minute. 155 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:35.840 Please don't move about and bump into things. 156 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:36.960 I'm quite you Everything will. 157 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:37.639 Be all right in a moment. 158 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:42.399 So the ghost makes you think of skeleton hands and cops. 159 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.080 Claudia are among friends, you know, Swear? 160 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.639 I feel something touch I can't understand why burdened? 161 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:51.960 Oh there we are not a soul got lost in 162 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:53.679 the dark we're probably all of us. 163 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:59.200 Look please, ladies and gentlemen, and I think all of 164 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:02.200 us are who decided to play this joke. 165 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:09.320 The sapphire's gone. The next hour became a nightmare. 166 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:12.360 None of us present would admit having taken the sapphire, 167 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:14.559 and if the thing had been done as a joke, 168 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:18.399 then already it had been carried too far. Aunt Patricia 169 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:21.039 went to bed, finally telling us that the library would 170 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:24.240 be left open all night so the prankster, which were 171 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:27.399 not using the word thief, could return the blue water. 172 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:28.279 To its case in secret. 173 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:32.360 The rest was drifted off to our rooms, and an 174 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:35.879 hour before midnight, Digby came in to tell me quietly 175 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:38.159 that our brother Beau had packed a bag and left 176 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:47.200 Brandon Avis. I turned out my light and said, in 177 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:51.039 the darkness, listening to the ticking of the clock, I 178 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.679 was not surprised when two hours after midnight I heard 179 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:57.919 a sound below my window. Looked out to see Digby 180 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:01.320 slipping off down the drive. Who was fairly certain that 181 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:04.200 neither of my brothers had stirring the sapphire. But I 182 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:07.759 understood what they were doing. Gallant as always, Beau had 183 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:10.279 run away to draw suspicion from those innocent ones who. 184 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:10.759 Might be hurt. 185 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.200 And Digby had followed in order to split up the 186 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:18.000 search for Beau. I could only guess where they'd gone. 187 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.240 But long before dawn, I decided where I must go 188 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:26.240 and what I had to do. And so it was 189 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:29.480 that five days later I walked into the Fort Terrace, 190 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.600 into the recruit barracks of the French Foreign Legion in Algeria. 191 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:37.360 And if they referred to this cattle barn as a barracks, 192 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:39.320 heaven knows what'd be out Digby. 193 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:40.759 Look who just came in the door? 194 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:44.279 Good lord Bow it's John, Hey, John, youngster, come here, 195 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:46.240 take me Woa hallo. 196 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:48.960 I'd a waited tender one i'd find you. 197 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:52.240 In the legion, you brainless young idiot, both of you. 198 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:53.639 Why what's wrong? 199 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:53.879 Though? 200 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.000 Oh Beau wanted to be the only noble one in 201 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:57.720 the family, John no attention to him. 202 00:11:57.720 --> 00:11:59.440 Well, there was no need for all of us running away. 203 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:01.399 After all, I stole the blue water. 204 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:03.240 I'm trying to say how you could have since I 205 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:05.120 brought it with me, had a deic of a time 206 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:06.000 getting it through customers. 207 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.879 Look, you two, I've had that sappar all the time. 208 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:11.519 And if either of you would like to take a 209 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:12.039 look at it. 210 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:15.000 I wonder who did steal it. 211 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.960 That's the difference. It's driven all three of us the 212 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:22.080 foreign legion. Now you're in for five years, whether we 213 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:22.600 like it or not. 214 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:23.559 Fine, what do we do? 215 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:25.440 We haven't done anything yet. It's supposed to be some 216 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:26.879 kind of an inspection in a minute. 217 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:31.480 You know you shouldn't have come either. But I'm I'm 218 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:32.320 glad you're both here. 219 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:34.000 Thanks both so am I. 220 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:35.279 I can't say exactly what we're in. 221 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:37.240 Together. 222 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:40.600 I think we're going to stand up. 223 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:42.039 What is it a man or a gorilla? 224 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.720 I think it's Sergeant John. The other men say. 225 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:52.080 He's a night cherty little jugs. 226 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.960 Were sneveling, little personal joy. If I so oh, I say, 227 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:02.799 not shut up one more remark, and I will be 228 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:05.720 most happy to kick your teeth out of your head, 229 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:11.720 but out your hands. All three of you bombs up, 230 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:18.799 never done a day's work in your lives. Well, we 231 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:23.559 are going to change all that, my little pigs self 232 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:25.559 crab blue. If we are not going to change it, 233 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:28.519 I shall not to see the sand until you drop 234 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:32.120 on your faces. When that happens, I shall kick you 235 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.320 until you get up or die. If you choose to die, 236 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:37.960 perhaps I shall go on kicking you after you are dead. 237 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:42.200 You are in the Lesion now, my little dogs, and 238 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:44.240 I shall give you cost to know it. 239 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:46.159 You will curse. 240 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:49.919 Sort elution ten thousand times if you live long enough, 241 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:53.159 and each time you will wish you had stayed in 242 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:54.279 England to be hanged. 243 00:13:54.919 --> 00:14:01.960 If you know that properly? Should all of that perfectly clear? Yes, sir? Yes, 244 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:03.919 h well that is much better. 245 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:06.080 Recruits reporting fool. 246 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:07.960 Get to the parent ground in ten minutes. 247 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:10.960 Meanwhile, fall out and clean up this pitchti. 248 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:16.600 Yes, miss, if anybody wanted him, I'll sell my shadows. 249 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:18.360 Five years of that. He's not even human. 250 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:20.759 Well, he's part of the Legion, lads, and after all, 251 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:22.679 they didn't ask us to come over here and join 252 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:23.080 the day. 253 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:26.360 If you will pardon me, gentlemen, I would like to 254 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:30.960 take the liberty of introducing myself Francisco Blonde at yourself. 255 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.120 Well, well, the Smith's brothers, monsieur there John. 256 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.840 This is my third enlistment with the Legions, so I 257 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.120 know what I am saying, and I can tell you 258 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:44.960 mis own, for you have started off on the wrong foot. 259 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:49.080 You should not have antagonized him. How did we antagonize 260 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:51.360 the good Sergeant Blonde? Well, who knows? 261 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:52.960 Perhaps your hands were too clean. 262 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:54.360 Whats no matter? 263 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:59.480 For now you have Francisco Blande as your advisor. We 264 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:04.159 are I standing very well with Sergeant Leisure. There are reasons, 265 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:08.200 and I have other contacts too. I know all the 266 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:11.080 ins and outs of this business, and I can be 267 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:16.080 most useful to anyone who has something very valuable to hide. 268 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.080 These men here they are all thieves. 269 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:22.200 Of course, good heaven, it's not really. There is no 270 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:24.799 time to talk now. But after really we will meet 271 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:27.960 in the canteen for a bottle of wine, and I 272 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:31.799 think we shall become very good friends. 273 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:38.080 Ah but chaps, I can't quite see. Mister Oil is 274 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:40.679 one of our close friends. He overheard us talking about 275 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:41.159 the Sapphire. 276 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:45.720 Of course, between him and thousands and signiory attention to me. 277 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:48.000 Pretend that I'm only a polishing and this is about eh. 278 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:51.279 But listener carefully, yes, do not trust that man a Blonding. 279 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:54.879 He's a thief, a liar. He's a little bloodhound who 280 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.000 works for Sergeant a John. When you wish to know something, 281 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.480 you come to me. Wan't die you. I would take 282 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:02.279 a good care of you, Ane, I'll bet you're world 283 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:02.480 at that. 284 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:04.879 So won don't we find the chance to talk. I 285 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:08.720 want dire, will affix everything. Do not let anyone steal it. 286 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:11.919 I go now, you be very. 287 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.879 Kale ha well, along with Lejohn, we now have a 288 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.320 bunch of thieves who probably try to steal the sapphire. 289 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:21.519 Ho ho, Come along, lads, let's find out how they 290 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:22.600 marching the legion. 291 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:30.200 In March, we did hours in the girling sun and 292 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:32.279 the dust. Day after day. 293 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:34.919 We wondered how much worse it would be on the desert. 294 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:37.320 We grow hard and tough, and we will learn the 295 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:39.279 waste of the legion and the waste of the legionnaires. 296 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:42.519 Some we liked and some we hated. But either way 297 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:44.639 we learned to live with them, talk with them, drink 298 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:49.559 with them. We became soldiers legionnaires. We long for active duty, 299 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:52.399 and we got it even sooner than we hoped. 300 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:55.159 A devil. 301 00:16:56.440 --> 00:17:00.639 Every I feel your God an all. 302 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:07.920 We marched out of city Belavez to the south, and 303 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.079 we learned how beastly crow the desert is. The Kafar 304 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:13.839 broke out the second week. That madness that comes in 305 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:16.319 the brain is cooked by the sun. And men became 306 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:17.599 gibbling idiots and died. 307 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:18.799 I took good. 308 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:20.640 Some of the men were detached and sent to Tokoor 309 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:24.240 two for cavalry training. Among them my brother Digby, and 310 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:27.400 the rest of us marched on. Two days later. Our 311 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:31.000 commandant went mad and shot himself, and the detachments command 312 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:35.079 passed to Sergeant le John armed south. Would we marched 313 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:38.400 to the last southern outpost, straight into the mouth of hell. 314 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:51.240 The thought, it's in enough. If we'd hoped for action, 315 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:52.279 we didn't find it. 316 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:52.880 It's into enough. 317 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:55.799 Day after day went by with no sight of the 318 00:17:55.799 --> 00:18:00.440 Arab forces, nothing but eternal sentry duty, and each dull 319 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:02.640 day was like the one before. 320 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:03.680 In full command. 321 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.559 Now the joone became more brittle than ever, and the 322 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:08.880 men glowered and growled at the breath, and he whispered 323 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:11.920 together in small groups. In a month, the thought was 324 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:16.079 seething under the surface with madness, hate, even worse. 325 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:20.839 Off duty. 326 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:22.839 At the moment Bourne, I was sitting at the oasis 327 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.400 and talking one afternoon, but we heard someone coming toward 328 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:27.359 us across his end. 329 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:30.680 Hold on, you watch, Johnny, here comes that little weasel 330 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:32.759 gone tireury. 331 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:35.119 You haven't seen no one around that not a sound 332 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:35.839 little puppy. 333 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:36.359 Good bye. 334 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:38.640 No, no, no, no, I must have talked with you. 335 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:40.400 You shouldn't know what is going to happen. 336 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:42.240 It must be good. It couldn't be any worse. 337 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:45.039 You of course, you know the legionnaire named Schwartz, the 338 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:46.440 one was the one's a butcher. 339 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:47.480 What about him? 340 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:51.119 Perhaps he's going to become a butcher again very soon, sinury. 341 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:53.279 Perhaps he's not going to kill a peep. 342 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:53.960 I don't know pigs. 343 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:57.079 Yeah, oh, but there is the one, a great fat 344 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:59.680 pig real or commandante of a pig. 345 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:01.920 Yeah, I did not say that, mutiny. 346 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:04.359 It may take a lot of butchers to kill that pig. 347 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:07.319 There are a lot to be butchers. But for you too, 348 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:10.519 the question is whether to be a pigs or butchers. 349 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.240 We shouldn't like to be butchered, of course, but now 350 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:15.960 that would we like to be eaten by the pig? 351 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:16.359 Yes? 352 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:19.680 Very difficult, But you must decide. It will happen soon. 353 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:22.680 Suppose the butchers did kill the pig and started across 354 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:25.440 the desert, they'll be dead in three days, thirst or 355 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:26.079 from the Arabs. 356 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:28.000 One must take chances. 357 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:31.599 Besides this, he plans to kill you for the greater 358 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:34.400 jewel which you have, I held him, tell a blonding. 359 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:38.079 I see, well, we'll let you know, gon tire. 360 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:40.799 I decide too quickly. If you wish to live, I 361 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:43.240 must go now say nothing to anyone. 362 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:49.240 Well, I rather think you're going to die one way 363 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:55.960 or another. D digbies out of it. Sure, well we'll 364 00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:57.279 wait and see what happened, shall we? 365 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:00.559 We were not forced to wait in anger than that 366 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:04.039 same night, I was awakening an hour before dawn by 367 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:07.359 someone whispering in my ear, Chris le Jean. And he 368 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:13.000 held a pistol in his hand. If you make one, sand, 369 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:14.480 I shall blow your brains out. 370 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:15.279 Follow me. 371 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:17.640 I fell it in quietly out of the bedic room 372 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:20.279 with its rosy sleeping men, and we stood beside the 373 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:21.799 old lamp that burned in the castle. 374 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:24.640 I've been informed of a plot to mutiny, and I've 375 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:26.920 been told that you and your brother have not joined it. 376 00:20:27.359 --> 00:20:29.599 I am going to nip that little scheme in the bird. 377 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:32.759 Do you understand, Yes, Sir Abien, you will go back 378 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:34.720 him there and wake your brother while I keep you 379 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:37.799 covered from the door. I have two rifles here. Your 380 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:40.119 brother will take one of them and kill any man 381 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:42.599 who tries to leave his bed. You will take the 382 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:45.200 other and come with me. We are going to descend 383 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.440 the guard. Whatever you say more, Commodore Babian, come on. 384 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:51.000 We left bow and guard at the bedic room door 385 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:53.720 and made our way through the sleeping ford, up the 386 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:54.960 ladder to the battle ramp. 387 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:57.440 Everything is very quiet. 388 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:00.000 A here mont, command d'Or, I have just DoD it. 389 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:01.279 This sentry into the guard. 390 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:03.279 The house and the arsenal is law. 391 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:06.400 BM go down to the gothouse and take their guns. 392 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:09.240 Tell them two rifles are covering the door, and any 393 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:11.519 man who steps into the night will be shore. 394 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:12.759 Come on on. 395 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:17.480 We stood there on the ramp a rifles into the 396 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:19.880 square of lights in the doorway. We waited. 397 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:23.039 I watched the first gray light of dawn filter over 398 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:25.359 the world, and one of the flajon was going to. 399 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:25.920 Get away with it. 400 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:28.759 I was given no chance to find out the jon't 401 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:29.839