The Pool of the Nir zisari

	As Gerald and Binky watched, two huts burst into flames.  Immediately reaching for their binoculars they saw armed Arabs making off with slaves and the villagers running away.
	Our heroes rushed in but were they already too late.  The Arabs ghad seen them and were rushing away with their prisoners.  Binky's group opened fire with the Nordenfelt and rifles while an askari made ready the rocket.  "Fire!" shouted Binky and the rocket screamed off to explode just to the right of the Arabs and their prisoners while the machinegun and rifle fire inflicted heavy casualties.   The surviving Arabs panicked a fled leaving their captives.
	Adrian and Gerald reach the village to be met by a very grateful chief and his First Wife.  A feast is ordered and the celebration ale brought out.  Many of the scantily clad young women crowded our heroes plying them with presents, attention and ale. The feast was most entertaining, Gerald traded for ancient items, Adrian felt really queer and collapsed, the others suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous.  Other began to slip into unconsciousness.  They had been drugged!
	Suddenly armed natives began to appear.   Archers rose from the mealie field.   Spearmen appeared from the cover of cattle herds. AMBUSH!
	Binky took up position round the unconscious women folk and brought the Nordenfelt into action.  It is amazing how action clears the head.  The machine gun jammed!  Some say Binky cursed but I doubt this very much.  The porters seized up their loads and beat a hasty retreat from the village.  Binky lobbed a stick of dynamite with all the skill of a first eleven player right into the midst of the attackers.
	On the other side of the village Gerald took position around the inert form of Adrian as spearmen poured into the village.  All seemed bleak.  Until with a deafening roar he hurled dynamite into the attackers felling their leader and most of his followers.  The others halted in confusion.  Had they attacked sorcerers?
	Over by Gerald things were desperate.  Adrian was standing but quite unable to do anything and the natives, thinking he was the sorcerer in a trance left him alone.  Mahmud is trusty servant was shot down and severely wounded while protecting him.   Gerald was wounded by a spear thrust.
	The spearmen halted.  But horror of horrors!  The Arabs returned in even greater strength.   Things were very black indeed.
	Everywhere our heroes were being pressed back, the doughty askaris fought bravely and died where they stood.  Penhaligan was holding his own against two assailants, Binky pistols drawn was in hand to hand combat, Gerald was fighting for his life and the charmed Adrian was standing in a daze quite unharmed and completely unaware of what was happening.  Ramsden was down with a crippling wound, Big Sam was wounded, the Doctor lay dead, Beni, Ali and an Askari were dead.
	Suddenly, things changed.  The spearmen gave way, the Arabs began to retire.  What was happening?
	Binky led a quick rush and the tribesmen faded away in front of him.  At the same time Gerald and his force repelled the last of the Arabs.
	Was it over?  Yes it was.  In the aftermath Binky found that he had captured the Second wife and her daughter.  In the interrogation he discovered that the Cobra and the chief were one and the same person, the "Arabs" were in fact tribesmen dressed up and that the tribe had 3 white women as prisoners.
	Some fairly tough negotiating took place and eventually Cynthia, a Ruritanian Countess and her German Maid were rescued.  Gerald also found the remaining items that had been stolen in Cairo.  All that remained was to get to civilisation.  But first a rest on the hill outside the village to restore the wounded to health and the horses to fitness.  Afterwards the villagers cleared away the bodies - The Chief and 26 tribesmen dead with 12 more severely wounded, 9 "Arabs" and 9 of their auxiliaries killed or died of wounds.

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