Sahara Adventure Series
READING AGE 4+
10. SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES - MADEMOISELLE JULIE
About two thousand Dulacs have surrounded Fort Laval and are demanding that Captain Gaston Lefevre, the commanding officer of the French Foreign Legion, surrender the fort to them without any opposition. This places him in a very delicate situation because the Dulacs allege that they have kidnapped his daughter, Julie Lefevre. They say that they will kill her if he and all his soldiers do not immediately vacate the fort. The Arab sheik promises him that he is only interested in the fort and nothing else. To the utter dismay of his men, Captain Lefevre decides to grant the sheik’s request. He asks for a volunteer to go and fetch his daughter and make the final arrangements. The South African, Teuns Stegmann, is the only man who steps forward and takes the dangerous task upon himself.
While Teuns is en route to the Dulac camp just outside the fort, Sergeant Zhakof decides to take over the command of the fort and place Captain Lefevre under arrest. He signals Teuns to return to the fort at once, but before Teuns can reach the fort, he gets captured by the Dulacs. In the main tent of the sheik, he meets Julie Lefevre, one of the most beautiful women he has ever seen. The sheik gives Teuns only fifteen minutes to return to the fort and demands the fort’s surrender. Otherwise, Julie will die. Teuns never returns, but to the amazement of the sheik, Captain Lefevre arrives out of nowhere. He takes him to the fort to demand the surrender of the fort. When they reach the fort, though, they find it empty, to their utter shock and surprise. Not even one soldier is left hiding there.
They struggle to unravel this secret. How could all the soldiers have slipped through the Dulac lines positioned around the fort and summarily disappeared without a trace? Sheik Feisan orders Captain Lefevre to accompany him to the armory, as it is the weapons and ammunition he wants to lay his hands on. But once again, the sheik is heavily disappointed because what he finds there is not what he had expected to find. If that is not enough, something happens in the armory that places the Dulacs in a very tight spot. Lead quickly flies in all directions, and one tense situation follows another, causing huge frustration and misery for the sheik and his followers. Standing between the sheik and the things he had come for, one very brave and intelligent person thwarts his plans, one after another...
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The Dulacs are so busy with their doings that they do not even realize a Legion man has landed in their midst. He had expected that when he had risked the high jump from the gantry. So he does not hang around and runs to the portal as fast as possible.
“The Legion is back!” he shouts, running closely against the wall toward the corridor le……
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