The Arabs in the front suddenly jump forward, but then Brigitte reacts. She turns around, ascends the ladder halfway to the top, and orders. “Take the Legion men back inside the plane and close the door.”
The officer to whom she has given the order has also gone pale in the face of the angry mob and complies immediately. He pushes Catroux and the front of the men back inside the plane, enters, and closes the door.
“What had come over the madame, I wonder?” Fritz asks. “For the moment, she had saved our lives.”
madame“She had only done it temporarily, big guy, for her to do bigger things to us later,” Teuns finds.
They hear Brigitte talking outside, loudly and urgently.
“I can understand your anger when you see a Legion dog,” she says, “but we must not become senseless. They will be pu
