The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-13

He Had Found Chambret.
gers left behind, came to the Irish
man; he began to breathe more free
ly, though still the polished butt Of
repeating rife swinging from the sad.
die remained comfort to his palm.
He grew more confident, mentally at
ease, seeing the desert take shape
in the moonlight and show itself desc.
late on every hand.
Even as be gained assurance from
this thought the guide turned in his
saddle and cried warning: The Tou.
aregg!" From that moment or both
welded merciless whips. For out OF
the moonlit wastes behind them had
shrilled voice, cruel and wild, an.
nouncing discovery and the inception
of the chase. The fugitives had need
OF NO sharper spur.
| A rife shot rang sharp on the echoes
fallen far short. A moment later. in
deed, they opened a brisk, scattering
Internationally Intellectual, though the
bullets dropping right and left in the
sand proved that tho chase had got
within range.
Even with that warning, the end
was nearer than he had dreamed or
hoped. 1t came in a twinkling and as
unexpected ~ q belt out OF q clear
sky: u fash Of fire ahead, q spitful
snap and-pttt!-the song Of a bullet
speeding past his head.
The guide pulled up with q jerk.
O'Rourke, refining in desperately,
swung his camel wide to avert the
threatened collision. simultaneously
the sharp "Qui vive?' Of French
sentry rang out loud and sweet TO
hear.
Thank Cod" said the adventurer
in his heart. And aloud, "Friends!'
he cried, driving past the sentry in a
cloud of dust.
BY a blessed miracle the man was
quick OF wit, and swift to grasp the
situation-of which, however, he
must have had some warning from
the rattle Of firing. He screamed
something in O'Rourke's ear as the
latter passed, and turning threw him
self fiat and began to pump the trig
ger Of his carbine, emptying the maya
zine at the on-sweeping line OF Tou
aregg.
The alarm was hardly needed
O'Rourke and the guide swept on
over the slip Of depression In the
desert and halted in the midst OF Q
camp already quickened and alive
with shadowy figures running method
ically to their posts, carbine and &C
coutrement cleaning In the moon
light: men of the camel crops, hard
ened to and familiar with their work
They buckIed down to 1t in a bust
ness-like way that thrilled the hear
OF O'Rourke. In trice they were
doubling out past lines OF tetheret
mehara, past the white hillocks Of
the officers shelter-tents and, like the
sentry, throwing themselves dowr
upon the ground to take shelter o.
whatever inequalities the face of tn,
desert offered; and their firing ringet
the bivouac with fringe OF flame.
O'Rourke slipped from his came
and turned to watch the skirmish.
Massed, the Touaregg, in strength
greater than the adventurer had be
lieved-something like two hundre,
mounted men. In all-charged dow
upon the camp as II to over-run ant
stampede It,
, Yet at the critical moment, whel
II seemed that OF a surety there wa
no stopping them, they divided an,
swung round the camp In two wild
circles, scattering into open order an,
firing as they scattered. Here an,
.. there horse fell. rider threw on
his hands and toppled from his sad
die, camel seemed to buckle at full
tilt like a faulty piece OF machinery
and so gaps appeared In the flynn
Q wings.
For the men of the flying column
were picked shots. They had need 4
be, who had such tasks 90 this to cop
" with.
Nor-toT that matter-were the Tou
aregg the only sufferers. Here an,
there In the camp man plunged fol
ward In mid-stTide, and on the firin
line beyond the tents now and agaii
a sharpshooter shuddered and lay still
upon his arms, Even at C'Rourke'
side an officer was shot as ne ran /
' the front, and would have fallen ha,
not the lrishman caught him wit
: ready arms and let him easily to tn
earth. As he did so the stricken ma
rolled an agonized eye upward.
"O'Rourke!" he said between
: groan and a sigh.
And o'Rourke, kneeling at his sid
/, and peerins into his face, gave a BIZ
ter cry For he had found ChambreI