Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-10-24

fanatlcsY He attempted it; and
ms success was unparalleled.
81 do not think that there has
ever been an idyl like that
through which we lived during
those 10 months, first on the
heights of the Atlas range and
then in the Internal plains of the
Sahara: an idyl of heroism, of pri-
vation, Of superhuman torture
and superhuman joy; an idyl of
hunger and thirst, of total defeat
and dazzling victory. a..
"My so trusty followers threw
themselves into their work with
might and main. Oh, what men!
You know them Monsieur lie Pres
ident du Conseil! You've had
them to deal with, Monsieur lie
Project de Police! The beggars!
Tears come to my eyes when l
think of some Of them.
"There were Charolais and his
son, who distinguished themselves
in the case of the Princesse de
Laballe's tiara. There were Marco
who owed his fame to the Kessel-
bach case, and Auguste, who was
your chief messenger, Monsieur lie
President. There were the Grow
Ter and the Washer, who achieved
, such glory in the hunt for the
crystal stopper. There were the
brothers Bonneville, whom / used
to call the two Ajaxes. There
were Philippe d'Antrac, who was
better born than any Bourbon,
and Pierre LIE Grand and Tristan
LIE Roux and Joseph LIE Jeune.' -
"And there was Arsene Lupin"
repeated Don Luis.
He nodded his head, smiled.
and continued, in a very quiet
voice:
II will not speak of him, Mon
sieur lie President. l will not
speak of him, for the simple rea-
son that you would not believe
my story. What they tell about
him when he was with the For
eign Legion is mere child play
beside what was to come later.
Lupin was only a private soldier.
In South Morocco he was a gem
eral. NOT till then did Arsene
Lupin really show what he could
do. And, | say it without pride,
not even | foresaw what that was.
The Achilles of the legend per
formed no greater feats. Hanni-
bal and Caesar achieved no more
striking results.
"All l need tell you is that. in
10 months, Arsene Lupin con-
quered a kingdom twice the size of
France. From the Berbers Of Mo-
rocco, from the indomitable
Tuaregs, from the Arabs of the
extreme south of Algeria, from
the negroes who overrun Senegal,
from the sMoors alongethe Atlantic
coast, under the blazing sun, in
the flames of hell, he conquered
half the Sahara and what we NAV
call ancient Mauritania.
"a kingdom Of deserts and
swampsf Partly, but a kingdom
all the same, with oases, wells,
rivers, forests, and incalculable
riches, a kingdom with 100000
men and 100000 warriors. This
ID the kingdom which / offer to
France, Monsieur le President du
iConseil."
VAlsnglay did not conceal his
amazement. Greatly excited and
even pertnrbed by what he had
learned, leaning over his extra
ordinary visitor, with his hands
~Eclutching at the map Of Africa,
he whispered:
Explain yourself; be more
p~recise."
Don Luis answered:
Monsieur lie President du Con
sell, / will not remind you Of the
events Of the last few years.
France, resolving to puraue i
splendid dream of dominion ever
North Africa, has had to part
with 1 portion Of the Congo.
propose to heal the painful
wound BY giving her so times q
mhch assshe he's lolt. And I turn
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