“We cannot afford to send a couple of hundred men after El Karima, mon Colonel,” D’Arlan says calmly.
mon Colonel“So what should we do then? Are you now the commanding officer of an army of little angels that will do our work for us?”
“A couple of hundred men will only fail against her when they enter the chasm in the Atlas Mountains because that is where El Karima will be waiting for them. She is not ready yet for a full-scale war, which we all know.”
“So what are we going to do?” shouts Le Clerq, and he hits the desk with his small fist.
“Mon Colonel,” D’Arlan asks. “Will you be prepared to give me a patrol of sixty men?”
Mon Colonel“What can sixty men do against thousands of Dulacs? D’Arlan, I think you are also losing your mind like I am. What do you wish to accomplish with only s
