Helplessly, Catroux looks at Teuns. “It is all for nothing,” he says. “We will get nothing more out of him. Do you think the Berbers saw us coming? I mean, do you think they spotted us yesterday?”
“There is no reason why they would not have seen us, mon Sergent,” Fritz replies. “They are the most cautious bandits in the whole of the Sahara. They probably scanned the whole desert to the back of them yesterday to see if they were being followed. I am sure they saw us coming, and this man is the bait we had to take.”
mon Sergent“But, why bring him up here? Why did not they ambush us in the desert?”
“There could be many reasons why they had brought us to this place,” Jack Ritchie reckons.
“Jenene…” the young man mutters again. “Arabs…”
“Ah, now he already says two words,” Catroux calls ou
