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       P. C. Wren

      The Collected Works of P. C. Wren: Complete Beau Geste Series, Novels & Short Stories

      Complete Beau Geste Series, Novels & Short Stories

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      Table of Contents

       The Beau Geste Trilogy:

       BEAU GESTE

       BEAU IDEAL

       BEAU SABREUR

       Novels:

       SNAKE AND SWORD

       THE WAGES OF VIRTUE

       DRIFTWOOD SPARS

       CUPID IN AFRICA: Or, The Baking of Bertram in Love and War

       Short Story Collections:

       STEPSONS OF FRANCE

       GOOD GESTES

       FLAWED BLADES

       PORT O' MISSING MEN

      The Beau Geste Trilogy:

       Table of Contents

      BEAU GESTE

       Table of Contents

       Part I. Major Henri De Beaujolais' Story

       Chapter I. Of the Strange Events at Zinderneuf

       Chapter II. George Lawrence Takes the Story to Lady Brandon at Brandon Abbas

       Part II. The Mystery of the "Blue Water"

       Chapter I. Beau Geste and His Band

       Chapter II. The Disappearance of the "Blue Water"

       Chapter III. The Gay Romantics

       Chapter IV. The Desert

       Chapter V. The Fort at Zinderneuf

       Chapter VI. A "Viking's Funeral"

       Chapter VII. Ishmaelites

      Part I.

       Major Henri De Beaujolais' Story

       Table of Contents

      Chapter I.

       Of the Strange Events at Zinderneuf

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      TOLD BY MAJOR HENRI DE BEAUJOLAIS OF THE SPAHIS

       TO

       GEORGE LAWRENCE, ESQ., C.M.G., OF THE NIGERIAN CIVIL SERVICE

       "Tout ce que je raconte, je l'ai vu, et si j'ai pu me tromper en le voyant, bien certainement je ne vous trompe pas en vous le disant." "The place was silent and aware."

      Mr. George Lawrence, C.M.G., First Class District Officer of His Majesty's Civil Service, sat at the door of his tent and viewed the African desert scene with the eye of extreme disfavour. There was beauty neither in the landscape nor in the eye of the beholder.

      The landscape consisted of sand, stone, kerengia burr-grass, tafasa underbrush, yellow, long-stalked with long thin bean-pods; the whole varied by clumps of the coarse and hideous tumpafia plant.

      The eye was jaundiced, thanks to the heat and foul dust of Bornu, to malaria, dysentery, inferior food, poisonous water, and rapid continuous marching in appalling heat.

      Weak and ill in body, Lawrence was worried and anxious in mind, the one reacting on the other.

      In the first place, there was the old standing trouble about the Shuwa Patrol; in the second, the truculent Chiboks were waxing insolent again, and their young men were regarding not the words of their elders concerning Sir Garnet Wolseley, and what happened, long, long ago, after the battle of Chibok Hill. Thirdly,

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