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...preferred it to starvation. He acquitted himself creditably in the great sea-battle of Lepanto, in which Don John of Austria destroyed the Turkish fleet, and won a slight raise in pay and a permanently maimed left hand. On his way back to Spain his ship was captured by Algerian corsairs. In Algiers, Cervantes spent five years in prison, made four unsuccessful attempts to escape, was finally ransomed...
Finally in Manhattan, Lemuel does the Algerian thing by stopping a runaway horse in Central Park and saving a banker's lovely daughter. But all he gets out of that is the loss of an eye. He goes to jail again, is held prisoner in a bawdy house, goes West to dig gold, loses his leg in a bear trap, is attacked by Indians led by a Harvard-educated chief. Convincingly scalped, he makes a precarious living in a sideshow, acts as a clown in vaudeville, finally bows to a Communist-assassin's bullet, and becomes in death...
Then came the Spahis. Just before midnight the Algerian cavalrymen in their scarlet and white bournouses charged down with drawn sabres and drove the mob back up the Rue Royale to the Madeleine. Sedate Weber's Café became an emergency hospital. Ancient waiters carried the wounded in from the streets, ripped their aprons and napkins for bandages. Passing doctors operated on the restaurant tables...
...provide a background for Colman's savoir faire, Hecht & MacArthur made him a patrician burglar seeking what seems a most unlikely sanctuary in a ruined castle on the Algerian desert. He reaches this stronghold by making off with a fancy auto in which Estelle Taylor had hoped to haul him off to the authorities, for a reward. Among the denizens of the ruined castle ?a doctor who has murdered three wives and uses the skull of one for an ash tray; a blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with...
Bill No. 1 would increase to 250,000,000 francs ($9,775.000) the amount of money annually to be loaned shipbuilders. With particular favor will the builders of fast ships be looked upon, especially if the craft are to be placed in Algerian, Tunisian or Moroccan service. In addition to helping lines which will afford speedier communications with the colonies, the bill is designed to reduce the minimum interest rate from 3% to 2% on government loans now outstanding to shipbuilders, excepting passenger shipbuilders who will continue to pay the old rate of interest...