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Just to the south of Dini Salam, D’Arlan is sitting on the comb of a high dune. He looks over the area with his small telescope but detects no movement there, but this afternoon while trekking through the desert, he notices the dust cloud in the vicinity of Dini Salam the whole afternoon. He knows that it must be the main army of the Arabs, under the command of Brigitte Bonnet.
“By this time, the whole of Dini Salam had been surrounded, mon Capitaine,” says Lieutenant Juin, sitting next to him.
mon Capitaine“Yes, and if the wind dies down during the night, they will attack in the morning,” D’Arlan says tonelessly. “So it looks as if my plan did not work. Brigitte Bonnet had not taken the bait and sent a part of her army back to Dutra, or so it appears. She did not believe my s
