Fritz Mundt does not feel very eager to be disarmed and manages to push over two of the strangers. Teuns Stegmann also grabs one of the men and throws him so hard that he lands on his head.
“It would be better to teach your men some manners, Capitaine. Otherwise, we will have a very bad situation here,” the stranger says haughtily.
Capitaine“Be calm, mes amis,” D’Arlan tells his men, “we will have our reckoning with this rubbish later.” He winks at his men, and they immediately understand his request and stand down.
mes amis“Give the capitaine a horse to ride,” orders the wiry stranger, one of his men. “We cannot expect a famous French Foreign Legion captain to go on foot.” There is a queer friendliness in his voice, a kind of courteousness in his manner that D’Arlan cannot understand.
