Kenny trekked up the hill from below and stood for a moment, catching his breath. One of his arms was in an improvised sling. Doctor Smythe and Meg McDaid hadn’t arrived as yet.
Homer said to him, “How many casualties?”
Kenny Ballalou took a deep breath and got out, “Three of the Tuaghi dead, seven more took hits, most of them not too bad. And… Guémama took his final one when he rushed that machine gun with his grenades. But I guess you saw that in your binoculars.”
Homer nodded wanly, “How about the others?”
“The French captain was shot by his own men when he tried to keep them from surrendering. Why he tried, we’ll never know. They’d already had it, once that helio-jet was shot down. Major Ryan evidently shot himself. Either somebody else helped, or he managed to get through two and a half of those bottles of brandy Lon left him.”
“The other one? Meg’s man.”
“All shot up, but he ought to live.” Jimmy Peters, alone in a jeep, came driving up the hill alone. He jumped from the vehicle and came hurrying through the sand and gravel. He said urgently, “Homer. On the radio…” Homer Crawford looked at him. “Yes?”
“The Arab Union has declared war. They’re coming south through Libya.”
El Hassan closed his eyes in still mounting weariness and looked emptily at the woman he loved. He said, “Isobel, in history there is no happy ending. There is no ending at all. You go from one crisis to the next but there is no ending.”
THE END
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