The
Blue
Water, a
priceless
gem of
magnificent
beauty,
is Lady
Brandon's
choicest
treasure.
Yielding
to the
requests
of her
young
guests,
she
brings
the
sapphire
to show
them.
While
they are
examining
it, the
beautiful
stone
disappears.
Beau
Geste,
the
favorite
nephew,
takes
the
blame
upon
himself
and
leaves.
Follows
an
exciting
chase to
the
Nigerian
frontier
and
back,
plot
upon
plot,
mystery
upon
mystery,
with no
solution
offered
until
the
"beau
geste"
at the
close.
A
thrilling
mystery
story of
love,
courage,
self-sacrifice
and wild
adventure
in the
French
Foreign
Legion.
A
sequel
to Beau
Geste in
which
the
reader
is once
again
caught
up in
the
age-old
spell of
the
Desert.
The
shimmering
beauty
of
rolling
sands,
the soft
nights
of rich
velvet,
the very
air
breathing
of
romance
-- these
form the
background
for a
tale of
gripping
mystery
shot
with
quick-moving
action
and
breathless
adventure.
Major
Henri de
Beaujolais
dashing
French
Hussar,
steps
from the
last
page of
Beau
Geste as
the hero
of Beau
Sabreur
and
justifies
his
sobriquet
by
slashing
his way
through
an Arab
mob to
rescue a
beautiful
American
girl.
Fleeing
to
safety
across
the
desert
with
Mary and
her
maid,
his
caravan
is set
upon by
Arabs
and the
three
are
brought
before
the Emir
and
Sheik of
the
tribe.
In the
swift-moving
events
that
follow a
touch of
comedy
enters
and the
Emir and
Sheik
are
revealed
as two
of the
most
engaging
rascals
in
fiction
-- and
Beau
Sabreur
as one
of its
most
gallant
heroes.
Dramatic,
startlingly
thrilling,
humorous,
or
quivering
with
pathos,
the
characterizations
are such
as could
be
handled
adequately
only by
some one
thoroughly
familiar
with the
Foreign
Legion
and its
personnel.
The
principal
characters
include,
besides
some
native
types, a
former
Belgian
officer,
a Scot
who has
been
chief
engineer
on an
Atlantic
liner,
an
American,
known as
the
"Bucking
Broncho,"
an
Englishman,
Jean
Boule,
whose
past is
obscure,
but who
has been
at
least, a
cultivated
gentleman,
and
still is
a person
of
unusual
parts,
and
others
who seek
in the
anonymity
of a
soldier's
number
in the
Legion,
asylum
from
avenging
fate or
retreat
from
cares
and
responsibilities
or
solace
from
great
sorrow.
Every
story is
a
gem.
Some are
not
pleasant,
some
bite
with
satire,
two or
three
are pure
humor,
with a
"leaping
frong"
twist,
but all
are
worth
reading
and
re-reading.
