Chapter 4
THE LONG JOURNEY
Thoughts race rapidly through Teuns Stegmann’s mind. He tries to determine a course of action for himself. If he can just get out of here, if he can just get in touch with the military authorities, he can warn them about this new danger, because he knows that if the Doelaks get the Sabre of Doetra back in their hands, it will lead to one bloodbath after another in the Sahara. The Doelaks will once again try to drive the Foreign Legion out of the Sahara.
He quickly thinks back again to that day when he and his comrades, under the heated pursuit of the Doelaks, reached the Harba oasis, where they flung the cursed Sabre into the water. He knows exactly where that Sabre fell, and he had always hoped that it would be the end of this wretched symbolic weapon of the
