![]() ![]() There, after some adventure and separation from Digby, the sadistic Sergeant Major Lejaune gets command of the little garrison at Fort Zinderneuf in French North Africa, and only an attack by Tuaregs prevents a mutiny and mass desertion._x000D_ Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. When a precious jewel known as the "Blue Water" goes missing, suspicion falls on the young people, and Beau leaves Britain to join the French Foreign Legion, followed by his brothers, Digby (his twin) and John. The Geste brothers are orphans and have been brought up by their aunt at Brandon Abbas. ![]() The three Geste brothers are a metaphor for the British upper class values of a time gone by, and "the decent thing to do" is, in fact, the leitmotif of the novel. The main narrator (among others), by contrast, is his younger brother John. ![]()
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