Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-04-04
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government. And there is the
mysterious incident OH the island
Of Capri when the German en-
peror, just as he was about to be
buried under a landslip, was saved
by a hermit who. according to the
German version, was none other
than Arsene Lupin.
To this came a fresh objection :
VERY we'll but read the news
papers of the time: 10 minutes
afterward, the hermit flung HIM
self into the sea from Tiberius'
leap" And the answer:
Yes, but the body was never
found. And, as it happens, we
know that a steamer picked up a
man who was making signals to
her an dthat this steamer was on
her way to Algicrs. Well, a few
days later, Don Luis Perenna en-
listed in the foreign legious at
Sidi-bel-Abbes."
OF course, the controversy upon
which the newspapers embarked
on this subject was carried on dis
creetly. Everybody was afraid of
Lupin; and the Journalists main
tanned a certain eserve in their
articles, confined themselves to
comparing dates and pointing out
condolences, and refrained from
speaking too positively of any Lu-
pin that might lie hidden under
the mask of Perenna.
But, as regards the private in
the foreign legion and his stay in
Morocco, they took their revenge
and let themselves go freely.
Major d'Astrignac had spoken.
Other officers, other comrades Of
Perenna' 8, related what they had
seen. The reports and daily orders
concerning him were published.
And what became known as "The
Hero's Idyll" began to take the
form of a sort of record each page
Of which described the maddest
and unlikeliest of facts.
At Mediouna, on the oath of
March, the adjutant, Captain Pol
lex, awarded Private Perenna four
days. cells on a charge of having
broken out of camp past two SEN
tries after evening roll call, con-
trary to orders, and being absent
without leave until noon on the fol-
lowing day. Perenna, the report
went on to say, brought back the
body Of his sergeant, killed in am
bush. And in the margin was this
note, in the colonel's hand:
The colonel commanding doubles
Private Perenna's reward, but mentions
his name in orders and congratulates
and thanks him.
After. the fight of Ber-Rechid,,
lieutenant Fardet's detachment
being obliged to retreat before a
band Of 400 Moors, Private Peren-
ma asked leave to cover the retreat
by installing himself in a kasbah.
GLOW many men do you want,
Perennial"
"None, SIR"
"What! Surely you don't pro-
pose to cover a retreat all by your
self2"
"What pleasure would there be
in dying, sir, if others were to die.
as we'll as II"
At his request, they left him a
dozen rifles, and divided with him
the cartridges that remained. His
share came to IS.
The detachment got away with
out being further molested. Next
day, when they were able to re-
turn with reinforcements, they
surprised the Moors lying in wait
around the kasbah, but afraid to
approach. The ground was COW
cred with IS Of their killed.
Our men drove them off. They
found Private Perenna stretched
out on the floor of the kasbah.
They thought him dead. He was
asleep!
He had not a single cartridge
left. But each of his IS bullets had
gon home.
What struck the Imagination Of
the public most however, was
Major d'Astrignac's story Of the
battle Of OAR bibarh. The major