Rejtő, Jenő: The three musketeers in Africa; Q 19045

28 uniform, and with'his identity, Hick stole years ago . Now he will be able to prove that he is_ a civilian! This development spawns another idea: he, Hopkins, drives off in the car, for which there is now a hunt on, and his friends and the girl go a separate way. Outside the town, Fo|wler^ Nobody and the girl hijack a train that crosses the Atlas Mountains to Morocco. They find that the engine driver and the stoker -- as indeed the whole population of the colony — sympathise with the fugitives, who have outwitted the army and the authorities and made them look silly. On the outskirts of Casablanca the train slows down and the hijackers jump off. Here, Alphonse tells the girl they have to part: she has relatives in the city, so she should telephone them. Crossing a vine-clad hill, Alphonse and Buster happen on a fie Id-guard and a shepherd in a hut, tie them up, and Buster in the guard's garb, and Nobody dressed as shepherd, and shepherding ^G sheep, approach the city. All the roads leading into town are crowded with army and police. Inside a roadhouse , Alphonse starts a brawl and beats up everyone, while Buster drives an automobile parked outside against a wall. Alphonse calls out the ambulance by telephone. When

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