Chapter 7KARIMA PREVAILS
D’Arlan staggered under the blow that he had been dealt. It was not the fact that he now had barely a hundred men with which to deal with the Arabs that shocked him the most, it was the fact that so many men under his command were willing to abandon the Foreign Legion and their comrades... that they were prepared to go over to the enemy. That was what disappointed him the most. This was the very first time in his long military career that he had been dealt such a humiliation. He believed that his men were loyal to him, that they respected him and that they trusted him in all circumstances. And now they had shamed him and the Foreign Legion in this most treacherous manner.
“Were the guards asleep?” Juin’s captain wanted to know. “Why didn’t they sound the alarm?”
