"To horse! To horse! To Uargla!"
CHAPTER LV
"DO NOT DIE, CAPTAIN!"
We left Captain Joliette at the moment when the savages commanded by the marabout entered his cell, and a voice had called to him:
"Do not die, captain!"
"Kill him! kill him!" shouted the crowd.
The marabout now advanced toward the captain, and, placing his lean hand on the prisoner's shoulder, said:
"There is but one God, and Mahomet is his prophet!"