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 of the Sahara has been baptized indeed, this night—and with blood."

But his majesty the Emperor Leopold only stared vacantly at his general. His majesty's eyes looked dull, as though he were dazed by a swift blow, and his teeth chattered—but whether from fear or from the biting night wind of the desert, O'Rourke could not say.