Chapter 7 dancers of seti aisa

Tarzan's first errand looked neither exciting nor important.There is an Algerian cavalry in the French army, and a lieutenant named Gnoes in this cavalry is suspected of having improper relations with a certain European power.The lieutenant is currently stationed in West Debra ①. He was transferred to the General Staff some time ago, and through normal working channels, he has mastered some intelligence with high military value.The government suspected that he was trading the information with the European power. In fact, at best, some notorious Parisian girl gave something in the conversation out of jealousy, which aroused people's suspicion of the lieutenant.But the General Staff is afraid of leaking secrets, and will not let go of any clues that are suspected of being convicted of a crime.So Tarzan traveled to Algeria disguised as an American hunter and traveler, and kept a close watch on Lieutenant Gnoes.

With boundless joy he had longed eagerly to see dear Africa again.But the mountains and rivers in North Africa are very different from the tropical jungles of his hometown. He really wants to return to Paris with the nostalgia he once experienced. Wandering in the alleys, full of strangers.Novel exotic style.The next day, I arrived in West Debra and handed over the letters of introduction to the local government and the military respectively.These two letters certainly do not reveal his true mission. Taishan's English was already very good at this time, enough to "get away" as an American among Arabs and French.And the superior asked him nothing more than this.When he meets an Englishman, he speaks French, so as not to "leak the stuff".He occasionally converses in English with foreigners who know English but cannot hear his accent or pronunciation.

He was well acquainted with many French officers, and soon became a favorite among them.He met Gnoes, a taciturn, gloomy man in his forties who rarely interacted with his colleagues. January passed without anything worth mentioning happening.No one ever came to Gnoes at all.He did go into town occasionally to see people, but even if your imagination ran wild, those people had nothing to do with spies from foreign powers.Tarzan hoped that those rumors were all nonsense.At this moment, Gnoes was suddenly sent to Bousada, the southernmost part of the Sahara Desert. Because the Algerian cavalry company he was in and three officers had changed defenses with another company already stationed there.Fortunately one of the three officers, Captain Gerald, had become Tarzan's best friend.So no one was suspicious when Tarzan suggested to him that he should take advantage of this opportunity to go with him to Bousada to see if there was any game to kill.

At Buela the company disembarked from the train and had to ride horses for the rest of the way.When Tarzan was buying horses in Buela, he happened to see a man in European clothes standing at the door of a cafe opened by a local resident.To see him.When Mount Tai was waiting for a closer look, the man had already turned around and walked into the low yellow mud hut.Therefore, Taishan didn't know who this person was, but thought he looked a little familiar, and didn't think about it any more afterward. The trip to Omer had exhausted Tarzan.Because his riding skills are not very good, he only learned a little cavalry tutorial at the Paris Military School.Therefore, as soon as he arrived at the Grisset Hotel, he lay down hastily on the bed.Officers and soldiers slept in the barracks.

The next morning, although Taishan was woken up early, the cavalry company was ready to set off before he had finished his breakfast.He hastily picked up the meal.Fearing that the distance between him and the soldiers would be too far away, he glanced anxiously at the door connecting the dining room to the bar. He was surprised to find that Gnoes was standing talking to the stranger he had seen the day before in the café in Buella.He would never make a mistake, although the man turned his back to him, his demeanor and figure were so familiar. As his eyes drifted past the two men, Gnoes looked up and saw the eager expression on Tarzan's face.At this time, the stranger was talking in a low voice, the French officer interrupted his words quickly, the two turned around, walked away, and disappeared from Taishan's sight in the blink of an eye.

This is the first time Tarzan has discovered that Gnoes is acting suspiciously.He concluded that the reason the two men left the bar in such a hurry was because Gnoes caught him looking at them.And the more Taishan thought about it, the more he felt that the stranger was very familiar, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had to get to the bottom of the strangeness. After a while, Taishan walked into the bar, and the two people had disappeared.There was no sign of them on that street either.Before chasing the cavalry unit, he searched the surrounding shops for a long time under the pretext of shopping, but to no avail.At this time, the cavalry company was already far away from him.He did not overtake them until the afternoon at Seti Aisa.The soldiers rest here for an hour.

Tarzan found Gnoes with the company, but the stranger didn't even see a ghost. It was the day when Seti Aisa went to the market, and many caravans of camels came from afar from the desolate desert.In the bazaar, the Arabs who are always noisy are crowded and bustling.Taishan very much hopes to stay here for a day and see more about the life of the "son of the desert".Therefore, when the cavalry company marched towards Bushada in the afternoon, he was not with him.The hotel owner introduced him to a young Arab named Abdar as a reliable servant and interpreter.This Abu Dar accompanied him for a whole afternoon until it was dusk.

Here Tarzan bought another horse that was even better than the previous one.When I was buying a horse, I even chatted with the owner of the horse—a serious Arab with a serious face.The man's name was Kande Ben Hidon, and he was the chief of a desert tribe at the southernmost tip of Jalfa.Through Abu Dar's translation, Tarzan invited his new friend to have dinner with him. In the market, donkeys bray and horses neigh, and people come and go.They walked among people, horses, camels, and donkeys, and Abdar pulled Rataishan's sleeves. "Look behind you, sir," he said, turning his head and pointing at a man who had disappeared behind a camel just as Tarzan turned.

"He has been following us this afternoon." "I only see an Arab in a dark blue coat and a white turban," replied Tarzan. "You mean him?" "Yeah. I doubt him because we've never seen him here before. An honest Arab can't do nothing but walk around after people. And he keeps his head down and his face hidden." Get up, with only one eye showing. He must be a bad man, or he ought to be doing his own thing." "Perhaps he followed the wrong way, Abu Dar," replied Tarzan. "There will be no one here who will disagree with me. It is my first time in your country, and no one knows me. He will soon find himself mistake, stop following us."

"Maybe he's a robber," Abdal said. "Then we'll just have to wait and see when he gets his hands on us." Taishan smiled and said, "I can assure you that as long as we are prepared, he will be able to snatch it to his heart's content." In this way, he didn't take this matter to heart.But it didn't take long before something completely unexpected reminded him of this person again. After drinking and eating, Kande ben Heaton was ready to say goodbye to Tarzan.In order to show his friendship, he solemnly invited Taishan to visit his wild land.

There are antelopes, stags, bears, leopards, and lions aplenty in that country, enough to attract the eager hunter to make an expedition without hesitation on the saddle horse. Tarzan and Abu Dar were once again wandering the streets of Seti Isa after breaking up with Khand bin Heaton.There are many cafes with performance venues here, and the door of one is open, and the voices of people are heard, attracting Taishan.It was past eight o'clock at this time, and when Taishan entered, the dance was at its climax.The cafe is full of Arabs.They were all smoking and drinking hot espresso. Tarzan and Abu Dar found a seat in the middle of the room and sat down.But the drums were loud, and Tarzan, who likes quiet, would prefer to sit farther away from the Arab musicians.A pretty girl is dancing.Seeing that Tarzan was being generous in his European attire, she threw her silk handkerchief on Tarzan, who gave her a franc. After another dancer took her place, the sharp-eyed Abdal saw two Arabs standing at the far end of the room talking to her at a side door.This door leads to the inner courtyard where the girls who dance in this café live. At first, Abu Dar didn't take it seriously, but after a while, he noticed from the corner of his eye that one of the two men nodded in their direction, and the girl turned her face and glanced at Tai Shan secretly.Then the two Arabs slipped out through the side door and disappeared in the dark courtyard. When it was the girl's turn to play again, she danced lightly and came straight to Taishan, only smiling sweetly at him.Those dark-skinned, black-eyed "sons of the desert" all frowned viciously at the tall European.However, neither smiling nor frowning had any obvious effect on Taishan.The girl threw her handkerchief again on Tarzan's shoulders, and Tarzan gave her another franc.Following the custom of her nation, she stuck the coin on her forehead, then bent down towards Mount Tai, and whispered a few words into his ear. "There are two people in the courtyard," she said hastily, in her broken French. "They want to kill sir. At first I promised to lure you to them. But you are too kind to do such a thing. Hurry up and let them down before they find me. I believe that the two This guy is a very bad ass." Tarzan thanked the girl and assured her to be careful.After the girl danced, she went out through the side door and walked into the small courtyard.Taishan did not leave the cafe immediately according to her urging. Another half hour passed and nothing happened.Later, an Arab with a fierce face enters the café.He stood beside Tarzan and deliberately said something insulting to Europeans.But because he spoke the native language, Tarzan had no idea what the words meant.It wasn't until Abu Dar dialed a few words that he suddenly realized. "This guy's looking for trouble," Abdal warned, "and he's not alone here. In fact, if there's a fight, everyone here will turn against you. So it's best to sneak away, sir." .” "Ask what this fellow is going to do." Taishan said in a commanding tone. "He said, 'This Christian dog' insulted his dancing girl. He's looking for fault, sir!" "Tell him I didn't insult his dancer, or any other dancer. I want him to go away and leave me alone. I don't want to quarrel with him, and he has no reason to be angry with me." After Abdal translated Taishan's words to the Arab, he said: "He said, not only are you a dog, you're a dog's cub, and your grandmother is a hyena. You're a liar." Their quarrel attracted the attention of their neighbors.As soon as the Arab finished swearing, everyone burst into laughter, which was enough to explain the inclination of most of the audience. Tarzan didn't like to be laughed at, and didn't appreciate the Arab's insults to him.But when he rose from his seat, there was no anger, a contemptuous smile on the corner of his mouth, and the muscles in his arms rose like hills.Throwing a hard punch in the face of the Arab who was glaring at him. The instant the Arab fell, six hideous figures rushed into the café.They had obviously been hiding in the street ahead, waiting for an order, and then swarmed up.They shouted: "Kill the heathen!" "Kill this vicious Christian dog!" They rushed towards Mount Tai together. In the auditorium, a group of Arab boys also jumped up and rushed towards the unarmed white man. Taishan and Abdal were outnumbered and had to retreat to the side of the cafe.Abu Dar remained faithful to his master and fought alongside him with his sword drawn. The ape Qin Shan beat all those who approached him to death.He said nothing, just fought in silence, still wearing the contemptuous smile he had shown when he hit the Arab who had insulted him.Facing the knife cluster, Taishan and Abu Dar seemed to have no way out.But in fact, just because there were too many people besieging them, it brought them safety.Because this gang of roaring and cursing mobs were huddled together, the knives and swords in their hands were useless, and no one dared to shoot for fear of hitting their own people. Finally, Tarzan managed to grab the guy closest to him, twisted his arm, and disarmed him. Then, using him as a "shield", he retreated slowly to Aladar, and together they retreated to the side door leading to the backyard .Tarzan paused at the door, and suddenly lifted the desperately struggling Arab over his head, like shooting a stone from a slingshot, and threw it at the approaching mob. Tarzan and Abdal ran into the dark courtyard, and the terrified dancing girls crowded the stairs and fled to their respective rooms.The only light in the courtyard was dim candlelight.Each girl put a candle in her own door-frame, and the dim light seemed to express their charm to those who happened to pass by the door. As soon as Taishan and Abu Dar rushed out of the coffee shop, someone from the shadow under the stairs shot behind them. When they turned around, they saw two masked men rushing towards them while shooting.Taishan leaped to meet these two new opponents.In the blink of an eye, the guy who rushed ahead fell on a pile of dirt in the yard.He gets shot down by Tae-san, moaning in pain as his wrist is broken.Another guy shot Abdar in the forehead, missed, and was fatally stabbed by a young Arab boy who was loyal to Tarzan. In the cafe, the group of mad rabble has rushed into the courtyard, chasing after their "prey".Someone in the crowd yelled, and the dancers blew out their candles.Now only the road from the café is open. But at the same time, there was a faint light from the door that was crowded with people.Tarzan snatched a knife from the guy who Abu Dar had stabbed him, and he stood there in the dark, waiting to meet the group of men who rushed into the courtyard looking for him. Suddenly, he felt a slender hand patting his shoulder from behind, and a woman said softly, "Quick, sir, follow me!" "Quick, Abu Dar!" Tarzan said to the boy in a low voice, "It's better anywhere than here." The woman led them up the stairs leading to her room, Tarzan following her.He saw that she wore gold thumbs and silver copper on her bare arms, a string of gold coins in her hair, and her dress was also very gorgeous.He saw her as a dancing girl, and suddenly realized that she was the pretty girl who had secretly warned him. After climbing the stairs, they heard an angry crowd looking for him in the courtyard below. "They will find it here soon," said the girl, "and they must not let them find you. In spite of your great strength, and having beaten many men, you will die in the end! Come on! Jump out of the window into the street, and get back to the hotel safe and sound before they find you out of this little courtyard." But when she was speaking these words, several people had already climbed up the stairs.They were found.Someone yelled, and the crowd rushed up the stairs.The thug who was at the front got there first. As soon as he climbed to the top of the stairs, he was unexpectedly stabbed—this European was previously unarmed. With a loud cry, the man staggered and fell on top of those coming up behind him. They all rolled down the stairs like wooden pillars that were knocked down while playing ten-du ball.The old and rickety staircase could not withstand the weight and impact of so many people, it creaked and broke into several pieces.The Arab screamed and fell to the ground.Only Tarzan, Abu Dar and the dancing girl remained on the crumbling platform. "Come on!" cried the dancer, "they will climb up the stairs of the house next to me. We have little time." As soon as they entered the girl's hut, Abu Dar translated to Tarzan the shouts from downstairs.It turned out that several people had run into the street and cut off their escape route. "Now we're done!" said the girl. "Us?" Tarzan asked. "Yes, sir," she answered, "they'll kill me too. Didn't I help you? " The girl's words made Tarzan look at the matter from a completely different angle.At first he really wanted to continue the fight and taste the danger and joy of this "encounter battle", but he never thought that Abu Dar and the girl would be in any danger other than accidental injuries.He retreated every step of the way just so that he would not be killed, and he didn't want to run away unless it was absolutely necessary. If Zao was alone, he could jump into the middle of the huddled mob, and, like Numa the lion, he would dash from left to right and beat them to pieces.At that time, escaping again would be as easy as punching back.But now, he had to think about these two loyal friends. He went to the window facing the street, from which the enemy would immediately take their rear.And the hurried footsteps of the group of thugs climbing up the stairs next to them could already be heard clearly.With one foot on the window sill, he leaned out and looked around.However, he didn't look down.An arm's length away above is the not so high roof of this building.He called the girl to him, stretched out a strong arm, picked her up, and carried her on his shoulder. "You wait here for a while, I will pick you up in a while." He said to Abu Dar, "Now you push all the useful things in the house against the door, and it will always be able to resist for a while." After finishing speaking, he recited Pick up the girl and climb up the window sill. "Hold me tight." He told her.In the blink of an eye, he has climbed onto the roof like an agile and flexible ape.He put the girl down, climbed to the eaves, leaned down, and called Abu Dar softly.The boy ran to the window. "Hand over your hand!" Taishan said softly.People who had rushed up smashed the door.With a bang, the door panel was smashed to pieces and fell inward.Almost at the same time, Abu Dar felt as light as a feather and "flyed" to the roof. Their escape was well timed, for just as the group rushed into the cottage they had just left, a dozen men had turned the corner, came running, and blocked the windows of the cottage from below.