Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-11-30
Roy, The Royalist.
By WILLIAM WEsrALL


 pasha surprised me by saying that he intended to lead the sortie in person. l tried hard to dissuade him; for, being the only Turkish officer in the place good for anything and on whom we could depend, his life was precious. But l failed to win him from his purpose. twas the first sortie. He must see how his officers behaved. Well led, he said, his men would fight like lions; badly led, they would run; and unless they were under his own eye he was never sure they would be we'll led. Moreover, he had no fear for the result. His time was not come.
 This was final. I said no more. Our plan, as arranged the previous night, French position in front of the great tower. fall on the guard, spike the guns, which were parked near the trenches, and beat n retreat before we could be attacked in force or cut off. A hundred Albanians were left in reserve, near the exit of the sally port, or covered pas sage, through which we passed from the inner to the outer Notifications, and through which we should have to re- turn. The rest of us, some three hun dred strong, then turned towards the sea shore, and, after marching, or rather creeping, few hundred yards, wheeled to the right at point where there was little cover, and then ad- vanced as stealthily as Indians on the war path towards a part of the French position which we had reason to believe was very inditferently guarded
 DJezzar, who knew every yard eff the ground, went first with n hundred men; next came Murad, and I with my blue jackets brought up the rear
 It was not very dark, rather the gray of misty morning; and as l emerged from the sallyport fancied I caught a glimpse of a ghostly figure gliding to- wards the French lines. The next mo ment it was gone. Could it be one of the dervishes whom we had seen near the mosque? Djezzar's soldiers were not incorruptible, and a false dervish with money in his pocket would have no difficulty in smuggling himself out of the city.
 But it would have been absurd to sug- gest the abandonment of the expedition because l imagined that had seen a figure which might be that of spy, and so contented myself with warning my mon to keep a sharp lookout and re- solving to do the same myself.
 At first all went we'll. We overpow- cred the outlying picket before they could give the alarm, reached the trenches unobserved, killed the slender guard to man, and while Murad and score or two of his men were collect ing intrenching tools, for the double purpose of incoveniencing the enemy and providing ourselves with imple- ments of which we stood in great need, the rest of us ran on to spike the guns But they were farther off than we ex- pectcd, and we had hardly reached them when we heard the firing and frantic shouts in our rear.
 "We have been betrayed. They are attacking Murad. Baclll baclxl or we shall be cut off" shouted Diezzar.
 We found Murad fighting at desper- ate odds with crowd of French sol diers, whose numbers, in the misty darkness, it was impossible to esti- mate. But they were between us and Acre.
 "CharTc!" shouted the pasha.
 "Allah il Allah!' cried the Maugra- bins, as they rushed wildly on, their HclhlltdFS III thelr rlShC nandS, thelr daggcrs in their left. Thus armed, they were more than a match for the French inesmen, whose bayonet-thrusts they could ward off with one weapon while they smote with the other.
 "Rally to me! keep close together, and take care of the old manr' I sang out to my kangaroos.
 There was very little shooting. One ~olley from our pistols, and then the